From my daily art journal

Here is a picture of my doodling on the borders of a page I did for my 28th wedding anniversary. I am using a book I found at a Half Price bookstore in TX for my daily type of art journaling. I usually keep a written journal of the things I do throughout a year and decided this year to make it an art journal and include collage material from daily life. I try to do a spread weekly. The book has a cool cloth cover of red & white design. The title is "Florence Broadhurst, Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives" by Helen O'Neill. She was a fashion designer, actress in the 20's, 30's & 40's. It has lots of her designs as full picture, quotes from herself and famous people of the time and also pictures of her. The wedding picture is of her. It is a pretty cool find.


Enjoy Life! ~ Deb

Seashore Art Journal

I am doing an art journal with the alphabet of the seashore. I am going to add personal stories throughout and vacation pictures from over the years. This is one of my favorite pages so far.
I'll post a slideshow when it is finished.
Thanks foor looking . . .

Enjoy Life ~
Deb

MY MOTHER'S DAY FLOWERS!!

My son Kevin and his wife Amanda sent me the most beautiful flowers for Mother's Day! They smell sooooo good too!
My son Chris's present was a great one too . . .  he told me is has quit smoking!!
What more could a Mom ask for . . .
2 great sons and one awesome daughter in law!!

This is an awesome video!!

Patience from Glowing Heads on Vimeo.

I know this isn't my art, but I had to show off our find from Friday.
We are eating them today!!

My Pics from Artiscape

My treasures . . .
The bag in the back was a find at the Artist Marketplace on Sunday.
It's made by Kathy Stantz of www.sylviasdaughter.blogspot.com
The book is an altered book clutch.
The flat piece is the beginning of my encaustic creation.
I want to work on it some more.
Here's a close up of the clutch.

Back from ARTiScape

I had a fantastic weekend in Columbus doing new art techniques.
I made an altered book clutch on Friday afternoon. It was an old Leo Tolstoy book, so it has really cool pictures in it. We used some of the text to cover the inside. I will take pictures and hopefully post them tomorrow.
on Saturday morning I made a leather bound journal. It had 5 signatures and I used brown supple leather for the cover. Pictures soon. It is a binding that I can use with fabric or heavy paper too.
On Saturday afternoon I had free time to look at all the neat offering at the marketplace. Spent more money than I probably should have.
We had a 5 course dinner on Sat that left a little to be desired. But met some great ladies and had wonderful conversation that made the meal easy to get through. Of course another martini didn't hurt either.
Sunday morning I was able to sleep in a little after getting my roommate off. She is from Indy. She and I only met this weekend in person, but I feel like she was a long lost friend.
Sunday afternoon, I took an encaustic (beeswax paint) class with Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch. It was an awesome class, where I learned a lot about this medium I have been wanting to try for over a year. So much so that I already have all the supplies, just needed some hands on guidance.

I had a great time and am already looking forward to next year and I know a few of the classes I want to take if they are offered again. Who knows maybe I will be able to teach something I know too. Stay tuned on that front . . .

Have a good week!
Deb
PS I'll do my best to post pictures tomorrow.

Quotable Women Rapid RR

I am in a rapid round robin. We each have to send the book on 1 week after we receive it. It was fun to have to get to work on it and not think too much about it. I knew the book was on it's way, and I knew which women I wanted to do quotes from, so the rest came together pretty easily. I will mail it off to the next artist on Monday. We are auctioning the book at the end for charity. I'll post when I know more about that.

I have to get a few more pieces done this weekend so back to the studio.

Have a great weekend!
Deb

Another Art Journal page

Here's a spread I did at the end of Feb. I bought the paper in TX when we went to visit friends.
I love doing this partnership journal with Vickie from Sacto. She got to go to the beach for spring break. That's probably the thing I miss most about living in CA. We have to drive 10 hours to get to the Virginia coastline. I do love Chincoteague, but not the drive through the mountains in Maryland & Virginia.

Happy Easter everyone ~

Deb

Artiscape Fatbook Swap

I am taking part in a Fatbook Swap for Artiscape.

Here's my contribution:

Right Brain, Left Brain Test

Here's a cool thing to look at about yourself. I found it very insightful and reassuring.

http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm

My score: 60% Right 40% Left.
60% Fantasy-oriented (My most dominant characteristic)
Fantasy-oriented Processing
Fantasy-oriented processing is used by the right hemisphere as a method for processing information with creativity. It focuses much less on rules and regulations than the processing method of a left-brained person. Due to the fantasy-oriented processing mechanism of a right-brained person, they do not adjust well to change. Instead of adapting to the change in the environment, a right-brained person attempts to change it back to the way they liked it. But fantasy-oriented processing also provides the advantage of creativity to right-brained individuals, and since emotion is integral of the right side of the brain, anything a fantasy-oriented person becomes involved in emotionally will aid their ability to learn.
My Fantasy-oriented Analysis
You are highly able to process information you receive with creativity. Your focus does not get caught up in rules and regulations. However, you usually do not adjust well to change. Instead of adapting to it, you often try to keep things as they were. Creativity is your big advantage as well as your tendency to become emotionally involved in your work.

