Thursday, April 26, 2012

Weekend Journal

It's been a busy couple weeks!  After just one week of vacation from the usual daily grind, Keith and I both found ourselves struggling to get back into the "groove" of things.  It felt as if we'd taken off more like a month!  I think we're finally back on track.


I spent a little more time playing with my new watercolors.  I gessoed the page and then poured and splattered blue and green watercolors wet-into-wet, wet-into-dry, and everything in between.  What I could see was this tree and landscape, so I enhanced what was there.  I added violet and yellow to liven things up a bit.


I had torn the top Blue Jay image out of a magazine, and it kept falling out of my journal.  What was I to do except create a page around it?  One of my students saw I was working with it, and as it turned out, she had the mate to it and happily gave it to me.  This is a mixture of acrylic washes, Mod Podged magazine images and text that I assembled in the "intuitive playing" method.


This is another intuitive playing spread, created in much the same fashion as the spread above.  I'm surprised to see myself using so much green and yellow.  I guess I needed the change.


This spread was also created in an intuitive fashion, only this time, I didn't use any magazine images.  I started this page with a dip pen and black India ink.  I drew a random pattern of squares and it evolved into this.  It's mostly craft acrylic.


Here's the latest addition to my journal, a WIP begun in my journaling class last night.  The lesson was using your hand as a self portrait.  I may have to detail that in a Tuesday Tips and Techniques in the near future.

WOMEN'S  CENTER


I can't believe it's that time of year again - my art workshop with the women of the SMART (Single Mothers Achieving Real Triumph) program!  We had our workshop last Friday, and I met a terrific group of women in the final days of the quarter.  I'll write more about this after next week's graduating ceremonies.






NEW VIDEO


I've been on a roll with the videos lately.  Thanks to my "tech guy's" help, I've been able to get Windows Movie Maker to cooperate with me!  The real test will come when I try to record and publish actual video footage as opposed to stills.  Here's my newest video, "Inside Out".  Please enjoy and check out my other videos if you haven't seen them yet.  You can watch them on YouTube by clicking on their icon in the lower right of the video screen.


Everyone  have a wonderfully restful and creative weekend.  Pamper yourself, ok?  I took my own adivce.  I used this wonderful coffee cup that Nadia brought me all the way back from the Kiltrea Bridge Pottery Company in Ireland.  The photo doesn't do justice to the beautiful glaze on this mug.  She also brought us into the current century with this awesome electric teapot, and dark chocolate from See's in California.  YUUUUUUMMMMMM!

 I had been savoring one piece of chocolate a day, but yep, I ate all three of these with my favorite cup of Chai.  Now I have to go walk!  I'll see you back here on Monday with some more of my musings.




CELEBRATE * LOVE * CREATE

8 comments:

  1. These are all great pages but I absolutely adore your fish! Love the colors, the shapes, everything about them.
    And those chocolates look yummy ....

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    1. Thanks, Denthe! I really wish I had photographed the process of the fish. You would never believe the evolution! I'm really enjoying painting in this fashion.

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  2. I LOVE all your pages, especially the purpl-y ones- gorgeousness, LUSH colors and textures, fabUlous!

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    1. Thank you, Stephanie! I'm really drawn to cool tones - they're probably my favorites!

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  3. Angelia I love your new colors. Like the birds, lucky to get the second bird. But I love love the fish. That is so creative, well they all are but the fish are wonderful. Candy & cup of Chai looks good too. Fun place to be.
    Linda

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    1. Thanks for commenting, Linda! I really like the fish, too. Looking back at them, I KNOW I created them, but they are so unlike most of my work. It's funny how the creative process unfolds sometimes - I'm enjoying the "happy surprises"!

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  4. Always love reading your posts! We should talk again sometime. :-)

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    1. Barb! So good to see your comment. Funny you should mention talking - I'll be calling you soon!

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