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Art Journal Video #14

Good afternoon!

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

The supplies I used were:

#2 pencil
Tim Holtz Distress Stain: Old Paper
Daler Rowney Simply Acrylic: Brown
Ceramcoat Acrylic Paint: Napthol Crimson, Maple Sugar Tan
Art Advantage Acrylic: Mars Black
Apple Barrel Gloss Acrylic Paint: White
Book pages
Distress Ink Pad: Forest Moss
Stamper’s Anonymous Stamp: Handwriting from the Reflection set CMS111
Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue
Stabilo All Pencils: Black, Brown
Black Uni-Ball Signo 207 Pen

For those of you who had watched last week’s video, you might remember that I was really struggling to get a door onto my spread. After changing my mind last week, and coming up with something completely different, that I happened to have LOVED, I thought I was just going to leave it at that and do something different today too. But that door was nagging me, so I decided I would just buckle down and create my door this week!

I decided it was time to get brave and let my inner kindergartner come out and play. I gave her full reign on what the spread would look like and what materials she could use!! The sky was the limit!

Although my spread wasn’t very earth shattering, materials or techniques-wise, I was still pretty proud of myself that I did it!

Also, I have learned this week that art has a tendency to go through an “ugly phase”, and I have to confess, this spread was no different! The key to the “ugly phase” is that you need to just push through it, and let it all finish coming together!

When I had gotten to the point where I was painting the stairs, I had a moment of, “What the heck am I doing??? I am such a fraud! This page is HORRIBLE!!! I can not believe that I am trying this for the first time on camera!!! Have I lost my EVER-LOVIN’-Mind???” Yes, true story!

I am glad I pushed through because, even though this is not my favorite spread, and it is COMPLETELY different than what I normally do, I ended up having a real fondness for 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 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 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!

Getting Back to Art!

Good evening!

I have spent a portion of this evening getting back to the art! I have really been pressuring myself to do a great job, so needless to say, it really hasn’t been going too well! So, today, I came home from work early – I think I have a double ear infection – not fun, thank you very much!! Anyway, I spent a little time actually sitting in my art studio and actually painting, with no pressure, no real thinking other than just playing. That is the way it outta be. So, other than my ears still hurting, I am feeling pretty FAN-TAB-U-LOUS!!

Also, this evening my sis, and two of her kids came over this evening to go swimming with Jason. I had to miss out because of my ears, but before they went the kids had let me take pictures of them so that I can use their pictures later on to practice my drawing skills. I am teaching myself, for the most part! I thought I would share two of those pictures with you tonight!

This is my niece, Megan! She is my little girly-girl who is also very good at soccer! I am very proud of her, and she is absolutely beautiful!!! 😉 She was very patient with me and let me take something like 10 different pictures of her in different head tilts and angles!! She is going to be very fun to learn to draw with!

Here is my nephew, Morgan! He is so serious in this picture, as soon as I snapped this pic, he turns my camera to see the himself, and he says, “Did you get my muscles?” He is just soooo funny!! But I am so thankful that he was willing to hold still for a few minutes just so I could take his picture. What an awesome kid!!

Before I leave for the evening, I just wanted to give a big thank you to my sweetie, who very patiently cut a bunch of wood (the pic at the top of this post is some of what he cut for me) for me so that I have some practice canvases for my art. He is just so supportive, and I am still in awe that I am so lucky to have been gifted a man such as WONDERFUL as him!! Thank you, Baby!! I will work very hard to make you proud!!

Anyway, I should have some ACTUAL art to share you with you tomorrow, I can’t wait!!

Have a FABULOUS evening! 😉

Beautiful Creatives

Empowering your juicy life!