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 you and your family are doing well and staying safe. Me and mine are doing good. This week I have an art journal page I created for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude Challenge and the prompt for September is "I am grateful for reflection". Here is pics of the art journal page I created for this challenge.
And here is the video showing how I created this art journal page.
I really like the way this page turned out and I had fun creating it. I'm finally getting caught up with this challenge LOL. I did complete the August challenge also, even though it is late, and will post that one next week. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is staying safe and surviving in such an unpredictable world. I've been doing ok. Getting stir crazy being at home for so long. Going on six months of working from home and very grateful that I am able to and am still working. This year has been a challenge for me to get motivated to do much creating, but I am planning to participate in Inktober this year again and hoping to be able to do it all month. I ordered the Inktober ArtSnack box again this year and then after found out about the plagiarism accusations. I watched the video from the accuser and some of the points he makes seem very compelling. I guess we will have to wait and see what the courts say about it all. Because of all of this I was reluctant to do an unboxing video, but decided to anyway, not to promote it, but so people can see what came in the box. Again this year they did not tell you what was in the box, however if I had known what was in it, I'm not sure I would have bought it. Anyway, if you are interested here is the video showing the unboxing of the Inktober ArtSnacks box.
I have also been doing Book of Days with Effy Wild. I've completed a few more pages and I think finally caught up with this class. Here are the pages I've created recently.
I've really been enjoying creating these art journal pages. And I am looking forward to Inktober starting. Are you going to participate in Inktober this year? Let me know what your thoughts are on all of this. Stay safe and until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is doing good and staying safe. I've been doing good and staying busy. This week I have an art journal page that I completed for the Dina Wakley year of gratitude challenge "I am grateful for color". This is the July challenge so I am behind and trying to get caught up on these. Here are pics of 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 doing well and staying safe. Me and my family are doing well. I'm still working from home due to covid and no word on when we will return to the offices. Which I'm not complaining, so no rush. You would think that since I don't have the long commute to work that I would have more time to do art, but for some reason I am finding it hard this year to get inspired and motivated to do much art. I'm still trying to keep up with the Book of Days that I signed up for this year and the Dina Wakley year of gratitude, but not doing well with either. I've had a lot going on this year though with the surgery, therapy and all. Anyway, here are some of the recent pages I've done for the book of days.
I also managed to complete a project that I've been thinking about doing for more than a year now and that is making my own affirmation cards. I bought some cards from the dollar store for a kids game, put gesso on one side, scrapbook paper on the other side, and then proceeded to paint, stamp and color the side with the gesso to create my affirmation cards. Here is a picture of the whole deck and some pics of some of the cards I created.
And here is the video showing how I made these card.
I really like how these cards turned out and had a lot of fun creating them. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Stay safe and until next time, Happy creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. So far we have been doing well. I've been working from home since March and getting stir crazy, but other than that I've just been trying to stay quarantined, stay sane, continue to do my physical therapy and heal from my surgery. This week I have another art journal page for Dina Wakley's year of gratitude challenge. This is for the May challenge, I am grateful for stillness. I got behind on these, but wanted to go back and do the past months anyway so that by the end of the year I will have done them all in my little Dina Wakley media journal. I used Dina Wakley paints, Dina Wakley collage media, Dina Wakley collage words, a stencil, Staz-on ink pad, a tag and a silver pen. Here are pics of 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 had fun creating it. Using Dina Wakley Collage Media and words made putting this page together so quick and easy. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Stay safe. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friend. I hope everyone is having a good week and staying safe. My week is going well. This week I have an art journal page I created for the year of gratitude that Dina Wakley is doing. This prompt is "I am grateful for community" and was the prompt for April. I am behind on these, but wanted to go back and do the prompts from previous months to get caught up. I created this journal page in my Dina Wakley media journal using Dina Wakley Collage Media, Dina Wakley paint, stamps, stencils, a tag, Staz-on ink 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 may have over did it on the stamping, but I was having so much fun with it. I think the background is a bit overdone, but I like the way it turned out. And I like the message as well. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Until next time, Stay Safe and Happy Creating.
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.
