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. Hope everyone is having a great week. My weeks is going well. This weekend I creating a beanbag toss game for the kids to play who will be coming to my work for Halloween. I drew and painted a Charlie Brown great pumpkin scene on cardboard and cut holes in it for tossing a beanbag or ball through. Here is a picture of the Halloween game I created.
I also created a video showing how to create several backgrounds in my new 8x8 Dylusions journal showing several techniques using Dylusions spray inks, Dylusions paints and stencils. Here are pics of the backgrounds I created in my 8x8 journal.
And here is the video showing how I created these backgrounds.
This is the beginning of a series of videos, with this one showing how I created the backgrounds, and additional posts in the coming weeks showing how I completed the art journal pages. Hope you like this video and are able to use something from it. If there are any videos that you would like to see, just let me know. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. Mine has been busy, but going well. Some time ago I saw a video on YouTube about a Journal by 5s and decided to create one myself. It was a lot of fun and I loved the way it helped me to complete a journal within a minimal amount of time and without giving it a lot of thought. It also forces you to loosen up. I have since wanted to do another journal by 5s. So I finally got around to doing another one. I had a sketchbook, that I decorated the cover on it years ago, but never used it for anything. So, I decided to use it to create this journal by 5s. Since it had sketch paper in it, I used a glue stick to glue every three pages together so that I could use paint on the pages and this process can get very messy, since you only have 15 minutes to cover 30 pages. I used Dylusions paints, Dylusions and Ranger spray inks, Ranger Ink pads, Posca paint pens, stencils, washi tape, scrap paper and ephemera from my stash to create this journal. Here are pics of some of my favorite pages from this journal I created.
And here is the video showing a fast forward through how I created this journal and a flip through the completed journal at the end.
The idea for a journal by 5s came from Shannon Green and her video explains the whole process, which can be found on YouTube here:
I really like how my journal by 5s turned out and how different it is from the one I created before. Have you tried this yet? If not you should give it a try, it is a lot of fun. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. Mine is going well. We weathered Hurricane Matthew well, thankfully. Just had some limbs fall on the roof, but no damage thankfully, and lost power for a couple of hours. But all in all we faired better than others. As promised, this week I have a video showing a tour of my art room and ideas for inexpensive organization of your art supplies. My art room was getting so cluttered with stuff that I was having trouble finding supplies that I needed when I needed them. So my husband put up shelves in my art room for my Birthday so that I could get better organized. Which forced me to go through everything and rearranged and reorganized my art room and supplies. Some ideas are what I've showed in a previous video several year ago, others are new storage items and organizational ideas. Some items were purchased inexpensively, some were free/recycled items and some were repurposed from stuff I already had around the house. And in this video I added an intro, even though I don't like my picture taken or especially being on video, so please forgive the nervousness. Here is the video of my room tour and inexpensive organizational idea:
Hope you like the video and that it gives you some ideas for organizing your art supplies inexpensively. I prefer spending money on art supplies, rather than containers and storage. And I prefer an organized room so that I can find what I am looking for when I need it. If you have any questions, or ideas of your own, please leave a comment and I will reply. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. Mine is going well. This week I have a video showing how I clip magazine images and organize them for use on my art journal pages. There are several magazines that I like to use for images, words, phrases and quotes for art journaling. And I have various size boxes that I painted white and labeled for storing my images in. Then when I create an art journal page, I will search through my stash of images, words, phrases and quotes for items to add to my page. Sometimes I will decide on what images and words to add to a page and create the page around the images and words I pre-selected, but most often I will create a page and then search through my stash for items to add to the page. Here is the video showing how I organize magazine images for art journaling.
Hope you like the video and hope this helps you to organize your magazine images as well. Next week I will be posting a video showing a tour of my art room and inexpensive organizational options. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, happy creating.
