Tuesday 30 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having Fun

My theme on Art journal Journey is Having fun, here is my last entry showing Eleanor having fun on a beach . She's a real beach baby and wasn't bothered that she was still fully clothed, and getting a bit wet, it was still quite cold when the top two were taken. Don't kids feel the cold!!


Monday 29 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Another page for Art Journal Journey where I am hosting with theme of Having fun. This one is completely out of season, but the kids love their Halloween parties.


Sunday 28 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Another page of my daughter's dogs seeing snow for the first time this year for my theme of having fun on Art Journal Journey. 
Shadow and Blake having fun in the snow this time. Blake was a rescue dog and hadn't seen snow before, it was good to eat as well.


Friday 26 April 2019

Tag Tuesday - Faces

My second tag for Michele's theme of Faces on Tag Tuesday.  Another face from my online art courses, this time I did manage to give her turquoise hair. I find it very difficult to give faces bright coloured skin and hair, bit am gradually getting there. I added some ribbon and flowers to the inked background.


Thursday 25 April 2019

Art Journal journey - Having fun

Another page for my theme on Art Journal Journey, this time it's the two boys testing out their surf boards in a shallow pool in Sand bay near Applecross in the Highlands of Scotland.
I inked the background an then ripped up strips of paper to add on top I then added the photos of the boys having fun.





Thursday journal with Neet

Look both ways before crossing a woman are the words for this week. I decide that it only needed one page for this one, so used some Dylusion paints and  stencilled with the same colours. I stencilled a border in black and coloured the figures with watercolour pens. Once again I mixed up the stamped images to make one figure.
The main body and face is a stamp I rarely use, but thought she looked evil enough for anybody to not want to cross.

Wednesday 24 April 2019

Tag Tuesday - Faces

For the next fortnight, Michele has chosen the theme of faces on Tag Tuesday. For mine I am using faces that I have painted on one of my online art courses. I scanned them and reduced them in size. I   inked the background, and added the picture, some ribbon and flowers.


Tuesday 23 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Sorry, another family journal page for Art Journal Journey, this time the children and my son in law having fun in the sea at Applecross on the West coast of Scotland.  It was taking it in turn with dad on the kayak time. This time it was Eleanor, the boys having had their turn. The picture on the left is of the men trying to get the de-flated kayak back into the bag.


Sunday 21 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Another page for my theme of having fun on Art Journal Journey.
Harry doing his rescue of the pole in the swimming pool. All the children just love swimming and here is Harry having fun. Nanni here does NOT swim, I just get to sew the swimming badges on their towels.


Friday 19 April 2019

Art Journal Journey Having fun

A family one again for my theme on Art Journal Journey of Having fun. This time the children and my son in law all all taking a dip in the sea in Applecross Bay. It is on the West coast of the Highlands of Scotland opposite the Isle off Skye, and just a walk away from where we stay. Too cold for me to even paddle in.
I used some scrim and texture paste at the bottom, for the seafood and distress inks for the sea.



Thursday 18 April 2019

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week the quote is "I'm pretty sure you don't know what you are talking about, but please continue" I sprayed the page with Dylusion inks and used  a few stencils, using the same colours as the background. I coloured the figures with watercolour pens. and added a few border stamps around the edges.
 I have scheduled this post as I am off to the hospital in the morning for a scan.



Tuesday 16 April 2019

Tag Tuesday - Anything industrial

Sandie's theme on Tag Tuesday is Anything industrial, and for the background of my second tag I have used a piece of kitchen paper that I had used when I sprayed some washers etc for another project. On top of this I added some stamped images, wooden cogs a washer, a spring and a rusty screw.


Art Journal Journey. - Having Fun

 A page on Art Journal Journey for my theme of having fun.
Eleanor just loves going out for grown up afternoon tea. Here she is in a cafe in Worcester with her mum. Eleanor insisted on pouring the tea'
Peter and I took her out for lunch ages ago and the waitress asked her what she wanted for lunch: Sausage, chips and beans, Chicken nougats, beans and chips. or Fish fingers and chips. "yes please" she said to all of them. I manage to persuade her to just have one.



