What's On My Work Table

Not sure where I am going with this if anywhere. This piece was born at New Moon Art Gallery this past Saturday. I did it in my collage journal using a stencil, green acrylic paint and my fingers. While that was still wet, I added a dark blue acrylic around the edges and smooshed it in with my fingers in a circular fashion. It came out darker than I wanted so I wiped it off with a damp paper towel still in a circular design. I added white acrylic with my finger and didn't blend it in as well as the blue then again wiped it with the damp paper towel (which had the blue all over it too. I don't worry about that stuff.) I added bits of white by thinning down the white paint and flicking it from the brush I had. Finding it too light I remixed with less water and applied it again. That's it! 

Interesting that tonight is a lunar eclipse. Maybe I will be motivated to do something more with it after tonight's celestial exhibit!

Pages of my Life - Sept 22-28

1) Gelli plate background (Acrylics)

2) Printed quote and glued it on

3) Added key words from quote and doodled

4) Lived with it for a few days as is

5) Glued on the bag from my Aveda "Comforting" tea

6) Cut out a flower doodle from a gelli printed piece of paper I found laying around. Aimlessly drew around it, on it. And around the tea bag envelope. 7) Hated it. 8) Took my favorite color paint and wiped it all over the non-glued portion using my finger. 9) Liked it better. For a day or two. 10) Outlined the key words from the quote with white ink. 

                         
                                                                                          11) Happily moved on!

Pages of My Life - Sept 1 - 5

Started the week with a celebration of one of my finest creations ever! My beautiful middle daughter! She truly is a work of art in the very best sense of the phrase! She is a masterpiece!
My journal/planner/calendar began looking like this:

At that point I hadn't even secured the image from the nursery rhyme book because I didn't know how I wanted it to be composed. 

After our visiting family left, I had a chance to do a bit more work in my studio! While I love my time in there, and treasure the ability to work on creating art at my leisure, nothing is more important than people. Especially those we love and hold dear to our hearts. That love and joy should be reflected in our art and creativity.

So here we are at the end of the week and you can see I stayed with they same style as last week of lettering and then filling in the outside spaces. I ended up with a HUGE space in the lower right hand corner and decided to fill in with 29faces because that is the project I have been working on this week and will continue with the rest of the month. 

 

Can you see I stapled a piece of ribbon with days of the week on the bottom? Its a leftover from a scrapbook project. 

Did you art journal this week? Tell me so I can see it! If not, why not? Need help with it...just ask me! 

Pages of My Life - August 25-29

Here's how we started out...

Gelli plate background...excess paint from another project smeared on with an old gift card, some paint cleaned off a brush. 

You can see the "hide your sources" quote from Einstein on the left.

Our daughter and son-in-law got to stay a couple extra days (YAY!) (I LOVE that they work for the airline industry!) and we still have my "hanai" sister and niece with us. This term is commonly used to mean someone who has become a part of your family and can indicate "adoption" with or without legal papers. To learn more about this concept though you should read this article. 

Here's the midweek look...Albert's quote has evolved a bit and some doodles have appeared. For now anyway....

And here is where we ended up! 

Its a (somewhat) direct theft of Miriam Schulman's art journaling prompts! And I thank her for it! Miriam teaches this use of negative space and color blocking idea in her art journaling class that I just took earlier this month.  

DID YOU ART JOURNAL THIS WEEK? SHARE YOUR LINK SO WE CAN ALL SEE IT!

Pages of My Life Aug 18 - 22

This week began with my Einstein quote and a background made a while ago using my gelli plate again. I like that you can use such a small amount of paint with the gelli and get a nice finish on the pages. It makes it much smoother to write  and doodle over the top of the acrylic paint.

I have a very exciting and fun week planned as we have special visitors coming to the island this week. Our relationship started out with her being my airman while stationed in Japan but over the years she has become "my little sister". She's bringing my 7 year old niece with her and I plan to spoil her fully! In addition to them. our eldest daughter and son-in-law are arriving a few hours difference. I am SO happy they have flight benefits and can visit pretty often. 

I truly have NO IDEA how much arting I am actually going to get to do while they are here but thought I would use this opportunity to begin posting about our travels around the island. I know many have been here and probably even more hope to make it here some day. Now you might be asking what does that have to do with art and creativity? PLENTY! Journeys can give you ideas, clear out your brain, inspire you and make you see things differently than before. So, occasionally I will share a glimpse of "Island Life" with you. I promise not to overwhelm you with tons of photos...just something you can savor and enjoy! I hope you look forward to it.

In the mean time,, this is how my journal spread ended up this week. Still plenty of empty space to fill up if I choose to.

Pages of My Life- Aug 11-15

Here's a glimpse of my art journal/planner for the week of August 11-15. Some of the components that are pretty regular are a layer for the background, a quote and random doodling. The background was done using my gelli plate and acrylics. 

Something new that I tried this week was the use of negative space in the heading. This idea came from the  Art Journal Inspirations class that the lovely Miriam Schulman offered. She does an amazing job with negative space and its something I rarely think about. I like the look; what do you think? 

  

I added the quote from Vincent (yes we are on a first name basis!) while listening to a wildly weird and odd but wonderful recording by Michael Gordon. He put Vincent's letter to his brother Theo to music. YES! Seriously! You MUST listen. At least once. (BTW: I heard the whole thing on spotify but the link is just one piece posted on you tube)

The quote on the left was posted on my friend, Liz's fb page and it simply spoke to me. 

I added some date and comment stamping using my date stamp from SMASH.
Here's the funniest part...it was completely filled in by Monday evening!
I had to resort to marking up other things!

Art Quote of the Week

NOTE: Bonus posting today! You get 2 posts today (even though they are late) because the Hurricane didn't allow me to post about my journal/calendar/planner last week.

I like to include quotes in my art journal/calendar/planner and thought I would include them here each week as well for you to enjoy or use yourself. I use one of two neat little programs called Recite or Quizio to make the images. Makes them easy to pin on Pinterest!
If you have a favorite art related quote, please share it! Enjoy!

Week of August 11-15


Last weeks:

Hurricane Iselle Cleanup

We didn't have any impact from the hurricane...very blessed and thankful for this and paying for those that ARE feeling it...but add we continue to monitor the news I spontaneously opted to cleanup my art journaling tote. I want to keep it on my desk near my daily calendar/planner/journal. I keep it in a tote because...well I had the tote! Nah!nah! I used to take it places and still hope/plan to. It functions as my plein air bag as well.

ALL DONE!!