Art Every Day Month - Day 6 The More You FEAR the more Power it has over you

I am working on some exercises in the book "The Art Journal Workshop," by Traci Bunkers.     I have several books/magazines I am reading right now, trying to juggle several things at once.  I am giving pastels in the studio a break right now since my asthma appears to be flaring up, so I am working with less dustier media indoors right now (I do have a mask but it best not to aggravate my lungs any more than I have to...).  This was a good exercise because you had to write about what is holding you back in whatever goals you are trying to achieve, then you build the page over top....You'd have to look real close to see the writing underneath that essentially is the underpainting of this two page spread.

Oh, the spiders are on there because I am NOT a big fan of spiders....LOL.

Art Every Day Month - Day 5

Here's the other side of the two page spread....I was thinking autumn and harvest time and I thought grapes and wine....and other things about the fall.

Art Every Day Month - Day 4 Sinners and Saints

Many of my journal spreads are pre-prepped like the page on the right.  I did these two pages with three colors and scraped the color on with a used gift card.

This evening did not start out with thoughts of horses on the page, it just sort of happened....when I pulled out one of my old Philly Art Museum monthly brochures, I found the bronze sculpture with a blurb about saints and sinners....I cut it out and scrounged around for more items that fit with the base colors....I love the watercolor in the middle with the Native Americans, the close up has amazing brush strokes...

I added the two horses at the top to balance out the spread.....then I added my thoughts and notes....and little embellishments...this sketchbook is turning out to be quite the little coffee table book....

Art Every Day Month - Day3

Yay!  I took a plein air painting that I liked but needed lots of work, popped it up on the easel and tweaked it alot.  I am happy to say that this version is much better than what I started with....

Now, do I have time before the Season Premier of Burn Notice to do a sketchbook page before the show comes on at 10?

Art Every Day Month - Day 2 Reign of Fire

Well, some quick thinking and I popped together another sketchbook page for today's Creative Every Day Month.

The page was already prepped, all I had to do was embellish it.  I picked up a dried leaf I had and glued it on.  It had to dry a bit so I had time to scrounge around in my scrap box and found this dragon.  I love dragons so I glued him on.....to balance out the mythical dragon, I picked out the modern day "dragon," a bird.   I added some text and some other embellishments to finish out this page.

Art Every Day Project - Day 1

Omigosh!  I almost forgot to join this year....good thing I did a creative page yesterday in my sketchbook for the first day of Creative Every Day Month!

Halloween and Dia de Muertos

On Sunday, I was working in my sketchbook on my Hallow's Eve page....I had a painting of a pumpkin patch up on my easel in it's beginning stages that I was going to finish for Halloween....

As I was fussing in my sketchbook....I got inspired by the photo I used as part of my collage....it used greens, siennas and golds to tint the spread....the dark greens made an eerie menacing sky...As I sketched and thought out the process, and idea popped into my head to use this color scheme to do a Halloween painting...and I even had the perfect photo of an abandoned farm house to use that I took while I was in Snow Hill.....