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 having a good week. Mine has been going very well. This past weekend I decided to do an art journal page with a painting of a peacock that I have been wanting to paint for a long time now, but never got around to it. In the picture that I have, the peacock has light colored feathers, so I used gold and copper metallic paints for the feathers. I also used Twinkling H20 watercolor paints for the birds head and back feathers and finished the detail work on the face with other acrylic paints. This particular journal page does not have any words or quotes, which I always like to add to my journal pages, but after completing the bird I did feel it needed anything else. Here is a pic of the journal page I created and some close up pics:
And here is a video showing how I created this journal page:
I have pictures of other peacocks that I took while in St. Augustine at the Ponce De Leon park that are very colorful and some white ones that I want to also paint someday. The picture I used for this one was from a calendar that I have had for 10+ years. I hope you try your hand at painting a peacock sometime, if you have not yet done so, they are a lot of fun to paint. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. Mine is going well. This week I have an art journal page to share that I created using black gesso, modeling paste, stencils, florescent paints, watercolor paints, a poem called 'Have you no scar' and a couple of quotes from my stash. This is a more personal page for me and I was debating on weather to share it or not. I've had the poem for over a year now and wanted to put it on an art journal page, but could not decide how I wanted to incorporate it into a journal page. I also had a page with black gesso on it that I was going to use for something else, but never did. So I thought that would be a good start for this page. I wanted to use modeling paste and florescent paint on this page so that it would really pop against the black background. I also found two quotes in my stash that went well with the poem so I added them to the page as well. This is nothing like what I had in mind for this poem and am really happy with the way it turned out. Here are pictures of the art journal page I created:
And here is a video showing how I created this page:
I believe that we all have some kind of scars, weather it be mental, physical or both. I don't believe that anyone gets through life unscathed. And I believe part of the lesson in life is learning how to deal with our scars. I am thankful that I have art to help me deal with mine. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friend. Hope everyone is having a good week. This week I have a quick art journal page. I created this journal page using a Gelli print, Dylusions Spray Inks, stencils and ephemera from my stash. Here are pictures of the page I created:
And here is a video showing how I created this page:
Hope you like the video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a great week. My week is going well and my weekend was very productive. However, still having issues getting my videos to upload to YouTube, but managed to get it uploaded after letting it run overnight. Anyway, I completed an art journal page and a little burgundy journal for my Etsy shop. The art journal page I created was similar to the Fantasy Art journal page I created a couple of week ago, except that I wanted to draw and paint the figure and animal instead of using magazine images. I used acrylic paint to paint the background, then using reference photos I drew the figure and the cheetah. I used acrylic paint to paint the cheetah and the woman. I used Twinkling H20 watercolor paints and metallic paint for the butterfly wings. I using Prismacolor coloring pencils and felt tip pens for the detail work. And finished the page with a quote 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 also made another journal for my Etsy shop. I call this one the Little Burgundy journal. Here are pictures of the journal I made:
If you are interested in purchasing this journal or seeing all the journal that I have for sale, visit my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Creating.
