SPRING JOURNAL 2014

And here is my final project from Junelle Jacobsen's class.

ENJOY!!

The book was titled "Small Miracles"

Using leftover page to create some 3D bunny ears and flower pot.

Used simple frame designs to highlight the pages words and add some fun elements.

Capturing a soon-to-be memory this summer. 

used a technique I learned from Diane Culhane's summer camp class to complete a funky image of spring characters and figures from random collage of doodles and paint colors.

I grabbed my "20 Ways To Draw a Cat" book and started sketching away grids, and larger figures for a majority of the pages.  And also from my personal sketchbook.

I thought it was so neat how those words from the book ended up inside the frame. 

Probably my favorite pages. Love the colors. 

My heart be still. Took inspiration from Kelly Barton. Her work is so FUN! 

Several statements I used were found in Native American sayings or prayers. 

That's the word turtle in Japanese. Shout out to my brother (How did I do?)

And the lil mouse is just too cute. I used some Daniel Smith irredescents watercolors on the door. They are just gorgeous. 

Now off to my next art adventure...

BETWEEN SPEECH AND SILENCE:Day 2-3

The next couple of days in the class consisted of collaging "textured" magazine images and finding characters/object that spoke to us.

And then we painted around (and inside the elements) with a light coat of white paint or gesso.  You didn't want to apply it too thickly in all areas as it would cover up the texture.

And then we painted over with a light coat of acrylic paint mixed with a glaze acrylic extender/retarder.

I repeated the proces using a more defined design from the start.  Can you see it?

And then again using a collaged page in my SMASH journal.  A pregnant ethnic women....

And again using washi/decorative tape creating a kite flyer with a dog on a summer day as the windmill blows.