Textures, Dots and Old Paintings

Prompt #9 of Prompt 60 was all about finding texture in magazine photos.  So I pulled out some of the fashion magazines I found at our thrift store in town, but I also put some of my card stock through by Big Shot with my variety of embossing folders.  This takes up two spreads in my book, so I split them up here, so the textures could be seen easily.

Once everything was in place, I took Neocolor II water-soluble crayons; coloured and smudged around each block.

Prompt #10 was dots - big dots and little dots in watercolour.  I guess my little dots are more like dabs.  I do want to work more on my circles and the wonderful creation of colour you CAN get if you concentrate - or maybe not concentrate so much.

I misread the 10th prompt….but with Tammy's prompts, you can always interpret them in whatever way moves you.  The prompt did have to do with old painting - but we were suppose to work from a photo prompt she had given.  Instead, I took a photo of an old painting that came from a shack my Great Uncle lived in.  I don't know who painted it - either his father or one of his brothers.  Anyway - I attached the photo to a piece of watercolour paper and then extended the picture.  Obviously I am not a painter of any type - but I did have fun with this.

Here is the original painting - long and skinny and it has a mate to go with it.  Unfortunately, there isn't anyone around to ask about who did it.

Oh - and there was a second part to this prompt - to write a flash story about the painting…..and I would really like to know what the little man on the bridge is thinking.  One day I'll add that story to my book.

Create everyday

Joan.

Ocean Creativity

 The 4th prompt for Prompt60 was creativity - to either find a quote about creativity, or write about creativity.  I decided to write what creativity meant to me - dividing each with washi tape - shaped in a box because sometimes you just have to force yourself outside of your box.

Prompt #5 was a double prompt of "blur/sharp and found poetry about the ocean.  My "sharp" portion is really just a piece of some fabulous paper I found in Banff that has swirly ocean wavy lines on it.  I blurred paint on the opposite side, looked through my stash of words to see why hit me in the topic of ocean - and finally stamped some shell images.

Create something everyday.

Joan

Frames and Brainstorming

Prompt #6 had to do with keeping in mind the margins/borders around the text in a book, and creating a collage and borders with strips of left over paper

Prompt #8 …(I haven't gotten to #7 yet) was to brainstorm about something.  I knew right away I wanted to do music.  I was a bit tricky with this book that I made because the left side paper is drawing paper and the right hand side is watercolour - so the watercolour reacted differently - but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Create something everyday,

Joan

Mandala & Collage

The second prompt for Prompt60 was to create a tiny icon mandala.  Mandalas are easy - making them with little pieces was a bit more thought provoking.  I liked how this turned out though.  It's on one of the watercolour pieces of paper in my book.

Prompt #3 was"Green/Book Design" so first I had to go through my stash and pull out an assortment of green stuff.

The idea was to create a collage that had margins around the edge like the words in a book do.  Some pieces were big and others just bits of paper.  I do like this one too - and I'll be finding a way to use the other half of Wicked!

Create something everyday

Joan

New set of prompts….

Tammy at Daisy Yellow has a new set of prompts going…..Prompt60.  So I bound a book of various plain paper pages to use.  I have a variety of papers - drawing, watercolour and brown - so I never know what I'll be working on if I go through the books using each page as it comes.

Here is my introductory page….I'm hoping this book and prompts will help me unwind:  I know I'm under the illusion of a number of different things, but can't specify what; and I look for inspiration to pull me out of the hole I sometimes spiral into.   

I did this page about two weeks ago, and I have come to realize that Tammy's prompts are making me think a bit differently and reflect on things.  I think that's a good thing.

Create something everyday,

Joan

February Collage

My craft room was a disaster area so one Saturday I decided to play "Collage as We Clean".  Any little bits that were on my table had to be put into a collage.  I used my big Paper Bag book so I had a large area to fill.  The above is the left hand page.

Here is the right hand side….

And here is a view of the two of them together.  It actually took me a couple of days to get it finished.  Quite a modge podgy!

Thanks for visiting,

Create something everyday.

Joan

February Watercolour

In February I started catching up on my watercolour practice through Daisy Yellow's Painted Paper Paradise Workshop.  This first piece was to practice intense colours.

Exercise 2 - concentric circles

more circle practice

Exercise 3 - Paint play

Exercise 4 - Swirly

More to come later.

Create something everyday.

Joan

This is My Word

I am so blessed to have an awesome choir director who picks fantastic music to sing God's praises. This piece, which we practiced on Thursday, always makes me close my eyes and want to dance. It pulled me to bring it home to art it. I carved the word "word" and used one of my other alphabet sets and some stencils for the ‪#‎prompt60‬ No12- to use alphabet stamps , stencils, or stickers to write my words. I didn't want to stamp out all the words to the anthem, so just chose the title and my hand carved"word"

I don't think I've posted any other "Prompt60" pieces….but I'll get caught up.

Create something everyday.

Joan

February Doodling

After my first day at Teacher's Convention I sat and doodled while waiting to go for dinner….

and this is the finished tangle.

Thought I'd try some wonky circular tangles - proving things don't have to be perfect!

In my smaller 6x6 books I like working from the corners sometimes (I guess this really is a mandala) so that I can get more designs in.

This is a little found paper book designated for zentangles…..this is the beginning while I was waiting for my daughter at an appointment.

…and because the spaces were larger, I was able to finish the page exactly by the time she was finished.  Yay!

One last one using a repeating design.

Thanks for visiting.

Create something everyday.

Joan

An Arted Anthem….

I am so blessed to have an awesome choir director who picks fantastic music to sing God's praises. This piece, which we practiced on Thursday, always makes me close my eyes and want to dance. It pulled me to bring it home to art it. I carved the word "word" and used one of my other alphabet sets and some stencils for the ‪#‎prompt60‬ No12- to use alphabet stamps , stencils, or stickers to write my words. I didn't want to stamp out all the words to the anthem, so just chose the title and my hand carved"word"

Thanks for visiting,

Create everyday

Joan

February Mandalas

I covered some of my January book covers with scrapbook paper so that I could draw mandalas on them.

I created this mandala during the down-times working my Stampin'Up! booth at Teacher's Convention.

I love this spread because I glued a musical paper napkin onto two different pages in my big Paper Bag Book.  The black border with the stamped writing is the underlying page.  When I did the Mandala I changed ink colours as I moved from the lighter page to the dark.

Not all mandalas have to start in the middle of the page - going from the corner can be fun too.

Thanks for visiting.  

Create something everyday.

Joan

January 2015

I'm not sure that these photos are in any particular order other than I created them in January of this year.  I've not been myself and haven't gotten into my craft room as often as I'd like - so I thought I'd take the time to catch up on posting pictures of things I've worked on in hopes of catching up with you.

The top piece is a 24x12 spread collage of this that and the other thing that was lying on my desk.  

In January I spent a lot of time working on binding found paper books.  I used my gelli plate to create some of the covers and I really liked how this one turned out.

Another book cover.

I'm sorry of sorry that this is in a book - I would like to recreate it on a canvas or piece that could be framed.

Bright and wonky play with paint.

Thanks for visiting

Joan