Artfully Abstracted Letters

Here's my practice piece for "swoopy loopy" letters, adding doodling, and then painting in the negative space. Then I tried a second piece with the word "create".

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Doodled Letters

Here's my first attempt at Doodled letters as encouraged by Joanne Sharpe. I'm not finished experimenting. Sometimes I get very detailed and Zentangle-like - like this example, other times I like to be real-sketchy and loose. Fun!
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Letters in the Round

Practicing my letters in the round -- from Joanne Sharpe's lessons.
Had so much fun tonight!

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Bird House at CREATE NJ

I spent the weekend at CREATE NJ in Somerset where I thoroughly enjoyed four different and exciting classes.
My Saturday night class was taught by Jane Davila. We learned how to collage and stitch fabric and paper together to create a bird house.  Jane noted that there are 43 different types of birds, all of which you can do fun research to learn more about them before creating your collage. For this project, I chose to portray a jay bird in honor of my best friend, Jay. Here's to you, Jay!

Anticipation of summer...

Back to the scrap pile and my glue journal... just pulled pieces out of the pile and glued!

I guess I'm anticipating the wonderful summer ahead.

It's a pink grapefruit day!

When I know I need to spend more time in the studio but have no inspiration, I often start by cleaning my art table. I know it sounds counterproductive, but it works for me.  After the table is all clean and the old sponges and rags are gone, I can concentrate on the pages I'm creating.

Today I grabbed my neglected glue journal and the overflowing scrap pile.  I love my scrap pile; there's everything and anything imaginable in there! Two of the collage pieces are actually color copies of my painted journal pages.

I found a cut-out pink grapefruit, so it was my inspiration for the page.

Hope you're finding a way to journal about this beautiful day!

Happy Easter

This year's batch of onion skin eggs.  I was a little low on onion skins, so these turned out a bit spotty. I like them though! Happy Easter!