So... remember this? A bunch of orange, black and white on a 6" x 6" canvas board...
Well this is what it morphed into...
I am calling it "Wormhole".
Question to my painting friends: How do you display these small 6" x 6" canvas boards?
Linked to:
Mandarin Orange Monday
Inspire Me Monday
Monday Mellow Yellows
Create Daily
Blue Monday
It's on a gelli printed background, traced around my hand and colored in with pan pastels. Then I sprayed fixative so the pastels wouldn't brush off and wrote the caption with black and white markers.
Also not really sure what to call it so for now it is Sun and Rain. That could easily change...
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Paint Party Friday
Orange You Glad It's Friday
This was done in my smaller (7" x 10") art journal that is nearly full! It is a background of gelli printing and stencils, with various inked circles and writing. I actually had the page background done for a while and it wasn't until tonight that I found a use for it.
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Creative Dare
Art Journal Every Day
Show and Tell Saturday
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Ruby Tuesday2
And as of this morning, here is what I think will be the finished page. I am finding with these doodles however, that I often go back and add a little something... so who knows. But for me, it is done and I will go to another one of the 21 Secrets next!
Linked to Mandarin Orange Monday
So when I got home today I played around with some paints and thought about the weekend and what I wanted to do artwise. Not decided yet, so I will just stay open to a visit from any muse that happens to pop into my neighborhood and go from there!
I want to work more on this. So far it is layers of collage (book pages and music paper) and inks and paint on 10" x 10" canvas. The blue is one of my stencils. Not sure yet what I want to make with this background.
Amazingly it has both orange AND blue! And no doubt will have a lot more as it gets done!
Linked to: Paint Party Friday and Orange You Glad It's Friday.
and then I showed you what I had gotten to last Sunday:
and here is what I have since then... it is a slow process for me.
And it is also what is on my workdesk today!
Linked to: WOYWW
But in the meantime, I found a new linky and finally one for Tuesday! Yay, it's Glue-It Tuesday!
Linked to: Glue-it Tuesday and Creative Every Day
I made it using the Photo Mosaic maker @ Big Labs using photos from my Flickr files.
I found the tutorial @ Little Red House, who I discovered does a Monday Mosaic linky! My favorite new thing to do, so I made a mosaic to join in!
Linked to Mosaic Monday, Inspiration Avenue, Weekend Flowers and Pink Saturday.
Did I mention I love the idea of these linky parties? It gives me a chance to find new art friends and see some amazing blogs that I would never have found otherwise. And they are fun to participate in... so here is some blue!
From Spain:
Back to London's Green Street:
I think this one was mostly painted but I don't remember, just like the design!
Linked to: Blue Monday
Here is what I have been doing this weekend:
Here is the start of a doodle page I am making for one of the 21 Secrets classes (Doodling Your Way):
And the garden seems to be coming back to life... roses flourishing, irises and sweet peas finally showing up! Looking forward to the sweet pea flowers!
And I wish that I could bottle how amazing the orange blossoms smell!
Linked to: Pink Saturday
I really like the Bloom one... I am liking this doodling idea!
Linked to: Paint Party Friday, Art Journaling Everyday, Orange You Glad It's Friday, Show and Tell Saturday, The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge, Inspire Me Monday and Mandarin Orange Monday.
Last weekend I reorganized my pens so I have many containers like this at the far edge of the table:
And then of course... there are the white pens... do I have too many? LOL (the answer would be "no, one can never have too many white markers/pens" in case you were wondering!)
So that is what is on my worktable this Wednesday! Linked to: WOYWW
We had to make a list of words we liked then write them around the page in only one color. At the end I added some color around the edges because there was way too much white space otherwise and it looked bare. I tried the Stabilo pencil colors and not sure I like them... maybe I need to press harder and get more color coverage to get better watercolor look when they get wet. That is part of the fun of testing out new supplies!
The other page I made for this group was using one of the month's techniques: overwriting. It is something I have done on other art journal pages too. I like it because it is possible to write out something that maybe I need to say but don't want anyone else to read. The technique is to write one line then write over it as you go down the next lines. I tend to go over it all a few times, and this time I tried it with various colors of paint marker pens over and over a few lines. The rest of the page isn't very pretty as it was mostly a test of the paint marker colors and some previous stenciling.
I was looking back through some of my travel photos from recent years (looking for art inspiration) and found a few that I wanted to post for all the orange challenges I have been doing lately. Seems I am very much called to the color orange lately so these excited me to see again.
The inside of a church in Prague:
A post box in Prague:
A mosaic bench on Green Street in one of London's East Indian neighborhoods:
Breakfast salmon in Estonia:
Beautiful flowers at the Midsummer Fair in Riga, Latvia:
The beautiful terra cotta orange tiles of Trakai in Lithuania:
Ok, I think I like the color orange! (And many more travel photos another time)
I love a Linky Party!
Linked to: Mandarin Orange Monday, Color Connection, Art Journal Every Day
