Journal Page

I’ve been looking at Pinterest this morning….I want to join but it seems you must join through FaceBook or Twitter.  I don’t have either of those but I’m thinking about getting a Twitter account just so I can join Pinterest     Does anyone know? Is that how you sign up for Pinterest or are there other ways?

I did this journal page yesterday….I brought out my oil pastels again…it’s been a long time since I’ve used them.  It was a a fun page…the giraffe’s ear is leaning over because there was a collage piece in that spot that was shaped like an ear.

I have received two postcards  from iHanna’s postcard swap.  If you want to check that out click on the link two posts below this one.  I’ll be scanning those and sharing those in the next post and maybe by then I will have received more postcards.

Five on Friday

My friend Danielle over at A Love Affair With Paper is doing something she calls Five Favs Friday. She wanted to start a Mr. Linky and let others link their favorite places to her blog.  For some reason, she couldn’t get Mr. Linky to work….I know how that is when things won’t cooperate with you   She found some great links…check them all out. I loved the e-magazine one.  Here are five new (to me) blogs I have recently found: 

1.  Accountant by day and wanna-be baker by night-The Bean Counter at the Kitchen Counter.

2.  I would love to try this paint..you decide if you can afford it-Annie Sloan Paints. 

3.  She is a living statue-Appels en Peren. 

4.  Kim has a special love for matchboxes-art in red wagons.

5.  Eden’s drawings and doodles-draw.doodle.decorate.

 

 

This journal spread needs some words…I plan to use my mini words stamps. 

I also did this face last night, it will end up on a journal page.

Journal Page and ICAD

OK…I made a mistake and tried to use an orange Bic marker on this…it was a mess.  I used some oil pastels on the background and the marker wouldn’t mark in some areas.  I got out my Dr. Martin’s Bombay India Inks in golden yellow, terra cotta and yellow ochre.  I was able to use my dip pen and the inks and “fix” it.  I also used a tinted charcoal burnt orange pencil and a burnt ochre Prismacolor pencil.  I also used the inks thinned  with water and painted over some areas with a brush.  It was an interesting experiment that I probably won’t be trying to duplicate (because I don’t think I could if I wanted to). 

Here are my ICAD’s for yesterday and today:

Phantom Petals

I haven’t had much time for arting the past few days.  I finished this piece last weekend.  The collage pieces are cut from painted phone book pages.  After gluing the pieces down, I used a brush with black India ink to outline everything.  Then I decided that was too stark and softened it with watercolor crayons and oil pastels.

Today in the mail, I  received the sewn journal I won a few weeks ago.  It traveled all the way from Norway to Arkansas.  I can’t make out the spelling of her first name but you can visit her website: ( http://www.scrowlscrowl.blogspot.com/) . 

She has a video on her site of a current journal that she is working on…go check it out.  Here are some of my favorites pages from the journal: 

The cover (above) plus two of the pages:

 

 

Moleskine Face – #3

I finally got some color added to another face in my Moleskine.  I used colored pencils, Titan Buff acrylic paint and finished with some oil pastels.  I wrote the letters  with a black Sharpie poster-paint pen and then went over them with a white crayon to soften the harshness of the letters. 

We are getting slammed here with snow…it has snowed all day…and is still snowing.  I think it’s supposed to snow all through the night.

 

Art Journal – New Beginnings

This is the first page in my new Moleskine.  I had started a background several days ago and looked at it every time I picked it up to sketch a new face.  I used Primacolor stix first and dripped tangerine India Ink over both pages.  It stayed like that for almost a week.  Last evening, I added some stamps, Caran d’ Ache crayons and ended with Portfolio Oil Pastels.  After doing all that, I decided I didn’t like it and used a brush and some black India Ink to outline the shapes.  I also used some tangerine and crimson India Inks to finish it.  I  used my old hair dryer to dry the inks,  and the pastels and crayons started melting…oops, may have been a happy accident  

Inkblot Tests

Happy New Year!  I’m a little behind in saying that but I have been regrouping, I suppose one could say.  I have been assessing several things concerning this blog and my art.  I have been spinning my art wheels and I don’t seem to be going anywhere.  By that, I mean that I’m not producing anything.  I’m wondering what to do.  I have signed up to take three different online classes at the same time and that is throwing me in a state of flux… I can’t do justice to any one of them.   Most likely the class that ends next month is the one I should start concentrating on the most.  I’ll figure it out soon, I hope. 

As far as this blog goes, I’m thinking that I should change either to typepad or blogspot.  I think that both have more to offer than wordpress.  Can anyone out there shed some light on which of those is the better blog place? 

I did finish this page in the 16-page journal I made at the end of November.  I found the words “inkblot tests” and used that as a theme…it doesn’t have anything to do with the page other than you look at it and give it your own interpretation just like one does when taking an inkblot test….hmm, never have taken that test….maybe, any day now   I was looking for a cool quote about inkblots and came up with nothing but it was interesting reading about the origin of the test.  Speaking of origins…I ran across a very informative website (Six Revisions),  mainly for web designers.  The article is:  “The History of the Internet in a Nutshell.”  http://sixrevisions.com/resources/the-history-of-the-internet-in-a-nutshell/   Do you know the year that email was developed or when was the first web page was created?   The article will tell you the answers to these questions and much more.

 

 

Art Journal – Wait

Whatever we do…we are always waiting…for something or someone.  It’s not a bad thing, it develops patience…that’s another story!  Excuse the sermonizing but it goes with the journal pages I completed yesterday.  It’s a good thing we can hit the delete button on here sometimes…I had a nice little pity party type rant going but it’s gone…and I feel so much better.  I’m looking at the words…”wait—-It gets better.”

Art Journal – Discover

I worked on a graffiti piece yesterday but it ended up in the trash.  I completed two more pages in my multi-media journal.  I finished “Discover,” this morning.  I sketched the face with pencil.  Then I picked up a charcoal pencil and a burnt umber watercolor pencil a went over the pencil lines. I also used a sparse amount of oil pastels.  On the page on the left, I used some of my painted phone book scraps.  The little girl’s face came from a magazine but since it wasn’t altered, I added the glasses.  

 

        

It

 just

 is…  

Collage – Stamped Out

I had started this collage on a piece of cereal box a few weeks ago and had forgotten about it.  I found it and decided to finish it.  I was pleased with the background but not the girl.  This piece is collage papers, mainly old stamps, and lots of acrylic paint and oil pastels.  The girl was drawn and cut out from a sketch book.  I think the figure would meld into the piece better if I had drawn it directly onto the background.