Art Project--Altered letter blocks

These are a couple of antique letter blocks that I found with my initials on them, and I wanted to alter them a little with paint and paper.

some pretty things I found on Etsy

Etsy- french garden tea set

Etsy- tiffany paper rose bouquet

Etsy- original watercolor painting

Art Journaling and Mantra Cards

A couple of recent art journal pages, one a to do list for an art fair and the other one is my imaginations dream home- a little pink house with a garden and picket fence.

  

These are four mantra cards that I made while reading the book Living Your Yoga. Then I can take the cards with me as reminders.

SPRING FLOWERS !

                            The tulips and pansies are finally blooming, here are some of the pictures.

Decorative Painted Accessories

A couple of little trinket boxes one with a coneflower and one with a yellow bird

 two terra cotta pots with painted roses

                                                                  a cottage birdhouse

                                    and two art necklaces with painted roses and beads attached

More Mixed Media Paintings

My Art Desk

This is where I paint and draw and below is some of the art I've been working on.

This is an ink sketch that I did of a painted wood box that I added to my art journal with masking tape.

Some of my inspiration:

• Somerset Studio art magazines
• Victoria magazine
• english gardens and cottages
• Book-The Secret Garden
• walking in the woods
• and all kinds of flowers especially Roses and Pansies

Weekend Art Journaling & Caramel Apples

These are a few of my journal pages from this weekend and while journaling I had a delicious caramel apple from Kilwins in Birkdale Village. So good.

kilwins.com

More art journaling pages

On this page I attached a sheet of decorative paper and then a tea label from YOGI tea that says-"whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing".  Then I surrounded it with roses cut out from the cover of the Pier 1 catalog.

This page is "courage to create" an exercise from Julia Cameron's book- Finding Water.

My art journals

This is a little bookcase that my dad built for me years ago and I use it to display my art journals.

These are two of the different art journals I'm working in right now. One is a large 8x11 Hardback and the other is an altered book that I'm turning into a journal.

Some of my favorite art journalers:

• pam garrison
• teesha moore
• samantha kira harding
• mary ann moss
• dawn devries sokol
• anahata katkin

I love pansies

I found these pictures of some pansies that I took in november.I love pansies, can't wait to plant more this spring.

Mixed Media paintings I'm working on

This is my first post on something very new to me -blogging- I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. I do a variety of painting, mixed media, and art journaling. These are mixed media paintings on 8"x 5" pieces of wood and I use acrylic paint, oil pastels, colored pencil and paper.
My favorite subject to paint is usually always flowers,birds, and butterflies.