Sparkle & Shine

& Shimmer was the name of the game . . . errr the blog hop that @BocaBabeArt pointed me to and beautiful works to be seen. Yes it is the Finnabair Blog Hop. Well it just so happened that I was working on a tiny canvas at the time (4” x 2”) and I was using shimmery Silks so um yeah . . . I had to, just had to I tell ya link up and play along. If you want to really see how I did it there is VIDEO.

I had the broken china doll head (from here) that I really wanted to use for something, so I found a tiny black canvas and I smeared on some PaperClay and smashed my broken face (lol) into it, then sat it aside to dry. So um yeah it sat on my desk for a long time (months people) and this one day I thought it was time to make my vision into reality and that’s when Eileen tweeted and I followed the link’age and . . .

Well I don’t have the supplies (mediums) that they used but I do have some sparkle & shine stuffs so I improvised. I used Silks, Glass Bead gel, tiny loose glass beads (from the “experienced” store), embossing powders and some rubber stamps and more paperclay and bam ah lam I ended up with this loverly little 8” x 10” finished piece. And at the time of this post I’m considering entering it into a spring art show here in town. Wish me luck and send me confidence.

And and AND because this is a link up thingy PLEASE go over here and check out all the other Shine & Sparkle projects, be sure say I sent ya {wink}.

Did I mention the poem I wrote while waiting for stuffs to dry it’s short so don’t worry:

From the brokenness

To mold and reshape into something new

Not to replace or fix what was before

But to create a new wholeness, in spite of

What was before

As long as there is a shimmer of life, we can mend cracks

Fashion them with a mystery of their own beauty

And then we can welcome with amazement

Wholeness from the brokenness

Happy Art’ing Y’all

a Postcard

for a worthy cause in another country, Norway. I saw the post on FaceBook shared by @LWHfromMars and thought. . .

hum sounds like something I’ll like to do, so I cut my post card base and um yeah, what next??? As I was digging for my drawing pencils in my travel art bag a face from last Sept (2014) fell out and yes Eureka. That’s exactly what I want.

So I took the face #23 and redrew it onto a 4 inch by 6 inch base, with a few tiny changes. And then I grabbed my paints and voila – ta dah even

 

the drawn version

Eye am Listening

I have a finished postcard, complete with the required information on the back and it is mailed . . .

Here is the link, check it out and see if you want to join in this #twitterartexhibit. Be sure to FOLLOW THE RULE’age cause that is important y’all. 

did I mention that @BlissfulCrafteR (Genie) helped name it, well she did

and that's a wrap

Happy Art'ing Y'all

What's your bag?

I found mine at the Harbor Freight store with a 20% off coupon, that made it $10.40, on 1-4-14. Yeah I saw some girls fancy’N up some on the FB. And I thought hey I “Need” one of those, it would be better than fighting with getting my stuffs in and out of this blue one with its jumbled up’ness.

  

I have to take out half of it to get to the bottom and then layer it back up when I it’s time to move. Soooooooooo I saw theirs and knew it would be a super Mobile Art Station and yeah I’ve made it my own.

 I drew her free hand with water soluble graphite (Derwent - Graphitone) coated her in Liquitex Gesso before I added various brands of acrylic craft paints.

I used an ArtistCellar's Dragonfly stencil and a letter stencil from ? made by ? Again used the Liquitex Gesso before adding craft paint and I added sploches of the Gesso along with blue craft paint (smushed it pretty good to really get it into the heavy cotton canvas of my bag.

Finished it off with a generous coat of Liquitex Matte Medium. I still have the other side to fancy up and then add all my stuffs, but I got so excited with how this side came out that just I had to wanted to show it off to y’all and now I have. Oh no worries I’m pretty sure IF the other side comes out’age I’ll show that off too, cause y’all know how I am. Well that and to show off uses for a couple Liquitex products that enter me in a Creative JumpStart2014 give a way. And this link too!

Happy Art’ing Y’all