Art Journal

Spending some time with my art journal this week 

Landscape, acrylic on canvas 8"x 6"

You never know when you are going to create something!  The painting above came about by cleaning off my brush when painting a commission for my daughter.  The spontaneity of the painting is what brings me joy.  It was an accident.  No thought or pressure; not trying to achieve anything.  Just a quick study that ended up making me very happy!

It seems that a lot of my work lately comes from cleaning my brushes - see post below.

Postcard Swap

Here's a sneak peek Of ihanna's  postcard swap, 2015.  Having so much fun with the little house theme. I began the postcards with a large sheet of chip board that I had been cleaning my brushes on for weeks.  Layer upon layer of color was randomly built up.  I used white acrylic and a stabilo black pencil to create more depth and variation.  From there I collaged painted transparent paper (black circles), painted paper and paper from a French/English dictionary.  The final marks were made with a white signo pen and graphite. A final coat of varnish and then to glue them to clean chip board before mailing them out!

Documented Life Journal Entries

Week 6 - Be in spired by Pinterest - Thank Jane Davies

Week 7 - Draw one shape, repeat, add color

Week 11 - Put a bird on it!

Post cards have been mailed

Postcards for the Liberate Your Art swap have been mailed.  I thought I would have fun decorating the packaging.  I used the same packaging that the postcards arrived from MOO.com in.  I gessoed the outside and then painted, collaged, stamped and drew.  It is all held together with a little washi tape.  I hope this brightened Kat's day.   So looking forward to receiving my postcards!

Playing with lipstick!

Mother and Daughter
Winter, 2014

My front door - January 2, 2014


I've joined The Documented Life Project.  I'm going to attempt to document 2014 as best as I can; knowing there will be weeks where I don't even think about it.   This week's prompt was to interpret our front door.  This is the photo I took.  We are in the midst of a blizzard.- over 15 inches of fluffy snow by the time we are done midday tomorrow.  It was a perfect day to begin my journal: making tabs, adding pages and working on the first prompt.  Photos will come later when I have completed it. I am excited about working along side many amazing, creative folks from all over the world.  Let the journey begin!