Studio work for July 2021 week one

 Had a lovely time printing out graphite drawings on my gel plate.

Journal Pages

Just a few Pages I am working on,,,,

Art Journal Part 2

I have my art journal already to take on our next camping adventure. We are going to be camping at Jamaica Beach RV resort in Galveston  for a few days.

I made up the signature for the book from drawing and mixed media paper combined with gelli printed and tea died card stock and sewed it in the cover with a simple pamphlet stitch. Then I glued in a few illustrations from the original book, I left a lot of space blank for doodling and adding art later.

I covered the book with gelli print paper and added the little man from the book and an elastic closure with a lampwork bead.

I am so looking forward to using the book on our trip.

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Dollar Thrift Store Journaling Treasures

 I keep seeing people on YouTube making incredible DIY projects with things they found in the Dollar or Thrift stores. I thought well they must have better dollar and thrift stores than I have in my little Texas town.

So I decided to buck up and give myself a challenge to make a travel journal out of found objects and Dollar and thrift store finds. I went today and was amazed that I found a few items that I could use to get started. I am thinking of doing a video and uploading it to YouTube to record the process. So here are the items I found today.

A rubber matt to use as a stencil, 3 stencils, butterfly and leaf embellishments, drawing paper, photo paper and two large rubber erasers to carve into stamps. I plan on going to the Goodwill and Thrift store tomorrow to see what else I can find. This is going to be fun.....

 

Crafting Toward a better reality during a pandemic

I think many people are having trouble coping with this Covid 19 disaster. I think the artists and crafters who are used to going inside themselves for inspiration and have learned to dig deep and unfortunately spend a great deal of time alone mulling things over do not get off any easier than the rest of the lot. If anything they may have it worse.

I have been neglecting my creative side during this time but the fall approaching I will not allow it to continue, The studio is pleasant and inviting when it is not 100 degree out there and I find I need to get going again.

I am going to download a few photos of the work I have done in thenlast few years to show I have mqde some progress if not much.