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Art Journal Thursday #23!

I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday #23 video has been posted out on YouTube!

This week the materials I used were:

White gesso
Tissue paper – two different patterns, the teal and white chevron patterned tissue paper was from Paper Source
Gel medium
Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints: Lime, Magenta, Tangerine, Night
Apple Barrel Craft Paint: White
Balzer Designs Stencil: 12X12 Stones Divided
Balzer Designs Stencil: 6X6 Mini Fifties Clock
Dylusions Stencil: 9X12 Flossie
Fineline Bottle with White Acrylic Craft Paint
Distress Ink Reinker: Festive Berries
Uni-Ball Signo Broad White Pen
Pilot Permaball Black Pen
#2 Pencil
Scissors
Uhu Glue Stick

Well, what can I say about my Art Journal Thursday this week? I was so excited to be finishing up with this particular art journal that I really had no idea where to begin. So, maybe that is where I will start in my explanation for this week’s art journal – my art journal. The journal that I have been using is a Strathmore 500 Series, Mixed Media Paper Journal, which I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this brand, and the paper is SUPER tough, and is so CREAMY to work on…the problem that I have been having is the S.I.Z.E!! I saw that Donna Downey (who I LOVE, by the way!!!) was using this size, 11×14 sized pages, I thought, “I CAN DO THAT!!!” Well, when you are a newbie art journaler, which I am, and you work full time at a non-artsy kind of job, which I do, and when you have committed to yourself to do a two page art journal spread EVERY SINGLE week, and NOT ONLY that, but to record your process and post out on YouTube EVERY SINGLE WEEK, which I SOOO INSANELY DID – you quickly come to the realization that THIS IS A LOT!!! 😉 You DO NOT want to make things harder for yourself by buying the LARGEST art journal that you can possibly find!! What was I thinking???

So, the next art journal, which I will start using in next week’s art journal video, is a MUCH more manageable 8.5 x 11 size!! I CAN’T WAIT!!!

Anyway, back to this week’s spread! When I started I didn’t really have a plan, I usually don’t, but I knew that I wanted to use this AWESOME new tissue paper that I had found a Paper Source!

Once I got my colors, patterns, and textures started it was very VERY tricky for me to reign it in, but I was having some good fun playing, and staying in my head!!

I decided that I wanted to use all of that pattern as an element that would pop off of the page by covering a lot of it with a dark color, and a silhouette stencil. Once I had done that I wasn’t really sure where to go from there, but I had some deep, stop-and-listen-to-your-soul-cuz-she’s-a-speakin’ kind of thoughts going on, so I decided to grab my Fineline bottle with some white acrylic paint, and decided to journal some of those thoughts out onto my page.

“She knew that she was going to have to get out of her own way if she were ever going to make her dreams come true. No one was going to do the hard work for her. She knew it was going to have to be all up to her!”

Yeah, I am not sure where that came from, because it came from someplace deep, deep down, and even as I write it now, I KNOW that it is the TRUTH that I am living with right now!

I am not sure if I really love the design of this finished spread – when I look closely it is kind of a bit of train wreck, and I know it definitely had parts of it that I would do differently (for example, the Distress Ink Festive Berries never did really dry – even after 48 hours!! UGH!!! I should’ve used my Dylusions spray ink with a dropper!), if I were to do it again, but for some reason that this spread really resonated with me, so my final thought is that I really LOVE it!!

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts!! 🙂

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life! 😉

If you want a different life, live differently!

Art Journal Thursday #19

Good morning! I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday Video #19 has been uploaded out on YouTube! 🙂

The materials I used this week are:

White Gesso
Dina Wakley Mixed Media Acrylic Paints: Lime, Turquoise, Sky, Magenta, Lapis, White
Baby wipes
Dina Wakley Media Stencil: Essentials
Ceramcoat Acrylic Craft Paints: Green, OJ
Folk Art Acrylic Paint: Medium Yellow
Finalize bottle filled with white acrylic paint
Uhu Glue Stick
Uniball Signo Broad White Pen
Black Pilot Permaball Pen
Ranger Archival Ink Pad

This weeks video is rather short and sweet. That is mainly because I lost part of my video footage in the beginning…oops, sorry about that! In case you missed how I got this page started out, I coated my spread with white gesso by using a palette knife to scrape white gesso all over my spread and letting that dry completely. I then used three of Dina Wakley Media Paints to add color to my page, and before those colors dried, I used a stencil and baby wipe to pull some of the color up through the stencil. As I added another color, I made sure to overlap some of the previously stenciled areas to incorporate all of the colors together, and then continued with my stencil technique. I kept doing this until my spread was color!

