Just a page or two

This is a page I did for the Creative Challenge on my site. The prompt was I am all of these things. I had done the background previously with gelatos and just drew circles and started adding words, simple but fun.

On this page I was just playing with color, when I added the picture the journaling took over. That is embossed wall paper underneath the picture. The heart is an embellishment using black, gesso, colorwash inks and white gesso. These are both things we will be doing in my class Bodacious Backgrounds next month.

This is all I have time for today.  I hope you are all having time for art today.

A few things

This is what I made this morning.  I have this pattern from Amy Butler for 3 sized bags. This one is the makeup bag. I think it turned out pretty good. I may have to make some more of these I think they would make great gifts.

This is a double page spread for the creative challenge on my ning site. The idea was memories and the holidays.

I started the pages using Christmas wrapping paper as backgrounds. I cut up other wrapping paper as collage items. The pic on the top left is of myself on the left and my sister Peggy on the right. I think I am 15 or 16 here which would make her 11. We always liked making cookies and decorating them. The lower pic is of Sarah, she was such a beautiful child, still is by the way. The pic on the right is my sister Marianne, we were making decorated Christmas trees with Peggy's boys. Then I wrote a little poem about the experience and added words that represented Christmas memories to me. It was fun to do.

This is a journal page with a few ladies who just popped out of the background. I was doing some experimenting with Color Wash sprays and stamping in the background. I really didn't see anything in the background until I turned the journal sideways. I have concluded that with found art you often have to look at the page all sorts of ways and several times before you can see anything.

I am still making birdies soon I will have enough so they can all fly together.

Oh I almost forgot I colored this today. Its one of Eden's drawings from Draw Doodle and Decorate. You can get your own to color here I decided to do him in non traditional colors, he was lots of fun. I have this set of 100 markers that I rarely use. This was a great opportunity to try them out.

The Space Below

This was a creative challenge on my network the Queen of Creativity Castle.  We used this poem for inspiraiton.

the space below 

“ there was a whole world inside of her

 filled with stars and caves and  

demons and gold. 

she tinkered and played in that world

 - but it was in the space below

 - in the depths of deep

 - that the real stuff was. 

and it was there she needed to go. ”

-terri st.cloud

Terri from Bone Sigh Arts sends out daily poems.  If you would like to recieve them go here 

The piece was done on an 11 x 14 gallery wrapped canvas. I used golden heavy bodied and fluid acrylics, stamping, pastels. watercolor crayons,  and charcoal.

I really like what this poem says, I think I tend to stay in the play faze and not dig deep into the space below. I can see that in my life and my art.  I had really wanted to go wild with this but its a pretty safe piece. Maybe my next challenge will be to go wild with your art.  If you are inclined to play with this challenge or others, head over to my network by using the button on the sidebar.

Tell me do you go to that space below or do you like to play it safe?

Wishcasting Wednesday What do you wish to shed?

Its time for Wishcasting Wednesday and today Jamie asks What do you wish to shed?

Oh this is an easy one.  i wish to shed any limiting beliefs about myself, my goals and aspirations.  I just undertook a big leap and opened my own network so I wish to shed any limiting beliefs that may now creep in.  I want to have confidence that this is the right path for me.

Next week Nanowrimo starts so I need all the courage I can muster.  I wish to shed any beliefs that limit my ability in this project too.  I want to know I can do it and feel confident in my undertaking.

To see what others are wishing this week go here

In this journal page I pulled out some found art. I thought I would leave them faceless and then started putting faces on the women and they looked really funky so I covered them up again. I am not sure what this means but it was interesting to paint.

This is my contribution to the Creative Challenge over at my ning site. The sunflowers are napkins that I added over acrylic paint.  To participate in the challenge head over to my network.