Halloween Party Time!

Here are some pictures to celebrate the Halloween season:

Decorating pumpkins with my daughter

Elmo pumpkin, of course!

Skull sketch

My costume

Artwork by kindergartner that I teach

Making felt monsters after school with a class

A Halloween wreath made by a child in my after school art class.

Sunday Snippets

My Cat in the Hat costume... simple:  long sleeve black t-shirt, black pants, cut out a white oval from felt and sew on, safety pin a red ribbon on the collar, Cat in the Hat hat (from Halloween store), black tail

We were lucky to be able to borrow the kindergarten train/car set.  It is enormous!!  The teacher did not want to store it when it was not in use, so we are borrowing it until the teacher needs it again.

watercolor paint, paint markers, magazine images, journal page

Watercolor bird in a journal page

another journal page

Check out other Sunday Snippets!

Just Journals Link Party #3

  I would love to see your pages!  Find a post that you recently made about an art journal page, add a link in your post back to the Just Journals blog post so others can find the meme and then add your link to inlinkz tab below!  Sounds fun?  play along!

What's in YOUR art journal or sketchbook?  Now add your link!






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Also check out Artists in Blogland and In the Studio

Paint Party Friday

I've been working on this painting of watercolor doodles.  This is about half of the painting.  The other half I haven't done too much on...

Paint Party Friday!

It's all good!

What's on my desk

Check out what is on other people's workdesks.

Artist Inspiration

I love these artworks by Gretchen Ebersol!

Mizue Hirano is another fave.

Also these by Janice Lowry.

Meri Cherry has awesome kid's art

Love Maya Huyak's art!

Victoria Huckins

Yuko Adachi= yum!

Tilleke Schwarz= awesome.

Today was a not-so good day.  I got rear-ended and my car is smashed.

The Answer is Chocolate

Hey, cool!  I'm featured on The Answer is Chocolate!  Check out some of my pictures there.  These two pictures above are from the pumpkin patch we went to last weekend.  We also decorated them with stickers.  She's too young to carve them, but she loves stickers!

Just Journals Link Party #2

 Last week I started a "Just Journals" Link Party, where YOU can show everyone what you have been working on in your art journal or sketchbook.  Lots of inspiring pages were made!!   I would love to see your pages!  Find a post that you recently made about an art journal page, add a link in your post back to the Just Journals blog post so others can find the meme and then add your link to inlinkz tab below!  Sounds fun?  play along!

Here is one of my recent pages.  I was teaching about Day of the Dead in my classroom and thought it would be fun to draw my own skull.  Lots of painted doodles around it!  Linked to Paint Party Friday, Sunday Sketches and Artists in Blogland!

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What inspires you?

Inspiration Avenue is having a blog party for reaching 500 members.  They have weekly challenges with themes.  This week they are asking what inspires you.  Also, check out My Mojo Monthly, which is all about inspiration as well.   So, I will show you some of what inspires me:

Insects and Plants

Flowers and Fruits

Organic Shapes

Letters and Numbers

Cute things

BRIGHT Colors

WOYWW

What's on your workdesk?

New LINK Party!! "Just Journals"

I'm starting a Saturday meme... every Saturday I will post a "Just Journals" link party, where you can link up YOUR art journal pages.  Find a post that you recently made about an art journal page, add a link in your post back to the Just Journals blog post so others can find the meme and then add your link to inlinkz tab below!  Sounds fun?  play along!

Here's my page for this week:

My obsessively bright doodles!

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Snippets of "True" art

Raw art, true art, art just to make art....  let go of the idea to make a perfectly balanced composition or planned out design...

Snippets of Pages and Doodles

Here are some snippets of pages from my art journal.  Most of these are incomplete... I am skipping from page to page and working on bits of them when I feel like it.  I really like Debra's post about letting go of the need for pretty art, because TRUE is good.  Give yourself permission to make bad art!