Magazine Monday on Thursday

                  What is Magazine Monday?
         It's a new segment I am trying out on my blog here to help me post more frequently and to practice my painting skills. It's just an ordinary ESPN magazine that was going to end up in the trash. I like it's over sized pages.
    I usually start by finding a quote that "speaks" to me and then I gesso my pages.

 The quote I choose usually determines what I will paint on the pages. This week I went with a Bible verse:
He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge.   Psalms 91:4. So I drew and painted a wing with powder blue acrylic paint.. I also filled in the background with green paint, and then went around the edges with white while the green paint was still wet.

 I added some white paint to the wing so it wasn't so flat. Then added some smaller feather looking spots for interest. I painted the lower right of each of these marks with white paint. I also flicked a white Elmer's Painty Pen to make the white paint splats. Giving the wing freckles :) I also darkened the Bottom of the wing with dark blue paint.

 I wanted the shadow under the wing to be darker, so I coated the pages in a thin layer of Collage Pauge. This makes the surface nonporous. Which works well for adding some India ink from my Pitt Brush pen. I marked it on the paper and smeared it around a little with my finger.

 I finished my pages by adding the Bible verse I chose and hand painted some feathers around the edges. At some point I also added some Twinkling H2O's in  Light Blue, Gold and Yellow to add some sparkle.

I will see you next week, hopefully on Monday next time for another installment of Magazine Monday!

Have a great day!

Hugs, Dawn

Wanna join my group?

I created a group on Facebook where I will be sharing my newest creations! Here is the link if you are interested: Dawn's Kreative Korner

I have been away for awhile....

......but I am back today and with a NEW DIGITAL FILE!! My skills are a little rusty and I had to re-learn my drawing program, but I think he turned out pretty cute. I hope you can use this little fella on a card or something. If you use my files, please be sure to show me so I can come over and see. If you download my file, leave me a comment to let me know you were here. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look :)
(Click on the image to download the larger sized file)

Have a grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat day!!

Hugs, Dawn

Art Journaling again....Camera Page

I worked on this page today. My BFF Jeanne sent me these super cool canvas/chipboard Camera stickers and I had to use them......ALL OF THEM! Thank you Jeanne for sharing with me. The cameras were my jumping off point.

I didn't really know where to go after that so I grabbed my new goodies aka Gelatos by Faber-Castell. I got them at Jo-Ann's with 40% and 50% off coupons. I love a good discount.

The back of the flap is one of my favorite parts of this page. I loooooooove how the alcohol inks dripped and bled, I tried to recreate it on the rest of the background and it just didn't turn out as well. I still love it though :)

Here is a closeup to show the dimension of the canvas stickers. I love these! I need to find or create other shapes in this stuff.

This last photo is just a close up of the quote. I thought it worked perfectly. 

Thanks for stopping by to take a look. I hope you have a fantastic day.

Hugs, Dawn

I've been Art Journaling...

Here are couple of my most recent pages.
This first one I call.....Fly.

I found that big wooden bird at Michaels and painted it Black and just hot glued it to that little flap. It's my favorite part of this page.

This is the second page. Not my favorite art journal page, but at least I finished it and learned some things along the way. It's what Donna Downey would call foward motion. If you like to art journal and haven't ever heard of Donna Downey, head over to her site and watch her Inspiration Wednesday Videos. They are awesome. She is my artistic hero. 

Create Art

I found these cute frames at Goodwill for .99 each! I thought they were cute, even if they are plastic. I took the art out of each frame, gesso'ed each panel and painted the art you see here. I love dandelions, and these match the comforter on my bed. Learning to paint is really fun! Thanks for taking a look :)

Have a fantastic day!! Hugs, Dawn

Enter this Giveaway!!

Head on over to Karla Dornacher's Blog for your chance to enter her giveaway. There are several ways to increase your entries  to win AND she will be choosing first, second and third place winners!

This photo is the first place prize and all you have to do for your chance to win? Place a comment on her blog and tell her something worth celebrating in your life right now. It couldn't be simpler. So click that link up there and get commenting ;) Good luck!!

Hugs, Dawn