Art Spark Wednesday....On Thursday!

Sorry it's a day late folks. I attempted drawing and painting a face but that wasn't nearly as fun as breating the background. I used a tealight candle to create a resist effect on my gesso. Then went over it with acrylic paint, oil pastels and ink. I hope you enjoy watching.  

Here is the video:

I love the cool texture!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Monday on WEDNESDAY!

Wow am I ever late posting this one eh? Sorry about that! I really like how this page turned out. Not terribly thrilled with the way I added the verse, but I am not going to change it now (I tried and it wanted to rip eeeppp!)
I gesso'ed my pages and then added some drywall tape, for texture.

Here it is after I sprayed on my background and painted all the flowers on.

Here is the page with the Bible verse added. It is John 20:29

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a blessed Monday (and Wednesday)

Hugs, Dawn

Art Spark Wednesday!

Hello everyone :) Here is my latest art journal page. It took some unexpected twists and turns. I learned some things, made a mess and had fun in the process. Isn't that what it's all about after all? I sure  hope so lol. After the video was done, I turned to my art journal and it "told" me it needed a few more finishing touches. I smeared some gesso around the paper the quote is on and then dripped some white paint onto the pages. Sorry I didn't think of it while making the video.

Here is the video:

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative week!

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Page Monday

Here is page for this week. With such frigid temps and drab January days, I thought some color was in order, flowers too.
I started out with this page:

And I Gesso'ed it:

And then I painted it with Acrylic Paint in these colors:

Finally I added some pen over my crazy good paintbrush writing skills, lol.

I love the Bible Verse and the happy colors. 

Thanks for looking and Happy Monday!!

Hugs, Dawn

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

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

My Mom made these!!!

Have a look at what my mom has been creating. She has taken to painting rocks into houses. I love them. I can just picture them in a flower garden. Your own lil Bedrock, you just need Fred and Wilma!! Love ya Mom :) PS- the match stick fence is also my fav!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!