Giveaway

Effy Wild is giving away a seat in Radiant: Faces!!!!   Get details here:  Win a Spot in Radiant Faces! 

Respond to every call...

My latest Journal spread, from a Rumi quote:  "Respond to every call that excites your spirit."  I experimented a bit more here with modelling paste and I like the results!

 

Goddesses Within

This is my latest journal spread.  I made "goddess" masks and placed them on gelli prints to create the images.  Then I used paint markers, acrylics, modeling paste, and guilder's paste.

I also had some fun coloring a goddess symbol to enter a Radiant Faces giveaway courtesy of  Julie Gibbons:

Life Book

An artist from whom I've learned a lot from, Effy Wild, is giving away a seat in Life Book 2015!  Click here for details.  If you aren't familiar with life book, check it out here:  Life Book 2015
And that's not the best part - the best part is that this is part of a blog hop promotion for Life Book and every participant is giving away a spot!  Check it out!  
 

Nothing can dim the light from within.

This is my latest art journal page.  I used homemade stencils and acrylics on the background, and graphite, acrylics, Inktense pencils, Sharpie paint pens, Neocolor II crayons, and a rubber stamp on the woman.  I printed out the quote in Jane Austin font and colored the paper with transparent acrylic paint and then ink around the edges.   I took one work in progress picture as I was working.

I’m pleased with how she turned out.  I look forward to getting better though.

Work in progress pic:

Final result:

 

I am SO happy to be done with this spread - really I just gave up on it. Couldn't get a face I was happy with, so I decided to stencil over it. Then two nights ago I was reading Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield and came across this Jung quote and knew it was perfect for this spread in more ways than one!

Rumi Art Journal

I love the wisdom in Rumi's words.  I spent a couple of hours a few days ago combing the Internet for Rumi quotes and found 20 or so that I love, and I've decided to make the current journal I am working in a journal devoted to what Rumi's words inspire in me.  The book itself is a circa 1960's nicely bound book on Eisenhower (8" x 11") that I picked up at a library book sale.  I've removed some pages to allow for the bulk of my entries and glued pages together to give each page more strength.  I've gessoed the cover but haven't designed it yet.  The spread "I am not my hair" is already in the book, and I've just completed spread #2:  "Close both eyes."  This was another background I made several months ago and then a few days ago I knew I wanted to paint poppies on it.  Then I got really excited when I knew I wanted the entire journal to be full of my favorite Rumi quotes.  I used the typical (for me) acrylic paint and gesso for the background.  The poppies are gesso underneath with acrylics and prismacolor pen, and the sun is gesso and acrylics, along with paper doilies as stencils.  Then I realized I wanted some more text or something in the background so I added the music stamp.  The eyes have a gesso base covered with acrylics, prismacolor pen, graphite, and Inktense pencils.  The quote I printed out and colored with distress ink.