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Preparation
Refilling my watercolor pallet. Getting ready for another jaunt away... This trip is for fun!
Sunday Words
Psalm 143:8, 10
Art It Friday–Show Your Face! — No. 2
Kim Dellow over on her blog has a fun thing going called Art It Friday - Show Your Face. I discovered it while browsing some linked blog pages on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's regular Friday post Art Journal Everyday post which she also posts regularly every Friday. I want...
Tag It!
I noticed as I was reading one of the other blogs that I have recently started following, Magpieheaven, I learned of a bi-weekly tag art challenge that is held on this blog site. I figured it would be fun to participate. It is only posted once every other week and...
Keep It Simple
Sometimes simplicity is best. Just a "brush cleaning" background in my Moleskin journal and a stamp from Dina Wakley. I added some lines and she had a torso and a twist in her personality. She turned out to be a little on the "healthy" side but aren't some of us?...
Sunday Words
Phillipians 4:8
Art It Friday – Show Your Face!
Kim Dellow over on her blog has a fun thing going called Art It Friday - Show Your Face. I discovered it while browsing some linked blog pages on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's regular Friday post Art Journal Everyday post which she also posts regularly every Friday. I...
Finally.
I had a long day of travel and then a great but long dinner. But I still found a way to squeeze in a little art time. I hope you had some time to do something creative today!
Mini Canvases
Posting quickly this morning. Getting ready to travel for work. Here are two sets of 4"x4" canvases that I made to auction for a fund raiser. I got the idea for how to do the black letters from Dina Wakley's Making Marks video--more on this at a later date. Enjoy!
Sunday Words
Joel 2:25-27
Weekend Wonderings: Watercolor and Various Papers
Diana Trout has been an inspiration to me for several years now. I love her book Journal Spilling and the class I took with her at JournalFest 2010 in Port Townsend, WA was one of the most enjoyable classes I've taken. I was SICK AS A DOG (I later found out about a...
UP-Cycle
I seem to be in recycling/reusing mode this week. This post is a continuation of that theme... I had to help the Dear Husband with some computer work and some other things. During this exercise, it was determined that he needed a little notebook or keeper of some...
Journaling-Ready
The journal pages below were created by first applying a coat of gesso to the page. Then a watercolor media was applied. It could have been water colors or left over dye inks or even Distress Ink from Distress Ink pads used as a watercolor. In any event, it created...
From Carla Sonheim’s Blog: Free! Kids Art Week – 6 Online Lessons!
This is such a great idea! Thank you, Carla, Lynn & Diane for this fun FREE project! Enjoy!
Stencil Reuse
Yesterday I posted about getting all of the inky goodness out of your stencils that have been spayed with inks. Today I want to talk about a second method of "reusing" your sprayed stencils. Below is an original spray of a stencil (Urban Outsiders Stencil designed by...