My New Love

I discovered a fabulous new group, Bible Journaling Community, on Facebook a month or so and have fallen in love with a different kind of art for me. It is worshipping in God's Word with your art. It has really reignited a passion for His Word in my life. My art is simple and many of my entries are inspired from others in the Journaling Bible Community, but they are all helping me see His Word with fresh eyes!

This has led to me becoming a part of a new Christian community, His Kingdom Come, which will be launched on November 1, 2014 with a blog hop. I will be moderating the Bible Journaling group and I am pretty excited!  I hope that you will all join us!

This paper was from one of Shonna Bucaroff's free online classes 

and I turned it into a cover for my Bible. I just love it.

This was inspired from a poster from a post on Facebook.

This was an exercise from the Beth Moore study, Children of the Day, that I am in at the moment. It was a "repeat after me" about giving up control. I painted a back round on tracing paper (inspired from a pin on Pinterest) and then wrote the "repeat" on top of in and used washi tape to tape it into my Bible. I need this "repeat" so much that I made it my phone's lock screen wallpaper. :)

It even gives me a great way to add the sermon notes that really speak to me to my Bible vs keeping them in a notebook that I won't look at again once it's filled. 

This I did a long time ago...before I'd even heard of Bible journaling. 

This is just the beginning of my new journey.

Mixed Media 30/30

Well, I didn't do very well at keeping at this blog...but tomorrow is a new month, so we will see what happens :)!

Here are my paintings from our group Mixed Media 30/30. I didn't complete all 30 days worth of paintings but am happy with what I've done. My journal has plenty more sketches that are just begging to be painted, so that is one of my goals for the next few days.  We will continue on with this group and I am so glad, as there are such amazing women there. So supportive, encouraging and loving! How I wish that we all lived close by!

I'm Back!

I can't believe that it has been so long since I've been on this blog! But...not looking back with regret, instead looking forward with promise and excitement.

Being involved in Junelle Hallstrom Jacobsen's online classes Junelle's classes have been some of the best things I've ever been involved in. The classes have evolved into a group of some of the most supportive encouraging group of women that I've ever "hung out" with! Some are close to where I live but most of them are across the country and some in other countries!!

This friendship and encouragement has really set me free to go forward in  my own art. I feel real progress and feel that something incredible is just around the corner. I'm so excited to see what that is!!

Here are a couple of projects that I've done last month. I am happy with them :)!

A Donna Downey inspired abstract

                                                   

A page from my Art Journal Junkies group

An up-cycled Starbucks bag done in chalk and pastel

These are just a few. I will be posting more on a regular basis.

San Diego Skyline

one of our assignments in our wild art 2 class was to do a skyline of where we lived, so i choose san diego. i loved the way that junelle hallstrom jacobsen (one of our instructors, www.yesandamen.blogspot.com) did her new york buildings in the mono color, so i knew that i wanted to go with the black and white. my dilemma was that i loved the colors reflecting on the water. so i did half and half! i used crackle paint for the sky, paper pieced the buildings, acrylic-ed the hearts and accents on the buildings and then put watercolor paper for the water and then did wet into wet.

i am pretty happy with the results. i am going to do some on canvas and see if i can get them into some of the shops in san diego :)!

My Wild Hair Girl

Another one of the assignments in my Wild Art 2 class. She was so much fun to make!!

Bless This House

Here is a journal page from Week 2 of Wild Art 2!

A Safe & Brave Home

Here is my finished canvas for one of the projects from week 2 from my online class, Wild Art 2.
I am so loving this class and am going to be so sad when it is over. Guess I will have to go and take Wild Art 1 :)!!

This canvas is a replica of our sweet teacher, Junelle.

http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/christytomlinson/bless-this-mess-workshop-the-art-of-wild-abandonment-2.html

I really like this canvas and may make several more of them for gifts. We could all use the reminder that we are brave, enough and safe (in Christ)!

Awakened Desire To Sketch

I am taking Wild Art 2 with Christy Thomlison & Junelle, at www.christythomlison.typepad.com and Junelle is challenging us with sketching everyday. It was supposed to be sketching our breakfast, but I was out with Fran in a waiting room at a doctor's office. So instead of reading the magazine, I decided to pick an ad and draw what I saw. I am very happy with my results and I have found that it has awakened my love for drawing!! So I will be posting not only my assignments to this class but many more sketches of faces!!

And One For Sofia

Of course I had to make one for g'daughter # 3, Sofia! She is always in cute ponytails and she has dark brown hair. These are so much fun to make!

Gift for Shayla's 5th birthday

Here is a painting that I just completed for g'daugter #2, Shayla's, 5th birthday. I am pretty happy with this! Amber wants one with dark brown hair for Sofia :). When I get home from NoCA I will start on hers.
I am loving mixed media and getting my hands dirty!!

7 Deadly Words - Outside of the Journal Week 2

The title of this painting is 7 Deadly Words. I don't usually do "dark" paintings, but these words seemed to cry out for a grungy canvas. I also had some grunge boards skeletons from Tim Holtz and figured that they fit perfectly. I attached the word "deadly" with 1/2" glue dots so they are raised from the canvas board.

I am actually thinking that I will hang this on the wall in my studio.  I am working very hard to eliminate these words from my talk, so I think having this in front of my face :)!! I will let you know if it works!

This is one from 7.21.2012

Want to live this truth!

Outside The Journal Week 1

My first canvas for Outside The Journal, by Dina Wakley, http://dinastamps.typepad.com/ponderings/2012/08/out-of-the-journal-week-one.html. 

It says, "art is part of the armor for my heart". Mixed media is pretty new to me so I am still trying to find "my style". This back round is from the paper that I wrap my table in. I like the way it turned out.

I can't wait to see how I progress throughout the month!