happy american thanksgiving

 

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well even though I am Canadian , we are neighbours with

the United States, like cousins.  So happy thanksgiving to you.

I want to not only thank you but all the other people who are

not Americans for continuing to read my blog, I am truly

appreciative.

Its all in the face....

 

 

its a good thing she likes bows so much because not much going for her in the looks department

went to my bookbinding class on Sunday, made a book

don't know if I can make another one, but gonna try tonight

see how it turns out

what have you been up to

She is a bad..........

 

awhile ago I made an angel booklet

 I have showed some here on my blog

now here are some more

I mostly used the gelli plate on the

background and tried to let the

design show thru the clothes, and used some

stamps for the words. I found the head in some magazine, and made it a collage

Today I am off to a course to learn the Coptic stich

in bookbinding.  We will see how that comes out.

 

lee

 



Thinking of christmas cards.

 

working on my Christmas card designs, this one is in the

running to be the card, what do you think?

I have not added the text yet, as this is still in the works.

today its all about working on some quick sketches

for other Christmas cards.  I only make a few of these

cards, I am always worried they are not good enough (lol).

 

 



Link Friday

 

this is a picture of my aunt, my mother and my brother, it, I made

a copy of it, and colored it, and distressed it with sandpaper,

I loved the way it turned out, one of my early try's doing art.

Here are some great links from my favorite artist

Alisha Burke



                                                      http://vimeo.com/79850270 make pattern with an eraser


                                                        http://vimeo.com/79411595  gelli plate printing

                                                       http://vimeo.com/79070572 plastic bag printing

flower power

this is an old piece of art , well really not that old a few months

and I forget who gave me the idea about using shapes,

and this is what came out of it.  I love drawing flowers,

as you can tell, you can do cool things with flowers.

For some reason I thought today was Friday and had

a whole new post ready, well I am saving that one for tomorrow.

I have been working the last two days in a canson mix media

sketchbook, and its crap, it says it takes wet media, and it

doesn't the fibers all come out of the paper.  I got so mad

I shot them off a email.  These books are not cheap

people, and they should do what they say.  The Strathmore

multi media does what it says, I told the people at Canson that.

I have not heard back, stay tuned.

 

lee

 

 



style

 

 

I think I have a style of drawing and painting, I call it my style.

The girl above is not in my style, I don't want to be a one trick pony

I would love to be able to draw a more interesting face,

a more realistic face, so I practice, I try to practice faces

at least twice a week, to improve on my faces.  But I am

not going to give up my style, because thats who I am as an artist

 

lee

tales from the pool

 

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This is a journal page I made in July of this year.  If you read this blog a lot, or are just starting to  you should know that I swim everyday of the week in the morning at a pool.  While swimming I have lots of time to think.  I think about blog posts, challenges, art, daily troubles, Its my time for just me,

   Now since I go everyday except the weekends, you get to know the

people who also go everyday.  I talk to some, you know hi how are, the weather.  But

some you just imagine, and I have names for all of them.  The newlyweds, they must

80 are more, but so sweet, they hold hands, are so loving, its sweet to watch.  The pervert,

he wears a speedo, and watches or should I say stares at all the women, and in the

speedo lets say its doesn't hide much.  The Europeans (men) who come and

use the hot tub, the sauna, and sit and talk all day in chairs by the pool.  They treat it like a spa.

There are many more, and I am sure that since I have names for them in my mind, they must have names for me.  I can of a few, The single girl (because i dont wear my wedding rings swimming)

the loner, because I don't talk much, and probably a few I don't want to know

 

I love my pool, windows on all sides, Olympic size, and a gym in the basement, and only 30 dollars a month, cant beat that.  Private places like the ymca are way to expensive.  Today there was only 3 of us in the pool and I was one of the 3.

