Art Journal.....

I was working in my art journal the other day and realized that I had not posted pictures of that particular journal yet...it is made from a composition notebook and was started as a junk journal.  I have worked in it the most over the past year and it is almost full now...

I wanted to post some pictures of each page and at some point I will make a journal flip video and show off all the hidden stuff that the pictures didn't pick up....

Well that is all of this journal so far...when I finish it I will post the rest of the journal done in another post....

I hope you all are having good days and are healthy and happy.  See ya next time!

Scored a new art journal for cheap!!

I'm always shopping for goodies at the Salvation Army or "Sally's Boutique" as I like to call it....lol  I scored this beautiful hand made paper photo album actually but its just pages of handmade paper bound together and although says photo album on the cover, I don't have to keep that there and the inside has a bit of writing but I can paint over that but just look at this gorgeous book!  It FEELS just as good as it LOOKS!!!  Yummy paper!!!!  All this yumminess for $1.99!!  YAY!

I also cut my daughters hair the other night and she looks just darling!  I think but I am biased I must say!  LOL  Here is what she looks like now, I didn't think to take a before picture!  But her hair was down to the middle of her back or longer and she hated brushing it...

Life Book Page

I created this page for Life Book which I did a video for....

 

Life Book 2012

I have had the priviledge of winning a place in Tamara LaPorte's Life Book 2012 class.  This is a 12 month art class where we are studying different mixed media techniques and how to paint girls faces.  I wanted to post what I have completed so far...

The first page was a 3/4 portrait and a list of our Goddess Super Powers or good qualities...It was designed with a foldout section.

 

 

This is my dream board.  The things I want to have or get in the new year.

 

This was was supposed to be our good side and bad side and that seemed way to harsh to me I guess so this is what I came up with...

 

This is just an extra page I did because I had half a sheet of paper left...

 

This is also an extra page I did with inspiration from Kira over at Journal Girl.

 

This is also just an extra page I did that was done on a thick piece of chip board.

 

This was also my own design...just a page I felt like doing when I found the quote...

 

The light hit this one funny so her face looks kinda strange but it doesn't look like that in real life, just figuring out the new camera I got at tax time to use...lol  This one is a technique that Tam developed called paint over collage.  I took the face of a magazine model and glued it down and then painted a stylized face over it...

 

The next couple are the same because I really enjoyed doing this technique so I did a few others like it...

 

This one was done on another half sized sheet of watercolor paper....

 

I started this lesson in layering with the intention of pulling some funky face or other things from the background but no matter which way I turned it I didn't see any faces or any features at all in the background so I just practiced on drawing another pretty girl...and I love quotes by Marilyn Monroe!  She was such a beautiful brassy woman and I could see myself saying some of the things she said!  So I included one of my favorite Marilyn quotes on this sheet...

   

Well I guess that is about it...hopfully now that I have a new camera I will be able to keep up with what I am working on.  I am still working on my Sacred Box meant to house my Life Book when it is finished and bound...that has been a very long process...LOL  Well, talk again soon!