Book of Days

Well I'm sort of participating in a few things, but be warned my posting to this blog may be a little haphazard from now until the end of my busy season in April.

The things that I'm trying to participate in are Book of Days over at Wild Precious Life,  My One Word and the 2012 Sketchbook Challenge.  So I may combine some of this things for a while.  Of course, I'll always peek in to see what Tammy is doing over at Daisy Yellow and I'm taking Dion Dior's Twinking H2O's class later this month.  Oh, yeah and I plan to participate in the 34th Annual WorldWide SketchCrawl on January 21, but since there is no local group I hope to meet up with the south Florida group.  The venue is awesome - the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park but it's 170 miles and almost 3 hours.  Wow, I'm tired just listing these, but of course, I'll only be able to do so much and will do as much as I can.

For my One Word for 2012 I chose - FOCUS- focus on my life and health, family, sanity and of course, work. For my Book of Days I did this spread which includes my One Word.

This page is in my Ecosytem Sketchbook, gesso, Dr. PhMartin acrylic ink, Sakura Gellyroll pens, acrylic paint.

I don't do much with collage or faces - I like color and putting words on the pages of my art journal is still something of a challenge - my goal is to do some kind of spread on a weekly basis (I just can't do daily) perhaps something that reflects the past week or my hopes for the next week.

30 Days of Drawing #11

This is really more of a test of the Sakura Gelly Roll pens that I wrote about yesterday.  I wanted to see how the colors with gold and silver worked on black paper.  As you can see, they didn't.

On black paper the colors are overwhelmed by the underlying gold or silver, but that's okay because they work very well on white. Like all of the Gelly Roll glittery pens, you really cannot appreciate these in a picture, they are much more sumptuous in person.

Yesterday, Sandra, over at Life Imitates Doodles, shared a link to a site which explained how to make Japanese Paper Flowers so I thought that I would give it a try.

Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but there it is.

30 Days of Drawing #9 - it's YELLOW!!

I don't think I can add much - it's yellow.

hand*book journal Bic Mark*it Fine Point

30 Days of Drawing - #7 Black

 

White Sakura Gel Pen on Strathmore Artagain black paper

21 Secrets - Urban Layer Cake

My journal page for the 21 Secrets - Urban Layer Cake workshop by Tammy Garcia over at DaisyYellow.  I really love this technique and the results - grungy, colorful layers.

21 Secrets - Abstract Adventure

Now that busy season is over I have time to begin playing with my art supplies and working on the 21 Secrets - Art Journal Workshop.  I discovered this workshop from following Tammy over at Daisy Yellow.  Tammy is teaching one of the workshops.

The first workshop that I am attending is Connie Hozvicka's Abstract Adventure.  Remember, I'm one of those analytical left brain types who has not exercised her artsy muscles in years, so I'm re-learning the process.

Here is the first page in my Fearless Art Journal:

I initially put too much paint on my palette so being that analytical type, who can't stand to waste paint, I used it to create these postcards for MailArt365.  It will be a little while before they go out as I put the paint on pretty thick so it's going to take a while for them to dry.