Lafiorevida: The Doll Retreat - Giveaway "10 spots"

Lafiorevida: The Doll Retreat - Giveaway "10 spots"

100 girls on cheap paper

After doing a recent workshop with Dina Wakley I bought a book she recommended,

100 Girls on Cheap Paper: Drawings by Tina Berning 

This is what I've done in my journal since then. 

The girls are drawn with a Stabilo Aquarellable black pencil and then 

Expand your boundaries

This was another Art Geeks Challenge

Gill, this prompt is designed to push you outside of the boundaries of what you 'see' and get you to try recreating a photo or a scene. Partly realistic and partly imagination.

Your prompt is to get a photo and cut off part of your subject. Then recreate that along with finishing out the background of the original photo. Creating a new boundary from the one in the photo.

So here are the original photo and the finished page in my journal

Art Geeks

I recently joined Art Geeks at Gulfsprite.com. Every other week I get an art journaling prompt idea {including instructions and video} to help get me motivated to create art journal pages.

Here is my submission for the Art Geeks 20 challenge. It was a scavenger hunt, where we had to include all of these things into an art journal page:

1.Your mother's {or father's} favorite color.
2.A feather {real or drawn, may use image provided}
3.A womans face {all or partial; drawn, photo, collage}
4.A lyric from your favorite song
5.A key {see link below to download key image, you must use this image}
6.A bird {drawing, photo, collage}

I've included the lavender for my Mum and the song is Procul Harum's "A whiter shade of pale"

The bird came from a class by Dina Wakley last year but I've painted over it for a more muted look to fit with this page

Poetry in Motion with Dina Wakley at Art from the Heart

I'm having a wonderful weekend with gesso, paint, stencils, pan pastels etc. Nothing to show yet, but tomorrow. For now I'll just share the amazing page Dina has done in my journal.

Bookbinding

Just finished making a book - painted cover, coptic binding and a leather spine cover. It's something I've wanted to try for a while but didn't know quite where to start, but I found this course by Rhomany on willowing.

Doodling

I bought a doodling book last week - Doodlings Unleashed by Traci Bautista. I fell in love with her doodled girls so here are my first doodles. They aren't finished pages yet but I wanted to share them. I love the idea so much - I'm sure this is something I'll go on and on doing