Little Arty pieces

Fast Forward

So, my intention to blog more regularly didn't happen in January because here we are nearly at the end of the month! Life just seems to be on fast forward sometimes...  going by in a blur of fuzzy images hehehehe.

But I am keeping up with Kate's art calendar challenge, here is my take on February....

I used Dylusions ink sprays, stencils and stamps, a Teesha Moore image and various other images from finds in magazines plus montana pens and oil pastels - mucho fun was had in the making of this product!

I'm also posting on Facebook in the art journal group so I might see you there too.

It's been so long...

Oooh, I wanted to carry on singing that old song by George McCrae... It's been so long since I've seen you....

Life's been busy since we moved way back in June of last year and although I haven't been blogging regularly, I've still been creating :)

It just takes me longer to finish a page!
Our visitor's rang to cancel tonight because of the snow so Andy and I had a romantic meal and a glass of vino and I even had a little doodle on my January page for the art calendar challenge.

Dylusions journal

Well I got my hands on the fabulous and rapidly selling out brand spanking new Dylusions journal. And boy do I LOVE it! You might have a gazillion journals but you NEED this one :-)

Here are a few pages that I started. I just had to do a bit of mark making on those pages - although when I first got it, I did sit and flick through the pages, stroking them tenderly - after all, they are going to know my secrets over the coming months!

They are works in progress... I just wanted to get some colour on the pages :)

Preview Day

This coming Saturday is Preview Day at Art from the Heart in Harrogate. Come along and enjoy the fun - it's a great day out with tea and scrummy cakes, a shop full of arty goodies to purchase (or indeed to drool over!) plus a great opportunity to take a taster workshop with Marie, Kate, Kaz or myself.

It seems like ages since I blogged and I confess I am struggling to juggle my new lifestyle, fulfill commitments and keep up with the things I enjoy doing! But just to show I have been doing a little arting, here are a few sneaky peeks of my upcoming workshops at AFTH over the next couple of months....

If you book a workshop (or two or three!) on the day you can justify your spend - there's a 10% discount!

Atempts at a Dina-esque page

You attend the workshops, then when you go home you almost forget what you learned.... well if you're like me you do! 

But the thing is, its still there in the back of your mind, it keeps niggling at you, until you have to have a go at home. On your own. Sometimes it works and other times not. But you have to keep trying. And I will.

I'm a fan of Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, he  writes about people who excel, all manner of people from the Beatles to Bill Gates.  To get good at what they do, in other words, successful, they practised and worked and practised some more - Gladwell's research led him to estimate a figure of 10,000 times. Yes TEN THOUSAND! 

So here is my number one attempt at a technique taught by the fabulous Dina Wakely. 

 When I first attempted drawing this kind of face in Dina's workshop, she was there, urging me on..... sadly, she was not with me in my art room today! It's not what I want it to look like but its a start. Only 9,999 more faces to go!

Looks like she's got a cold, or she could be related to Rudolph! as in the red nosed reindeer :)

I used Dylusions paint and spray inks, Dina's stamps and what Dina calls, a 'magic' pencil, all available here

A Quickie!

A short but sweet post.... I'm finally catching up with my art calendar having had a little play in my art room this morning so here is August...

I got me some new stamps while I was teaching at AFTH the other day and I was just itching to use them! 

(You'll have to forgive my lack of patriotism - not using the Olympics as a theme this month)