A few Arty Journal pieces

Sharing a few art Journal Pieces from the last few months ..

 I've been a very slack Blogger .

Doing a little catch up today,in the last days of my 2 week creative working holiday .

I've been to lovely Victor Harbour in South Australia for 5 days , back home and then up to the Hunter Valley here in NSW for another 5 days of creative fun, with some of my creative besties . 

Check my Instagram feed for all the fun.

A little watercolour fun after work.

I love these Prima Watercolour sets, this one is Tropical.

After a rough in with watercolour , out comes the acrylics and a little stencil rub back

A class project from a few months ago, lots of lovely colourful heart layering onto black pages..

Love the effect .

Thanks for Dropping By..

I'll be back , sooner than you know it .

Be Brave with Art Dolls

Howdy Folks , long time no Blog, well it seems that way.

 Lots of Arty stuff happening ,for other rad sites but I seem to neglect my home here.

So anyway,I've been playing with Art Dolls from Mischief Circus

They are fabulous to add instant impact to your art journal.

I've created a fab background in my journal 

Next I fussy cut the Art Doll and then Matt Medium'd it into my journal

After appropriate drying time I attacked the page with my Posca Paint Pen to add a little fun details 

Be Brave and scribble or doodle over your page.
i finished with the Stabilo Magic pencil around the Art Doll to add depth tho the overall look.

Here's the result ... I love it !

Big thanks to Heather for always taking time to comment .

You are awesome xx

getting my artJOURNAL on

 "Keep busy doing the things you love and destiny will find you"

 Howdy Bloggers , another art journal update.

Do you struggle finding appropriate words to incorporate on to your art journal pieces?

I'm not a big lover of cliches,or single word titles(not that i haven't used them before) but finding something that is interesting and works with my pieces is sometimes difficult.

For these two pieces I've grabbed my phone and googled 'life & love' quotes for the above piece and 'heart' for this piece below.Up pops a a plethora of known and obscure quotes and one finds the best quote that work for ones piece.

" Let my soul smile through my heart ,

 and my heart smile through my eyes,

that I may scatter rich smiles to sad hearts "

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For this piece I tried to make it a little random.

So I love listening to music when i get arty,it helps my work flow

 and I find it inspiring to the whole creative process.

This week here in Oz ,it was Australia Day and 

the annual Triple J Hottest 100 is always a part of our celebration.

As I'm listening to the radio,I wanted to create a piece that incorporated words into my background. so I shazzam'd the Courtney Barnett song on the radio, Pedestrian At Best and used the words within the song to facilitate the background and the direction of the piece.

From that ,this Silhouette piece was born.

I would love to know how you add journaling to your art?