Art Journal Page 11

Well, the project was to sketch, paint, photograph...cooking or preparing food.

Thank goodness I have a husband and daughter that love to cook!

I do make myself a cup of coffee...this is a wonderful vintage cup, that I love
my pages are getting done...what fun this is,

The class with Alisa Burke is art daily for one mo.

the challenge will be to continue after Jan.

Thankfully I signed up for another class in Feb. with Joanne Sharpe

Daily Art Journal, Day 10

Please don't make these pictures larger...my photography skills didn't kick in..lol. Blurry!!!


I'm caught up posting my work...I think...I love that I am challenging myself to create art every day. I usually sketch out what I want...then in the evening, I have a "bed tray" or "art tray" that it has now become, my movable art studio. The cup holder now holds my water to rinse my brushes.

Daily Art Journal

Watercolor page...3 1/2 x 4 1/2

Daily Art Journal

I really have been keeping up with my daily art. I just got around to getting photos taken.

The top one, just doodles, then going over some of the lines to make them darker

This one above...dripps and dribbles of watercolor
Another fruit one. I added a few white gel pen marks to see what they would do,

I also used a micron pen .005 to outline.

Nice Day in So. Calif.

We took a trip to Pasadena, I painted this fresco about 18 years ago on a 100 year old mansion. Whenever I visit, I feel the need to post pictures.
This is the back side, it is t'wo stories, in the front it is 3 story's high. I used a cherry picker
Going by LA I snapped a picture of the buildings shining in the sun
Went to the Venice Farmers market. No one knew how to dress, boots and flip flops
I had to snap a picture of this guy...the ultimate California surfer dude.
Love this old bug
HOpe you enjoyed taking this trip with me today.

Went to Santa Ana, Ca

Lights were still on the trees, moon in the sky..."Art Walk"...not, not all experiences are good
The picture above is my abstract from "my daily art" class with Alisa Burke.
She also wanted us to find pattern, I came across this tonight, cool huh
Another shot of the art walk, there wasn't much art, the music sound like it was from the 70s and they were on drugs...awful!! But we laughed and had a good time...

Went to Santa Ana to Jenny Doh's open house.

Art Journal Day 4

I'm on a roll...can I keep it up for 361 more days?? lol. I'm going to TRY!!

"TRY"

My word for this year "TRY". Try new things. I'm taking a class with Alisa Burke, this one was doodling with a ball point pen. I couldn't leave it, so I added watercolor, it bled a bit, I think I used a gel pen, not the old fashion ball point. Next page, I'm going to lay down some watercolor first, then find the right kind of pen. My goal for doodling is to get better and better. I have doodled all my life...yes, on homework too. I'm also signed up with Joanna Sharpe starting in Feb. It will be fun to see my little pages evolve, I'm glad you are here for my journey.

New Art Plan

I have a plan...3 1/2 x 4 1/2...a little piece of art every day...I've started, plan to keep at it...
My word for the year is try. Try different and new things
I purchased this expensive watercolor paper years ago while on vacation. What am I saving it for???
So I folded it to make a doable size. Now I have eight smaller

areas. Should make a great book at the year.

Wonderful Day

I finished my book. The cover was a 1/4 inch to short, so I found a piece of brass trim that I took of an old album, it worked great. I added resin to the embellishment. I finished adding buttons and lace to the spine
A day at Laguna Beach. 85 degrees...on JAN 1...I cant believe it

bird prints
This was from Stephanie Lee's on line class

New Years Sparkle

Here we go. The finished chairs. When we went to LA to find the fabric we found this clear fabric with silver stars. $2.50 a yard. Then we had to figure out what to put under it. We looked and looked, when we would find yardage that looked the right color, when we would put this clear fabric over it, it would change color.

We had taken a swatch of aqua paint...so then we had to test and test the fabric, layer on layer

we found it!! $2.00 a yard. Batting 99 cents a yard and padding $5. Each chair. ended up costing $10 including the price of the chair...pretty good

This is what it looked like when purchased
This is the clear fabric

Happy New Year everyone!!

Pink Saturday

Glitter Love

If you could see the glitter, it might hurt your eyes...so bright, so shiny
All the pictures are backwards, the one above shows it without the handles
Stacey found this rather ugly tray for a couple bucks. she tore it apart...
Primed the wood. the brown stuff in the middle was like burlap
you can see it on the floor here. she painted the burlap turq. the wood was painted white, then with white pearl.

Then....Martha Stewards tinsel glitter "feldspar"was glued down....when that was dry...

RESIN...some of the fine pieces of glitter started floating....

it is soooo beautiful

Went to LA today, we found the fabric for the chairs...Come back

and visit tomorrow for pictures.
I'm joining
My Romantic Home

Retro Chairs

I went to the Goodwill, Whenever I hear Stacey suck in her breath...I know she has spotted something...looking over were these two chairs...we looked all over for a price. Not finding one, I found the manager...before I tell you the price...we played a game in our mind, how much are we willing to pay...how much is to much, what is our top price, how much do we think they'll be...
seems like chairs usually run$20-$25, oh I hope not...$15 would be a good price

so...when she said...$5.99...Yeppers!! We came home with the two chairs.

Stacey got them sanded and painted...off to LA fabric district today. Cant wait to

see what she will pick for the cushions...stay tuned...

Crafting Goodies

I've been wanting some of this putty. I had these two doll faces. After letting the putty dry I put in some paper clay...I cant wait to put some paint on them...do I know what I'm going to do with them??? nope, not yet.lol
oh boy, this picture didn't turn out..anyway it a Tim Holtz LARGE tag die, it works great on cereal cardboard.

I went to Jenny Dohs site...shes having a book signing with some of my favorite crafters, I signed Stacey and I up to go, should be a good time!!

Cupcake Wars Rob Machado Guest Judge

Had such a nice peaceful day. We have no family down here, Dean and I took a very long bike ride with the sun on our back...74 degrees. aaaah. What a winter.lol.

The reason I'm posting tonight...I am sooo excited. I am watching cupcake wars "surfs up" and I got so excited when I recognized the guest judge. Rob Machado. Here's why, a couple years ago when Stacey and I came down to Huntington Beach for vacation. We just happened to hit it when the US OPen Surfing...we were starving, so we stopped in one of the outside restaurants "Longboard" The city was bumper to bumper people. We finally got a table...a table for four..all of a sudden this guy and his son asked if they could join us. We said yes and they jumped over the fence to sit at our table. People were say hi to him...he mentioned that he might be a little famous and we laughed...We never got his name, he did say his picture was on a poster on the surf shop...He is also a Hurly model... anyway...what fun to see him on Cupcake Wars...he really IS famous, computers are great...we were able to google him.

Thought I would share my story

Merry Christmas from My Birdies

All my birdies sold so I thought I better get busy, it is nice to have them around for the holidays!!

Merry Christmas

How Sweet The Sound
My Romantic Home

Hand Painted Journal

***SOLD***

I just added this journal to my etsy...I just sold my last birdie and some spoons, I got busy today and finished a couple more...check out ETSY. Its really prettier then my photo with lots of texture

Am I Up for THIS???

I went to visit Christy Tomlinsons blog and she had been contacted by these people and they asked her to put it on her blog....so I thought a minute...and then I jumped in and contacted them...am I crazy?? I have been working on a "word" for 2012...the word I wrote in my new journal is "TRY" I started a small list of things I want to try...well, I think this ad falls in this category...If I don't try, I wont know if I can. I did hear back from them, they wanted a photo of me and to list the the things I do...I had to laugh, but I started listing, and listing...I'll keep you updated!

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