This is a Halloween card I whipped up for my sister and her family. I went for cute because she has little guys. The tree branch is cut from a vintage dictionary page and the owl and moon are from a piece of orange cardstock. I added a pattern by running a stamp pad over sequin waste and then inked in the wings and tail. I doodled the slightly creepy branch that is reaching for the owl with a glitter gel pen.
September 25, 2008
Halloween Card
September 19, 2008
Crow Girl
I’m still working away on things for Suzi Blu’s class. I’ll have to take some pictures. I did some more work on one of my older pieces. I don’t think it is quite done. Something more in the background maybe…
September 7, 2008
The Cat Is Not Remorseful
Bad, bad cat.
Poor Bunny Art Journal Page
I don’t draw bunnies often. Can you tell? I am still so cross with that rotten cat. It’s bad enough when cats kill things, but she just brings them in and lets them go so she has indoor playthings.
If you don’t know there’s a frog in the house, you can’t give it water and bugs and it dries up and dies. Snakes…I think I found them all, but she brought half the garter snake nest in one at a time this spring and relocated them to the art studio. Mice and moles and voles all over the place. And now, baby bunnies. Bad cat!
New Art Journal
I’m starting a new journal because my last one is pretty full. This one just has a quick cover. I didn’t feel like taking the whole thing apart to do the cover right so you can see some of the original cover. Shame on me.
Anyway, it is still more fun to write in than a red and green book that says Sketch Diary on it. I’ll share a few of the pages. Typical pet related rants and daily minutia, but it is amazing how therapeutic it is to write it all down!
September 1, 2008
Loving Wordle
This is such a neat little tool for creating backgrounds. I made one for The Raven:
August 30, 2008
Suzi Blu Class
I’ve been taking an online class from Suzi Blu and we’re working on shading. Apparently, I’ve been doing it all wrong, so it is no wonder that all my stuff was looking flat or rough. Although I still haven’t mastered it completely, things are looking better. This is my first attempt for the class.
August 14, 2008
Beauty Blooms
I’ve been insanely busy lately, but I took some time I didn’t have to make this piece. The minute I saw it, I desperately needed to use the end of a receipt spool as a stamp. It looked like a flower center, so I doodled on some flowers, added a vintage button to one of them and made my little bird. The background and the bird use an assortment of acrylic and watercolor paints and the flowers are colored in with crayons and gel pens.
August 3, 2008
Styrofoam Block Printing
This Styrofoam block printing tutorial by Lisa Vollrath is so cool. I don’t have Styrofoam plates because they’re bad for the environment, but I’m going to see if anyone else in the family has a few I can have. Such a neat way to create faux lino prints!
I can’t wait until I get this last big writing job done. This week, I wrap it up and work six days for people vacationing at the library. Next week, I am back to my normal schedule and can finish up some swaps. Hooray!
July 27, 2008
Corduroy Page for Technique Swap
So, I’m thinking that the basic page was pretty blah. I may do this, instead. You get to see two versions of the technique and I get to make the pages pretty. Think I’m going to be sorry by page one hundred??