by Jill Holmes | Feb 29, 2016 | 29 Faces, 29 Faces -- September 2015, Blog Challenge, Challenges On My Blog, Create Every Day, Faces, Journal Pages, Let's Play!, Linky List, My Journal Monday, Online Class, Paint Party Friday, Show Your Face, Sketch & Drawing, Spray Ink, Watercolor
Paint Party FridayI’m back on a portrait track again. I signed up with Mindy Lacefield for her the 24 Faces Project on-line class. I’m very excited. She has such a simplistic way of doing her little girl faces–who can resist? I also signed up for...
by Jill Holmes | Feb 22, 2016 | Backgrounds, Blog Challenge, Chalk Pastels, Challenges On My Blog, Collage, Create Every Day, Journal Pages, Let's Play!, Linky List, My Journal Monday, Paint Party Friday, Sketch & Drawing, Texture
Last week I posted a spread that was mainly some Payne’s Gray and gesso… I finally started pulling out of my sinus funk a little this weekend and DH took the grandson to some drag races in a nearby town. I spent most of the morning cleaning up personal...
by Jill Holmes | Feb 15, 2016 | Backgrounds, Blog Challenge, Challenges On My Blog, Create Every Day, Journal Pages, Let's Play!, Linky List, My Journal Monday, Paint Party Friday, Texture
I’m posting a little later today than I should. However, I wanted to post something fresh so I had to wait until I had created something “fresh.” I think I must be in my blue/Payne’s Gray period in my art at the moment. I keep going back to...
by Jill Holmes | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog Challenge, Colored Pencil, Create Every Day, Graphite, I Am The Diva, Journal Pages, Let's Play!, Paint Party Friday, Watercolor, Zentangle
Over on The Diva’s blog, Laura posted a challenge to create a Zentangle using the newest tangle pattern released: Molygon. So other people had already uploaded their examples to Laura’s post so I went and checked them out. They were as unique and varied...
by Jill Holmes | Feb 3, 2016 | Blog Challenge, Colored Pencil, Food, I Am The Diva, Journal Pages, T is for Tuesday, Watercolor, Zentangle
Today is T Stands For Tuesday posting day. If you remember last week’s post, I was having a bit of busy week… I finished that project and closed another one yesterday so last night it was time to wind down and relax for a short while. I grabbed this...
by Jill Holmes | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog Challenge, Challenges On My Blog, Create Every Day, Journal Pages, Journal52, Let's Play!, Linky List, My Journal Monday, Paint Party Friday, Stencils, Texture
I have been wanting to try adding some raised texture to my journal pages. Over on Donna Downey’s Inspiration Wednesday posts, she is “always” adding some type of raised texture with gel medium or modeling paste, etc., and then highlighting it with...
