Art Journal Everyday: She Art Girl #1

Have you taken any classes from Christy Tomlinson?  She is the queen of texture and her She Art classes are fab.u.lous!  I got them on sale and I actually feel a little guilty about not paying full price.  Seriously. There is just so much in those classes.  I highly recommend them.

Anyway, yesterday was a bit of a trial around here. So, when it came time to art journal I ended up with a much different girl then I had intended.

Her bright orange hair was a piece of paper towel I had used for cleaning up some spray ink.  I cut around the shape of ink and discarded anything white. Then I cut out the head and neck, glued it down, painted and outlined.  After she was in place, I journaled like crazy. I thought it might make an interesting background and it was very therapeutic. In the end, it was fun and I'm glad to have my first She Art Girl - yay!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm taking a class at my LSS, The Paperie, from my friend, Krista. It's all about kits and becoming a faster and more creative scrapper.  Sounds fabulous, right?

Thanks for stopping by!

Cathie

Art Journal Everyday

Hey, hey!

I usually post about my art journal pages on Friday but this week I'm a little late. Clearly.

I mentioned in this post, that I find it hard to move past the background phase of my art journal pages. So, this week I went looking for inspiration and found it in the video below by Christy Tomlinson.

I love Christy's style and how she creates her canvases and thought, "why not?" I dug out my old Stampin' Up! rub-ons (the only ones in my stash) and made flowers of out book pages colored with Dylusions spray inks. The branch is a twig from my backyard.

Here's my page...



I think this page looks better in this pic than in real life. The page is very dimensional so I guess it's one you need to stand back and look at.

One of my favorite parts of the whole thing is the jar/vase. I followed Christy's shading technique in the video and was able to make a flat piece of paper look dimensional. I hope it's something I can replicate on other pieces.

So, that's my art journal for this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

zove

Cathie