Here is where I ended week one of the Strathmore workshop with Traci Bautista. Traci made two videos for week one and I spent most of the week re-organizing my space to get a computer in my art room. I figure I could doodle for another movie or two on this but doubt I will. [...]
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Journaling for Relaxation – Keep an Art Journal
This is the time of year, from December 11 through January 1, that I take time to reflect and assess what’s so up to this point and then create the New Year. This is my quiet time. I thought that in this quiet time I will be quiet and post mostly pictures of what I [...]
Journalfest 2011 Art Classes start with Carla Sonheim!
Last week I started writing about Journalfest and realized it was way to much writing for one post – so here is installment #2 and you can scroll down to previous posts if you want to start at the beginning. Day 2 – the classes begin. Class number one was with Carla Sonheim, a hero [...]
Happy Halloween – New Toys from The ArtistCellar! – Keep an Art Journal
My friend Lisa has an online store called The ArtistCellar. She carries the cool stuff that you can’t find just anywhere. AND I love to shop with the small personal stores. Lisa just added new stencils from The Crafter’s Workshop this fall and I waited eagerly for them to arrive. Well of course they came [...]
Hankie Havoc with Melanie Testa – Keep an Art Journal
In September Melanie Testa played Hankie Havoc and I decided to play along. Mostly because I use a lot of nose tissue, especially in late summer and early fall. Dharma Trading Company has huge cotton hankies and this seemed like a simple way to fool around with painting fabric. It took until the middle of [...]
More Art Journal Pages ala Kelly Kilmer|Keep An Art Journal
I just downloaded a new photo editor software and am trying it out. Mainly all I need to do is crop, rotate and re-size. But I need to do all that without sacrificing the picture quality. The new software is GIMP and is a free download. My man says it does everything Photoshop does but [...]
Think Outside the Book – samantha kira harding
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 [...]
Part 2 – Art Journaling Every Day Process – Keep An Art Journal
Continued from Monday Okay – so for the rest of the week, when I really only had about 10 minutes a day, I got completely sidetracked with these shapes and stencil sandwiches. On most of them I added at least three layers of color as the delicate raised shapes on the edges don’t show up [...]
Art Journaling Every Day Process – Keep an Art Journal
Art Journaling Every Day is 10 minutes a day. First day of this week (Friday) Covered double page spread with text and shapes. Second day apply 2 thin coats of gesso – let dry overnight – looks almost the same as the gesso is very thin. Third day make ink lines and circles for another [...]
Man of the Year
My guy gets Man of the Year Award for the BEST present to wife EVER! While shopping for the kid’s presents we stumbled across a new store on the Boulder Mall called Momentum. The store is a fair trade outlet for third world art and accoutrement, helping different countries in a sustainable way. In the [...]