Monday 15 April 2019

Art Journal Journey. Having fun

Another family page for my theme on Art Journal Journey of having fun. This time the children are at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye. They are sitting on a cannon in the battlements. They had a wonderful time there, as there was also a dinosaur display as well.


Sunday 14 April 2019

Tag Tuesday _ Anything Industrial

On Tag Tuesday Sandie is hosting with the theme of Anything Industrial.
 My tag was distress inked, and I embossed some foil at the bottom with an industrial type folder. I rubbed some black paint on to make it look like it had been used. I added a few stamped images and some cogs




Saturday 13 April 2019

Art Journal Journey. - Having fun

A silly fun page this time for my theme of having fun on Art Journal Journey. The background is distress inked and stencils used afterwards. I stamped and coloured the little creatures and then stamped sometime branches for them to sit on. So, meet my tree dwellers who are having a fun get together in their favourite tree.
I certainly had fun making this.



I am also entering this in Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Use a stenciller two

Thursday 11 April 2019

Thursday Journal with Neet

We are now on a new set of sayings and this week it's "As long as everything is the way I want, I'm totally flexible" The background is distress inked and some Dylusion stencils used in the background. I stamped my favourite leaves and coloured the two Dylusion figures with watercolour pens. I think this lady has just the right stance for the saying, as does the bulldog.
I am having a few arty days as the weather is so awful, the garden can wait until it improves. I am still doing my two online art courses, as I have usually given up by now. I'm still behind on one of them, and my sewing machine is sulking with lack of use.


I am also entering this in Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Use a stencil or two.
I am also entering this in having fun on Art Journal Journey as I did have fun making it.

Wednesday 10 April 2019

Snow dyeing

We had three inches of snow last Thursday so I rushed around. quickly soda ashed some fabric and put some snow over the fabric with the powder Procyon dyes on top, rushed in out of the rain which was doing it's best to get rid of the snow. I left the trays of snow under the balcony and left the until the next morning when the snow had melted and the dye had worked it's magic.






Tuesday 9 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having Fun

Another page for Art Journal Journey where I am hosting with the theme of Having fun. This is a very young Eleanor definitely having fun doing some outdoor painting. My mother would never have let me get this messy. She is now five and is a very good little artist, although sometimes you have to guess what it is she has drawn. We are quickly put right and the picture takes on a different meaning.



Monday 8 April 2019

Tag Tuesday - Birds, nets and eggs

Another two bird shaped tags for Valerie's theme of Birds, nests and eggs on Tag Tuesday



Sunday 7 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Another page for my theme Having Fun on Art Journal Journey.
This time we are in Wales very close to where I used to live in Abbeycwmhir. We use to go to the Royal Welsh Show  in Builth Wells with the three grandchildren. On these pages you see them sitting on various lawn mowers. You can see by their faces they are having fun. The boys wishing that Dad had one like these.


Saturday 6 April 2019

Tag Tuesday -Birds/nests

Another two bird tags for Valerie's  theme of birds, nests and eggs on Tag Tuesday. The background on both tags are mop up papers. I have stamped some of the images and used some images from books. I have also added some feathers.



Friday 5 April 2019

Art Journal Journey - Having fun

Another page for my theme on Art Journal Journey, which is Having Fun.
This time the children are on an adventure the Trossachs in the Highland of Scotland. The sensible adults walked on the dry path.
I collaged the background with thick tissue paper and doodled a bit.


Thursday 4 April 2019

Thursday Journal with Neet

The last of our present themes so we now have to think of some new ones.  I sprayed the background with Dylusion inks and then applied inks through stencils. I stamped the leaves and a few faint shapes in the background. I then coloured and added the figures.
Today we are mainly covered in snow and it's still coming down in large flakes. So much for doing my hanging baskets, first of all find the plants under the snow, that I brought home yesterday. I don't think so, an arty day I think.
I am also entering this on Try it on Tuesday where the theme is Use a stencil or two.


Monday 1 April 2019

Tag Tuesday - Birds, nests and eggs

Some different type of tags for Tag Tuesday this time, where Valerie’s theme is birds, nests and eggs. They are a mixture of collage, stamping.




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