That is why my video today begins!

I really like the way this spread turned out, at one point I wasn’t exactly sure where I was going with it! 🙂 But as always, it usually seems to turn out exactly as it is supposed to, and I really love it! 🙂

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Art Journal Thursday #17!

Good afternoon!

I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday #17 video is up on YouTube!! 🙂

The materials I used this week were:

Folk Art Acrylic Craft Paint: Medium Yellow
DecoArt Crafter Acrylic Craft Paints: Leaf Green, Tuscan Red, Tropical Blue
Apple Barrel Acrylic Craft Paint: White
Petroleum jelly
Paper Towels
Card Stock (recycled business cards)
Hero Arts Decorate It Letter Stamps
Ranger’s Black Archival Ink Pad
Aleene’s Quick Grab Tacky Glue
Black China Marker

This week I had stumbled upon another YouTube video showing how to do this petroleum jelly resist, which ends up looking like peeled paint, and I just knew that I had to try this in my art journal this week! 🙂

One of my favorite artists is Rodney White, and I have 4 of his prints hanging in my house, 3 of those are in my living room! His artwork features a peeled paint effect, and I was determined to figure out how to do this, so I could use it in some of my artwork! 🙂

I found a few YouTube tutorials on how to do this, and was determined to give this a try! 😉

This technique turned out to be very easy, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind! You will need a lot of clean paper towels, and I mean A LOT!!! 😉 This will also make a bit of mess on your art table, with all of the little peeled paint bits – kind of reminds me of eraser shavings, but other than that…easy peasy!!! 😉

This is my new FAVORITE spread in my art journal!!! I ADORE all of the colors, and the final peeled paint effect is SCRUM-DIDDLY-UPMTIOUS!!!! After adding the brown color wash, and wiping it off, all of the layers had so much depth to them, that I could seriously see this being a very cool background on a piece of wall art!!!

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

If you want a different life, live differently!

Art Journal Thursday Video #16

Good morning!

I am happy to announce that my Art Journal Thursday video #16 has now been posted out on YouTube!

The supplies I used today were:

Liquitex Gesso
DecoArt Acrylic Paints: Tropical Blue, Tuscan Red
Folk Art Acrylic Paint: Medium Yellow
Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints: Lemon, Ruby, Sky
Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint: Green (02662)
Golden’s Molding Paste
Palette Knife
Adirondack Metallics Acrylic Paint Dabber: Gold
Fineline Applicator (18 gauge tip) – 4 of them
Stencil – I apologize, I have no idea what this stencil is called or who created it – I remember purchasing this at Michael’s in a pack of 3 or 4 stencils

My inspiration for this spread was this cute little wooden wall hanger that I had found on sale at my local World Market. I immediately fell in love with the beautiful colors, and all of the interesting designs. I am thinking it looks very Moroccan in design, which I also LOVE!!

I wasn’t sure if it would be possible to translate this cute tile onto a two page art journal spread, the size difference was a little daunting to envision – a 4″x4″ tile versus a 22″x28″ art journal spread. BIIIIIIIIIG difference!! 😉Anyway, I really like the way that this spread has turned out!
The textures are scrumptious!And the little doodling designs turned out better than I expected. I am really in LOVE with my Fineline bottles!!! 😉
I also really REALLY like the color combinations! I would have NEVER used this mix if it weren’t for my inspiration piece!I also really like that in some parts of this spread, it really does look like this was painted on wood! Doesn’t it???

And the coppery-gold section in the lower left hand corner, is very texturally interesting too!

