February 2015
sculpture and
red-

on the spruce

bellied woodpecker                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

JOURNAL 52 prompt for the week TELEVISION
I wasn't sure what to do, so started with the lettering.. 

double page

 The shape has some tiny pictures from PEM  cut into a zig-zag and some weird thoughts..

left side 

the letters took on a life of their own....

right side

the week 3 prompt from JOURNAL52 is "Silhouette"so I decided to just use the word, since it's kind of interesting.....
I colored the page with some brown and red Pan Pastels, cut the stencil from a scrap of photo paper, and used black Pan Pastel to stencil with; I cleaned it up a bit with some colored pencil, eraser, and dabbing in pastel a bit where needed. This is the auto color variation, since the original is much paler...
It needs some sort of framing - will probably be my writing.

conversation starters -  new art supplies -JOURNAL 52 prompt

this is the left page
and the right
these are Stewart Gill paints from www.joggles.com

double page spread

     hot cappuccino
white, soft unheard snowflakes
     be a winter's day    1/11/15



This spread was from JOURNAL52 prompt for the week ..."just Be"  My walk downtown with Deezel, in the light snow, and to Crackskulls' for a cappuccino inspired the Haiku.

I mispelled cappuccino....
The  transparency on the left is from a printout of the work I did at the Currier last Saturday.

more pages done in art journal 2015

These two are about the numbers for the dates 1/4/15 & 1/5/15

two page spread

page 4

page 3

 I used the negative tags, scraps from another project, over some drawing and doodling...  I like their gateway/doorway implication.
The text says "Lets us see details."and is from some text from first graders about how art helps us grow. I decided to incorporate some in my own work.

Saturday, Jan 10
Went  with Anne to the Currier for their Saturday workshop..the theme was Picsso's Seated Woman
Here's my version with oil pastels

could be interpreted in stitchery.....