• Blog

    Art journal

    September 29, 2011 - By 
    After being inspired by The Art Journal Workshop, I started work on the inside pages.
    I found the book that I disassembled for the covers at a thrift store quite a while ago. When I got it I hadn’t realized that all the pages were glossy which doesn’t work very well for altering.
    I still loved the covers and knew I’d use them
    in some way.
    The inside pages are recycled cardboard from cereal type boxes. I obsessively save them to use as substrate for so many different projects. The pages are all a uniform height but the width is very random. I felt this might give the journal an interesting look.
    So far, I’ve slathered leftover paint from other projects on a few pages and completed one from scraps on my table.

    The journalling reads:
    Forget the darkness behind you. 
    Turn your face towards the sun and bloom.

  • Blog - Creativity

    Experimen-Tea

    September 27, 2011 - By 
    So I did get inspired from sorting buttons. Not to actually used any of those buttons but by color.
    I painted a 12×12 deep edge canvas with several shades of yellow.  Then using a palette knife applied a bold wave of burgundy then some thin lines with the edge of the knife.
    I knew I wanted a circle…I love circles for some reason.  I knew I had a perfect piece of Citra Solv paper. I used gel medium to adhere it to the canvas.
    It’still needed something. I decided to try out beeswax over the top. I’ve always wanted to try it so why not right!It wasn’t as easy to spread as I thought so I decided to get out the heat gun to try to smooth things out a bit.
    After several minutes of fussing with it …melting,…cooling…melting some more…
    I came up with my finished piece.
    Or at least I think it’s finished… This is where I struggle…not knowing when enough is enough.
    I love that the paper that once looked slightly out of place is now firmly set into the painting..looking as if it is “one with the canvas”.
    Stop by Kimmie’s to see what the Tea Tuesday gals are doing today….maybe you’ll even see a teacup in a picture.  🙂