I really like how this page turned out! I may have to look for more inspiration pieces, in the coming weeks, to keep me arting out of my comfort zone!! 😉

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL CREATIVE life!

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Art Journal Thursday #15

I am happy to announce that my latest Art Journal Thursday post is now up on YouTube!

The supplies I used this week were:

Golden’s Fluid Acrylic Paint: Teal
Delat Ceramcoat Acrylic Craft Paint: Pop Pink, OJ
Decorated deli paper, and cardstock
Golden’s Matte Light Gel Medium
Golden’s Matte Medium Bodied Gel Medium
Palette Knife
Balzer Designs Stencil: Blazonry
M Graham & Co Full Bodied Acrylic Paint: White Titanium
Hero Arts Artsy Circle Border Stamp
3 miscellaneous circle stamps – I don’t know brand or name
Stabilo Black Pencil
Paint Brush
Black Pilot Multiball Pen
Uhu Glue Stick
Dylusions Ink Spray: Calypso Teal

If you watched today’s video, you will already know that I did not have any kind of plan for today’s layout. I just knew that I had three or four colors in mind when I first started and I wanted to just let the page take me where it wanted to go!

I also knew that I had some leftover deli paper and cardstock pages that I had decorated using a Gelli plate that I wanted to see if I could somehow incorporate into today’s spread.

After getting all of my colors on my layout the way that made me happy, I then decided I wanted to use one of my previously unused stencils, to overlay all of the bright color with some white – to help tone it down!

Then I created black marks with my Stabilo pencil, and black doodling pen, and I must admit this page was turning out to be a very happy spread!!

I know that this week’s sentiment is very close to the sentiment from a few weeks ago, but this message just kept popping up in my head over and over, so I just went with it, and put it down! I am so glad that I did! 😉

I am just loving how bright and colorful this spread is!

Yep, it’s official – this spread might be my favorite to date! 😉

What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art spread!! 🙂

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFUL Creative life! 😉

If you want a different life, live differently!

Weekly Art Journal #11

Good morning!

I am very happy to announce that my Weekly Art Journal #11 video has posted out on YouTube!

The supplies I used on this week’s layout is as follows:

#2 pencil
A couple of different kinds of erasers
Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Tissue Paper – Postale
Uhu Glue Stick
DecoArt Acrylic Craft Paint: Tropical Blue (DCA102)
Premier Prismacolor Pencils: Sepia (948), Burnt Ochre (943), Dark Brown (946), Peach (939), Beige (997), Yellow Ochre (942), White (938), Greyed Lavender (1026), Blush Pink (928), Lavender (934), Process Red (994)
Black Fude Ball 1.5
Black Uniball Signo 207 pen
Ranger Distress Stains: Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain, Black Soot
A scrap of map paper
Faber Castell Gelato: Dark Green
Black Ranger Archival Ink Pad
Recollections Chevron Wood Mounted Stamp
Plastic doily stencil
Ranger Texture Paste
Palette Knife
Sentiment printed out on regular printer paper
Brown Stabilo All Pencil
Water Brush

Unlike most of my weekly journal pages, I started out with an idea on how I wanted this week’s spread to appear. I knew that I wanted to draw one of my cute long neck girls, I wanted to use the Ranger Postale tissue paper, I wanted to use my favorite Tropical Blue craft paint, and I knew that I wanted to use my new Ranger texture paste!

So the hard part was just going to be drawing my long neck girl, in it’s entirety, in front of the camera, so I challenged myself to see if I could keep the camera going the entire time, and not cut away, like I had done the last time I drew one of my girls for Art Journal Thursday. And you know what??? I TOTALLY DID IT!!! WHOOT! WHOOT!!! 😉

I was extremely proud of myself that I didn’t chicken out and cutaway, but because I didn’t, it made for a very, very, VERY LOOONG video!! EEK!! So although I thought that the drawing of my long neck girl would be the hardest part, the hardest part actually turned out to be editing my video down to less than 15 minutes! WHEW!! 😉

That combined with doing the voiceover, which you may know I am extremely new to, this was probably my hardest video to date, but I must confess I really LOVE the way this spread turned out! 🙂

During filming, I did have some issues while drawing my long neck girl! Eyes are always rather tricky for me, and this week I see that her left eye is too far left for my liking, so I will have to keep working on that! I also had some trouble getting her lips to look just right! I have recently changed how I draw lips, and I think it is not working for me. I had better keep looking for a whimsical lip shape that makes me happy! 🙂

Practice! Practice! Practice!

