Saturday, December 1, 2012

Ornaments 2012



A gift from a friend. It's awesome because it's from the best coffee/tea shop (that's corporate, anyway). And a place that I spend a good amount of time at, enjoying the company of my friends. 

Mad Hatter Ornament. Added a few embellishments but was made by following a tutorial that is no longer found on the web. :( Sorry.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Adventures In San Fransico and Berkely


Spending the day in San Fransisco and going to Roadworks was a fun adventure. Bought some prints, collected some free stuff and just enjoyed a beautiful day out.





And then in Berkley I picked this up at a bookstore. It has been great for a jump start for my creative projects.


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Sketch Fest # 29

October, 2012
This is Sketch Fest;

Prompt: Draw something using markers
 "Sketch Fest is a 48 hour creative jam session with artists across the world, brought to you by Ellen Million Graphics. Our audience and fellow artists give us prompts that can be single words, questions, phrases, lyrics, links, collections, creatures, characters or concepts, and we sketch whatever catches our fancy. The only rule? Sketches can only be worked on for one hour. "

While 48 hours is a good amount of time for sketching and an hour works well for starting a concept work but ever have that feeling that some of the prompts are just too good to leave alone? So when that 48 hours is up, wouldn't it be nice to keep working on some of the prompts? Below are the prompts that I suggested for Sketch Fest # 29;

~Pagan Lolita During Summer's End~
~Nude Descending A Staircase~
~People Live Without Their Hearts~
~The Pumpkin King~
~Remember, Remember The Fifth of November~

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Organization Skillz

Got a new Pinterest Board. So I figured what better way then to start this board then by adding an organization idea that I had all by myself!


So I was cleaning up around the room when my foot kicked an empty Tic Tac container. I picked it up and went to go throw it away when I got this awesome idea!!! (Yeah I know, scary I was going to throw something away) Yup now gonna collect Tic Tac containers to store my beads!!!!!!

And here is the new board: Organization Skillz

Monday, June 25, 2012

Tape, Human Border and Hooper

 Exercise.
Inspirational / technique cards are from Wide Open by Randi Feuderhelm-Watts and are the bases for the a few of the ideas of this journal page.

No I am not apologizing for the quality of these pictures, use what you got and don't be sorry for it!


To start out, lets get rid of our blank canvas. A lot of creative journalist will tell you that one of the easiest ways to add color to a page is a spray. You can buy them at the store or make them yourself. I used my homemade black spray, which is acrylic black paint mixed with water. After it dried, I added some contrast with diluted white acrylic paint dabbed onto the page and then the good ol' straw blowing technique.


So our first card for technique "Tape". Although the cards focus is more on using text with your tape the idea of putting some black electrical tape on my page sounded like a fabulous idea. So I used it to create a boarder as well as add some weight to the left side of the spread.


"The Human Border" card, is the idea of using an image, be it from a magazine or catalog (junk mail or putting Victoria Secret to good use) of a person with clearly defined limbs (that's what's going to make this fun and give your creation form.) Now that you have your image cut out in the form of an outline it's time to place them on the canvas.

After I had my cut out of a sassy model from a magazine I put a little piece of weak tape on the back so that she wouldn't move in the next step and when I took her off the piece she wouldn't take paint and paper with her.


Now the fun part, dabbing acrylic paint with a sponge all around your new stencil. There is always something so fun about defacing things that in society are thought to be so beautiful.. anyways. After you paint dries remove your cutout.

Using masking / painters tape also sounds like a wonderful idea, I've been meaning to play with the idea of creating my own colorful tape to add to pieces, so using a red acrylic paint on blue masking tape I create my own colorful tape to add.


Now onto the "Hooper" card. A pretty depressing card with a sad story. For whatever reason the author of these cards has a thing for crazy people. But story of the card is about a woman named Annie Hooper, while the idea of the card is to use repetition in a piece.

It has this exercise,
"Stand over your journal and drop several identical images, gluing them where they land."
This can be an even more entertaining experience if you are in the currant of an air conditioner. (That was being sarcastic.)

The repetition images came from some business cards I ordered years ago and so they have a lot of out dated information. Glad I was able to find a new use for them.


I may add more to this page if the mood so strikes me but for now we'll call this complete. As some famous artist once said, "Nothing is ever finished, only given up on"... well something along those lines. Until next time.

Laters.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Boyfriends Mom

peaking out from the couch.




Quick little pen drawing. I thought it was cute when I walked by an saw two big dark eyes and a whole bunch of curls staring at me.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

New Cut & Slot Mini Journal Book

Pink & Black Journal

Blue & Black Journal
















































 Journal size's are 2 1/8" x 3 3/8"

Artist Interview With: Galactic Duchess Tea_Roll of Shadowglen

Formally of Atebus.

We're not even going to ask about the title.. moving right along.

What Is A Tea Roll?
The below v And there is a delicious recipe to make one on Tested & Tasted


Well What Does That Have To Do With Art/Craftiness and This Whole Blog In General?
*points at the header and icon* It is also the name the artist of this blog goes by.

So what can we expect from this blog?
Oh a little of this a little of that... Batman's head on a.. oh no. Wait. Um well homemade goodies, like journals, altered books and such. As well as Tea related items. There is no better way to start a project then with a nice cup of tea. Also working on some templets and freebies because everyone loves freebees!

Well sense you are giving yourself this interview is there anything else that you would like to add?
Really? That's all the questions you're going to ask? Wow.


Anyways! That's all the time we have. Thanks for joining us, if you have any other questions for Lady Tea_Roll please feel free to add them to our comment box and maybe we'll add them to here!