The July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, one of my favorite magazines, had an article by Samantha Kira Harding. It was titled Think Outside the Book. I loved the idea, the only problem? I’m not much for sewing. In school, when starting 7th grade all the girls were required to take Home-Ec so I know [...]
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Art Journaling Every Day – No Matter Where You Are – No Matter What the “Canvas” Is
At the end of June I went to spend some quality time with my Wise Woman friend Susan. Sometimes I get so tangled up in my head all there is to do is declare a break and remove myself from my life and go get into someone else’s (life, that is). Susan just had her [...]
Art Journaling Every Day – Flower A Day
One last post about A Flower A Day in June. The idea was to draw a flower a day to increase my drawing skills and to sharpen my observations. I managed to draw 9 flowers in June – so not one a day by a long shot. The practice of the exercise did sharpen my [...]
Art Journal Every Day – Keeping me Busy – Keep an Art Journal
Art Journaling Every Day is keeping me on my toes and a number of journals in play. This is one of my favorite pages to date. The background is water color spritzed while wet, causing the runs. The cityscapes are collaged on with painted pages from a Korean textbook and some Thai newspapers. I gessoed [...]
Art Journal Every Day – Flower A Day – Week 2- Keep an Art Journal
Following Julie Fei-Fan Balzer in her Face-a-Day project. This week I really did manage to tone down the background enough to be with my daily Flower -a-day project. Now if I could just get the blogging to keep up with the daily flower. I started out meaning to draw some California Poppies as I have [...]
Art Journaling Every Day – June
I am getting a late start in June – in fact as soon as I am done here – I need to go sign up for June for Art Journaling Every Day! I have been following Julie’s blog though and decided to do a variation on her theme of A Face Every Day. I am [...]
Class Notes again
I am coming to the end of my class where I have been taking my notes in Art Journaling form – I am also coming to the end of my Journal that has been serving as my class notebook. Would I do it again? I think so. It was hard to take notes on the [...]
Sketchbook Challenge – May – I Can’t Resist
I can’t resist a yellow wildflower We recently went on our first “rough” camping trip of the year. Rough means miles from anywhere on dirt roads with no water, toilets or picnic tables. We found it was a little early and retreated more than once to modern civilization. Read more about the Prairie Adventure. For [...]
Sketchbook Challenge – Sue’s Tissue Pages
I am cross-training here – LOL. The lines between my Art Journaling Every Day participation and The Sketchbook Challenge are totally blurred. A few weeks ago, at the end of March sometime, Sue Bleiweis did a post on the Sketchbook Challenge about tissue paper, brayers and altered books. I had everything except a piece of [...]
Art Journaling Every Day – Whooping Crane Migration
We are birders – we cannot help it – we are completely enamored with the Sandhill Cranes. Last week we ventured forth to follow the Whooping Crane migration. To read about that adventure in more detail click here. Since this is mainly a blog for my art journaling I will just show you the Art [...]
