A Bird Sings…

Hello! Today, I'm excited to be featured as a guest designer on the Try it on Tuesday challenge! They always have fun themes, and for the next two weeks, the theme for their challenge is 'Inspired by a Song'. With the weather warming up and the trees blossoming, birds have been more active near our…

Every Small Thing…

Here's a recent art journal spread of mine. I made this on my 10x10cm (4x4") handmade art journal, which I've been using since early last year. Working on this art journal is so different compared to my A6 one--for one, I can use small images as focals, which I find hard to incorporate into taller…

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…

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…

Playing with Pencils and Sprays

I'm taking the mixed media course, Wanderlust, that started early this year. I diligently followed the first set of classes that used pastels, and started with classes on pencils. Then my 100-day project started, and then I had some health hiccups, and I ended up de-prioritizing this course. I'm now back on the course, playing…

Change the World

[Challenge win: Top 3 at Mixed Media Lovers challenge][Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge][Challenge win: Winner at 613 Avenue Create challenge][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I started this art journaling session by spreading out some dark acrylics on…

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…

XOXO

Here's a recent art journal page of mine - In my handmade art journal, I'd included a tea-dyed textured paper sheet as well, and for this art journaling session, I used one of those pages. I started the session by spreading acrylics on a gel plate and smooshing the page onto it. I then ran…

Faces – 1

When it comes to using faces in my art journaling, I enjoy making abstract, distorted ones since they only need to roughly conform to the semantics of a human face. The proportions can be off, the lines can be haphazard, the coloring can be wacky--it still reminds me of a face, and it renders quickly…

Inktober 2022 Doodles

We moved house recently, and in the ensuing madness, it was hard to keep up with my usual creative therapy of art journaling. I mostly stuck to doodling during this transition period, since it does not require a lot of supplies--and it helped maintain my sanity. 🙂 We're settling down now, and in between the…