Art on Friday

This week both gratitude and a full moon inspired me to create journal pages.


Art Journal Journey
With American Thanksgiving this week and the theme of "autumn colours" at Art Journal Journey, I used inspiration from Valerie -Jael of  Bastelmania to create this page.

Full Frost Moon Dreamboard
I have returned to the practice of creating a dreamboard on the ful moon and find it valuable.
 The question posed by Jamie Ridler " What dreams are becoming clear?" was the focus  as I gathered words and images,

This time I found several quotes that spoke to me used those to motivate me in the month ahead.

The theme of shifting gears struck me as necessary - changing what I do to achieve better results - not only in my writing but in my pursuit of better health.
The need to express my creativity came through as well.

Several om "One little Words" found there way on the dreamboard as well - as a reminder to seek joy, believe I can achieve, and bloom.

Linking also with:

Paint Party Friday

Show Your Face (in the style of)

Creative Every Day

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

Art on Friday

This week has sped by as we near the end of summer. High temperatures for the last full week of summer - 30C most days. 

I've done a bit of art - collages, a face, a journal page, some ATCs. Here's a glimpse:

Journal

Robin Williams has been a favourite of mine for so long and this quote by him resonates.

We need change in the world - and need ideas and words that can rock our assumptions and prejudices.



Show Your Face
Kim Dellow hosts a fun weekly challenge to share faces you have created each week. I took a long break from doing just that, but I have missed the challenge. Here's a watercolour face, using a magazine model.

Collages
I'm continuing my own challenge to play with papers. This time I did not include stamps or stamping. Next week I want to try a canvas collage.

Photography
I enjoy taking photos - of flowers, skies, and odd things.

Linking also with:

Art Journal Every Day

Paint Party Friday

Express Your Creativity

Art on Friday

Time to return to my weekly sharing - Art on Friday. It has been so good to return to (almost) daily art making.

This week I am joining in at Art Journal Journey where the month long theme is "TIME".

There were so many quotes on the theme that I couldn't choose just one. Here are 3 of my favourites:

Linking as well with:

Paint Party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

Art on Friday

A quick post to share a couple of face projects:

That quote really opens one eyes to the necessity of living our moments in the now.

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.”   

Marie Beynon Ray

Then I just had fun cutting and pasting to create a fun face.

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Linking with

"Show Your Face" at Kim Dellow's blog

Paint Party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

ART on Friday

The past few weeks I have been sharing some of my weekly art on Fridays, taking part in several fun challenges/memes. For a long time I had shared my art on Sundays, but I always found myself rushing late to post. Today I decided that I would begin a more formal sharing on Friday, under the heading "ART on Friday".

Journal
While searching for quotes this week for another project, I found these and knew it was meant to be. With the rainbow I saw on Wednesday, it seemed the perfect inspiration for this journal spread.

(Joy quote by Robert Wagner)

Bloom is my One Little Word this year and I felt that I needed the reminder that I really do need to bloom - it is that time of the year when flowers blossom and share their best. I have to as well.


Faces for "Show Your Face"
I have been enjoying the weekly challenge at Kim Dellow's blog to share faces on Friday.It has forced me to work on faces - whether sketching or painting. Here are 2 I sketched.

Collage Obsession
It has been a while since I participated in the challenges at Collage Obsession. Their theme this week was "Stamps". ICAD (hosted by Daisy Yellow) returns on Monday for 60 days and to warm up I created these 3 small collages - using similar materials, as well as a used stamp and stamps I carved.

Linking as well with 

Paint Party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

Inspire Me Monday

Creative Every Day

Faces

Art it Friday - Paint Party Friday

Once again joining in "Show Your Face" at Kim Dellow's blog

and "Paint party Friday"

and sharing two faces I created.

The first is one in my journal with acrylic paint. I again used a magazine model but had a challenge with the eyes this time. This quote by Confucius is one I hold dear.

The second is a watercolour portrait, again using a magazine model.

Linking as well with:

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

SA(R)Turday 

Inspire Me Monday

A Face and a Journal Page

Art it Friday - Show Your Face

Joining in the weekly meme at Kim Dello blog has encouraged me to practice drawing faces.

This week I only created one - using a magazine face as a model and then using watercolour to complete the face.

I used a background I had already made but the colour effected the face colour. in the end.The message of the quote though is what I was aiming for.

I also created another journal page. I had made several quilt pages for ABC Wednesday and had a lot of scraps of paper. I began gluing them down in another journal and the quote fit perfectly.

Linking also with: (Be sure to check out these wonderful blogs for such an abundance of creativity!)

Paint Party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

Sunday Weekly Wrap-Up

Time again to share some of the art I have worked on in the past week.

Journal 52
I plan to take part this challenge throughout the year. This past week's theme was "Just be"
As my word of the year (OLW), I created this journal page as well as adding some quotes.

Let's Tangle
I have started to work through Kathleen Murray's interesting book "Let's Tangle". There are step-by-step instructions for creating over 100 zentangles. I aim to do a few a week.
Here are a couple I had fun with:

Knightsbridge:

Crescent Moon:

Sketch This

I have also started sketching on random pages in "Sketch This" and it is fun and relaxing to do. Here are the latest ones I've done.

Photography
I've taken some photos of skies lately - some of the cloud formations are lovely.

Linking With

Paint Party Friday

Art Journal Every Day

Express Your Creativity

Journal 52

Creative Every Day

Inspire Me Monday