charms for artiscape

sucess is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm.... Who said that? They should be shot! Last night I had all my charms ready to go. All I had to do is add some embossing enamel. Instead of doing them 2-3 at a time I decided to BURN THEM ALL UP! Hours of work up in smoke ARGHHHHH

Here is my second batch.

parakeet atc

Upon closer inspection the person I made this atc for was not holding a parakeet (: Long story. Any hoo winding down classes. Ending well with this year of homeschooling...getting ready for Artiscape I am content and full of creative energy. God is good

searching for inspiration for fat book pages

This is a metal atc collage I did after Artiscape last year. I am hoping for new ideas and inspiration this year. There is always something missing in my compositions.... I am praying about this week .... How many weeks of my life have I wasted.... worrying...being anxious...and today I cannot even remember what my concerns were a month ago????

I found a cool site. It is requested that you post the website to a blog before you download the free stuff ...So here it is.... Even though noone really sees my blog LOL it is here....

http://www.tentwostudios.com/countdown/

Becoming atc obcessed

I have been working on atcs for days.... I love making these minature artworks and trading with others. Artiscape 2007 has trading opportunities for cards, charms and fatbook pages.... Here I go (:

painting collage

I made the drawing collage into a painting collage. i hope to shrink it.. Print atcs and tweak a series. I have never copied atcs before. Last year almost all of the atcs I got in trades were just copies. I hope to make the prints each unique. I have about ten individual atcs almost finished. Any comments are welcome (:

elephant collage

this is the first layer for my collaged atc. I am hoping to add depth to the sections with inks, embossing, gel medium, tissue paper etc and print a few atcs then add some textures to the prints. i hope to add embroidery floss to divde the sections on the final cards. I lost my elephant drawing in the first attempt so I made it darker. Hope it works here goes.

I am making cards to trade at artiscape. I also am making charms.

Excited about art

this morning I came up with two ideas for my artist trading cards. One involves an elephant. and the other quarreling faires. LOL yesterday I used a printer to print on vellum and used embossing powder to give it some zing. I want to work on making small hearts in a similar way if I can find red embossing powder. I am sure there is sure a thing. I am looking to find utee which I have never worked with. there is so much fun stuff to play with (:

Creative Challenge

Today began on a negative note. Time, effort and prayer will make things whole again.

Affirmations:
a kind word turns away wrath
Response can eventually change stimulus
Resurrection power is available to me to lift my old creative soul from death to life

Creative challenge for the day:

• scan a journal page
• read about Trina Schart Hyman
• cut 12 Atcs to begin working on them
• investigate buying more artist's journals
• paint 4 backgrounds
• set up my idea for charms
• find the stuff to do gel medium transfers with

His Desire Soul Collage

Created in His Image God desires for me to love Him.

LIFE

My first soul collage card on Gratitude.
I am everyday grateful fo the life I have been given. What a gift.

Charcoal/chalk greytones

grey tone drawings
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Today’s challenge: Use a medium that has the value scale already laid out for you either grey tone pastels or markers that range from white to black.
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Creative Challenge grid collage drawing

Lots to do today ! I used this drawing to watermark my letters. I hope to use it again to make a watercolor. Knowing I can produce a drawing and then manipulate it for collage and cards etc makes it that much more fun.

challenge photograph the sky

It always amazes me, as we drive home from ball games, how beautiful the area we live in is. The sun is usually setting over the fields of corn and soybeans. We usually spot deer and ground hogs. The horses are usually contributing to the landscape. It just feels like home. I took some pictures in the moving truck the sky appeared lavendar, however this photo does not carry the feeling I wanted to express it still transports me to the time we rode home and I appreciated God's goodness towards me.

Sarah and Sarah helped me with glass mosaics for my fall classes. They made candle votives. I used the scraps for a trivet. having kids over to play with materials always helps me decide what I will have the kids do in the fall.

Below is the treasure I unearthed this morning during my search for interesting things on the internet.

"Seize the moment before it's gone,
For another day begins at dawn.
Embrace the night which brings you rest -
Awake and know you did your best.
Fight each fight, and run each race -
It matters not if you win or place.
Seize the moment... you'll be blest,
Then rest assured you passed the test.
For he who tries can never fail,
When God directs the ship we sail.
Seize the moment and hold it clear,
And rise by faith above your fear."
Clay Harrison

I can tangle!

I am finding this kind of fool proof doodling very relaxing. I am amazed at how you can create movement by thickening lines and using bold patterns. Mistakes in line are easily restated. the more I look the more I want to add. I hope to make more and possibly express a more recognizable subject with the same patterns and principles.

pansies

pansies
Originally uploaded by standnngrace.

Cannot seem to finish any florals or nature journal entries so I am going to study some that I admire and try again

salvia

Hard to believe I have not added any artwork for over a month. I really have not done anything I am too impressed with. I did this salvia for one of the creative challenges at the group.

That's Soul by Lisa Fraser

In this land of 24-hour media, we're constantly surrounded by perfection. Some of it's real, most of it isn't. Computer graphics can produce scarily pseudo-authentic beauty, be it in a book, a piece of art, or a TV program. And even when the radiance is real, it often looks like it sprang from the brush, the hands, or the mind of its creator fully formed, like Athena from the head of Zeus. We end up demanding those unrealistic feats of ourselves. We rip out all the practice pages and expect ourselves to declare our genius in the first stroke, the first placement of torn paper, even the first idea. Is it any wonder we shut our art in closets or swallow it in frozen lumps where it sits in our stomachs for years? And we continue on, appreciating beauty, and trying to ignore the vague uneasiness it brings up in us. We need to give ourselves permission to play, to explore, to have the skill level of a two year old, to not get it right from the very first. I think folks who do that are among the bravest there are. They're bucking the whole of popular culture and their own insides in effort to follow their hearts. That's courage. That's soul.
Lisa Fraser sent me this in an email I wanted to include it in my art journey. I am on day 61

Palm sunday

Hosanna ... means He saves. The crowd was a mix that day. some wanted a warrior king that would lead them against their Roman oppressors, some had heard He was a great prophet and healer. some were in love with the compassionate beautiful man of Jesus Christ. the same people 5 days after His triumphant greeting were willing to crucify him. I do not know how I would have been that day. I only know that today i am thrilled that my Savior came and that He lived a perfect life and died that I might live. Today on Palm Sunday the beginning of holy week we sang Holy Holy Holy. I was reminded of this drawing I did 6 years ago.

I am praying over my writing. I desire so badly to have beautiful writing but I am awkward and somehow miss letters and put in wrong letters. I cannot seem to concentrate ... writing makes me a nervous nelly. Even here I see that i was trying to say your and instead I wrote you.... I wonder what the Lord has in store for me an the lessons I will be learning on this path? Artiscape was great. I appreciate some art styles that I have no desire to replicate. I enjoy the altered art and collage and want to grow in experience with more traditional fine arts like watercolors and acrylics. the book making and journal art is facinating to me.

art stool back pack

Here is my new find for my outside art adventures.........