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Make Curious Awesome Fun! A Little Bit Messy!

Do you work with kids?  Check out my blog about teaching art to kids! Art is Basic
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Elephant Page

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Watercolor and Black Paint Art Journal Pages

Hi again!  This is my poor, neglected blog space.  I've been putting forth any extra time and effort I have into my art teaching blog.  I've revamped it, added a newsletter and a slideshow at the top. I've been adding products to my TPT shop and coming up with new resources for my blog.

I have had a little bit of time to experiment with art journaling again.  I've been using watercolors combined with stark black paint.

Journal page before watercolor lettering

Journal page with lettering added

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Flowery Collage

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Sweet and Sassy Art Journaling

 

I hope you all are having a wonderful winter time so far.  Brrrr... it's really cold here now!  The wind chills are about -20 degrees.   

My New Year's goal is to create at least one artwork per month just for me!  So, that is a total of 12 artworks.  I go to a book club and they helped me come up with that goal.  It is a very attainable goal and most months I make at least one artwork anyways.  It has just been so hard to find time to do anything for ME. 

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Zebra Collage

What a Wonderful Idea Collage

Flower Art Journal Page

Flower collage on an art journal page

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A collage in my art journal

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Triangle Collage

Triangle Paper Collage

Pam Garrison had a very fun art workshop on Creative Bug with different collage and doodling techniques.  Here is one of the triangle collage pages I made.

An Art Journal Page In Steps

Would you like to see me create an art journal page with a quote in steps?  Of course you do!  Here goes.

Just a little more art journaling... what I've been doing lately

This summer has been quite busy.  I have tried to plan things pretty much every day this summer for us to do, because otherwise we end up sitting at home watching lots of tv.  We've gone to the children's museum, a few beaches, many splash parks and playgrounds, backyard parties and this weekend we actually went to a concert just for adults!  We heard the Dead Horses play (amazing group!) and the Last Revels.  Both are bluegrass-ish/folk with fiddles and banjos and great vocals.  Funny how I'm now listening to this kind of music... I used to be mostly listening to heavy metal and industrial. 

Daria and I have done some art projects together, scrapbooking, painting, making collages.. it is so fun to have someone who is always willing to make stuff with me!  I know it will only get more fun as she gets older. 

We took a few short trips.. we went to Sawyer, MI to my brother's cabin and to Chicago for the Lego Brickworld Convention.  Both of which I wrote about on my art teaching blog.  I tend to update that blog more often, because, let's face it.. my life revolves around teaching art and my kids... and I don't end up having as much time as I'd like to create my own art. 

My next blog post will be a book review and a super fun GIVEAWAY, so stay tuned!

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Art Supplies for Art Journaling with Children

 

My daughter has been scrapbooking and art journaling with me lately.  She is 5 years old and has been making art with me ever since she was about 2 years old.  Today I wanted to share with you some of the things she likes to use in her art journal and scrapbook.

A Peak Inside My Art Journal

Here are some of the pages I've been working on recently in my art journal.  While we were on vacation, my daughter and I did a bunch of collage making.  On the left side page below, you can see her drawing of a dog made it into my book.

Art Journaling Technique: Fingerprints with Watercolor

Here is a quick and easy art technique to paint an interesting background or to make painted papers to cut apart for collages.

Ink Drawn Girl

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New Watercolor Bird

 I'm having so much fun continuing my bird series.  I just finished this colorful little guy.

So I need your honest opinion.  Do you like it better with the background paint splotches or without?  Here's it before I did the background.

These are some of my favorite watercolor paints to use.

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A World of Artist Journal Pages: Book Review

I am excited to share with you the book A World of Artist Journal Pages.  It just arrived in the mail yesterday and it is thick.. just full of inspiring art pages.  And I am super excited because five of my art journal pages have been published in the book!


I put together a video flip-through to show you some of the pages of the book.  I have really low voice and my voice is even scratchier with a sore throat I have now.



Here are four of my pages that are in the book (I couldn’t find a photo of the final page.)
Soul Affirming Journal Page
Every Creation Journal Page
The Whole World Journal Page
Page with Bird and Boy



(I’m a little bummed because the scans I sent off for printing didn’t show the colors as bright as it really is in real life, but oh well!)


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