#lovesummerart

In case you missed it this weekend was #lovesummerart on YouTube. I made this super easy abstract canvas, hope you like it. 

Type #lovesummerart in the search bar and see what else you can find there are some amazing gems out there. 

Roses

This week i have been drawing and painting roses alot. I dont know why I all of a sudden want to roses but i do. Follow the muse.

Painting face- Belle

Painting of Belle- It's really warm at the moment so we are super busy with all things not art. I need to take my sketchpad out more, paint real people. Belle is not real.

Painting -Maggie -Inspired by Richard Salcido

I love the moody look Richard Salcido gives his girls.  This is my attempt at that look.

I have a long way to go before I reach his level of talent I think! :)

Poppy

 This page was party inspired by Nika Rouss.

All In The Name of Love.

I'm back hear is my latest video
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Still having a funk!

Ok so I am still having a funk! I have tried waiting for inspiration... nothing... watching people on you tube ... doing my class work with Jane Davenport.... Nothing i feel so stuck. 

Someone please give me a magic cure to stuck in funkiness?  

I made a video to see if filming would push me in to coming up with the goods. 

It didn't buy you can watch it any way if you like.

Having a funk

I'm currently taking a class with Jane Davenport witch would normally get me exited and covered in paint but not so much. I feel like I'm forcing it at the moment and just making mud. Its probably because I am waiting on some test results and as much as i know it will be a fine part of me is still worried. 

Doing a lot of reading to take my mind off it. Maybe i should base my art on my book?

This is a quick page in my bod. Its all i could force out at the moment.

Photo transfer .

We have all been full of cold so there has not been much time for art.

Just as a note I will take teething over a cold with my son any day of the week.

My painting sold last week for 50 dollars! Whoop I'm so pleased with that 50 dollars to a good cause and  I get to say i have sold some work.

Playing with a photo transfer  (photo is a holiday snap of my husband) in my journal this week. Love how its come out grungy and stuff. It was the first time have tried transfers might use it again but its not my normal style so we shall see.

#bringbackourgirls!

Jessica Sporn is hosting an art auction to raise money for Girl Rising, in support of global education for girls. This is obviously in reaction to 200+ girls that were taken in Nigeria. I am donating a 8x8 canvas to the action.

I have never 'sold' my work before but i really wanted to do this. (you can bid hear.)

I don't normally talk about my process ether but for this one I  will make an exception. 

I started by writing as many girls names I could think of, its only by a accent of birth that this is not your daughter (or mine) I wanted the names to represent every girl, any girl!

Then I prettied it up to mark to represent distracting are self so I don't notice the horrible things that happen in the world. 

Lastly I panted the woman making her eye's was really emotional for me. Can I really ignore there plight when she is looking right at me? 

I will be posting on the day of the auction as well but i thought  I would publish this video as well to get more eyes on the sight. More eyes more money raised in my view. 

Please consider buying something(even if its not mine) or donating directly let some goodness come out of this dreadful thing that has happened.   

Get more information hear and hear 

New speed video!

I made a video of one of my pages. The face I panted over is just a photo copy (on copy paper) of a sketch I did, self portrait. I am  really happy with how the page went.   

Square

We have finaly moved house and unpacked. Only problem is now im sick :(
However i have managed to get some work done . Im loving working on a square format. Not sure is this is a art journal page or a scrapbooking page . I love it. Thanks baby boy for helping mummy.

Blue people keep sneaking in to my books

I dont know why but blue people keep sneaking in to my work. Maybe its because of the glum winter.

Book of days pages

Quick update on what i have been doing. BOD!

Enjoying this so much. I love knowing I have to art this week and journal. It makes me do more stuff.... so I have things to journal about.

Quick post before the new year

Very busy with the best holidays ever! My baby's first. I love having my baby boy he makes everything better.Also we brought a house! im getting the spear room or should i say art studio?? well I'm jumping a head of myself the current owners need to find some place first.

Also i wanted to tell you all I'm doing Book of Days. Soo looking forward to that.

I haven't finished life book 2013 so i wont be doing it in 2014. bad naughty me. but i have all my videos downloaded so i can eventually catch up

This was a quick play  in-between holiday madness with some lace and some spays. little bit of paint in her hair and on her face  I love it :)

Happy New Year!

Art journal flip.

My very first video is now up for you to enjoy. Its my first 'completed' art journal.

And a quick page from my new altered book art journal. 

One page left

Only one page to go in my art journal getting my new one ready..... and a small side project more on that later.

I'm back!!!

 I have been away for such a long time I started to feel like I can’t come back. I now to my own blog how messed up is that?

I started making deals with myself when I have made something that is really really really good then I can come back, but that’s just silly so I'm back now.

My baby boy was born on the 19/8/13 a little early and he was not very well for a little bit but now I have a happy healthy bundle of joy and I couldn’t love him more. I can never describe how much I love my son. 

I worked really hard copying a photo , I think it looks like him I'm so pleased with it. But then again who could draw/paint my baby boy and not make him super cute!

Yep that’s a sketch I did while he was breastfeeding sorry. 

I'm thinking of doing a art journal flip soon. have a full catch up on most things i have been doing art wise (not that much). Its not all baby related mush i promise.....

Trying out new things this week.

First I have been trying to create a translucent face but I end up adding to many layers. I think I was fairly successful with is girl. She is a mixture of acrylic and coloured pencils something else I have been trying to do. My pen broke while I was doing the writing that’s why it look so sloppy but over all I'm happy with her.

This is just an experiment I did in the tiny art journal with masking fluid and a ink pad. Love the way this looks I really want to develop this further…..

Baby has been keeping me awake most night (just can’t get comfy and the back pain no one warns you about the back pain!!) so I have taken to creating at silly o’clock to distract me from how tired I am. Oh well least I'm finding some time for my art.

 

My little book of sanity.

I didn’t think I would use my tiny art journal much, I had doubts about working on such a small scale.

But in fact I use it a lot almost daily. Especially at the moment, I haven’t been feeling well or getting much sleep so it’s nice to have a little project to work on in bed when I can’t sleep or just when I have the TV on.

 

I fund I'm not s fussy if I try something and it doesn’t work, or ill try something and mentality pin it for a ‘real’ page when I feel better.

Who knew a tiny book could be so saving? Do you ever have that problem of wanting everything to be ‘good’ art? How do u fix it?