Having fun with letters

Patti was teaching me some lettering techniques today!
I got a little carried away...
Hey, who let that cat in here?? Wasabi, this is not time for your close-up.

Not a totally wasted weekend...

... but pretty darned close.

In between family obligations and mechanical difficulties that would be easy to fix, if we had any money, I at least managed one spread in my newest journal.

This was inspired by one of my husband's favourite songs, "Fairies In Boots" by Black Sabbath.

Wings and Stars in Aqua Tones

Another very mixed media piece in my journal. My new art friend Rachelle reminded me recently of how much I used to love aqua colours. This piece flowed from that memory; thanks Rachelle!

The tag reads: "This page is dedicated to Rachelle & Sandra & Patti... my Art Friends."
Rachelle provided the inspiration, and Sandra and Patti's generosity is in there too.

Happy Weekend, all!

Finally Something New

I do have more new stuff in my latest art journal, but haven't been sufficiently motivated to photograph it. Sadly my scanner and the art journal spreads don't work too well together! That's what I get for using both pages and not studying up on my photography. This piece is so mixed media... I started with a watercolour wash for the background, used some "Radiant Rain" to see what would happen (not much, really. you can sorta see it in the tree trunks but it's reeeeeally subtle), added some fun papers in there and used one of the textured ones dipped in sepia ink to make the kinda-burned looking patch. The critters were drawn on pages from a Taiwanese textbook I found at Value Village. Outlines with sepia ink and dipping pen and extra colour from my Prismacolor pencils.

The Wandering Cloud Finds a Home

The cloud just didn't seem to fit the other page, but it has found a permanent spot overtop of those strange treetop monkeys. Good thing I'd only scotch-taped it in the first spot.

I had an invasion of family over the weekend, including my "little" brother staying with us for a couple of days. Luckily he's as artsy as us and while I didn't get any alone/down time, I did do some arting, as evidenced here.

What you can't see is that the monkey page is inside of my FINALLY stitched together new book. Also a couple of sketches from my too-big-to-fit-in-the-scanner sketchbook which will hopefully be worked up into something more than doodles, AND Opus had some of their 8.5x11 hardcover watercolour books on sale for $4.50, so I picked up one for myself and had to christen it.

Not the ideal weekend I'd planned, but it could have been worse.

From Patti's Place and in the Geography Book

None of these are finished, per se, but I thought I'd share this stage, at least.
The one with the copper cloud I started over at Pattio's, and the other two are a spread from the geography book.

It's not messy, it's creative!

I did this to my desk last night and suddenly feel quite a bit better. Funny how that works!
I really love working in that old geography textbook.