I owe my art gift to Jazz

New work "Spirited"
Charcoal on canvas 18 x 24 inches

This is Jazz and I 

Jazz was born in 1986

He was my best buddy

My horse Jazz is why I do art. When I lost him, I was obsessed with finding all the photos I had of him, which was not nearly enough. I signed up for art lessons to learn to draw horses. My idea was to draw him doing all the things I never got a photo of. I wanted to write and illustrate the story of Jazz. Not sure now if I will ever do that but he died in 1997 and I am still doing art and doing it more passionately than ever. I owe this gift to him. 

He was so handsome!

I have been steadily focuses more and more on drawing and painting and I have a plan for a new series. I am also planning on having an art show at my residence in late summer. Stay tuned for future updates. :)

Art Journal Play

Bicycle, Bicycle!

Handmade art journals

I love handmade art journals! I am not as keen about making them as I am working in them. I do it because I love the results. The ultimate custom work for your own needs is pretty hard to beat.

This first one was inspired by a pad of beautiful Italian paper I bought in a pad. It is a lovely ivory colour and has a deckled edge. I simply folded it in half and used the full size of the sheet.

I painted the outside sheet of each signature with my Gelli plate in fresh spring colours and used the Coptic stitch to bind it. The covers are birch panels from the art store and it was also painted with the Gelli plate.

This journal is made to explore using Yupo. Yupo is a synthetic paper made from resin. The cover is actually Terraskin which is a similar paper made from limestone and resin only thicker.  This cover was also painted using my trusty Gelli plate. The strap is just a left over scrap of the Terraskin. I used the long stitch binding method for this journal.

Photo Phun or Abstract Photograpy

I am using my iPad Air for taking these close up shots. 

It is fun to use it in positions you could't fit a traditional camera.

Can you guess what these are?

Close of leather and copper journal

Lichen on wood

Porcelain statue

Sea shell

Inside of cracked coffee cup

Reflection of deck roof on glass table

Close up of painted canvas and wood frame

Gizelle's (my horse) foot

Clematis seed pod and horse shoe

Dried flower stems

Detail of Gelli print

Japanese paint brush bristles

Julep and Trolls

This is Julep

Signed up for Carla Sonheim's Art Camp

I made Julep under the guidance counsellor of

Lynn Whipple

It was a blast and will definitely be doing more like this!

details

Then under the guidance counsellor of Karine Swenson

we did studies in values with a fun subject

I picked an childhood favourite

The Troll :)

Love of Faces and Art Journaling

My New Bike!

The Trek Silque

Her name is Julep

and she is my favourite colour!

Carla and Steve Sonheim's Art Camp

I am very excited to be taking another set of art classes through the creative team of Carla and Steve Sonheim. This is what my calendar will look like. 

Inspired by Black and White

Asian Steed

my painting altered in Super Photo on my iPad

Gitano

My painting also altered in Super photo

Fresh Eggs

Tunneling in my journal

Here is a fun little video I did of my simple tunnel in my journal. I think it would be cool to make a more elaborate one. We'll see . . .

In the mean time. click here to see it.

Here is a photo of another tunnel, although it is only one cut page so I don't know if its technically a tunnel.

For this tunnel I did the art on the page first and then decided to cut it out and mount the face on the page below giving a tunnel like effect.

New art, I have been busy :)

I have been busy in the art studio this winter. I have enrolled in numerous online art courses and having a blast! It is going to take quite some time to go through all the lessons.  Much of what I have posted is just me play some is from my lessons.

Enjoy! 

Using my ipad to make digital collages from my own art

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Buddhette

Gelli print background with Pan pastels

Mooooooooo

Fishy

Collage on Gelli print

Jazz - my horse

Using my ipad to make digital collages from my own art

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Guy

ink and watercolour

Gizelle

Used iPad to make digital collages from my own photos

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Determined

painting expressions

After I did this I realized that its Mom!

The Devine

graphite and pastel on grey paper

For Kellie

We swap journals and this is in hers.

Wildfire

Gouache on gelli print background

Oz the ostrich

conte crayon on gelli print

Used iPad to make digital collages from my own photos

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Murphy

Gelli print with collaged bird?

Used iPad to make digital collages from my own photos

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Zen doodles on Gelli print

Used iPad to make digital collages from my own photos

for all the collages in this post I used "Pen and Ink"

Vinnie thinks he is a person!

Pan pastel