My Living Art Journal

I’ve mentioned that I’ve been taking a lot of artsy online classes but I haven’t been sharing much of the art that I’ve been creating.  Today, I’m going to share a project I made for Christy Tomlinson’s Living Canvas class.

I am loving this class.  Remember the She Art class that I took last year (my artwork here).  Once again, I’ve made other pieces for this class that I haven’t shared!  I have learned so much from Christy about collage art that when I heard about this class I jumped in with both feet.

I truly believe that ART HEALS and this is what the Living Canvas class is all about.  Christy has teamed up with Art McCracken.  I’m not sure what is official title is but he’s a kind of life/business coach.  Each week, Art shares an exercise dealing with specific things in your life.  I’ve only worked on the first week, but Christy shared some art journaling (3 different pages) using at least one technique that she has never shared in one of her other classes.  The first exercise was to create your art journal cover.  This is mine.

I have made a couple of small changes since this picture.  I’ll share it again with you when I share my first page.  It’s currently in a drying stage with more stages to go.  I’ll be sharing it sometime this week.

The journal is a Visual Art Journal from Strathmore.  I love these because the have nice thick paper and are spiral bound so I don’t have to worry to much about adding bulk.  I used a lot of stuff laying around my room.  I used Studio Calico dp (from the Scarlet Lime mixed media kit) for the background.  The Embracing Change image is a card from GCD by Melody Ross.  The tassel and the loop fringe is from my friend Nancy from Linens and Laurels.  She has some beautiful trims on her site.  The flowers are Prima and most of the rubons are from Chatterbox, Melody Ross’ previous company.  Everything else is just from my stash, including the vintage bingo number!

Also, I didn’t mention on my McMahon Five Designs post last week that we are taking somewhat of a break this summer.  We will only be having two releases each month—the Breast Cancer Awareness image on the 26th of each month and a new image release the last Friday of the month.  That’s to give the design team and the illustrators a bit of a break for the summer.  The store will still be open and orders will be processed but we will not be releasing as many images.

Thanks for stopping by.  I’ll be tending my mom’s doggy this week.  Let’s hope that I don’t have fur flying around here!!!  Chloe and Cutie (mom’s pup) see each other twice a week when mom and I get together for art days so I don’t think there will be a problem.  Chloe will just probably eat all the food so Cutie starves to death!

Now, back to my art journal I go!

Blessings,

Christine

Annalise Lane

I made another card with one of Jess’ beautiful girls! Isn’t she a cutie. Her dress reminded me of a dress I had when I was younger so I colored it like that one. I used the Prima Songbird Paper and Prima Songbird Wood Buttons. As I’ve said before, I like to look at Jess’ original artwork (Link to Original Artwork) after I color my own version.  To my surprise, Annalise has strawberry blossoms in her hair.  Ha!  I love her both ways though, so that’s fine!!!

Now, on to the rest of the release.

 

Annalise Lane JPG and PNG

 

Shelly also made a card with this lovely!

 

 

Just Ducky JPG and PNG

 Shawne made a couple of cards using Just Ducky!

 

 

No Time To Stop - Must Shop! 

 

 Fran made a really cute card with this girl!

 

 

 

 

I Will Give Unto Him JPG

 

Sue made a simple but beautiful card with this inspiring image.

 

 

 

 

Growing An Old Friend  JPG and PNG

 

Paige and Michelle A use this thoughtful image.

 

Please visit the Design Team blogs to see their stunning!

I have been taking a lot of online art classes lately but haven’t shared much.  I’m going to start sharing (and catching up with) some of my artwork so expect some more posts soon!!!

Blessings,

Christine