1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

1st november art every day challenge

Tessa's cj september

the page five and six spread. i love doing the name pages and this one was one more where i played with grunging up the pages and the paint. i am trying to figure out why so many people love layers of paint and paper and covering so much stuff up sometimes, so this one had a coat of way-too-bright paint so i layered some watered down gesso over it to soften it. i like the way this one came out. the crows in party hats are from a stamp sheet i bought at art unraveled last year by lost coast designs. i will definitely be using them again. don't they just add to the party atmosphere?

Tessa's cj september

page four. this one just came together with some information on my feelings about gardens and cut flowers...

Tessa's cj september

this is page three. i am practicing the grunge look using pencil and smearing it around. i got the inspiration for the house from the newest issue of art journaling from somerset publications. i really like this page and may have to do one for myself to hang on a wall. this one used a book page, a bird cut out from a paper whimsey collage sheet, a door stamp from an artchix stamp sheet, a brass doodah from tim holtz, a graphite pencil and some different colors of portfolio water soluble crayons smeared around. it was messy and fun to do.

Tessa's cj september

this is page two. i got a copy of Violette's new book and took some inspiration from it and used the masking technique i learned in a Dina Wakley class at get it scrapped. i am trying to find a style i love and can really make my own.

Tessa's cj september

this is page one in Tessa's Simplicity calendar journal. i am taking a class from Suzi Blu and this is my interpretation of the petit dolls she is teaching. she is actually the first one to be colored and she went right into Tessa's book. i hope she likes her.

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

i keep forgetting that i need to upload in reverse order from picassa so these are in the correct order as they are in the actual calendar journal!

spread four/right side: thanks Vale! a little bit of zetti because she uses zetti a lot and i am guessing she loves it as much as i do.

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread four/left side: a little note to Vale to express my thanks for her inviting me to calendargirlz three or so years ago. thanks so much Vale.

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread three/right side: more of the graffiti fun!

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread three/left side: again with the stencils. i felt like an illegal graffiti artist or something underground like that. this is my favorite spread in this journal. stenciling, spray ink, embossing powder...

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread two/right side: i stenciled the tree (afterwards i realized it could maybe be used as coral?) and dug out my paper punches and did some leaves. a bit of journaling about autumn. my friend celina liked this spread the best. she says she's a, "tree and leaf" girl.

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread two/left side: this one just got some border dry-brushed paint...

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

spread one/right side: this one just got a couple of pictures by m.c. escher. i hope the artists don't mind being mixed up like this.

Vale's Group of Seven CJ

Group of Seven. being american (i hope this is a good excuse), i have not heard of this group of artists. their work is not my taste, but it made for inspiring stuff to jump off for art. this one needed a koi fish. well, i think it did. spread one/left side.