As for the background, I really LOVE this one! 🙂 The tissue paper, the messy chevron stamping, and the texture paste used throughout the round doily stencil all came together better than I could have hoped for!!! I am just LOVING all of the yummy patterns and textures!! 🙂

I also love that I snuck the word “Courage” onto my long neck girl’s neck! Courage is something that I am consciously working on using more of, so this will be a gentle reminder to myself!! 😉

As for this week’s sentiment, as I have said in past posts, I usually have a tendency to do my art journal pages in silence so I can hear any messages my soul might be trying to tell me. This week was no different. I have some hard choices to make in the next few weeks as it pertains to work, and I realized, during this week’s art journal time, that I have a distinct vision in my head about what I want to see in my life. Where I am living, what I am doing for a vocation, etc, and I realize that I am the only one who can take the necessary steps to make that vision come to fruition!

Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself, and not only that, but it is up to me to get out there and start creating it!! No one is going to do it for me!! So this sentiment summed that up for me, perfectly!! 🙂

So, what do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art journal!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFULLY CREATIVE week! 😉

If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!

Weekly Art Journal #8

Good afternoon!

I am happy to announce that this week’s Art Journal Video #8 is now posted on YouTube!

Here are a list of all of the materials that I used:

Black Medium Sharpie
Faber Castelle Gelatos: Red, Orange, Light Green, Dark Green, Light Blue, Dark Blue
Brush
Heidi Swapp Circle Lattice Stencil, 12 by 12-Inch
Liquitex Gesso
American Crafts Black Galaxy Marker – B
White Card Stock
Aleen’s Tacky Glue
Uhu Glue Stick
Black and White Washi Tape – I am unsure of brand
Black Stabilo pencil
Water Brush
Black Pilot Ink Pen
White Signo Pen
Fine Tipped Water-Based Sharpie
Fat #2 pencil – the kind that contractors use

Full confession…

I have been really under the weather this past week, struggling through a really bad cold! I think that the state of this spread shows that – at least to me! I really wasn’t feeling like arting at all, but I knew that I wanted to make sure that I kept this commitment, and I am learning that you may not always feel like doing something, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it just the same! So onward I pushed!

I was completely blank, so I decided to start by filling the spread with positive words! Not being a huge fan of my handwriting, I wanted to do something to hide my writing, and I thought that I could do this by covering the words with Gelatos. Gelatos are these really creamy, gel stick, acrylic paints, that when combined with water turn into a beautiful water color, but dry permanent, which I LOVE!

You may have also noticed that I was struggling with color selection, which is not something I usually struggle with, and let me just say that next week I am going to try and leave some white space on my spread! Anyway, as soon as I put down, what I thought was a dark blue, for my border, I wanted to quit this page! What a MESS!! However, I want to be able to show, not just to you, but to myself, that no matter what a mess you may run in to, there is always a way to work through it! So, I pushed through!

Then I decided to hand write my sentiment out onto card stock, which was fine, but I made a mistake. The pen I used to write the words, although says it is permanent, smudged as soon as I went to smudge the light blue Gelato that I had added to the words’ card stock! WHOOPSIE!!! Always know your tools!! 😉 I just rolled with it and did the same mistake on every word, so that way it might look like it was on purpose! I’m okay with it!

At this point, I just really, REALLY wanted to get this page done, and do it so that it at least looked like it belonged with my other art jouraling pages! I think I did end up doing just that! Even though, I can honestly admit that this is not my favorite spread, I am very happy that I did not give up on it! About halfway through I was ready to gesso the entire thing and start all over again, which I guess is a legitimate fix, but I really didn’t feel like having to start all over!

