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    Pete may have a problem

    August 9, 2015 - By 

    Hello! Did you miss me? I’ve been around just not keeping up with the digital world. Summer is passing so quickly and it seems as if the appointments and events are multiplying on the calendar. This seems to happen every year at this time.

    I finally was inspired to do some art journaling. I started with a page I had used to clean my brushes and palette on during a long ago project. Having that base of color gives a jumpstart on building the layers that give depth to a page.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    After putting down some more colors it was a little too “in your face” for me. I took some white paint on my finger and mellowed out some areas. The end result made me much more happy than the beginning loudness.

    I found the image of the old cowboy in a bin and thought his color scheme meshed well.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    Then it was the hunt for the perfect found text to give life to the page.

    Pete's problem art journal page| Halle's Hobbies

    I thought these words spoke to the worn down look of the old cowhand.

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    Buried Treasure

    July 23, 2015 - By 

    I’m finally linking up with Seth Apter for Buried Treasure again. I have somehow missed it since the very first time back in 2009. buried treasureI had so much fun going back to choose what I wanted to share. Ironically, the first one I chose was the same one I used in 2009. I guess I’m pretty proud of that tutorial. 🙂

    Here is my original post from 2013:

    20130406_1706After our snow yesterday…yes you read that correctly…snow on April 5th, I guess I wanted to remind myself that a new season is actually upon us.

    It is Spring according to the calendar and before we know it, the weather will be hot and humid.

    When I started this journal page I had no idea where it was going. 20130406_1705

    I spread my super thin, lame gesso over the pages in my Watkins cookbook journal then kept adding layers of paint and stamping.

    Next I wanted to try out some molding paste applied through a stencil…a technique I’ve seen several times on YouTube videos. I love the texture it adds. I’ll definitely be trying that one again!20130406_1708

    I used water and walnut ink to age this library card which is placed on top of a bit of a forest scene magazine page. Love it when things like that work out.

    Still looking for more texture I glued down a bit of flower trim.

    I am incredibly happy with 20130406_1704the way this one turned out.

    And look..the sun is even shiny bright today promising that the Season is actually changing.

     

     

     

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    I must admit this is still one of my favorite art journal pages. Everything fell into place for me that day.

    Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will again. Also a great big thank you to Seth for providing this chance to check out other mixed-media artists we may not have come across yet. Also thanks to my dear friend Elizabeth who gave me the heads up this year…I guess I’ve been on summer break too long. HA!

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    SOC 5: week 6

    July 17, 2015 - By 

    I’m sad…it’s over…The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle is really done with this last set of colors.

    SOC 5 week 6 orange+orange+blue

    1 orange+ 1 orange + 1 blue

    I know the Golden color says red oxide but it is totally orange.

    SOC 5 week 6 orange+orange+blue

    Just look how dark orange it is!!

    SOC 5 week 6 orange+orange+blue

    I decided on some very Dr. Suess like flowers in blue for this weeks journal page. I used a Prismacolor watercolor pencil to draw the basic shape then went in with a water brush to give them movement and dimension.

    My found text came last…although once auditioning the text on the page I realized it really needed a bit of white splatters so the text wouldn’t be so stark.

    Once again thank you to Kristen for her hard work and dedication to the yearly challenge!