Week 8

Well I got week 8 finished on time. This weeks prompt was found poetry. The idea is to use magazines or old books and find words to create a poem. I found an old book and to my children's horror, starting chopping out phrases and words to make my poem.

Here is what I came up with:

The Dreamer

Curled up like a kitten

In one corner of the sofa

A soft pillow behind her shoulders

It is well past your bedtime.

Dreamily she stared down

She wanted to hug this moment

Through the deepening purple twilight

The tranquil spell had overtaken

She slept in sweet contentment

To accompany my poem, I drew a little sleeping lady who looks to be dreaming contentedly. I did this over a gelli printed background.

Have you had a crafty week??

Weeks 5, 6 and 7 and a few other bits...

So week 5's prompt was Abstract. Completely out of my comfort zone here but that is a great thing as it makes you try something new and makes you grow. I decided to try using alcohol inks and outline the shapes with black pen and then doodle on them with white gel pen. This was done on glossy paper.

Week 6 coincided with Valentines day and the prompt was Love Letters. Pretty easy for me to decide what to do as it's my wedding anniversary so I took the letter I and D and O, I do!!

Week 7's prompt was "When I Grow Up". I stepped back into my comfort zone of a face but this time I used a great stencil by The Crafters Workshop. So quick and easy to use and get a great face. I thought about what I wanted to be when I grow up and I think I have most of them. I really did want to be a vet but I realised that I would to deal with cat sick...well let's just say I gave up on that!

So that brings me up to date and at week 8 which I will show you once I have done it. In the mean time I have been doing a Jane Davenport online class to help learn expressions on my girls faces. So here are a couple more faces I have been working on.

Enjoy and see ya soon! 

    

            

    

A smiley face, a worried face, a neutral face and maybe a laughing face (or sneezing...I couldn't decide.)

Well that's all for now...I hope you are having a creative week!!

     

The first few weeks....

So here is week 1 and the prompt for this week was Up, up and Away.  This lady was done on a gelli printed paper  and done with acrylic paint and Prisma pencils. I straight away thought of a butterfly so this great stamp was prefect!

Week 3 was the prompt "You make me smile". I did this on another gelli printed paper and this little unicorn was waiting for me. It's made me smile purely because I didn't realise I could draw a unicorn!!  The texture in the background is some stencilling of the leopard spots and stamping of the little netting like pattern. (By the way, yes I missed week 2 out because I couldn't find the picture !! )

Week 4 and you can probably see I love drawing faces!  This weeks prompt was "my character". 

The words pretty much explain how I feel on that one.

So that's the first couple of weeks to start with. I hope you are all having a crafty creative day wherever you are!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle

Prompts to help you on your crafty way...

In January this year I was lucky to be told about a art journalling group called Journal 52. It's a free challenge to join and each week you are given a prompt to inspire an art journal page. You keep your work in a ring binder which I thought was genius as you don't need to rush out and buy a special (and sometimes expensive) journal. You can use whatever you have on hand and it also gives you the freedom to work on different types of paper ie watercolour,gloss etc.

There is a facebook page you can join and upload your weekly masterpiece. There are some very talented people out there and it's very inspiring to see everyone's work. So a big thank you to Jo Johnson  for letting me know about it. (By the way, Jo has a great website called Imagine If with great crafty supplies to buy. Please check it out!!).

 I will upload my pages I have done over the last 5 weeks and try to keep you up to date with my progress. I hope you join up too and it's great having weekly inspiration to help focus your crafty efforts if you find yourself stuck.

Hope you are having a great day!!

Another try at this blogging thing..

Ok so after being asked how I have done a couple of my pictures I thought I would pick up doing this blog thing again!! But first a little rewind from my very first post seeing it's been several months.

I have become a drawing maniac!!!!!

I am loving my arty journey. I have learnt so much  about art supplies and started forming my opinions about what I like using. I have done several online classes and just love learning new techniques and the inspiration each teacher has given me. One of the best times to get online classes from teachers in America is when they have the Black Friday sales which is the day after thanksgiving in November. Losts of teachers offer discounts on classes like up to 50% off so I was like a kid in a candy store. Also check out Interweave's website. They have a great collection of digital products and art lessons. You also get many discounts when you subscribe to their newsletter. Lessons can start as low as $1.99USD.

Most favourite purchase.....

I have certainly had a good spend up while learning all about drawing and mixed media from acrylic mediums to different types of coloured pencils (yes I thought there was only one type...how wrong was I?!). And I do love all this stuff but my most favourite purchase was my gelli plate and can I tell you how much I love it and what an impact it has had on my art??!! You will see plenty of gelli goodness on here.

So that's all for today. Wishing you all a crafty day!

Shell