Welcome to my art blog. Join me in exploring art through drawing, painting, art journaling and mixed media; Using different tools, supplies and techniques; And finding inspiration.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is staying safe and weathering the storm well. This year has been very challenging for me. I had a health issue that came up in January that caused me a lot of pain. I finally went to the doctor in February, realizing that it was getting worse instead of better, and found out I had a frozen shoulder and torn rotator cup, so they scheduled me for surgery. Then the surgery got reschedule twice and then cancelled. I finally was able to get the surgery end of May and have been in physical therapy every since. I am still in some pain, but it is definitely getting better. I've not done much during this time and now am finally getting back into the art room and trying to get caught up on things.
This past weekend I completed an art journal page for the Dina Wakley year of gratitude challenge and the challenge for June is I am grateful for second chances. So I created the following page in my Dina Wakley mixed media journal using Dina Wakley paints, Dina Wakley stamp, Staz-on ink pad and a black paint pen. Here is the art journal page I created.
It's not one of my favorite pages, but it felt good to work on something creative. And here is the video showing how I created this page.
As mentioned before, I also signed up for the Book of Days this year and working on some of the pages for that when I was feeling up it and I am behind on that as well. Here are a couple of the pages I did for Book of Days that I was happy with. It's sometimes nice to be creative without having to put a lot of thought into it.
And I took a couple of classes from Jennibellie and created these two journals.
I had fun creating these journals and I've been working on filling them. Hopefully now that I am feeling better and the pain is improving, I will be able to get caught up and back to creating more regularly. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. I hope you and your family continue to stay safe. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week and staying safe. My week is going ok so far, but this year has been a very challenging year for me due to medical and family issues so I have not been able to do as much creating this year as I would like. I was however able to get in the art room this past weekend and create an art journal page for Dina Wakley's year of gratitude challenge. The challenge for March is I am grateful for adventure. I decided to create a page about being grateful for adventures in creativity as I feel that each art journal page I create is an adventure because I never know in which direction it will go or how it will turn out. Even when I have pre-conceived notions about what I want the art journal page to look like, it always ends up looking completely different, so I've learned to just start adding to the page and let the page develop as I go along. For this art journal page I used my Dina Wakley art journal, Dina Wakley paints, Dina Wakley stencils, Dyalog Stencil, Dina Wakley Scribble sticks, Staz-on ink pad and some letter stamps from my stash. Here are pictures of the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I really like the way this art journal page turned out. And as mentioned above life has been very challenging for me at this time, so I will only be posting when I am able to. I hope everyone stay's safe. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video, until next time Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have an art journal page I created in my Dina Wakley mixed media journal using Dina Wakley Media Journal, Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks, Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint in Lime & Terquoise, Dyalog Boarder Stencil, Dina Wakley Stencil, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps, Inkadinakado Letter Stamps and Staz-on Ink Pad. This is for the February challenge for the year of gratitude that Dina Wakley is doing. The challenge for February is "I am grateful for Nature". Here is the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I really like the way this page turned out and I had a lot of fun creating it. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. This week I have a couple of journal pages that I did for the Book of Days Class I signed up for this year. Here are the journal pages I created.
I really like the way these turned out and had fun creating them.
I also created an art journal page for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude challenge, however this is the challenge for December. I'm a little behind on the challenge, but still wanted to do them all. I created this page in my small Dina Wakley Media journal using Dina Wakley Collage Collection, Dina Wakley Acrylic paint, a china marker, Staz-on ink pad and ephemera from my stash. Here are pictures of the journal page I created for the December Challenge "I am grateful for creativity".
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I had fun creating this page and having a lot of fun in the Book of Days class. Have you take the Book of Day's class before? If so I would love to hear about your experience with it. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have an art journal page I created for Valentine's Day in my Dina Wakley mixed media journal using Dylusions Journaling Tag, Tim Holtz Stencil, Fluorescent Acrylic Paint, Blick Modeling Paste, Craftsmart Acrylic Paint, Heart Stencil, Accents Angel Wing Stencil, Mica Powder, Glitter, Elmers Clear Craft Glue, Staz-on Ink Pads and Letter Stamps. I used acrylic paint through a stencil on the tag for the background and stamped over top of it once it was dry. I then colored modeling paste with red acrylic paint and put that through a stencil for the two larger hearts. I then colored modeling past with grey mica powder and put that through a stencil for the wings and then added glitter on top for extra shine. I then stamped my sentiment, cut it out and used an ink pad on the edges. I then put it all together and stapled the tag to a burlap page in my journal. Here is a picture of the journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I really like the way this page turned out and I'm still working on my Book of Days 2020 and my 100 day project. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have an art journal page that I create in my Dina Wakley mixed media journal using Diana Wakley Collage Collection, Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint, stencil, Dina Wakley washi tape and ephemera from my stash. This is the November prompt for a year of gratitude that Dina Wakley is doing. I missed doing November and December, but I wanted to go back and do them anyway, so this is for the November 'I am grateful for friends'. Here are pictures of the page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I'm still working on the Down Deep class and the Book of Day class and enjoying both classes. And I enjoyed working on this art journal page as well. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week is going well. This week I have a couple of art journal pages I created for the Book of Days 2020 that I'm participating in and an art journal page I created in my Dina Wakely Media journal Here are the art journal pages I created for BOD2020.
I've been having a lot of fun with BOD2020 and working on the Down Deep class as well. This week I also have an art journal page I created in my Dina Wakley mixed media journal using Arteza Watercolors, Acrylic Paint, Staz-on ink pad, Tim Holtz Ephemera and ephemera from my stash. Here is the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
I really like the way this page turned out and I had fun creating it. And I've been having fun with BOD2020 and the Down Deep class as well. Thank you for stopping by and watching, until next time, Happy Creating.
