So how do you get rid of fear when art journaling? Just say Oops! What does Oops stand for? Outstanding Opportunities Presenting Suddenly! Here’s how I use Oops when I art journal to keep fear from limiting my creativity… The white was supposed to be pure white and not have streaks of orange in [...]
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Getting started is the toughest part for me many days. Where do I start? What do I make? What colors do I use? These are just questions from a cranky inner critic designed to keep me from getting to my creative side. So, I decided I was going to shut that critic up by [...]
Lesley Riley is celebrating her class, Mastering the Art of Transfers on Multiple Surfaces with a fantastic blog hop! You get to see so many different artists using TAP and there is a giveaway on each and every blog! Including this one! Be sure to leave a comment here by Wed., July, 10th at [...]
This word has been popping into my mind, heart, and life a lot lately which means it pops into my art. I keep getting reminders from the universe how wonderful my friends are. Speaking of friends, today is a Stencil Test Drive for Jessica Sporn’s stencil, Apple and [...]
The sun is shining, the grass is green, and the peonies will be blooming any day now! In honor of spring, I am working in greens. I usually work in a full rainbow of colors so I wasn’t sure how this would turn out… A background made long ago that sparked the green theme. [...]
This started as a way to loosen up and get the gremlins out of my head. It wasn’t until I was sewing on the quote that realized how true it was…I just wanted that cranky gremlin in my head to shut up. I started doing something, anything, to get that gremlin to go away. By [...]
It’s spring and this is the garden of my dreams! Playing around in my art journal had me “planting” Julie Balzer’s Corn Flowers while Sally Carly by Dina Wakely marveled a the amazing colors of Dylusions inks! Of course every good garden needs a touch of glitter… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOjTAjN9bM Can’t see the video? See it on [...]
The sun is shining, flowers are starting to bloom and the stencils are singing- maybe the birds too but I am only hearing the stencils. The layers of paint that have built up on them have hypnotized me. Not just the “hypnotized from doing laundry and cleaning” (because a paperclip can hypnotize me when it [...]
It is time for another stencil test drive! What are we driving today? The magnificent Embrace the Rain stencil by Jessica Sporn. Love that Jessica created figures that have the feeling of movement! Be sure stop by the other drivers in this test drive: Marjie Kemper, Natasha May, Michelle Rydell and Jessica Sporn! [...]
Jessica Sporn’s Windows and Doors stencil spoke to me the moment I saw it. I love love love doors and windows- my kids tease me about how I get excited about the shapes of doors and windows on vacation. Just now I even spotted a mysterious friend in the center window (actually it is just [...]
