art journaling – soultreat…artjournaling

back and hoping to blog more!!

March 27, 2015 Christine1 Comment

The Beautiful Faces book by Jane Davenport, was a gift I received at Christmas. And she also has an online class by the same name, which I am taking. The class works through the exercises in the book, showing shading and techniques to draw and paint faces. It’s lots of fun.

This is a drawing I did from one of her lessons. I did not have all the same art supplies so I had to improvise with what I have.

I have also been taking Kelly Kilmer”s, Making my Mark monthly collage art journal class. Somewhere along the way I hope to develop a style of art journaling of my own.

With Easter almost here, the last few months have flown by, I so wanted to achieve much more than I have. I wanted to blog far more than I have done, and filled an art journal. I still struggle with finding meaning to my pages, maybe that just takes time.

new art journal…

August 24, 2014 Christine1 Comment

I started a new art journal. I added watercolour pages to an old book cover to make this new journal. So far I have worked on a couple of pages.

I want to add more meaning to my pages, but I seem to have difficulty with adding words to them. Anyway maybe that will come in time.

The reason I called my blog soul treat art journaling was because it is my treat , to myself to play with paint, pencils, paper and colour.

After a few days of heavy rain and grey skies, there is some signs of spring on the way. The days are a little warmer.

And the first baby birds of the year are squeaking for food all day, keeping their parents busy.

not perfect…

August 6, 2014 Christine2 Comments

This is the first page in a art book, I am going to alter. This face is coloured with copic marker, I’ve had for 6 months and hardly used. I know I have a lot to learn about copic markers, but that is half the fun. The first layer was cheap gesso, which is a little too plasticy, than a stencil with ink and then I just went ahead and sketched and coloured the face. I am surprised the markers went as well as they did over the gesso. And they didn’t bleed through to the other side which was great. They are a bit too streaky though, but if I add more layers and some coloured pencils that might help.