TRUE FREE SPIRIT: March Inspiration Peeps

The prompt for March's class was very therapeutic.

I started with a monotone style background....followed with random blabberings or as I call it "Brain Dumping"  (anything that came to mind, I wrote down).  Then I altered the images several times before finishing each.  Honestly, I am not entirely happy with the final result, but as with art, you have to test out different techniques to grow.  Here are several pictures of my journal page process.  (still using the large scale Moleskin I got at Donna Downey's studio)

(his head was too big (as a friend said, "He looks like ET" lol....and I didn't want to turn him into a girl...so I winterized the scene & added a hat.  Still don't like the end result, but I have walked away and let him be)

Plus, the way the temps are going, March could be winter in some areas. Ugh.  Here's to a warm April & Spring season. 

TRUE FREE SPIRIT: January HEART girl

Mindy Lacefield is offering a year round class called True Free Spirit.  Each month a project is posted and I am loving it.  I signed up late so I am playing a bit of catch-up.  Here is my January girl.  Since my One Little Word for the year is HEART, I added a lot of symbols to the background.  I am using a large scale Moleskin which I got from Donna Downey Studios in Huntersville, NC.

The next step was completing a face.  Love the use of the neons and colors Mindy taught...and the hog hair dry brush technique is the icing on the cake.  Love the effects and blending it creates.

Add in some hair.

Create a body using the drippage of an ink blotter.  And then just add final touches, blending, stencils, more colors, etc.  I used Sharpie paint pens and Opalescent markers to highlight some areas...plus some stamps that had hearts incorporated.  Just have FUN with it!!