Faces – 4

Hello! Hope the year has started well for you. I've been on some year-end / post-year routines since last week, and haven't had a chance to finish processing my latest art. So here's one of my earlier faces / portraits to get this year's artsy journey started - I liked my use of gesso last…

Into the Forest

Hello! It's the first Friday of this month, which means we have a new challenge at Creative Artiste. The theme for the challenge, as always, is Anything Mixed Media Goes. For my project, I made an art journal spread. I mentioned in an earlier post that I'm trying to use more of my old blue…

Success / Failure

Here's a recent art journal page of mine - This page had some remnants of previous gel plate play--there were metallic acrylics that had been printed through a stencil, as well as regular acrylics with texture from a corrugated cardboard piece. (I'm trying to use up and finish the blue in my acrylic stash since…

Faces – 3

Here's another of my faces / portraits - I'd wanted to create a funky hairdo, but in the end, I had to settle for a kinda sorta cloth-covered-hair-ish look. Somehow, these faces usually end up creating themselves, regardless of my plans for them. 😉 Though I do start out with a rough sketch, with lines…

Mandala Cover

As promised, here's one of the mandalas that I made a while ago. I still like it very much! This is a simple ring binder that I made to hold my doodle art pages together. I used chipboard for both front and back covers. After cutting them out, I punched holes in them. I then…

100 Days of ATCs (2023) – 6

Here's a quick update on another set from my 100 Day Project this year, where I'm working on ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) for a hundred days. This update might seem too close to my previous one, but the previous update got delayed, and meanwhile, I've already made quite a bit of progress on this project!…

You Are a Queen

[Challenge win: Winner at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge][Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top Sprout at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Winner at 613 Avenue Create] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I made this on a kraft paper page that…

Faces – 2

Continuing with my series of faces / portraits, here's another one I made a while back - I still don't have a style of my own, and it's fun to create these faces however I want to (or rather, to create them however they end up turning out. 😉 ) I don't create them as…

What We Need

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start challenge][Challenge win: Winner at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I made this on a wax paper page that I'd included in my journal. Last time I used wax paper…

Discover Your Gifts

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I made this spread on tea-dyed copy paper pages that I'd included in my art journal. The page started out with remnants from a previous session--I'd run my brayer, with remains of metallic acrylics from the earlier…