Creative Inspiration

To help me get re-inspired to start doing art work again, I created a creative inspiration collage to remind me of where it comes from (for me)!  It's hanging up in my little art corner.  

Good Morning Lilac--Remember Your Sleep

Here's a page that I did a while back in my "good morning lilac" journal to remind me of how important it is to my mental health and happiness to get plenty of sleep.

Remains of the Day

So I finally got around to working on the online class "Remains of the Day" with Mary Ann Moss last month.  I made a most fabulous journal that I am only now just starting to fill up.  It's very different from most of the art-journaling that I do in that this one already has decorated background pages and so requires no painting.  I loved finding a good use for all of the cute scrapbook paper and other scrap-booking supplies that I've held onto for a while.

Prayer Book

The main art journal I've been working in lately is the Scandinavian Cookbook that I altered into a "Prayer Book."  I haven't shared all of the pages that I've worked in because some of them feel too personal to share online, but here are a few glimpses....

Monday Prayer Book

The past week I haven't felt all that inspired to work in my art journals...but today I decided to start by writing about that and just go from there....and I ended up creating a whole new spread within about an hour!

Journalfest--Day 3

On the last day of Journalfest, I took a class with Lisa Cheney-Jorgenson called "Learning to See."  She taught us how to do contour drawings, shade with cross hatching, mix and paint with watercolors and touch it up with color pencils.  Here's one of the drawings that I worked on:
( I can't figure out how to make it right side up!)

Journalfest -- Day 2

On the 2nd day of Journalfest, I took Joyful Altered Books with Liesel Lund.  I love her colorful, happy style.  We spent the morning preparing old hardcover books by ripping out extra pages, gluing some pages together for durability, and taping/gluing in flaps and envelopes.   I ended up finishing up the cover after I got home (and decided to make it a prayer book).  I started working on the inside but only have a few unfinished pages so far....