A Mixed Bag of journal pages

The bard...

Me as Frida

What the world needs now is love...

A tussie mussie for May day

Busy! busy!

My muse is in overdrive this spring.
Here are a couple of pieces inspired by Tracy Verdugo's class at 21 secrets.

The next one is called "A hitch hiker's GLIDE to the galaxy" starring Sparky

A girl in my journal

One of many gelli prints I have been making. So much fun!

21 Secrets is keeping me busy!!

And "it's good to be queen" from my book from Terri kahrs class.

Diana Trout's class at 21 Secrets.

Kate Crane's "Journal Soup" class-so much fun and below a box to put all the little cards in

Hali Karla's class from 21 Secrets

Another really fun class from 21 Secrets.

The technique is similar to the paintings I have done that are called "paint what you see". You paint a background-just add layers and layers. When you've added all the layers, you turn it around and around and see what you can see.

This was the before piece.

I forgot to take a photo of the before that these 2 came from. I added extra collage pieces to each. Below is another before piece.

This last piece, I call "The three wise women". I bet you didn't know that there were 3 wise women-when they came to see Mary and the baby, they brought a beautiful patchwork quilt.

More 21 Secrets

I am having so much fun with these classes.
More from Terri Kahrs class

Cathy Bluteau's doodling class

Ro Bruhn fun flower stamps

Before and After

Sparky, this morning

Sparky, this afternoon

I couldn't get a photo of him sitting this morning, but when he did, he always looked like a little round ball--turns out that the chubby look was all fur! Finally warm enough today-74- to go to the groomer and hang out on the porch this afternoon--too bad that tomorrow it will only be 46!!

A few creatures...

A little owl inspired by an article about Juliette Crane in Somerset Studio magazine.

Another little collaged owl from a mini class by Rachel Pangerry.

A happy little bluebird from Mindy Lacefield's True Free Spirit class.

And I love doing these "paint what you see" challenges from the One Little House ning group--above is the before-you turn the page around and around to see what you can see and, here is the after

21 Secrets

I signed up for the 21 Secrets class this session. Have never taken it before, but there were some artists teaching whose art I really love. Terri Kahrs is one of them. In her class, we made a great little journal with lots of colorful pages. Above and below are the pages I've done so far.

Such a fun, fun class. The sunflowers in this last one were inspired by Ro Bruhn's class called "Flower Power". More spreads to come.

Dancing with the Fairies

Something about this little girl reminds me of me when I was a little girl-something about the look on her face-

Some other fairies for a "button fairy" ATC swap.

And for Easter-some egg shaped ATC's.

And who else but...

On the Road to Morocco

One of the ning groups I belong to had a challenge to make art journal pages influenced by the colors and textures of Morocco. Here are my pages.

The next painting was another from the series "Paint what you see"--creating a background and then turning it all ways to see what you see.

Some things I've been working on

Another True Free Spirit Girl

Goddess of Spring from 12 Months in View journal pages

Another from 12 Months in View

Another mother and child

Charmed by Chagall

Continuing on with reading about, looking at and being inspired by the masters, this time I have chosen Marc Chagall. In my large journal, I take a few notes and make small copies of Chagall's paintings-I also carved 3 stamps.

Chagall did many paintings of a fiddler-often standing on rooftops. I made a pocket in my journal for him to go into-the chicken and the cow head are stamps I carved.

I like to practice with different art supplies, so the woman with the flowers is oil pastels; the girl on the horse is WC crayons and the girl on the chicken, acrylics.

This is a larger piece and I named it "Siren's Song" Chagall made a poster for Nice, France with a floating mermaid and that inspired my rendition.

And this one is on a long narrow canvas, with lots of background texture and was inspired by many of the floating couples paintings that Chagall made.