More Blank pages

Blank Journal Pages

I love my new Lumiere metallic acrylics!! They make my pages look amazing. These are a few blank journal pages waiting for some words. My first art journal is almost complete. I started this last June I think, and I titled it "A Year in Faith and Art" It has been a year in both, that's for sure. Blogspot is not letting me upload more that one pic at a time, so I will load some separately. The red and black pages are completely inspired by Artist Ingrid Dijikers. If by inspired, I mean that I completely stole her idea, then she inspired me ALOT!!! I just loved the look, and her artwork is so amazing. I am in awe when I see her stuff. Check out her blog in the bottom right of my page under Favorite links.

The Journey Unfolds

I will be taking a 3 day journal class in April when I go to "Art and Soul." The class is being taught by Misty Mawn, and I just got my retreat package today. Inside was an 8" ceramic fish that I am supposed to alter and then bring to the retreat, to show. Still working on that, but another cool thing I got was, a little fish, handpainted on watercolor paper, by Misty herself. It is very colorful and I love it. Here it is. It now holds a place of honor in my new journal.

My New Deskmate

My friend Dana, (whose amazing artwork you can view at http://artbydana.blogspot.com/ ) made this great little piece that sits on my desk. The image is from a custom stamp I had made, that I put on the back of my artwork. She then added some elements, embellished and soldered into this great little bit of eyecandy!! I love it!

Zentangles with a Twisty Twist!

The final four for the Face Swap. My hand is in a perpetual cramp, and I suddenly realize I need to dig my reading glasses out of my purse. This form is totally addicitng. And because there are different repeating patterns, no two are the same. Fun.

Zentangles with a Twist

One of the ladies in ATC_World, came up with the idea to add a face to zentangles. Whether it is stamped, collaged or drawn, once you add the face, then zentangle around it. I love this stamp, and I think it worked great for the concept. These were fun to do, and it kept it from getting kind of boring. Different, I really like them both. Although, the one on the right reminds me of a Yankees uniform.

Bamboo Tryptich

This is a 3 panel piece that came out nothing like the sample in the book. But since I am not going to show you the picture from the book, you will never know!!! Ha! Seriously though, this is probably my least favorite of the lessons I have finished.

Snowy Rocks and stuff

The title says it all.

Introducing Junior

This is an Altered Cabinet Card. A cabinet card is one of those old time-y photos mounted on hard matboard, and usually had the photographers name or studio name on the front of the picture. They were popular, I believe, in the late 1800's. This one is from a collection I won on Ebay. They were called cabinet cards because they were mounted on such stiff backing, that you could prop them up in a cabinet, instead of hanging them on the wall. I belong to a Yahoo group that alters and then trades them. This one passed the time Friday night. It is not part of a trade set yet, but maybe I will find a theme to go along with it. It is painted with Lumiere paints, background stamps, gold spray webbing and some fun embellishments. "Introducing Junior"

Sailboat schmailboat!

Ok, first of all, let me tell you what I know about sailboats. Nothing, nada, zero! In fact, I can't even think about a sailboat without thinking about Bill Murray in "What About Bob"............ "I'm SAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGG! " Gosh that movie is so funny! Anyways, here is the sailboat lesson. Ummm not too sure how I feel about this one. The background turned out to be harder than it looked in the book, (and that ain't right!) Then the mast rope thingy's didn't come out too straight...uh whatever. The lesson is done.