In Wonderland

I've got a few more pages uploaded in the albums.  Lots of paint flying around here but most of it is pink and on the girl child's walls.

I started my In Wonderland series I've been toying around with.  Yes I know, everyone is doing Wonderland right now.  Maybe that's why I can't stop thinking about it.  Its everywhere, even in my dreams.  So I started these two canvases. 

Eat me

Drink me.

Eat me is considerably further along.  They both still have a long way to go.  Lots more media to be added, color, shadows, reflections.  Gods, I love art.

Oops.

I kind of forgot to blog.  For three months.  You know how it goes, oversleep one day and it's months before you finally catch up.

Anyways, I started a new journal.  I'm still working in A Little Piece of Me, but now I'm also keeping a Negativity Journal.  I purge out bad thoughts, paint and collage all over them, title it and move on.  It's been very freeing.

In the zone

That's where I've been lately.  Working in the new journal, making tiny books.  I get going and the next thing I know it's 3 am. 

The new journal is huge!  I didn't realize how much bigger it is than my old journal until I started working and hoo boy it's bigger.  It's taking a lot of getting used to but I'm enjoying the new challenge. 

I've also noticed a more cohesive feel to it that my previous journal.  No matter how I start, I always come off with a similar feel, if not a similar look.  I painted a page a glossy black in preparation for tomorrow when I plan to try to break the similarity.

Here are two teeny prototype journals.  I have one more that is in the style I decided to to go with.  I'm having so much fun making these, here's hoping that lasts until I get a bunch finished.

Stinking cold

It's been snowing here.  Snowing!  I love it, burrowing down with the kids and old movies, attempting to make snowmen and snowballs.  Great fun.  Until I got slammed with the cold that won't die.  Urgh.  While being snowed in at least I finished Journal the Original.  I have an odd sense of finality while at the same time am thoroughly excited about starting the new journal.  Here are the final pages.

 

  

  

And I out myself as the complete geek I am.

Snowed in

Not much going on but playing with new supplies.  I got some beeswax and new watercolor pencils and I've been having myself a good time in the journal.

 

  

 
 

  

 

Back in the saddle

Ugh, after battling intense, eye popping pain for a few days, I am getting back in the swing of things.  Of course now I feel a cold coming on.  Oh well.  I start a drawing class tonight.  I'm a little nervous, I haven't had an art class since the seventh grade but I think it will be good for me.

The lady is coming along swimmingly.  A few tweeks and adjustments and I think she'll be complete. 

Here's some journal pages from the past few days, thank goodness I do backgrounds in advance so when I can't sit at my worktable due to pain, I can still journal lol!

 

 

 

In the zone

I have been sucked into a piece I'm working on.  It has been calling to me throughout the day and anytime I had a minute, I ran up to the studio to add a stroke of paint or a layer of tissue.  She is quite a bit further along than this picture I took last night.  Her branches are done and the base layers are all painted.  I love how her body and face are coming along, her hair needs a bit more tightening up and she needs a  bit more background depth.  I'm a bit of a flighty painter, if it takes to long I generally get bored and do something else which is why I love my art journal so much.  But this lady is calling to me with her deep roots, hair of flames, luscious hips.  And of course it's the weekend so there are three rugrats all over, wanting snacks and to be entertained.  I comply but a rather large piece of my mind is up in my tiny studio, listening to the call of my muse. For the first time in a long time I find myself longing for Monday and the quiet that comes along when the school bus pulls away.

Here is yesterdays spread in my journal.  I did another page but I won't share it, it's too personal.  I'm not one to hide my feelings or thoughts, my journal is open for anyone with a computer to read.  I'm not perfect and I've made mistakes and had some pretty shitty stuff go down in my life but I don't mind sharing that, it's our experiences that make us stronger and more human.  But the thoughts I had late last night were about something that is not my story to tell.  And while I'm an open book I will repect the privacy of others and not share personal information without their permission.

Dream

"Dream", art journal spread 1-19-10

Untitled, art journal page 1-21-10

Guess I've been feeling green

I just noticed as I was uploading these that there's a whole lot of green in my journal lately.  Yesterday I was painting a background and while it started off blue it quickly went green.

Any who, here's yesterday's page. I had a massive headache and it was all I could think of.  (The tape is from the dollar section of Michaels, I need to go grab more I lurve it).

And today's spread, inspired by a song I was listening to .

Cooookies

Miss Priss and I went out to sell Girl Scout cookies this evening.  Ack, I mean yesterday evening, where did the time go?  It was quite fun, but then most things are when a 5 year old girl is involved.

I made a freaking awesome book

I am so stoked with how this turned out.  It's my second go at coptic binding and I'm pretty sure I nailed it this time (well aside from the few torn bits but they don't count).  Used a pad of 18x24" Stratford 80lb drawing paper for the bulk of it (the covers are the board from the back).  Bound with waxed cotton thread, I only had black and white waxed linen and neither looked right.

Here's the inside of the front cover.  I love this paper.  I only had one sheet so the inside of the back cover is a different one I had on hand.  I almost can't wait to fill up my current journal with this beauty waiting for me!

And a couple of pages:

Yesterday's page, "Reassemble Me."

Spread from today, "Walk Away." Side note, freaking love this background, it looks like leather in real life.  I really wish I could remember what I did.  I do know tissue paper and gel medium were involved.

Let's get this show on the road

Ok here's the deal.  I've tried blogging many many times over the years.  Usually I get a post or two in, maybe even keep going for a week or two and then I stop.  I decided that this year I want to keep a log of my projects.  I already use Ravelry for my knitting projects and that works great but wouldn't it be nice to keep track of all the varied and sundry bits of crap I do?  So that is where this blog comes in.  I'm not sure what direction this is going to head in but that's part of the fun.  So here's goes nothing.

Here's a background I worked on yesterday.  Not my favorite but since it was a coverup job for a hoooorrible background, not too bad.  Acrylic paint, masking tape, collage, and stamps.

And an actual page I did, She's a bit of a lonely girl.  Acrylic paint with a touch of watercolor pencil for accent and to make her blend more into the page.  Pen is a Zig Millenium.

Check baby, check baby

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