Keep your head in the clouds

Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground. I’ve not drawn or painted faces for a long time (it shows!), but lately I’ve been obsessed with poses. Especially the children’s poses. I have been jotting them down in my journal as I see them, in the hope of developing them later […]

postcard swap, part 2.

Back in early February, I took part in a postcard swap arranged by Artists in Blogland. I showed my three postcards here, and today I will show the ones I received. So far I have only gotten two of the three cards, but I don’t want to hold off any longer. This beautiful card was […]

Art for Aoife: dance and be happy!

When we did up Aoife’s room last year, she asked for it to be pink and purple, have plenty of space for her to draw, and have a ballet/ dance theme. I’m not that keen on heavily themed rooms, but I wanted her to feel the space was really hers, so I added a few […]

postcard swap, part one

In February I took part in a postcard swap arranged by Artists in Blogland. I’m still waiting for the third and final postcard to arrive, so I don’t want to post the ones I received yet, but I can show the ones I sent out 🙂 The only rules were that they had to be […]

Art for Aoife: dance like nobody’s watching

Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth. ~ Mark Twain Yay! The first canvas for Aoife’s room is done! I have to admit I was a bit nervous about it. I mean, come on, the girl wanted pink and purple for Pete’s […]

Geisha {mixed media}

Look! It’s finished! This is what I have been working on for the last couple of weeks. A geisha! Who knew I had it in me? Not me, that’s for sure! You see, the piece started off as a Valentine’s project! A Valentine’s project I’d thought about for months at that… planned in some detail, gathered stuff […]

Surface Treatment Workshop {a review}

“Surface Treatment Workshop: Explore 45 Mixed-Media Techniques” by Darlene Olivia McElroy and Sandra Duran-Wilson Surface Treatment Workshop is a wonderful introduction to mixed media techniques. The authors show the readers how to create 45 different textures for mixed media. In addition, they show variations of the same techniques (in less detail), plus examples of their own art […]

Kate Crane’s art journaling dvds {a review}

When I first started art journaling and was pretty down about not getting the whole layering thing, I did a Flickr search for art journals and a whole new world opened up to me. One of the first journal pages I came across that really spoke to me was “I want to get off” by […]

Mixed media: A Joyful Heart

  I bought some canvases on sale the other weekend. I had never worked on canvas before and was slightly intimidated by it, so chose one of the smaller pieces (5 x 7″/ 12.7 x 17.7cm) to experiment on. I had lots of fun though and this is the result- A Joyful Heart. It looks a […]

Mixed media: Wash Day

  I loved the background I made for the mixed media landscape a while ago, and quickly made some more while the paint combinations were still fresh in my mind. I just love blue and green together. The background is acrylics on on brown paper, with added gold flower stickers, crochet thread, scraps of background […]