May 2nd, 2015

I'm in the midst of my second online drawing course with Susan Shie. It's so much fun! I started with Lucky Drawing 102, and talked my sister into joining me for Lucky Drawing 203.

If you want to try it out, she is about to start a Lucky Drawing 104.

Here are a few of my assigned weekly drawings.

December 30, 2013

Holiday making and behind on blogging!

 guild exchange blocks

 baby quilt for a friend

 local charity auction donation, quilted by my friend Margaret.

 I designed and carved a stamp to make some ornaments for friends.

 I sewed my printed fabric onto a felt backing, and added some ribbon hangers with decorative buttons.

 I made approximately a bajillion of these felt bacon ornaments.

and finally, a collage for my hubby, made from an Abita beer wrapper, sheet music and various other ephemera with acrylic paint, gel medium and pastels.

November 24, 2013

mounting two collages onto painted canvas. 

mixed media collage: acrylic paint and acrylic medium, ephemera, rubons, faber-castel gelatos, sharpie marker.

These will be auctioned at Artistic Artifacts in Alexandria, VA January 18-February 8th, 2014, to benefit Food for Others. 

August 15, 2013

self portrait in playground equipment

November 23, 2012

 working in my art journals.

starting  two new altered books (FREE from the library discard shelf).

scribbling in some art journals today

September 22, 2012

Ah, it's football widow time again. I spent the evening hiding in my room, playing with my art journals.

September 6, 2012

At our beach vacation, I had time to sit and sketch and play in my art journals. This is the only page that basically started from scratch. I love watching seagulls so I decided to sketch some. And the lifeguard's blue umbrella really caught my eye.

I added a little to a lot of pages.

Watercolor over gel glue resist; added some pencil drawing around the stickers to give dimension.

Added a little background color to this one.

Added swirly pattern on the hand on the right, with prismacolor pencil. 

I must have fall leaves on the brain. Tissue paper glued down and colored over with prismacolor pencils.

Added water to the trunk shape.

Added a watercolor wash to the flames at the top.
These are all in two books that I made a while back from old watercolor studies I made in college.

March 30, 2012

art journal

January 15th, 2012

Some of my art journal pages in progress. I made these as a way to recycle old watercolor studies from a college course in watercolor painting. They includes watercolor and acrylic paint, sharpie pens, prismacolor pencils, rub-ons, gel glue resist, stickers, paper collage, gel medium, crayons, and my new favorite toy...Faber Castell gel sticks. Like a very smooth crayon or oil pastel, but you can add water for watercolor effects.