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Blogalong 30 Posts - 30 Days Tracy Weinzapfel has issued the Mixed Media Monday Creative Dare for the month of August. She is daring us to Let It Go! To pick a favorite Quote and set the timer!  Pick out your favorite supplies to have them on hand,  your art journal or a canvas  and see what you create in 1.5 hours.   She is reminding us not to stress and to give ourselves to permission to just play! So tonight I took advantage of the fact that is was a fend for yourself night at home and did just that! Just a little playtime with my Gelatos, and Pitt Pens. While it's not a masterpiece by any means, I like the colors and enjoyed the process without worrying about the results! Posting in Effy's Blogalong Challenge and Tracy's Creative Dare   Oh and I can't forget  What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday #218 .  It's been a busy summer and it's been ages since I actually had something on my Workdesk on a Wednesday!

Happy Birthday Tracy Weinzapfel! May has been a special month at Mixed Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzapfel  as we have been celebrating her birthday with a month of fun! My gift to her was this 10 x 10 inch canvas and just as promised in the sneak peek in  this post , here is a look at the completed project. A list of the products I used will be at the bottom of this post. I started out by spreading on a layer of  101 Artist's Cement Light on my canvas and impressing it with  stamps and bottle tops, etc. to create texture. Next I started adding layers of paint. ...with each layer adding a bit more depth and dimension to the canvas. Here's a little closer look at a portion of the canvas showing the texture created in the Artist's Cement and some of the layers of colors.  Several more layers of color were added after this shot was taken.  While layer of paint were drying on my canvas, I cut a heart out of a heavy drapery materia

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? As usual I am running late in the day posting my  WOYWW !! Crazy busy day with 3 different doctor and dentist appointments for kids,  plus working at my day job for me. Be sure and stop on over at Julia's Stamping Ground for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday and check out all the fun of having a peek at what is on everyone's work desk! Here is what is sitting on mine tonight. I had to take my daughter to the dentist this afternoon,  so while I was waiting I pulled out my Gelatos and journal. I'm taking Kat McBride's "Let's Paint! Fabulous Faces" and wanted to see what I could  do with just what I had on hand at the time. I started with a page that had a bit of yellow acrylic  where I had cleaned my brush when I was working on another project. I finger blended the hair and face and set in the lips all with my fingers. I used some Pitt pens and Big Brush pens to start the eyes.  

What a Wonderful World This canvas was created for Tracy Weinzapfel's Mixed Media Mondays  March Creative Dare . The challenge is to create a piece of artwork illustrating one of your favorite song AND to incorporate a button. I took a day off of work today and spent a good portion of it at my art desk playing in my paints and working on my canvas. One of my favorite songs is "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.  I am always in awe of this wonderful and beautiful world we live in, so that is the song I picked,  ....and f or the button portion of the challenge I used little tiny red buttons for the roses. I'm thinking I should have used some modeling paste  or artist cement  to build up texture in my tree.  Oh well, I'm not going back to rework it. It really was a challenge to photograph once I finished, because I added just a tiny bit of Perfect Pearls  and even though it looks great in person,  it doesn't translate in ca

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday Now that the Holidays are over, I'm trying to get back to my art desk and take some time for me.  ...so this is what you will find on my workdesk this Wednesday.   WOYWW I used Faber-Castell Gelatos and Paper Crafter's Crayons.  ...a bunch of scribbling, spritzing, dripping and blending and I'm well on the way to having having the completed background for my March Art Journal Calendar page.  The image in the lower right hand corner is an image transfer using Claudine Hellmuth's Matte Mixed Medium which I then colored with the Crayons and Gelatos. Well...it's time to put the crayons away and call it a night.  Artful Dreams everyone!!

Art Journal On Monday nights  after Boy Scouts I like to come home and join Tracy Weinzapfel and friends in a chat called Mixed Media Mondays.  Tracy always does a journal page LIVE on-line during the chat, and most of the time I dabble in my art journal at the same time.  Some times I follow along with her theme and other times my muse leads me in a different direction.    Here are a couple more pages from my journal I'd like to share.  The background is created with Gelatos by Faber Castell.  You can find out more about them at Design Memory Craft.   They are soft and creamy and the colors are super rich.  I just love working with them!   For these pages I also have used rub-on, Copic markers, rubber stamps and oil pastels.  If it is within reach it is fair game.   Well...enjoy!! I'm headed off to work!!   Be Such...   Heart and Soul    

Gelato Play in my Art Journal We are feeling a bit of cooler weather and fall breezes here in central Florida, which we don't have very often.  We usually go straight from HOT to our version of cold.  We are all enjoying our beautiful Mini-Fall and I thought I'd do a little tribute page in my art journal. Golden Gesso and Ground to prep the paper. Faber-Castell Gelatos for a pretty and soft blended background and for coloring the leaves. I used Ranger Archival Black for stamping the leaves. The leaf stamp is one that I carved using a Speedball carving block and tools about 15 years ago.  I found it in my stash and pulled it to play! Journaling printed on watercolor paper with my injet printer and distressed with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and glued to my journal and coated with Glossy Accents. Added little dew drops to the leaves with Glossy Accents. Happy Fall Everyone!!