The lyrics are from Van Morrison. Body and mind, Heart and Soul, Meet me on the river of time.

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I have finished my art journal.  I have covered it with painted brown paper and some beautiful double sided ribbon that Annette from Too Many Ideas very kindly gave me.  The pages are all made using the process described here:  http://loriidae.livejournal.com/104746.html

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The prompt for Weekly Art Date Week 2 was “What have you lost?”

The lyrics are from Dido - See the Sun

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I am near the end of my current journal and was paging through to see if there were any blank pages, when I re-discovered this page.  It was one of those, which was ok, but not really going anywhere, no zing, it needed something more.


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Julie Fei-Fan Balzer of Balzer Designs and Nathalie Kalbach sent out the third challenge just a few days ago, “Truth”

Now usually a prompt of this nature is more mysterious and meaningful here is the last one I did a couple of years ago for Secret

I wanted something a bit more light hearted but no less truthful this time.

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The second challenge sent out by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer of Balzer Designs at the beginning of this month (that’s how far behind I am) was “to use something new”

Last year I bought some Schminke masking fluid.  It is in a bottle with a fine applicator tip.

The first layer I wrote with the applicator tip onto the collaged page.


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Initially, I was fairly happy with this page.  I was disappointed that the atlas page transfer had turned out so faint, but I posted the page to my blog straight away which is something I don’t usually do.  I normally let a page sit for a while, but I was so excited to be creating art after a very busy month of working and I wanted to share it ( Read more... )

April 16

Art is

I have been feeling while I have been concentrating all my efforts on my next lessons that little part of me that just wants to sneak into my studio,  open my journal to an empty page and paint and sketch to my heart’s delight.  (I am an all or nothing person, there is no such thing as just ten minutes a day.  I put all my energy into ( Read more... )

Musical Prompt #2 for Weekly Art Date was Cameo Lover by Kimbra.  This line is from the lyrics.

Sometimes the hardest part of breaking
Is leaving pieces behind you

The photo is of the Australian Bush on my fathers farm, with the “find edges” filter in photoshop applied to it.  I use this filter a lot as it helps me to see where the dominant lines are ( Read more... )

I have almost finished this journal, I have been using it for a year now, and every time I have scanned a page, I have put it in a folder called Square Journal, because it is square.  I have finally decided on a name and finished the title page.  The background is kids textas drawn on and then diluted with water, over pieces of masking tape.

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