Art Journaling

Continuing the art journal process, http://creativeworkshops.ning.com/, in my class with Pam Carriker. Here is part 1http://bonniebluedenim.blogspot.com/2009/01/starting-off-artful-new-year-by-taking.html#links .

I like the colors and the doggie and butterfly

My mom and uncle have been showing up in a number of projects.

S& H green stamps and some doodling with a white gel pen and sharpie markers.

I just like this image

this screams "Scrapbook page" which is ok....

butterflies and scroll-y paper scraps

that's combining collage and some doodling on the watercolor pages primed with acrylic paints..and some rubber stamping......we'll see what happens next. I'm enjoying the process.

Starting off an "Artful New Year" by taking a class with http://creativeworkshops.ning.com/ I signed up for "Visual Journalism 101" with Pam Carriker. Pam and I serve together on the ZNE Design Team. I had the honor of being in the same Stamper's Sampler as Pam. I love rubbing elbows with the talented and famous! Check out Pam's blog to see some of the beautiful journal pages she is working on, it will inspire you



If you are an aspiring artist, like me, you might struggle with "white page syndrome" . Is there anything more intimidating? I will leap into all kinds of arts and crafts, including soldering, wielding a circular saw at a mission trip work site, singing karaoke in front of strangers, playing the tambourine in the middle of a pretty conservative church, but a blank page, in a bound journal, spare me!

Our first week we are working on filling the blank pages. Ideally you would do this at the end of a painting day, to use up paint left on your palette. Pam wrote a wonderful article about this in a Cloth Paper Scissors magazine article. It's a great idea.

Then you might stamp some images with some staz-on ink, or with some acrylic paint. My page with "first class" stamped about wasn't coming out like I wanted, so I used up the rest of the gesso I had out to cover the unappealling image, and now...it's kind of interesting.

Pam is showing us some of her secret painting techniques...sssshhhh....we can't tell.

Those giant foam stamps work really well with gesso.

This is where I am right now. Waiting for next Monday and the next step. In the meantime, I'll fill more pages with paint, and see what happens.

And when I'm not doing art this is what I do.

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