Sunday, February 27, 2011

Seeded and Watered



Layered paint background, fabric flower, stitched border.


Adding color to the face, and was finally able to use my pencil lengthener which I have had forever~



The Quin Magenta on the dress ended up looking cool with the background colors showing through~








Friday, February 25, 2011

Art Journal Cover

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Journal Play


Pardon Me Boy  


Sing Your Own Song


The Journey Begins




Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Strathmore Journaling Workshop: Sounds I LOVE

March 1st begins my new workshop.  Our pre-workshop homework is to list all the sounds we love.  Here are mine:

My grandson's laughter, thunder and rain, waves crashing on a beach, a harmony of voices, guitars that sing, a nostalgic song, my children singing when they don't know I can hear them, the words, I love you, the first birds of spring, the winds working their way across our multitude of trees, no sounds after a day of non-stop noise



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Friday, February 11, 2011

Art Studio Makeover or Under...


Time to organize and see what I actually have! Books to alter, books for ephemera, books to read, books just because I like the covers!

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Jar of Hearts

Work in progress, the jar of hearts is starting to take shape.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Spring Beauty



The air is cool with the sweet breeze as the sun shines to make it the most beautiful day.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Stained Glass


This piece was done during one of our Second Saturday Art group gatherings. Created out of an image I doodle frequently, I enjoyed playing with the variety of glass pieces to give her depth.

Catchin' Up/ Rock and Roll



Since I was scanning already, I decided to add some pics of past pieces I had done. This first one was for the Rock and Roll Exhibit at the Dover Art League.

Liberte's Wine Labels


Saturday, February 23, 2008

Ignorant Indifferance and Honest Heart




This is the Free Choice round for the Vices and Virtues Round Robin. After thinking about lots of things going on around me, I came up with the this theme. I hadn't used any encaustics for a while, so I played around with them and enjoyed the process.

Sunday, February 03, 2008

Pride and Humility



Inspired by my son's first dance, I created this piece for the Vice and Virtues Pride and Humility theme. Created with watercolors, one side of the spread portrays Bryan as a baby in my arms and the second is him today as I was teaching him how to dance.

Temperance and Gluttony

This theme was much more difficult for me to create. I wanted to do something different and finally became inspired. It seems that both gluttony and temperance are rooted in money, hence the torn dollar bill representing the roots.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Digital Deck

This is one of the After pics from the Digital Deck. The final one had a couple of more tweaks to it.

Liberte Postage Stamp/Digital Deck BEFORE


Liberte has been born. I have been invited into the Recollection Parlor. This artistic group will be creating a country from their own inner minds. This was the first project. This also became the BEFORE piece for the Digital Deck hosted by Red Scott of Travelers Hart.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Envy and Contentment































Two sisters dreaming of their futures...each will end up envying the other. Created with Adobe in layers then colorized with acrylics. Image printed onto inkjet transparencies.

Wrath and Peace

Does she really decide who I will be? This was a commentary on whether we become our mothers.

Using the same main image of the young girl (the daughter), it was scanned and then in Adobe, the
background was "erased" out. Two copies were done on ink jet transparency. The first mother image was scanned and the tiled in Adobe. It was also copied onto a transparency. Offsetting the two transparencies gave the daughter quite a menacing appearance.

The peaceful mother was done in the same way.

Greed and Generosity




































Greed and Generosity...vintage image was scanned and then copied onto a heavy vellum paper. It was then punched with a circle punch. The greed image was swirled in a vortex pattern using Adobe. The circles were attached with mini brads.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Sloth and Service


After the last player dropped out. a new player was added. This was the journal that I received a week ago. The theme for this round was Sloth and Service. I had an original idea prior to receiving this journal, but after reading the artist's guidelines, I had a complete change of thought. This artist expressed that she loved writing, so I thought that I would devote this spread to that. I set this up as a journal entry format over the life of two brothers. The diary entry begins with this photo and the events of that day:






The vintage photo was edited using Adobe Elements 5.0, then printed onto photo paper. The frame was a slide frame.


Encaustics were used to create the texture of the frame.










The white pages were painted with two coats of Golden Carbon Black to give it a vintage scrapbook appearance.










The entries were written with silver calligraphy pen.







The ceramic tile represents the tombstone.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Is It Love or Lust?



The spread is complete and in the artist's journal.