Moleskin Project 2009/2010 Sarah's book

This is Sarah's book, she had "Fairy Tales in the Dark" for her theme. I chose Cinderella. I combined some Harry Clarke and Tim Burton influence on this spread. Her book is very cool because everyone is making their art piece flow together as one continuous piece of art. I used some Dr. Martin's watercolor for the pumpkin. The color really pops.

My favorite shoes

This is an artist trading card made for Marita for a 1/1 swap at Illustrated ATCs. One of her favorite subjects is shoes. I love shoes too. This is a style of shoe that I like the best, too bad I can't wear them so I live vicariously through my art. It is an ink and marker drawing with glitter painted over the shoes to add some extra bling.

BOO to you

Here is a fun Halloween project. "BOO" your neighbors, here is a link that tells you how
http://www.kidprintables.com/halloween/boo.shtml

These are double sided row houses from Ten Two Studios. The top one is from the Mini Halloween domino and Little Halloween. The witches are from Something Wicked collage sheet and Mini Halloween domino.

Fans @ Art 42

These are two fans I made for a swap at Art 42. The top one is a daVinci theme and the bottom one is French hats. The collage sheets came from Ten Two Studios, Lenardo collage sheet and Les Chapeaux tag set. The bottom fan also has a flower punch that is a dimensional punch. I colored in the flowers with markers.

Tag Book - House Theme

These are tags I made for a swap I am in at ATCs for All. The tags have a house theme. I have some vintage photos I scanned then copied, used them for my images. I ran out out ideas and just drew on two of them. I have several tag books from swaps and the returns I get back will make a nice addition.

Halloween Artist Trading Cards

These artist trading cards were made for a Halloween swap I am in. I have these lovely face stamps that I like to play with, this time they are witches.

Halloween Hangies

This Halloween hangie was made for a swap. The image is from Ten Two Studios,Witchy labels, with dictionary page, vellum, wired ribbon and beaded trim.

I made the hangie below for me. The images are from Ten Two Studios, vintage Little Halloween, and some Martha Stewart Halloween cut outs I hoarded back from last year. I love the moon because it glows in the dark.

Moleskin Project 2009/2010 Viv's book

It is rainy and cool right now and it was a good day to do art. This is Viv's book. Her theme is hands, I am not a very good hand artist.
These are hand shadow puppets for my four page spread. The fun makes up for my lack of talent.

A Jolly Halloween

I love children board books. They have very sturdy surfaces to work on. This piece was published last year in Somersett studio's Holiday and celebration magazine. I plan to post a different Halloween artwork every week this month.
I found a book that had house shapes for its pages. I took the whole thing apart and configured it to be bi-fold. One side is for more for children with black cats and pumkins. Tags have recipes for goodies from my child hood Halloween, popcorn balls and caramel apples. The other side is more grown up.

Girls of Summer

Well summer is over, although is was 95 degrees here on Saturday.
I love childrens board books. They make great bases for some fun books.
As you can see this one was in the shape of the sun. Which worked out great for my theme.
I found a paper pad that had all these great colors and patterns. Along with images from Ten Two Studios, Bathing Beauties faux postage and By the Sea collage sheet. Of course I had to have some fun with words.

India

This weekend I went out for one of my favorites, Indian food. We have a large Indian community here in north Texas so there are some really good places.
I have always loved the art of India and have met some wonderful people from there. It seems like a magical place, elephants, temples and the various landscapes and different inner cultures of India.
This book was made from manilla envelopes, the size will fit money in them. I folded them in half and sewed them on my machine. I then sprayed them with inks.
The collage sheets are from Ten Two Studios, Passage to India and the Little Diversity images. I hope you the enjoy parts of this book.

Moleskin Project 2009/2010 Sal's Book

These are the pages I made for Sal's book in the Moleskin swap I am in at http://www.illustratedatcs.com. Her theme is Dia De Los Muetros, "Day of the Dead".
I could not fit all four pages on my scanner bed so I had to make two scans. The church in the top panel is from Ocoptec, Morelos, Mexico.

Zentangle Swap

These cards are for a swap I am participating at Illustrated ATCs. So you are asking what is a Zentangle? Here is a link to learn about zentangles: http://www.zentangle.com/index.php . You can also Google image zentangle to see what other artist have drawn.

My cards are drawn with Micron pens and then random spray with inks. You go out and make some zentangle art.

Garden Book

So what do you do with collage sheet left over bits? I took them and made this little journal book that I purchased from the dollar store. I took out three pages for every three I glued, since the paper was rather flimsy. All my images came from Ten Two Studios. The cover images are from Edwardian Beauties Rounds, Victorian Garden Rounds and Secret Garden Microscope Slides that I cut to fit the space.
The pink page came from the Pink themed collage sheet and more Victorian Garden Rounds. The page right below is from the Ocean Voyage collage sheet. All the fussy cutting is from a William Morris gift wrap paper.

The "maids in a row" are from the Edwardian Beauties rounds. The garden gate below is from the pink page collage sheet, along with some other William Morris paper.


The page with the butterflies have small butterflies from the Secret Garden Microscope slides. The large ones are from a book about bugs I have been cutting out of. The foreground boats are from the Ocean Voyage collage sheet. The ships in the back ground are from some papers I purchased from Flax art store in San Francisco.

This page is from the Little Purple Things collage sheet along with some Secret Garden microscope slide cut down to fit the area also. I also included some more of the William Morris papers.

This page is from the Yellow collage sheet along with Secret Garden microscope slide and tags have the yellow faux postage like the one on the pocket.

The last page has images from the Romance tags, Little Men, Little Purple things and White Wedding collage sheet.

Matchbox Shrine Swap @ Art 42

I am in a matchbox swap at Art 42. Here are my boxes, the far left one has a travel/explore theme, the middle is a tea party, on the right is a Mardi Gras theme.