My two favorite days of the week are Monday and Tuesdays. I get to spend these days with Sophia, who is 16 mos. old today! Can you believe it? I took this picture, of her, a couple of weeks ago while she was trying on hats! She piles all of them up on top of her head and walks around proudly. Yes; she is walking now! Yesterday I took her out to lunch and shared a grilled-cheese sandwich with apple sauce! What a delight!
I am formally "Gamma" now and love the smiles and hugs I get, from her each and every time! It is a very special bond we are building together. I wouldn't have missed this for the world! Sophia is my light!
This second picture is of a journal that I created out of a couple of manila file folders. I recently went through a technique folder I have and re-discovered this cool way of creating a journal with it's unique size. There is also a video technique of this that Donna Downey offers on her website. I saw the video and it reminded me that I had this technique tucked away in my "archives". :)
I will be posting pictures of the spreads, I created, in this journal from time-to-time.
Hope you all are having a good week. Our temps are slowly climbing and this weekend sounds like we'll be in the 60's!!!!! I've noticed, on your Blogs, while visiting, a lot of you have lovely signs of Spring. We hope to see these signs, here, very soon.
All stay well and wishing you a safe and happy weekend ahead!
Love much - Marilyn xxoo
Here are two pictures which are actually the spread in my "She Art" journal that I worked on earlier this week. I titled this post "Me/She" art because I decided to use a couple of my own facial portraits for these gals. I copied the images and reduced accordingly for the pages. It was fun!
I love incorporating quotes with these gals, too. The hat and boots on my one gal are actually burlap; another fun embellishment!
I can see white outside my window! We were under a winter storm warning last evening into today and it was originally predicted that we could get 6-12 inches of snow! However, it appears we are only getting a couple of inches then it will turn to rain. Whew!
Hope everyone is safe and I wish you all a happy weekend!
Love much - Marilyn xxoo
Hello My Friends! It's good to be back posting, here, again! I've missed you!
I've caught up, a bit, with some things here, more to come, but I did manage to work on catching up with my "She Art" fun!
I decided to create a handmade journal out of one sheet of 22x30 Fabriano watercolor paper. I sized it down to approx. an 8x8 size with a sewn-in binding. I love working on "She Art", but was finding the canvas work was getting a bit cumbersome, here, so I am dedicating this journal strictly to my "She Art". This way, I have a nice, compact collection of what I am creating.
I've also tried to keep updated with your Blogs and am always so inspired by what you all are creating!
Hope all is well with you and yours.
I think we've had Spring, here, a couple of weeks ago for one day! We've been cold and windy; ole man winter is not ready to give it up yet! There is hope with the end of this week; temps are supposed to get to 50!
Love and peace to all! -Marilyn xxoo
Kerri and I held our "Let's Get Plastered" workshop over this past weekend. We had a blast with all eleven of our students. It was so much fun getting "plastered" together :) Kerri shared her magical technique using spackle and sketching into it with fun and interesting household items. She also shared her painting technique for treating the spackle once dry - so much fun! Her sample is, here, with the martini glass and I love it! She calls the piece "The Ultimate Abyss" - brilliant!I am also sharing my piece, here, from the workshop and I intend to do more with this technique - I love it! It was fun experimenting with transfers on the dry spackle (butterfly and bee) and it was successful with gel medium. I also shared a technique with students, creating a sampler on canvas board, embedding a variety of cool household things into the spackle. Each person had their own piece of canvas board to create their own sampler. I'm going to ask each student to send me pictures of their work so I can share on my Blog. They all created beautiful pieces! That is the thing I just love about teaching - well two favorite things; maybe three :). One is teaching with Kerri! She is amazing and not only offers and shares her artistic talents but a keen sense of humor to keep us smiling and relaxed! Love her!
The other thing I love about teaching is spending time with students and I even hesitate using the word students - these are our friends! I love sharing with them, not only techniques, but all the stuff that we bring with us to the workshops. The icing on the cake is seeing what everyone creates - in their own style and manner; it's just such a reward! That's three right? :)
Our next workshop is called "Bodacious Bottoms" which is going to be held on Sunday, May 15th. It will consist of Kerri and I sharing four background techniques that will bode well with journaling, mixed-media, altered art, etc. More details will follow.
Hope everyone is having a good week. Our temperatures are climbing, now, we are losing the snow with each passing day and yesterday, here, was the first day that I felt a little tad feel of Spring in the air!
Love much! -Marilyn xxoo
I'd like to begin this post with prayers for all who are effected by the earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan. I was heart sick hearing that on the news first thing this morning.
I continued with my "She Art", this week, and this photo is my most recent work. I created this on an 8x10 canvas. Christy shared a marvelous and brilliant layering technique, with us, for the dresses.
Can you tell I'm hooked on this? It's so hard to stop once I get going; I want to keep adding stuff - even the smallest of detail makes a difference with these. I'm in love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a safe and happy weekend ahead everyone!
Love and peace to all! -Marilyn xxoo
My two favorite days of the week are Monday and Tuesdays. I get to spend these days with Sophia, who is 16 mos. old today! Can you believe it? I took this picture, of her, a couple of weeks ago while she was trying on hats! She piles all of them up on top of her head and walks around proudly. Yes; she is walking now! Yesterday I took her out to lunch and shared a grilled-cheese sandwich with apple sauce! What a delight!
