A picture from an olive oil shop, some texture paste, inks, scrap paper and gesso...a new journal page was born!  I love trying different things in my art journals!

A little texture on an art journal layout.  I love texture on a page or canvas.  Add some paper or gesso for a little or spread texture paste through a stencil.  This was dont by adding microbeads into tecture paste through a circle stencil.  I also added some picment in the mix for some color then used lindy stamp gang spray over it.  I love the way it came out.  Don't you?

A little project I did around a small compact mirror I had for ages.  The picture on the back was of my mother as a child.  I loved this little mirror but didn't know how to display it so it sat in a drawer...unseen and unappreciated.  Now it's on display in my living room...seen every day!

This would be the first of my music series.

ok , so I'm not a good blogger  lol.   Music is a great love of mine.  You can feel any emotion by listening to a song.   Sometimes it's the lyrics or a line.  Sometimes it's the music itself or a certain riff.  And sometimes it's the cadence of a song that gets me.  (even tho when i look at the lyrics i may not like them but the way they are sung)   I've been continuing the lifebook classes with willowing and trying to find my own style.  I think that I may have found it.  I love drawing faces with bodies that don't have a lot of detail.  I wanted to incorporate my love of music somewhere in there. 

I am letting a line or part of a line of a song inspire me.  In the backround of the painting are the lyrics .  You may not see any of then when i'm done. or maybe a bit will show through.  For me this incorporation of the two things i love will truly be blissfull art

http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration

This is what has inspired me.   So may great artists and so many techniques!  

First Timer

I decided to start a blog, even though I'm not really an "online sharer".  I have a facebook page, but I'm more of a lurker than a poster.  I don't see the need to post my every life detail for all to see.  But my art?   That I love for everyone to see!  So here i am hoping to get my name out there, get motivated to make more art and one day quit my "day job" and follow my bliss!