Working on everything!

Hey all!

Wanted to share a few snippets of what I've

been working on....

Lots of writing in my free time - 20-30 minutes here and there...

Designing T-Shirts now for a group

this is a first for me but I'm enjoying the process..

Here are a few pages from my journals....

music page ...

My I love the OBX page from the beach ...

work in progress

wanted to show you how I lay down my layers...

this was using the neocolor crayons / after I applied water...

 magazine image collaged onto my background...

I'm painting over her and have added wings...

a lot more shading, color to be added - definitely a work in progress..

Lastly a bit of a page from my Brave Girl journal...

Hope you are gearing up for a great weekend!

I have been feeling so lucky and grateful for so many reasons lately...

Last week I let my 400th post roll by 

and I totally missed it!

I want to share by having a little give away.

Come back this weekend and I'll share the details.

Thanks for visiting!

 

ARt JouRnaling....

I've been lacking in the ART department lately

Other than my photography and writing....

I've shared some of the work I completed

at

Art and Soul

but have yet to finish two projects

out of all the ones I undertook

With my busy schedule I figure this one should be the one I finish first

since I can work on it a little at a time

Kari McKnight

a.k.a.

The Backporch Artessa

helped to start me on this journey

of ARt JouRnaling

Surprisingly it took longer than I thought

but once you get a whole

book or two gessoed you can work on

more than one piece at a time

I started with a small book

Here are a few pages that are "finished" as far as background goes

Amazing how light can change how something looks

this page actually has gold book embossing where it looks dark or silver

it is very shiny!

I may still add to these but they are the few layered / textured pages I finished

The next is a good example of what to NOT do

when working on one of these pages

Lovely before....

I thought the pages were dry enough

and didn't put wax paper between them

and I got this...

Instead of being upset about it

Kari calls these "unexpected cool things" to challenge you..

I'm still contemplating what to do to change the image now

I'll keep you posted

Here is one I think is pretty much finished

unless I find something else that just has to go in!

I learned a lot of what I have been lacking

as far as texture and technique

especially in the case of mediums

My goal is to finish a page a week?

What do you think?

Happy Sunday!