I also realized that my sentiment was absolutely perfect for this week! If I keep focusing on the good, and keep searching for it, I will find it! Even in this journal spread! So, I have come to the conclusion that even though my physical body is feeling under the weather, my subconscious is still as active as ever and trying to keep me on my creative path!! That puts this tired mind at ease!! It is the simple things in life that are the most important!!

If you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a FABULOUS week! 🙂

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Weekly Art Journal Thursday Video #7

Good afternoon!

I am just now posting my Weekly Art Journal Thursday Video #7. I know that it is not Thursday, but I have had family visiting this week, and then have been down with a persistent bug that doesn’t seem to want to go away!

So, better late than never!! 🙂

Here is this week’s video:

Here is a complete list of materials I used:

Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paints: OJ (02649), Pop Pink (02646)
DecoArt Crafter’s acrylic paint: Tropical Blue (DCA102)
Folk Art acrylic paint: Neon Pink (2850)
Liquitex white gesso
Miscellaneous sheets of deli paper that I had Gelli plated on a few weeks ago (video is posted below)
Scissors
Golden’s Fluid Gel medium
Ranger Dyan Reaveley’s Dylusions Stencil, 5 by 8-Inch, Blocks
Punchinella
Black Stabilo pencil
Water brush
Black pilot ink pen, from Scarlet Lime
White Signo ink pen
Thick carpenter #2 pencil
Paper towels
Black thread
Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue
Letter stamps
Ranger’s Archival Black ink pad

This week, I must confess, I was a bit distracted! I had family in town, and I was going to see if I could squeeze this spread, sneakily in, without cause for disruptions, which meant I was talking to my sissy while I got this layout started! You might notice that at some point in the video my jewelry disappears and I end up with black and white striped sleeves on! Yep, jewelry was me chatting with sissy, while creating, and jewelry-less was after they left, which by that point I was struggling through a really bad cold (those are PJ sleeves!)!! I am just thankful you can not hear all of my coughing going on!! 🙂

The only real plan I had for this spread was that I wanted to use some of the Gelli plated deli papers I had created a few weeks ago.

That video is located here:

I loved the way the deli papers ended up a little bit translucent so that the background could peek through.

What I didn’t like is that, because my attention was not 100% on what I was doing when I started this layout, I realized when I went back to finish this spread after my family had left, was that this page was a mess of colors!

I wasn’t really sure if it were going to be possible to tie it all together!

I loved the idea of using used paper towels as the background to my thought for this week, and I especially love the idea of adding some stitching on my sewing machine – I am going to have to use that technique more often!

and of course doodling!! You know I love me some doodling!!

The message of “Be Free” is particularly meaningful this week. You may know that I have been on hiatus from my analytical career for the past 5 months. Well, this week, I have made the decision that until my creative career gets off the ground, I am going to have to go back to that analytical job, at least until I can get my nest egg built back up again! This is not exactly what I want to do, but I know it is what I have to do if I truly want to be free!!! and FREEDOM is the goal!!

So, big changes are a-comin’!! I will keep you posted!! In the meantime I really hope you liked the way this week’s spread turned out! It ended up making me very happy!! 🙂

Until next time!

Have a FABULOUS week! 🙂

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Weekly Art Journal Video #6

Good morning!

I am happy to announce that my Weekly Art Journal Video #6 is now up on YouTube.

Here is a list of supplies I have used today, and the list is quite extensive! 🙂

HB 2 Pencil
Liquitex white gesso
Ceramcoat acrylic paints: Old Parchment (02092), Maple Sugar Tan (02062), Think Pink (02658)
Tim Holtz Distress Stains: Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers
Art Advantage thick body acrylic paints: Black, Permanent Green Light
Brown Stabile pencil
White Sharpie Water Based Paint Pen – Fine point

For touching up the face/hair off screen

Black pilot pen from Scarlet Lime
Faber-Castell PITT artist pen big brush: Light Flesh (132), Medium Flesh (131), Ivory (103)
Prismacolor Premier colored pencils: White (PC938), Apple Green (PC912), Greyed Lavender (PC1026), Cobalt Turquoise (PC105), Lavender (PC934), Peach (PC939), Process Red (PC994), Sepia (PC948)

Doing these cute long neck girls has been something of a hobby for me! A secret hobby, that not too many people in my life knew about!