 

This is a picture of the pool, it was built in 1967

lee

retro monday

well we survived the weekend weather and all

had a Costco run and of course had to spend some money on un needed items

Costco just does that to people

wrapped all my sisters gifts to mail

worked on an art journal page

and watched some episodes of Elementary that I missed

lee



doodle sunday

this is what I do when watching TV at night

I make patterns

not just flowers, birds, or anything that strikes my fancy

last night I decided to see how I liked just filling

in the background, I used a watercolor maker for this

I like it, but now I want to see what if looks

like with color.

stay tuned

 

lee

 

Welcome to canada

outside of my front window

you cant tell but its snowing like crazy today

today its all about staying warm

wrapping some Christmas presents that have to go in the mail

a little shopping

some time in front of the fireplace

what's up with you today

Favourite tutorials

found some great video/tutorials

for your viewing pleasure
happy thursday

enjoy

http://www.robenmarie.com/blog/2013/11/12/stamped-fabric-pouch-tutorial.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn4sBJBpEA making acrylic skins for your art journal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJLVWdmy3M glue gun stencils I am going to try this one

http://homegrownhospitality.typepad.com/homegrown_hospitality/2013/11/tuesday-tutorials-tag-tree.html  I love her art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2od-vCJrM8#t=522  art journal page

the beauty of black and white

the beauty of Photoshop , when I originally did this drawing I had it painted, and the background was completely  different but today I was playing around in Photoshop elements, made it black and white and put it on one of my backgrounds I had painted, and you have a whole different look



art ideas.....

today it was above zero (bathing suit weather almost)

went to the dentist broke my back tooth eating a soft cookie, was someone trying to tell me something

taking a copic stich bookbinding course next week

had a art date last Friday   Art friend Gail

working on my tag for the circle journal exchange so I can get it finished and sent on

its eat leftovers from the fridge night, I just cleaned the fridge out today

back to swimming tomorrow, knee is much better after resting it

the Dr. says its a bakers cyst, but it goes away by itself

lunch with the neighbour tomorrow

isn't my life exciting, I know how do I contain myself with all this excitement



Bad Hair daze

 

Just wanted to show you what you can achieve with stencils

I sprayed the background with spray inks

I used  a just a note stencil

the flower stencil

and the girl outline stencil

I used black to outline the flower

and markers to colour the flowers

I used a stamp with text on it for the girl

and my sewing machine to do her hair,

and outline her body

I had a lot of fun with this one 

sailing....

another postcard that I made for Ihannas postcard swap

this one was also a spray painted background.  I

like using them, they make the whole drawing quick and easy

 

lee



Spray painted backgrounds

 

Another postcard which I created for the postcard exchange

at Ihannas

some were sent to Sweden, Switzerland, Puerto Rico,

USA,

 

this postcard has a spray painted background, and watercolour

paints, and whiteout, whiteout is my favourite tool.

Do you have a favourite art tool you use?

Playing it safe never

 

I joined Ihannas postcard exchange   http://www.ihanna.nu/blog/2013/11/beyond-1000-handmade-postcards/#more-11611 and this is one

of the postcards that I made for the exchange

I like it, but some might think why would she send that.

sometimes a girl doesn't like to play it safe

lee

The elf is at work

 

 

today I think its suppose to warm up to zero

maybe a no socks day (lol)

lately I have been making tacos with ground chicken excellent

as you can guess that's what on the menu for tonight

am working on making Christmas ornaments

I used to be a great crafter of Christmas stuff

but not so much lately, but I do try to get one project a season done

 

lee

Just call me angel of the morning

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remember when I said  was involved in a circle Journal

the theme for this journal was a quote:

 

We each had to do 2 spreads in the journal

this is one spread

I will share the other one tomorrow

 

One of the lines of the quote was

What Lies Within Us

 

lee

Strutting her stuff

 

An oldie but goodie, background is tape

Costco run today, some money was spent

circle journal was mailed to the USA

Postcard was mailed to my PenPal in Austin

Leftovers for dinner skinny lasagna rolls

Christmas ornaments are being researched

 

lee

Snow and a journal page

 

well tonight we change the clocks and get an extra hour of sleep

its snowing here today and tomorrow

went to a journal page class today and made this

loved the class great teacher

I changed mine up a bit, but a girl has to put her own spin on things

 

lee