Here’s what I’ve been up to this week art-wise.
A couple of little mixed media pieces:
A few journal pages - lots of birds!
And a couple more abstract journal pages. These are in a big 10” square kraft journal.
I also pre-made a postcard for Sunday Postcard Art which I’m hosing on March 1 but you’ll have to wait to see that one! Thanks so much for joining me today.
This week I’m starting at the end of the week (today) with a couple of entries for a new mail art show being put on by my local artist friend Dale Roberts later this year. This is the 6th in his series of MailMania shows, and you can find out all the details on the show blog Here I hope you decide to play along - it’s always great to see people I know from far and wide (and near too) with art in a local show!
The show has a theme - beginnings and endings. And although I’m not much of a theme person, I thought I’d actually play along to the theme for a change. So here is my “beginning”
And my “ending”. No you are not imagining things - this looks a lot like my “death” tarot card!
While I was away from home earlier in the week I entertained myself with the following small journal entry:
I ask you, who wouldn’t feel a bit uncomfortable with that hairdo?!
When I got back I finished a couple of other journal spreads during the week...
The first (hopefully obviously) celebrating the new lunar new year.
And the other just using up stuff laying around...
I’ll end the way I started, with a postcard. this guy doesn’t have a destination yet.
Thanks so much for joining me today.
Another couple of busy weeks have left very little art time, but I thought I’d post now before the third week passes again!
Let’s start with a painting - this is a square companion piece to the round one I posted a few weeks ago - I’m loving the pink/grey/green combo. This one is 24” square on wood.
The tarot deck is coming slowly but surely. Here is the devil.
And the Star.
A couple of mixed media pieces on recycled box panels - both using my gelli prints as a base.
And last but not least, a few art journal pages.
And one more little mixed media postcard to top it off.
I guess that doesn’t look so bad for two weeks after all. Thanks so much for joining me today - see you next week!
This week, I’m going for two weeks in review, since time got away from me last week and I never got around to making a post last weekend.
Let’s start with a couple of paintings.
This first one, called “Dance with Me” is 30” square on canvas.
This one is only 6” square - as yet untitled.
Then there is a collage. Why am I calling out this particular collage? Because it’s on a piece of nice mixed media paper and is framable (actually I’ve already framed it in a nice - cheap - frame I bought at IKEA a few months ago):
Next, I’ll share a few random collages I’ve made on recycled materials:
Then of course there are some kraft journal pages...
Lastly, I’ve been playing around with magazine image transfers using my gelli plate - here are a few samples. If you’re interested in learning this technique, I recommend looking it up on YouTube. Southern Gal Designs has a great video there that I watched - I’m sure there are others.
We’ll see what I do with these at a later time.
The other great thing about these is, if you have words on the page they do not need to be reversed like some other transfer methods.
Thanks so much for joining me today - see you next week.
This week I was set back by a nasty cold, but still managed to get a few pieces put together.
Let’s start with a painting: This one is only 6” square. It started as an abstract but turned into an abstract landscape.
Next, I have a few new pages in the kraft journal:
Then I made a few impromptu holiday cards with my gelli plate.
Thanks so much for joining me today - have a wonderful week!
This week was a busy one, as I spent the work week in Toronto. I took a small art kit with me - some gelli prints and other assorted papers, an old magazine, pens and some washi tape. Plus scissors (in checked baggage of course), and a glue stick. I also took a few index cards as I’d decided to use them as my substrate.
I ended up making seven cards in the four nights I was there.
When I got home I did a couple of pages in the kraft journal:
And I finished three paintings that will be going into a local show in December.
Thank you so much for joining me today - see you next week!
Another week has flown by - here’s what I’ve been up to art-wise.
Let’s start with paintings this week.
These three paintings will be in a local show and sale at this cool gallery: Ministry of Casual Living I have not shown my work there before and I don’t think I’ve even been to their “new” location which has probably been there for ages. Looking forward to it. Each painting is 8” square on wood and will be displayed unframed with black painted edges.
Of course some more pages were completed in the kraft journal:
And one more page in the Tiny Sketchbook...
And last but not least, took an idea from last week’s kraft journal pages and translated it onto some recycled box panel. I think I might do some of these on 8” square panels so stay tuned for that.
Thanks so much for joining me today. See you next week.
This week I worked mostly in the kraft journal and the tiny sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. I have one postcard as well. I’ve also been working on a new painting that might be ready to look at next week.
Let’s start with the kraft journal - amazed how many pages were done this week.
Here is a postcard I’ve mailed into Mail Mania 6 - an upcoming art show to be held in my home town in Canada. Check it out and send something in - you have until August next year.
And here are two new spreads in the tiny sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. It’s almost done and I am glad. I don’t mind working small but...
Thanks so much for joining me today - I hope you’ve enjoyed your visit. See you next weekend.
I can hardly believe it’s been a week since my last week in review post. When I look back on the week I’m almost always surprised at how much art I’ve made - let’s see if that holds true this week...
We’ll start with the kraft journal - only one spread completed this week.
I also managed to complete a couple of spreads in the tiny sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project.
I had a great afternoon on Saturday, making gelli prints over at another local artist’s studio with a group of ladies I haven’t hung out with before - such fun!
And then I made 10 postcards for the DIY postcard swap hosted by IHanna.
I did these by gelli printing right onto my favourite substrate (old bingo cards) and then embellishing them with various pens.
Last but not least I made a fun Halloween piece:
Thanks so much for joining me this week. See you next time.
This week was very busy in my non-art life, so I don’t have a lot to show.
Let’s start with a new painting completed this week - 10” x 10” on cradle board.
I altered a couple of index cards...
and got a few pages done in the kraft journal.
Thanks so much for joining me today - I’ll be back next week - hopefully with a bit more pieces to look at.
