Silent but busy

The Christmas season has come and gone with all of it's school preparation for concerts, card stamping and general busyness.  I haven't done a lot of arting, but I have done some, and through the next few days I can catch up - yet again with all I've been creating.

Today I worked on the above mandala for one of the Tangents and Tactic prompts - that I'm behind on.  I did it on watercolour paper with my watercolour pencils and used a small brush to bring the colour away from the lines.  It's a different sort of mandala than I'm used to doing and it was fun and very relaxing to do.

I'll share more soon.

Create something everyday,

Joan

Birds and a Mandala

Well, this is certainly a modge-podge!  I've been holding off on drawing over this - just seeing what would happen.  The original picture on the right hand page of the bird was what sparked a bird theme.  I got some bird stamps, washi tape and used up an old Stampin'Up! decor elements wall sticker.  The blues came from excess paint from other projects so that was the reason I added blue to the mandala.

Create something everyday!

Joan

Reused Calendar Bits

I finally got around to creating a art journaling page using pieces from a calendar I've enjoyed this year. I got a bit daring this time too and expanded the paint for this particular spread onto the underlying pages.  You can see a bit of a black and white page underneath, but I've covered two additional pages with the greens and oranges.  We'll see what comes to pass when I start working on those pages.

Create something everyday!

Joan

Found Paper Books

I've been busy lately binding found paper books - I created all the signatures at the same time, but I'm taking my time with the covers.  

The background for this one - the stones - is a paper napping, and the keys are tissue paper; except for the "real" one that I attached with a ribbon so it moves.

Lots more paper napkins used here, a bit of washi tape and some letter stickers.

Create something everyday.

Joan

Zigzags and Quotes

Daily Paper Prompt - Day 65 - Wax Resist

I used a white crayon to create the zig zag lines.  Down in the left corner there had been a stamped image of diamonds - I coloured them in so they'd show through a bit.  Next I good some watercolours the same colours as the stamped diamonds and went to town in zigzaggy sorts of strokes.

It was a busy day, and I hadn't worked in my quote book for quite a while - in fact I had started the vine at the top of the page on an earlier day.  

Doodled Stencil

I have had this background in my little "fire book" for a long time - the turquoise background that has a bit of fleck in it and the stencilled green leaves.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it.  Covering it with a mandala didn't seem right - so I decided to fill the leaves in with different zentangles.  It's always good to practice and try new zentangles.  

Create soemthing everyday.

Joan

Circular Zentangles

I've been working on this piece for a long long time!  I painted some of the circles this past summer when I was arting with Emily Lagore on afternoon.  The page is out of an Eric Carle book and expands just as far in the other direction in another section of my book.  It was fun and hard deciding what to draw in each of the sections.  I've broken the sections down for you here….and then added a photo of the whole spread.

If you look carefully, you can see the dragon peeking from underneath the designs.

Create something every day.

Joan