Flower Power

I had some fun yesterday making prints with a flower!   Oh what fun!

Once I filled my own books, Allison asked that I make some prints in hers….Even after I was done that I was able to add some to one of my pages in my Big Book - a little paint goes a long way!

After our family dinner, I was able to sit down for a bit and add some more layers to one of my books.  I think I'm happy with the way it is - not sure that I'll add anything else.

And finally - a zentangle to finish off the night.

Hope you have a great day!

Thanks for visiting.

Joan

Wine & Art Night

Thought I'd share a bit of my weekend with you.

I helped Emily celebrate a milestone birthday by attending her Wine & Art evening.  What a blast!

One of her dogs asked to come up on my lap - he snuggled down and relaxed while I worked.  

I painted these paisley designs and the next day….

I added some doodles to them.  I'm not finished with the page yet - I'm going to do something with the background….

Until then - create every day!

Joan

Double spread Zentangle

I have a large found paper book that I created which is 12 x 12.  The page sizes inside vary quite a bit, and I love working in it.  I did this piece back in December.  

The paper is actually one of my Stampin'Up! place mats.  I covered it with circles and a couple of rectangles. (which I traced!)  Then I filled all the spaces with different zentangles.  It is one of my favourite pieces that I've done.

I still didn't get any doodling done last night - I made cookies in the afternoon to take to church for our soup supper before our Lenten service and then I had choir practice…..busy busy!  So I'm leaving you with blasts from the past.

Have a good day….here are some close ups of the two pages.

Tid Bits…..

Just a couple tid bits to share this evening - I have a doodle - but it's not quite finished yet.  I did do some more gelli printing last night and today I peeled off the paint - not that I needed to -it's just one of those things, a wee bit of a tear and ya just gotta pick at it until everything comes off.  I do like the leftover splatters on the handle of my brayer.

I also like the leftover paint from the piece of brown paper that I use as an over sheet when I'm making my prints.  I'll be tearing it apart to add to collages!

Leftovers are always fun to use up - as long as ya do use them up and not just pile them up.  That's the trick!

Thanks for visiting.

Joan

Weekend Collages

I worked on some collages this weekend - Saturday was a good creative day.  This first collage is in my "Showbook" - an altered books I've designated for remembering the shows that I've gone to - a place to put the ticket stubs and programs - other than in a box.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Edmonton Symphony playing Gershwin and Denzal Sinclaire was the vocalist.  We've heard him before - he's awesome!  Very reminiscent of Nat King Cole!

This image I found in a magazine while I was in Houston at Stampin'Up! leadership.  I loved his jacket and knew I wanted to collage with him.  Yellow is not a favourite colour of mine - but I like how the page turned out.  Sorry it's a bit blurry!  The page is in my "paper bag book" - believe me - paper bags are a bit difficult to do collaging on - but I imagine once I work on the backside the whole page will be firmer.

I also created this cover for a new book I'm going to put together this week which will hold pages that I have done with my gelli plate.  It's going to be a wonderfully chubby little book!

I didn't get any doodling done yesterday - so I will probably make up for it today.

Have a good one!

Joan

Bitty Zentangle Squares

Here is a bunch of little zentangles that I did on a calendar grid in my Firebook found paper book.  I started working on it yesterday and now that I'm looking at it on this post, I can see that I stopped shading a block before I finished…..got called away to something or other and totally forgot.  Oh well - that's me!

Have a good day.

Joan

Mandala Finished...

Well, here we have it - finally finished.

I finished filling in the mandala yesterday and painted it with watercolour last night.  There are spots where the paint ran onto the black - so I may darken those again with Sharpie.

I'm hoping to get some collages done today - or some new books put together.  We'll see what the day holds.

Hope you have some sort of creativity in your day.

Joan