Thursday, October 31, 2013

Artist's Play Room - Art With Words

It has been awhile since I played in the Artist's Play Room Challenge, but this week's challenge is art with words around it - right up an art journalist's alley!

 
Thanks to Penelope for this fabulous, bright idea!





Monday, October 28, 2013

Is it Spring Yet?




 
I wanted to try a colouring a few more stamped images with watercolour pencil so I stamped a few scenes using my Maryse Carrier Printemps set.  It was fun to make scenes out of these little stamps but as I'm writing this I feel like I should be drawing my own.  Then I could stick to more seasonal subjects LOL.  I'm loving the watercolour pencils though!
 



Sunday, October 27, 2013

Japanese Artist Trading Cards




 
Inspired by Jill Foster,  I did these artist trading cards with watercolour pencils.  The pencils are great for getting in the tight corners of stamps, but allow the unexpected flow of watercolour in the larger background areas.
 
The geisha stamp is part of a Recollections set from Michaels.  The kimono is an unmounted stamp that was given to me by a generous friend at the stamp club on Granville Island; I'm afraid I don't know who makes it.


Saturday, October 26, 2013

Silly Scraps Saturday



This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Seasonal Art

Like most artists, I'm very affected by the seasons, and moved by the incredible beauty they offer us.  And, like many artists, I often take my inspiration from nature.


 
 
These are Artist Trading Cards done with watercolour and pencil crayons.  The stamp is by Stampendous. 


Saturday, October 19, 2013

Silly Scraps Saturday


This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Monday, October 14, 2013

Paint My Photo

 
 
I found a wonderful site where "artists and photographers meet".  It is called Paint My Photo, and allows artists to paint from other people's photos without worrying about copyright issues.  Thanks to Martha Lever for sharing this site on her blog.
 
This is my impressionist rendition of an Autumn Road in Michigan.  It is done in PanPastel.


Saturday, October 12, 2013

Silly Scraps Saturday


This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Playing With Pan Pastels

 
 
I'm currently reading Wabi-Sabi Art Workshop by Serena Barton.  Serena uses acrylic paints a lot, but today I thought I'd try her simple landscape using Pan Pastels instead.  I did it in my old book journal.  The book pages offer the right amount of tooth for the Pan Pastels.



Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Taking Inventory

Today I stamped out all of my hand carved stamps - just for the fun of it!!

 
The latest edition is the key hole in the top left corner.  The cross, star, square and numerals are carved on wine corks; the rest are white rubber carving material.

 
My menagerie of animals.  The origami cranes are fun foam.

 
Trees and leaves.  The fronds and seed pods are fun foam.  They are long and floppy and don't do too well with stamp pads, but I made them for gelli printing so I think I'll leave them unmounted.

 
The sole human in my collection.


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Washday

 
 

Some of this Dover 19th Century Women clipart is a gas!  I love the facial expressions of these women.

Monday, October 7, 2013

19th Century Women


Several years ago, I made copies from a Dover Clip Art book called "19th Century Women", with the idea of using them in art journaling.  I won't say how long ago, suffice it to say I was inspired by one of the early Somerset Studio articles on Art Journaling by Janet Hofacker.

I still have those copies and I've started to use them.  And getting out that old Somerset Studio to check on the article has inspired me to reread those early issues.  Who knows what I'll find!


Sunday, October 6, 2013

Back to Collage

 
 
 
The last few days I've been drawn back to tearing, cutting and gluing.  Such fun!
 



Saturday, October 5, 2013

Silly Scraps Saturday


This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Friday, October 4, 2013

Stormy

 
We've had a stormy start to fall this year, and it inspired a page in my old book journal.  This page includes watercolor sprayed through a stencil, pan pastels and pencil crayons, finished off with a Micron pen.


Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A Fall Birthday Card

 
 
Just a bit of playing around with my leaf stamps; this one is by Stampin' Up.  The greeting is Studio G.