Have fun with it . . . Deb

Chunky ATC swap

I made my first chunky ATC's last weekend for a swap with a yahoo group.

They are fun to make. Can't wait to see what others have done.

Today I am working on some art to swap at Artiscape in a few weeks. I am really looking forward to going to this art retreat in Columbus, Ohio. My dream would be to teach a class at an event like this. I working on getting published in one of the mixed media publications, that will get my name out there. I am hoping to take a class with Ingrid Dijkers in August up in Northern Ohio. The timing may not work for my work schedule.

A bunch of us meeting in Marne today. We try to get together once a month to share and have a good time.

Time to get back to work on creating some swap items . . .

Artiscape - Columbus OH

I have decided to go . . .

I have wanted to do this for a few years. I have a roommate from IN and I am sooo looking forward to this.

I plan on taking workshops that will help me in my teaching endeavors; so I can provide new & different workshops this summer.

If anyone is interested in learning more about this art conference right here in Ohio, please check out this link: http://europeanpapers.com/Merchant5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=EP&Category_Code=ART

The picture included with this post is from the cover of my Partnership Journal I am doing with Victoria in California. She's an awesome partner and I am thrilled to be doing this throughout the year with her.

Inclement Weather Day = Day Off Work!!!

I was excited to be able to stay home today, until I woke up with a very sore throat. It appears I have a sinus cold and that usually involves my throat. I'm on Zicam to hopefully whip this thing before it whips me.

I was able to connect with a few more high school classmates through Facebook. I think it's so funny to see a name then to try and remember where you know them from. I haven't done a high school search until today, so that made me connect names that I have seen in the past.

I finished loading 2009 Art Journal pictures and created a new slideshow.

I also added some new pictures below in my generic art slideshow.

It will Thursday tomorrow so the weekend is close, yah! I plan on doing some fun creating then.

Posted New Pics of my finished Art Journal for 2009

I took time today to scan the last pages of my Healthy Journal. It ended with other types of pages added as I was doing different things. I like that I have finished my first art journal. I am starting a new partnership journal with Victoria in Sacto CA. I have also started another monthly art journal, where my goal is finish a few pages each month. I have scrapbooks to complete too. So it will be another busy year. But I love staying busy this way.

We plan to travel too and I still work full-time, so I will be busy. But I am going to make time to work out and get myself back into good physical shape. I feel so much better. I want to loose weight but ultimately I want to feel good. I know exercise does this and I have to make time and commit to it.

Hope everyone is getting on with their goals and enjoying life in 2010.

2010 Word of Intent - JOURNEY

My word for 2010 is JOURNEY.

JOURNEY - a gradual passing from one state to another regarded as more advanced.

This is my plan for my physical, spiritual and artful self.

I want to take my body to place it will not fail me. Because I want to travel and explore this world and I do not want to be limited by my abilities to move up a mountain or down a path.

I want to feel at peace with the world and I can only do this through a stronger relationship with my God & Savior, Jesus Christ.

I want to figure out how to use my abilities as an artist and teacher to support myself. I do not want to continue working for someone else. It is time to be my own boss and to live up to my potential.

So there it is for the world to see. I spent a year art journaling about living healthy and my dreams, now it is time to ACT.

AB RR Life in Numbers

I have created a photo album at PhotoBucket of my book that returned to me almost a year after it left.
I think it turned out great and wanted to share it with everyone that participated and my friends & follows.

Merry Christmas Everyone!
Deb

Early Christmas Present

LAPTOP!!
It's my first laptop . . . I'm so excited!
It's a HP G71, if that means anything to you. It's kinda big ... but I like the screen size for some of the photo and art stuff I intend to do on it.
So did I say I'm EXCITED!!. I'll post some art soon. I have to install my new printer/scanner to it. Just so you know... I intend to bring both with me to any workshops or retreats I do. :-)
It's going to snow most of the weekend, so I'll have lots of time to play with my new toy.

New Art Journal Page

I have been watching technique videos by Teesha Moore and others.

They have inspired me to work in my Healthy Art Journal. I want to finish this journal for 2009. I have not been that successful in getting healthy, but I am planning on beginning with my husband in January down that path, so we can have some fun adventures in the next few years.

This is my finished page.

Maps to Alter

I belong to an alteredbook yahoo group and we are doing a book page swap, where we have books that we are willing to tear up and swap for others.

I have this large atlas book that has really neat maps in it, that are hand drawn and would be cool to alter into your own personal map. They are mostly in foreign language so it only makes since to alter them and not worry as to what they are a map of really.

I think I will do one this week and post it later.