Flower Fairy Art Journal Page

I got Jane Davenport's new book about drawing/painting faces.  Of course, this looks nothing like any of the art in the book.  This work was done in a larger art journal.  I tried to make her a fairy with a pointy ear, but didn't have a reference how to do the shading of the ear.  I am happy with my effort.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Faces #12

I sketched out these 2 faces last week and the proportions are off.  Way off!  That's OK, because flowers make everyone beautiful!  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Face 11

This is Face 11.  Last night I had the face painted and I made weird hair.  The weird hair had to go.  When something doesn't go as planned, I'm usually pretty good at turning this "mistake" around.  I don't like calling an art experiment that doesn't go as planned a "mistake".  I believe that when something doesn't come out as planned that it's a challenge to turn into something that I like.  So here's what I ended up with.  I love Dali's women that have flowers for their entire head.  I like to make hair  out of flowers.  The entire top of the page is the woman's hair.  Sometimes I think she looks dark, but she's really got sort of a smirk.  It makes me wonder what she's thinking.  I am truly enjoying trying to learn to draw and paint faces.  I don't want to make photo realistic faces - just interesting faces. I always say that I can't draw, but I'm learning.  Thanks for coming by my blog

Faces Art Journal - Faces Nine and Ten

There are faces nine and ten in my faces art journal.  Stencils are from The Crafter's Workshop and Stencil Girl.  thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Face 6

This is face 6 in my faces art journal.  When I sketched this face, I thought it was not attractive.  After I painted it, I find it to be more or less attractive.  The color made her come alive!  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Face Five

Here's face #5.  After I looked at this, I decided it was too plain.

Here's Face Five with some rub-ons added and doodling in the background.

Faces Art Journal - Face Four

 Here's face #4.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Faces Art Journal - Face 3

 

 

This is the third spread in my faces art journal.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Try Now art journal page

Today I decided I would continue on with the face painting experiment.  I'm encouraged again to keep trying!  Thanks for coming by the blog!

Wish my hair.... art journal page

 

Here's an art journal spread that I finished today.  I absolutely love to put flowers for women's hair.  Dali painted women with heads that composed entirely of flower blooms. I would love to hair that was made out of flowers.  The background is made out of stenciled circles using a The Crafter's Workshop template.  The stamped circles are from a fabulous new stamp set from Ellen Hutson.  I love it.  It'll all just circles and dots that you can arrange any way that you like.  I also used a Tim Holtz layering stencil for the letters and numbers.  The woman stamped image is from a Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous classic stamp set.  The words were made from Tim Holtz chit chat stickers and label letters.  I colored the paper flowers with paints and used glue dots to attach them.  I found some dimensional tiny yellow roses in my stash and added them to flower hair.  I had fun making this.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Of Two Minds and Guarded Hearts Art Journal Page

For this spread, I used one of the new Dylusions stamps.  I applied watercolor to two #8 tags and stamped the part of the image on both tags.  I cut out  both images and trimmed them.  I used a palette knife to spread acrylic paints to make the background.  I used a Stencil Girl stencil to apply the modeling paste.  I followed that up with some black circles and slash lines made with an old key card.  I cut some washi tape circles to put inside the black paint circles.  I also shook some diluted black paint from a brush to make the splatters.  I cut the hearts out of this grid material and painted them with the yellow paint.  I cut smaller hearts out of a vintage dictionary and applied buttercup glass glitter.  I glued the grid hearts on top of the glitter hearts and glued the whole constructed image down.  The pink butterflies were applied last.  I had fun making this!  Thanks for stopping by!

Lin's Art Journal

Here are two pages that I completed in Lin's art journal.  The bee page uses images from FineCrafted Designs at the Deviant Scrap website.  I find that I almost always use some sort of vintage text in my art backgrounds.  I used a paint chip from Lowe's on the bird page.  I had fun making these pages.  Thanks for stopping by!

My art journal - gluebook pages

The latest pages in my art journal.  I made gluebook pages.  Creating art in gluebook style means just gluing down paper - no embellishments.  I like this.  I don't use a lot of embellishments in my art any way.  The photos of the boys are from Land of Nod Studios.  Many of the images were obtained when I took a Vintage Glue Book class from Green Paper Packages.  Thanks for stopping by!

Lin's Art Journal

My friend, Lin (click here for Lin's Etsy store) and I are participating in a little art journal round robin - just the two of us.  Here are the first two pages that I've finished in Lin's journal.

The top spread, the birds, was a lesson in how there are no mistakes in art, only opportunities.  I had a perfectly fine background created and messed it up adding more stuff.  I can save just about anything!  I ended up painting over the top of it and trying it again.  I used Dylusions spray inks and rubber stamps.  I used 2 of The Carfter's Workshop templates.  I added texture with modeling paste.  I love the Dina Wakeley "Scribbly Birds" stamps.  I colored the birds and houses with the new Dina Wakely heavy body acrylic paints.  In both spreads, I used a page or part of a page from a vintage children's spelling textbook. 

The second spread uses mostly Victorian scraps available at Collage Stuff.  I love the timeless beauty of these images.  I used lace, a doily, buttons, two items from the Tim Holtz Thrift Shop ephemera pack, Petaloo flowers and lots of butterflies!  I fins some sort of stencil to be a must and used one of The Crafter's Workshop templates - available at Collage Stuff.  For this spread, I also used a paper that I created with my gelli plate.  I toned it down a little with white gesso.

I encourage everyone to art journal.  It's art that you create for yourself.  I love the feeling of artistic freedom that I get from just playing and trying different things.

Thanks for stopping by!