Artsty Fish

I am in a swap at Illustratedatcs.com called Artsty Fish Madness. Here are my submissions. They are some in watercolor with ink , the others are ink and markers. 

The backs are "April Fish" collage sheets from Ten Two Studios with fish labels and other paper elements on handmade paper or scrapbook papers.

Grids from San Francisco

Here is some grid art from San Francisco Airport. I used a .003 Copic pen but it was not loving my paper.

Sketchbook Project 2011 - Grey Side of Life

Here are a few pages from the book I am submitting to the Sketchbook Project. The theme I chose was the "Grey Side of Life".

English Miltary 1811

I joined a swap called Men and Beautiful Boys at IllustratedATCs.com. I chose to do something really different. I found an old book that described the head gear of various soldiers in 1811. I stuck with the English soldiers.  I took artistic license to color in my version.

Chop stick holder

I love Asian food, love collecting and using chopsticks.  I used a tea tin with Japan collage sheet and Metal Tin Geishas from Ten Two Studios.

Day of the Dead Artist Trading Cards

I am hosting a Day of Dead swap at IllustratedATCs. Here are my cards that I am trading. For a limited time I scanned and posted the whole swap on my flickr account. Which is on the left side of this blog. It will only be there till November 5,2011.  It has some truly amazing art.

Buddy goes to the Park

I am in another PAT (pick a theme) swap at ATCs for all.  What makes this one extra fun is the themes are to be monochromatic.  Each group has a color assign to it. The one I chose is black, white and grey.  One of my group member's theme is Boston Terriers. Here is my card.

Grid Journaling

I have been following Milliande Art Community for Women for a while now. I discoved  Milliande on You Tube about two years ago. She inspires me to get off my duff and make art. 

Right now she is doing some art journaling that I really like doing. It is very relaxing working in the grids you create. It is almost like a stream of conscience. I chose to do images from outside my art room window  that looks out to the street in front of my house.

Off to do more grids

More Art Dolls

 Here are some art dolls for a swap I am in at http://www.atcsforall.com/. The swap is Art Dolls: Women Only.  I like the 1700 fashion with a shorter hem.

Watercolor art dolls

These are three art dolls I made from watercolor paper. They sort of turned out to be the three elements, water, fire, earth.

Chunky Houses

 These are my little houses for a chunky house swap. I always make tabs on my chunkies. There was no theme which is good for me.

Above and Below book mark swap

I usually do not do this sort of swap, but the theme intrigued me. It is at IllustratedATCs.com, the theme is above and below. For some reason my bookmarks have a sleepy twist in all of them.

Blue Reborn Book

This book is what my friend Lisa calls "reborn books". Basically you take a hardback book that is doomed for the trash and make an new one.  

You carefully remove the entire insides and make new pages from all sorts of papers, envelopes, pockets, or whatever you can dream of. I bound my book with leather lacing and an old paint brush. I am not sure whether I will add beads or not. For now I am leaving the leather lacing long.

I have joined a journaling group and this is the book I will be working on. I am making myself do some writing which is so hard for me, I was born with a total writers block.  I was smart on my part to make my book with only 24 pages.

Altered Playing Card Swap

I am participating in a swap at ATCs for all. You are to use a regular playing card, one of the corners must show the number and suit. I colored in the corner to go with my paper. The white background was just to bright. The images came from Ten Two Studios.

Hand Colored Photographs

I am hosting a swap at atcsforall.com called Hand colored photographs. Here are some cards I made, not sure if I am going to use them in the swap or not. I may work on them a little more with colored pencils. The cards are colored in with Copic  and Primsacolor markers.  I took the photographs on the left and the center. The guy on the bike is a vintage photograph that I bought at an antique store. I scanned in the photograph in my collection so I can make many more alteration to it.