Pursuing Mixed Media Portraits in Your Art Journal

Faux Acrylic Resist Tutorial: Quick and Easy Technique for Fabulous Backgrounds!

Use this simple technique to create fabulous backgrounds for your Art Journal, Altered Book Spread or even Paintings.  I haven't tried it yet, but I love the look and know I will be using this idea very soon!

Visual Journalism 101 Techniques with Pam Carriker

What an awesome video! I love Pam Carriker's soft colors and style. She makes beautiful art journal pages and shares her techniques in this tutorial. This is one of the best tutorials I've come across so far! Hope you like it, and happy journaling!

Giant Leap For Me!

Today I took a huge step towards reaching one of my many art goals. I entered two paintings into a juried art show!!! First time ever! I'm thinking they probably won't be selected, but the main thing is, I've taken the plunge! I'll keep trying, no matter what happens! This isn't my best work, but most of my work is in altered books and journals. I'm trying to put more on actual canvas now. Well...Here they are

Art, Heart & Healing - A FREE online Art Course for Everyone! - Info

I've admired this artist since I began my journey into art last January. She's now offering this course for free, so come join me and sign up! I'm so excited about it! I've watched week one (most of the videos) and I think I'll be able to come up with something by this weekend. I'll post here and also on Willowing's site as well. I hope you can join me in this adventure so generously offered by a wonderful artist!

Oh yeah, you can also download the video's and pdf's so you can work at your own pace and refer back to the videos anytime you want!

She Speaks my Language: Great Video!

This is the best video I've come across in a long time. It will speak to every creative person who takes the time to view it! If you love ARt PLEASE watch this! It's SOOOOO inspiring!

Art Journaling an easy way to play with art everyday...

My family and I just returned from a 10 day annual vacation hunting deer in Eastern Washington.  We are basically camping for that entire time and living out of a tent.  No electricity, no running water, no showers!  I wasn't sure I could  haul art supplies along and get anything accomplished...But I wasn't going to go that long without being able to play with my art supplies!  So I packed up one shopping bag with everything under the sun, colored pencils, a few paints, some scrapbooking paper, modge podge, paint brushes, markers, stamps and ink pads and a few art journals I work in.  Here are pictures of various pages that I worked on in various stages of completion.