Joey has been encouraging me to put my abstract paintings on Ebay, so here is the first. Acrylic on canvas, in blue and silver, lots of texture…. inspired by rain. :)

If you are interested in checking it out, by all means, click here

The latest batch of spread I’ve done in my journal. And yes, I’m having fun. :)

Over the years I’ve started many journals, but they’ve always been set aside because I’ve never liked the way they looked… it was just all my own writing. Recently, I’ve been inspired by several other artists who’ve posted Art Journals in their online galleries. I love the look of their art journals. Combining art, graphics, colours, and techniques with writing is something that completely appeals to me. Must be the scrapbooker in me. However, I wanted my art journals to be something completely different to my scrapbooks. They are my play space. I place to try out different techniques, colour combos and just have some plain no rules fun. And I must admit, I’m having so much fun.

I wanted to share my first two pages. The first is about the whole reason this journal came about. I kept searching—for new techniques, new ideas, new anything—and it stopped me from simply playing creatively. So now, if I find myself aimlessly searching, I plan to just sit down and create a new page in my journal.

I had so much fun doodling on the second page. The window is actually cut out, and the flower is part of the following page. I love using windows. :)

I’ll post some more once I have another batch together.

Well here she is—my first art doll. I’m not sure what I’m going to call her, but I’ve deemed her finished. For my first art doll I wanted to do something fairly simple, so I did her out of paper. The face is a rubber stamp which I belongs to a friend (thanks Sue!), so I’m not sure who makes it—but I think I need one! The rest of the doll is a pattern that I drew. The upper and lower arms are movable, as well as the upper and lower legs and feet. I wish you could see how the wings glitter. They are coloured with watercolour pencils, permapaque markers and a glitter marker… and they just glisten!!

Everything else just kind of evolved from stuff I had around the studio. The skirt is made from some ribbon that was RAKed to me from my dear friend Lynette (thanks luv!!), which I embellished with some rick-rack and beads. The bra is made from scraps of leather and some shaped metal clips I’ve had forever. The hair is some ribbon yarn that I hand dyed ages ago, but the colour ended up being perfect for this doll, so I braided it and attached it under the velvet ribbon of the crown. The crown is from part of a huge stamped image of a toile tree, coloured with watercolour pencils and a bit of glitter paint. The crown was topped with some bazzill which was rubbed with Craf-T metallic rubons.

If anyone can think of a good name for her, I’d love to hear it. She was originally going to be holding a deco card that had the word muse stamped on it, but then binned the idea because it covered up too much of her. So if you can think of a name along those lines, please leave a comment! I’d really like to name her.

I’ve been spending the week creating. For the last 5 days, I’ve done nothing but create… yet I haven’t made a single scrapbook layout. I wanted to explore some new ideas, try some new things, and simply have some creative fun.

A while ago I stumbled across Queen of Tarts entry on doing a gluebook style self-portrait. I thought it was interesting, but I set it aside for a rainy day. Yesterday I decided I was finally going to do it, and I did. I grab a timer (set to 45 minutes), a couple of magazines, a glue stick and a blank sketch book. My self-portrait is more about me than resembles me, but hey…. no rules, right?

No, it’s not a masterpiece. But have you ever tried to get through an entire September issue Vogue magazine in 45 minutes AND create something?? Besides, it’s a bit of creative freedom. If you are interesting in gluebooks, you may with to check out the gluebooks Yahoo! group.