Art Journal

I decided to start an Art journal. I covered the front cover of a sketch book I had with a paper bag. I am in the process of drawing different items on the front.
I am trying to journal and draw every day. So far I have two days done.

Keisha

This is a drawing I finished today. I have titled it Keisha. I drew it from a picture in a magazine. It didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to, but I finally had to quit. I know that the left eye is to low, but was afraid to erase it and try over with as much work as I have done on the page.

Easter Egg Mosaic

My Creative Challenge site had this challenge today. We were to save the shells from our Easter eggs. I then painted a playing card a dark color; I chose black. We then added modge podge or acrylic varnish and added the colored shells. I made my design that of a butterfly. Once you have placed your egg shells you push on them to crack them more. I then covered the whole thing with Modge podge once more to seal everything.
Thanks Judith for this challenge.

ABC Book

I choose the word Dance for my D page. I created a poem with words from the page of the book on the left hand side. I then added pictures of Japanese Dancers and placed Yuki and Kana's pictures over the faces. On the right hand side is a Japanese Proverb about dance. When Kana was here for Easter she wrote the word Dance in two forms for me. I have tried to copy them on each page. The scarf enclosed in the pocket was a gift from Yuki for Christmas. The pocket is a photo I took of one of my cherry tree's blossoms. I also cut out a couple of pictures from Japanese paintings to create the fans that Kana and Yuki are holding.

Communion

With Easter upon us I felt the need to express myself about how I feel about Jesus' gift to me.

Creative Challenge part 2

Rita from my creative challenge group posted about 15-20 questions the other day that we gave one word answers to. The second part of this is to create a poem using some or all of those answers. Here is the poem that I wrote using about 5 of my answers.

Zeke's Art

My nephew Zeke drew this picture for me. Zeke is 6 years old and likes to play basketball and to play with cars.

Sam's Art

My nephew Sam is visiting and he drew this picture for me. Sam is 10 years old and into dragons and basketball. He loves to draw.

Portrait of a Woman

In our Black 2 class we are working on drawing the face. We practiced drawing all different types of eyes, noses, and mouths. Today we each choice a photocopy from a magazine to do our drawing. We used the grid method. The kids drew on a 1" by 1" scale, I wanted my drawing to be larger than the 5x5 they are doing, so my grids were different than theirs. I finished my drawing during my plan time, so will be interesting to see how the kids do over the weekend with theirs.

Digital Art

My pie shape and my finished project.















One of the ladies from an online group does these wonderful kaleidoscopes using digital art. Her names is Julia and this is her website: http://community.webshots.com/album/70243294PnWBox
She starts with a pie shape, doodles on it and then creates the circle using the pie shape she has scanned in and by copying and manipulating. I love her work and can't come close to it, but I did attempt to. I will probably try this again.

Altering Headphones

I was looking at a website the other day where all the kids were knitting "sweaters" for their i-pod earbuds. Although I don't knit, I decided to try and macrame' one for mine. Not sure how long I will leave it on there, but it was a good way to kill and hour one afternoon.

Drawing Animals

In our Black 2 art classes we found pictures of an animal that we liked in 3 different views. We then spent the next 3 class periods working on proportions and drawing our animals. I chose to draw the Mountain Lion. Once when I was a kid I was walking through the sumac field near our house and came to a clearing and there was a mountain lion that had made it's way down from Colorado. Scared the crap out of both of us. Ever since I have been fascinated by them.