Doing them on camera was quite another thing for me though! Talk about SCARY!! 🙂 I was sure that I was going to have some kind of panic attack and chicken out!! Thankfully that didn’t happen!!!

After all is said and done, I am very happy with the way that she has turned out – although, I can see a lot things that I can improve on next time, but that is what practice is for, isn’t it??

This sentiment was sooooo perfect for what was going on in my head while I was working on this little girl! I just kept thinking that “if I quit and started over doing a spread that was easier, no one would ever know!” but that was thing! I WOULD KNOW!!! So, I pushed through the fear and did it anyway!!

All in all, I would say that is a VERY GOOD thing!! I hope you enjoyed today’s video!! 🙂

If you would like to see my try anything specific in my art journal, like a new technique, or color scheme, or whatever, let me know and I will see what I can do! Also, if you have any questions or comments for me, just leave them in the comments section! I would be happy to hear from you!!

Here is to a FABULOUS day!! 🙂

If you want to have a different life, live differently!

Weekly Art Journal Video #5

Good afternoon!

I am so happy to share that my 5th weekly art journal video is now posted out on YouTube:

I will tell you my thoughts behind this spread, but first here is a list of what supplies I used:

Apple Barrel acrylic paints: Bright Magenta (20591), Apricot (20764)
Liquitex Acrylic inks: Cerulean Blue Hue, Vivid Lime Green
Tim Holtz Stencils: Dot Fade, BubblesBlack Stabilo Alls pencil
Make-up sponge
3 kinds of black and white wash tape – I don’t know what brand these are
Water brush
Black Pilot pen
White Signo pen
Thick #2 pencil
Regular #2 pencil
Card stock
Letter stamps
Black StazOn ink pad
Aleen’s tacky glue

When I started out to create this spread, I had no idea where I was going to go with it, so I thought I would just start adding paint and go from there! 🙂

I wanted a really bright happy kind of page, so I thought I would start with a very happy fuchsia pink! Once I started I didn’t want to stop!

Now that I have discovered Liquitex acrylic ink for dripping, I may have become a little bit obsessed! This time I wanted to try something different, and thought I would try first drawing shapes with the ink and then tipping the pages to get some varied drips on the page – I think this turned out pretty cool!

Then I wanted to add something new to my pages, and since I have such a huge stockpile of wash tapes, I thought what a better way to use some of my stash?

Then of course doodling is always a ‘Yes!’ I find that doodling is one of my go-to ways for letting my mind wander, and hearing those messages that my soul is trying to tell me but my mind gets too busy to listen to!

For some reason, this week, I just couldn’t get a feel for when this spread was finished. I just kept feeling like something was missing, but I just could not put my finger on what it was. I ended up walking away thinking I would just force it to be done, but my mind kept dwelling on the fact that something was still missing, and I finally realized what it was…

…the message that came to me during this time arting was “Be yourself everyone is already taken.” I realized that I wrote it down, but I still wasn’t listening to the actual message! The reason I was feeling like my spread wasn’t done was because I was still too busy comparing myself to other artists in my head, and I was feeling like I was lacking because my spreads don’t look like theirs! DUH! I GET IT!!! I am uniquely made, on purpose, EXACTLY as I was meant to be!! My artwork is mine alone too!! You can copy me, but it will still have your own take on it! I can copy you, but my own unique stank will be on the final result – ok, I realize that may not have been the coolest way to say that!! LOL!! but you know what I mean, don’t you??

Anyway, after I let my message sink into my brain, I realized my spread was not only done, it may just be my favorite spread up to date!!! YEAH!!! How is that for a 180???

Next week, I am hoping to get the cajones to share one of my long neck girl drawings, which is actually something I just LOVE to draw!!! It gives me the willies just to think of it, but you will see – I will bring it!!

Until then,

Here is to a FABULOUS week!! 🙂

If you want a different life, live differently!

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Art Journal Thursday #23!

“She knew that she was going to have to get out of her own way if she were ever going to make her dreams come true. No one was going to do the hard work for her. She knew it was going to have to be all up to her!”

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