Strathmore Visual Journal - Workshop 1-Lesson 4

Woohoo! I have completed the first workshop with Strathmore Visual Journal. Below is the completed lesson and the first lesson. I really liked how this technique makes the collage look more like a painting than collage. I still have issues with the oil pastels, but believe I may be able to overcome it. lol
The next class doesn't start till March 1st. Bummer. But that will give me time to practice on my drawing lessons with Darrel Tank. I am taking his 5 Pencil Method classes. He is an awesome artist! I'm very excited about this and want to thank Carol Sloan of the Sketchbook Challenge for telling us about him.

Strathmore Visual Journal - Workshop 1-Lesson 2

I finally made it past lesson 2. Woohoo! It's not the greatest but at least I have got something to show. Two more lessons to go and it will be completed.

I believe I am going to like this technique and will definately be doing more. Practice makes perfect.

Strathmore Visual Journal - Workshop 1 REDO

YOU MAY BE DISAPPOINTED IF YOU FAIL, BUT YOU ARE DOOMED IF YOU DON'T TRY.
Beverly Sills

The quote above has so much meaning to me, because I definately failed with the previous lessons from the Srathmore Visual Journal workshop. Gotta learn to make sure I have added enough water to the gesso before I apply it to my work. But hopefully with this new project I will get it right. lol

I think I am liking this one a lot better than the other one anyways. So maybe it was a good thing I messed up on the first one.

I am a member of Milliande's Art Journal group. If you would like to see what the group is about click on the link on my side bar. She does an art journal a day and makes a video of her process to give us inspiration on making one similar. Using her templates for day 4, I chose to do the zebra woman. I printed off her pattern, then traced the elements I wanted to work with. Then to keep true to the strathmore workshop , I used pen inks to paint in the black, then made a copy of that and cut it out to use as collage. I printed off the zebra strips from Milliande's templates and cut them out for collage. So below is what I have finished for lesson one of the Strathmore workshop.




Lesson Two consists of using pastels, (which I have never gotten use to using pastels) and then using the gesso . Wish me luck that I get it right this time.


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HIGHLY PRIZED- Sketchbook Challenge

The first month's sketchbook challenge is something that is Highly Prized.

I do highly prize my family, but I have not gained the proper drawing skills to be able to draw a family member. I tried that once years ago using chalk pastels on fabric. You can see that here.

I let many a years go by and never continued learning to draw faces. So that is what I consider Highly Prized, starting again at drawing portraits.

I plan on focusing on eyes first, then the nose, mouth, hair, etc. So hopefully by the end of this year I will be really good at it.

NEW YEAR, NEW BEGINNINGS!

I decided it was time for change, in my life and on my blog. Poor neglected blog has been the same since 2008. Hope you like the new look and hope that the change in my blog name doesn't change anything with my followers.

Reflecting on what I wanted to accomplish this year I have decided to get back on track of something I left years ago. My art! Yes, there is art in crazy quilting and all but I mean back to paper and pencil, drawing , painting, and now my new found love of visual journaling.
I do have some commitments to continue in some of my groups which I plan on doing, but as far as new sewing projects or stuff like that I have decided I won't be participating .

This is the year to dedicate to my first love of the ARTS and to work on all those UFO's I have everywhere. So you will still be seeing some of my sewing projects, they will be my poor UFO's that have been sitting in drawers. Also my 2012 crazy quilt that I started and got all the blocks sewn together but not one block has finished embellishing on it. Got to get these things finished!!

I wish all my followers a wonderful New Year ! Hope you like the look of my new blog.

Strathmore Visual Journal - Workshop 1

For lesson one of the Strathmore Visual Journal Workshop , we were to take some of our old art and photo copy it in black and white. I could not find black , mine only showed colored or grey scale so I printed it off in grey scale.

The background is a copy of some Zentangles I had done. The lady is from a class, learning to color on fabric with crayons and using embroidery stitches. If you click here you can see what it looked like on the fabric.

I decided I wanted to turn her into a fairy, possibly a flower fairy. So I had a page of flower designer papers and cut out one of the flowers and placed that on.

Of course being a flower fairy it's definitely going to attract the butterflies. Instead of using the butterfly that was in the fabric photo , I chose to use one from some of the ephemera I had downloaded for collaging. I have got to get better at marking whom I got the ephemera from when I download it. Don't remember if it was from Mary Green, from some of her classes or The Vintage Moth or Vintage Catnip.

I have got into the practice of putting the name of whom I got the ephemera from , so now I shouldn't have this problem anymore of knowing where they came from.

The wings are a copy of a dragonfly I had made using angelina fibers, you can see that pic here .

Of course my printer is an ink jet printer, so there was a little smudging when I glued the pieces down. I will be able to take care of that problem in the next lesson, so no biggy.
One advantage of being so late on the first lesson, I have already looked at the next lesson and know what's going to take place with this piece. So hopefully I will get the next lesson done before lesson 3 comes up. lol