Day 121 Art Project 2012

Canvas Painting in progress - working on this acrylic abstract "spring trees" painting.

Day 120 Art Project 2012

Artist Trading Cards for a local trade - Spring Trees. Acrylic painted abstract. 

Day 119 Art Project 2012

Altered Board Book - acrylic paint left over from another project, paint lifted by foam stamp. Gesso on bubble wrap (from texturing a canvas) made the dots. This is a deeper purple than the scan shows. Work in progress.

Day 118 Art Project 2012

Altered book spread in progress. I've made pockets by folding the middle pages down. These aren't attached, I'm debating sewing or stapling them. Colored with acrylic paints and distress inks. Stencil used is by Mary Beth Shaw. Work in progress.

Day 117 Art Project 2012

Altered book spread in progress. I've made pockets by folding the middle pages and using double sided tape to attach at the middle. Colored with distress inks and stenciled with punchinella. Work in progress.

Day 116 Art Project 2012

Mock up of a canvas I'm planning... a pacific northwest sunset. The scan does not show the true color. This measures 4x4 inches

Day 115 Art Project 2012

Photo of Salmonberry blossoms in our back "wild area", with a fading wood fence back drop.

Day 114 Art Project 2012

Block of wood with various washers and round things glued on... made at the Recycled Art & Resource Expo while my son was making his recycled man.

Day 113 Art Project 2012

Photo of our flowering currant framing the rusty metal heart that hangs on the grape stake fence. Spring makes me happy!

Day 112 Art Project 2012

Happy Earth Day! 

4 x 4 x 3/4 inch Mixed Media Painting on stretched canvas - grateful heart. 

Now for sale in my Etsy Art Shop.

Day 111 Art Project 2012

Our native Salmon berry - just beginning to set blooms on. From my garden. 

(I love this time of year) 

Day 110 Art Project 2012

 More photography of my early spring garden... 

Day 109 Art Project 2012

Photography of my early spring garden... 

Day 108 Art Project 2012

Front Page of the Doodle Altered Book, with the "rules" (not many) and the sign in card in the original library card pocket.  

This is a shot of all the pages I started before the trade begins. This book will be worked in by 10 other artists, one a month, so I won't see it for quite awhile. 

Have a fun altered trip, little book!

Day 106 Art Project 2012

Water color crinkle doodle - a page in the Altered Book for the Exchange. Did I mention the theme is Doodles? 

Day 105 Art Project 2012

 Found Poetry Doodle page in the Altered Book... all ready for the exchange. Here's the full spread for these first two pages. 

Day 104 Art Project 2012

Day 103 Art Project 2012

3x3 Canvas Work in Progress - layers for paints and inks

Day 102 Art Project 2012

4x4 Beeswax collage - playing with some ideas for a project...

Day 101 Art Project 2012

4x4 Canvas background in progress... layers of stamped images, paints and inks...

Day 100 Art Project 2012

HeART with Wings, a 3x3 Mixed Media Canvas for sale at my Etsy Shop.

Day 99 Art Project 2012

ACEO sized HeART canvas created with leftover pieces and bits from other projects. For sale at my Etsy Shop.

Day 98 Art Project 2012

Journal page - doodles in squares. Rather simple but it calmed my scattered brain. :)

Day 97 Art Project 2012

Working in the altered book for our local art group exchange, prepping some pages. Here I've cut out some windows, which will be framed with these slides...

More to come...

Day 96 Art Project 2012

Applied gesso to most of the pages in the "Fake Journal" I'm keeping during the month of April. 

 I painted the background of the first two pages a blue. 

I neglected to get the before picture, but this was taken with just a few journal entries. 

Day 95 Art Project 2012

4x6 Canvas WIP - acrylic paints, collaged images. This is just the beginning, much more to do... :)

Day 94 Art Project 2012

Watercolor crinkle background in my journal - doodled with pencil and pens. 

Day 93 Art Project 2012

ACEO - Beeswax collage. Now in my Etsy shop.

Day 92 Art Project 2012

 Beeswax collage 3x3 canvas - In my tea series and on sale today in my Etsy shop.