Art Journal – Tranquility

This is the facing page of the one below.  The girl started out as one of my doodles but I painted over it.  It softens the dark black lines.  She started out looking similar to the girl on my “Let the Sun In” page.  I like both ways and I was surprised that the acrylic paint covered the lines so well.   The words are found poetry…except for the last line. I wish I could write poetry but I can find phrases and put them together and call it poetry. 

Art Journal – Music and Flowers

I love the image of the girl on here…it was on an ad in my Natural Health magazine.  I have been health conscious since my late 20’s…and, ahem, that’s been several years ago 🙂  This page also has part of a page from an old music book and a piece from an old ledger.  I stenciled on some letters and used a scrap from one of my doodle pages.  I have been using Elmer’s Disappearing Purple School Glue and I love it.  It’s acid free if you care about that and it sticks things down really well.  It’s on sale most places because of back to school sales.

 

Art Journal – Let the Sun In

Quick journal page today that I finished yesterday.  I started with the Sunflower and added the girl I sketched(doodled).  I had some number stickers I added to her hair plus the yellow paint.  I also stamped with a cardboard roll from bath tissue and some pieces of corrugated cardboard.  Then more blue acrylic paint with white added to lighten it. 

Graffiti Panel #2

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  The month of July is rolling right along, isn’t it?  Friday will be the last day of the month.  Yesterday I finished the second graffiti panel using some techniques I learned about in Traci Bautista’s online class.  I first learned about her from her book: Collage Unleashed.  I like the red and turquoise paint used in this piece, along with the lemon yellow and black.  These are so much fun to do.

Art Journal – Find Your Center

I finished this page this morning.  It didn’t scan well because of all the white.  The background is very pale blue and that translates as white when scanned.  I tried to add some ink and crayon embellishments to break up the white.  I used a blue Sharpie pen that I picked up by accident.  I like the blue ink for a change. 

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This & That

Hello…I want to tell you about an on-line class being offered by Patty over at River Bend Ranch: http://ramblingrose.typepad.com/journal/  She is offering a FREE CLASS if your name is drawn.  To  win a free pass for her Fantasy Altered Book Class, click on the above link to her site.  She is going to give away a free pass for every 25 comments left on her site.  Go to the July 21 post to sign up.  The give away will be closed after  Monday, July 27.  If you do not win and want to sign up to take the class…the cost of the class is only $18.

Here’s a doodle I finished up today.  It, or parts of it, will be showing up in a collage later on, I’m sure.

Added on Saturday:  Last night I checked Joann’s website (Whimsies & Folksies)…If any of you followed her blog, she posted yesterday after a long absence…talk about trials and tribulations…Send prayers out for her:  http://joannloftus.typepad.com/whimsies_folksies/

 

    

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…  

Cereal Box Journal – (7,8,9)

Here are more pages from the first cereal/tea box journal.  I have not been able to post them because I had been away for the weekend.  I love this first page with the boy and his dog.  That was from an old Ideals Magazine.  All of these pages have something from an Ideals Magazine.  Embellishments are Caran d’Ache and Sharpie pens.

 

Art Journal – Purple Dream

I plan to do another graffiti panel but I had this page started and wanted to finish it.  I have been wanting to try doing something using  monochromatic colors.  I used three shades of purple plus white and black.  I love the deep black that can be made from dark purple and black.  This is all acrylic paints.  I first sketched the girl with pencil and then went over the page with a white acrylic paint wash.  Then I mixed various shades of purple for the rest.  The mouth and nose look off to me but….it just is.