A Mermaid in one of the 50 journals

I can't say I was thrilled with this mermaid, but it was a successful page in the terms of of the background technique I was trying out. 

 Thick gesso with lines scribed into it, like the waves. Allow to dry then paint. When the paint is dry, gently sand off the high points. 

 Remember, every page is a learning experience!

Documented Life week 13

As I mentioned, I'm participating in a Facebook group called the Documented Life Journal. Each week we are given a prompt and everyone posts their work for all to admire and coo over. 

My last weeks effort at the Documented Life project..the prompt was to have a someone else draw on your page and then finish it off. I handed my book to my daughter, and was quite surprised to get this bird returned to me. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised, after all, her boyfriend raises exotic birds! Anyway, my surprise was because she did this with no photo reference...that's my girl! I'll make an artist of her yet!

The technique here included smooching around intense for the background. On the bird I dropped in watercolour on wet paper

New workshop

I'm about to embark on a new workshop next month. Hop on over to Jeanne Oliver's blog to enter a fabulous giveaway from the teacher Danielle Donaldson. Can't wait to start!

http://jeanneoliverdesigns.com/blog/2014/03/26/creative-girl-land-light-shadows-last-days-early-registration-giveaway/#comment-27742

Triple the fun!

I couldn't  decide. So I printed out a couple of copies, just to play with.

 Here is the background that I posted previously. From the copies I created a crowd in silhouette and also a little birdie near a windowsill. From the latter I had already cut some ATC sized cards for another project, so maybe it I should have named this post 'quadruplet the fun'? 

Double the fun

I've seen this tip once before but never really followed up on it. 

 The tip is....work on more than one project at a time using the same palate. It can be simply a matter of using up what's left, or really just taking a colour scheme and creating matching 'art'ickles (hehehe....see what I did there.)

 I was creating a background canvas board and had put out too much paint... So out comes one of my journals and I started slapping on that paint. In the end I had two projects started ( in hardly any extra time) and I hadn't wasted and acrylic...you gotta love that!

 

The journal background made me think of underwater. Yes, I know there's no pink under the sea, but it's a mermaids prerogative to choose her own colour, dontcha know!

There's a lot of fluro colour on this page and it felt like an inner light, hence the journaling. 

Oh..and here's the canvas board. I've got a few ideas kicking around on how to proceed, so I'll be interested in now it turns out. 

Art Journal

Once again, I took inspiration from Efffy Wild and used her idea of black and white.  The rest was inspired by a quote from Erasmus! I just love quotes...don't you? They are always great for journaling.

Road to Redemption!

I think I've mentioned before that I have many journals....many, many! Somewhere within the vicinity of around 50. 

 Considering that this number is around the number of weeks in a year, it occurred to me that I should use at least one a week, just to validate my journal collecting addiction...hence my redemption hehehe!

 I always get excited when a journal is near completion. I usually leave the cover till last as I just know that I would dirty it up while working on it....suffice it to say, I have only 10 of my journals covered! I guess, for a relative newbie, that's not too bad. 

 

This journal spread is inspired by Effie Wilds " Book of Days" workshop. I took the figures that she painted , but used my own sentiment. Effy's title was .."Soul Tribe". Mine is .."I am many"  which is indicative of how we adapt to interact with different people in our lives.