Watercolor Play

Hello…I’m back!  It’s been awhile.  I really haven’t been doing a whole lot of art lately…I’ve been getting ready for Thanksgiving…now that it is over…whew…I can relax a bit.  I have started a project…two, to be exact.  I am making two booklets from security envelopes that I plan to fill with photos, cards with quotes [...]

Gut Art Class

I’m finished at school now…back to my art.  I signed up for a class with Mystele called Gut Art.  I really am learning a lot, she has tons of videos to watch.  If you want to find out more about it, click on the Gut Art link over on the sidebar.  I started on my [...]

Altered Book – Final Clue

I have been  busy painting on phone book pages to use in upcoming collages and also prepping pages in my teeny tiny cereal box journal.  That makes very little time for painting or collaging. 
Today, at our famous “made in china” store,  I was going up and down the isles of paper notebooks and other school supplies,  and the composition books [...]

Altered Magazine Picture – Part Two

If you want to see this piece in its more raw state, scroll down the page.  I finished it today.  I was a fun experiment.  I further altered it by using acrylic paint, some inks, and Caran d’Ache crayons.  I outlined all the shapes with Black India Ink and then softened the lines with more [...]

More ATC’s

Here’s two more artist trading cards I finished today. The one below has an altered magazine face on an altered magazine background with an old dictionary caption.  The other one has an acrylic painted background accented with oil pastels and inks. The soap picture is from a magazine and the other cutouts are from wrapping paper.