Keep Calm and Make Art

Glass Fusing!

Here are two glass fused pieces I did at a local pottery place.  Aren't they fun?  Can you tell that this is Elmo?  The orange glass was brighter when I put it on, but darkened after it was fused.

Rainbow!

This was a journal page I'd been working on in pieces for awhile.  It was kind of a practice piece for lettering, color schemes, etc.  Check out the other rainbow pages at Daisy Yellow's blog.

Lettering

Here is a name picture I made for my nephew Dylan.  

I've been busy working on name pictures for a friend too!  I will post those soon.

Building a Rainbow: Lavender

"lavender, sweet lavender;
come and buy my lavender,
hide it in your trousseau, lady fair.
Let its flovely fragrance flow
Over your from head to toe,
lightening on your eyes, your cheek, your hair."

Cumberkand Clark Flower Song Book 1929

I am hosting today's color, LAVENDER, for Daisy Yellow's Building a Rainbow.

Lavender Inspiration

1. Lavender field, 2. lavender blue, 3. Lavender 3, 4. Lavender, 5. Lavender, 6. lavender, 7. Lavender Jordan Almonds, 8. lavender, 9. Avery's Journal-6 Months

Here are a couple pages I made with a lavender palette.

“When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.

It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.

And sometimes it is enough.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

The other color for today is PERIWINKLE.  Check out Pippa's intro to periwinkle.

Just Journals Link Party #6

 

This is now the 6th week of the Just Journals Link Party.  Every weekend I will post a linky for you to add a link to a blog post you have made about an art journal or sketchbook page.  

Thanks for playing along! 

Grab a button for your page:

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Paint Party Friday

Check out Paint Party Friday... What have you been working on?

Painted butterfly on collage

Painted ladybug on collage

Painted background

Check out In the Studio!

Best of the Web

Check it out!  I'm featured on "Best of the Web"

Pocketchange Lifestyle Blog

Be Inspired!

 

What's On Your Workdesk?

Peace to you!

Inspiration Avenue had a Christmas ball challenge this week. Here's a little sketch I made for the occasion. Maybe I will copy them for some Christmas notes.

Building a Rainbow: Black

I started late with this challenge (Building a Rainbow with Tammy), but I did black!  Black is easy for me to do, because I use black in my doodling all the day.  Black micron pens are awesome, as well as sharpies.

Here are snippets from a journal page I made.

Building a rainbow: Blue

I missed the rest of the days, but I participated in Daisy Yellow's building a rainbow.  Here is a mixture of spray ink, watercolor and ink.  I was experimenting with this super tiny long hair brush, I think it's called a rigur or rigor brush.

Just Journals Link Party #6

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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!





Grab a button for your page:

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In progress pages...

Linked to Paint Party Friday
and My Mojo Monthly
and Blog Feature Friday
I am loving this new pastel color palette.  I've been using watercolor paints, markers, and inktense color blocks painted with a bit of watered down gesso.

I am planning to add some colorful lettering and pictures to these pages.

Art Journaling