Three Muses Challenge - A Trip To The Circus

For all of my online friends who are afraid!

Digital Whisper Challenge #139 - Hallway

The challenge was to use this hallway, and try to create the effect of something falling. Definitely the stuff bad dreams are made of.

Model from http://fuguestock.deviantart.com/gallery/31351796?offset=72#/d310qcr

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 8 Quote

Elements are all from kits by Tangie Baxter at scrapbookgraphics.com except for crown which is by
Fiddlette Designs.

Dance On A Rainbow

Elements from Tangie Baxter's kits "The Greatest Curiosity" and "Gesso Messy #5."

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 8 - Wordography - Aplomb

I really did have 11 mice until my father made me give them all away. There went my friends. Oh well. The elements are from the fantastic steampunk kit by Tangie Baxter call "Steampunk Je t'adore Collab w/ Studio Rebecca."

Grandsons At It Again!

Don't worry. It's just apple juice.

Elements from Mr. Whiskers' new digital scrapbooking kit "Lordlings and Halflings."


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Life Book Class Eight - Play!

This week's class is being taught by Mystele who teaches classes on her own Ning site, too. http://littleglimpsesstudio.ning.com/ I've taken a couple of classes from her before, and love what she does. Her style is "gut" art. In this week's videos, she is calling it "pulled" art. She had us start out by writing words, phrases, or whatever we were thinking on a blank page of water color paper. Then she had us paint and collage over it. The whole idea is not to begin with a preconceived idea of what you are going to paint. Once you have created the background, you keep looking at it until you find some object, person, symbol or whatever, and you start the painting and play by going with that. Mystele's paintings are very folk-artsy, and always colorful and a lot of fun to look at. As usual, my painting ended up pretty wild, but it definitely fits with what I wrote underneath it all. These Life Book assignments are also meant to be a type of journaling. Everything is done on 9 x 12 heavy water color paper. We are going to bind them all into a book at the end of the year. Wow! I'm going to have one crazy book! It will all be real mixed-media, too. That's very exciting to me since I've done so much digital art over the past years.

Three Muses Challenge - Art in the Round

Asp's Garden

All elements from Mr. Whiskers' fun new kit "Lordlings and Halflings."

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Take A Word Challenge - Turquoise

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 7 - Wordography - Dulcet

Darn. Another girlie looking one. Oh well. Elements from Rebecca McMeen's "Callisto" and "LAT" kits. (She just happens to be Tangie Baxter's mother. Tangie Baxter is the person who designs the Art Journal Caravan each year.)

Lesson 6 of Lani Gerity's Class "Happy Artists Life" - Be Here Now

The thoughts behind this piece won't be plain without your having read lesson 6 of Lani Gerity's class, but I wanted to share the picture I created, because I found the lesson to be very meaninful.

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 7 - Inner Compass

Inner compass prompt: If I could change something in the world today . . .

Yep, I would stop old age. "I'm a Toy's R Us kid, and I don't want to grow up!"

Elements from Parcel #7 for AJC 2012.

Life Book Class Continues

This project turned out rather funny, but I actually like what I ended up with. It made me laugh, and I'm finally learning it's okay to laugh at our own work. The end result isn't the healing part; it's the process that counts. I'm still learning how to work with mixed-media. The assignment was to put a "transfer" of a picture of ourselves on a piece of watercolor paper, paint over it adding some craziness to it, and then copy a list of words we were given. I've tried transfers before, and have never gotten them to work. But to my great surprise, this one actually worked! I wanted to stop right there. I was so excited! But I went ahead and followed the assignment. (I'm going to do another transfer and do something leaving the transfer as is.) Here is the result. Live long and prosper!

Three Muses Challenge - Outside the Frame - Birds

Take A Word Challenge - Old-Fashioned/ATC

 

I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind. :O)

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 6 Wordography - Quixotic

Mice and tea party elements by Lori Davison. Background by Pink Lottie. Hearts from Tangie Baxter's Parcel #6.

Mental Health Week

My wonderful friend, June,  in Great Britain, shared the following words on her blog. I wanted to post them here, too. Since I suffer with depression, panic attacks, low blood sugar attacks, and vasovagal attacks, I find these words very reassuring. It always helps to know one is not alone.

Paris Love

Statue from Brimm's "Midnight Cinderella" kit.

Three Muses Challenge - Torso Tag

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 5 Question and Answer

Aliens from Lynne-Marie's kit "Robots and Aliens" at catscrap.com. Proceeds are going to World Vision. (I've never been able to resist an alien!) Land mass from Tangie Baxter's kit "CartSet6 - ImagiNATIONs 2."

Take A Word Challenge - Coffee

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 5 Quote

Clouds from Tangie Baxter CartSet #10 Mists. Image free sample from Dover.

Free Workshop Spot Giveaway

This sounds like a fun workshop being given by Susan Tuttle!

For your chance to enter, visit http://susantuttlephotography.com/?p=1497

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Week 5 Wordography - Enigma

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - February Adventure Quest

The Art Journal Caravan this year is all about cartography, wordography and other exciting things. The February Adventure Quest asked us to create an art journal map that showed a major event that changed our life and took it from dark to light. This is the digital collage I created to represent that.

Happy Artists' Life Class Assignment

This class is being given by Lani Gerity. I always find her art and words to be very encouraging. This is part of the instruction for our assignment: "This lesson “You Are Beautiful” is about elevating the business of life to a sacred or mythic plane. Give some thought to “in whose light you do what you do”. The idea is to see the larger context, to see ourselves as a part of a whole that is much greater than our own little corner or our own minds. Folks who work with 12 step programs talk about a higher power. Jungians talk about the collective unconscious. But what ever your spiritual inclination (or non-inclination), the idea is to turn outward now, in this exercise, looking outside of yourself for solace and comfort. . . So my question here is, is the light outside of us, inside of us, or both? How does it make the self-portrait look?  Is it beautiful?  I believe so.  I believe we are beautiful!"

If you would like to visit Lani's website, the link is: http://lanipuppetmaker.blogspot.com/

Grandson #2

New Comic Released!

Comic elements from Mr. Whiskers' new kit "Thrilling Comics."

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