Psalm 147:4 Sunday Doodle
Today’s doodle was colored with watercolor, gel pen, and colored pencil. Coloring pages are for more than crayons and markers! And they are definitely not exclusively for children! Print and enjoy!
Leaves in the Sketchbook
Leaves are so versatile, I add them often to artwork and art journal pages. I carve them into stamps, doodle them, paint them, and stencil them. No surprise a leaf sampler showed up in my sketchbook! I love leaves, but I seldom know … Continued
Castles in the Air
I find these words very inspiring. Go ahead and dream your dreams, but then go do what you need to do to make them happen! As Henry David Thoreau says…. “If you have built castles in the air, your work … Continued
Stencil and Mask Making
It’s Technique Tuesday, and today I want to revisit a quick and easy way to make your own stencils and masks using magazine images. You could do this with animals and objects as well, but my favorite is the human … Continued
“The Unfed Mind Devours Itself”
Just a little quote from Gore Vidal via my sketchbook (and Instagram) this morning. “The unfed mind devours itself” Hmmm… makes me think about not only IF I am feeding my mind, but WHAT I am feeding my mind. Makes such … Continued
J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” J.R.R. Tolkien Did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien was a visual artist as well as a gifted writer? I just recently stumbled on this book full of his artwork and … Continued
Ambigram Fun
A few years ago I developed a fascination with ambigrams, words that can be read either direction. I love the meaning that they can imply just through their direction. I browsed a lot of really outstanding works online (tattoo artists … Continued
Sunday Doodles – Exodus 3:8
Today I enjoyed a little peaceful time in my studio, ignoring deadlines for a bit, playing with my watercolors on the design I had drawn as a coloring page for today’s church service. There is something calm and meditative about … Continued
Ink Wash technique for the Art Journal
I do lots of note taking, or what I call “journal dumping”. It is helpful for me to write at the time, but is not necessarily something I need to keep, or refer back to. Yet, there is something so … Continued
“Hanging with the Crows”
I have been trying to find that perfect balance in my artwork between planning and creating intuitively as I go. Collage work tends to lean more toward planning, but in this new piece “Hanging with the Crows”, I felt much … Continued