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.

Green Page - Handmade Journal

This is a  spread from the journal I made from watercolor paper. The top picture is  the full spread open. The bottom picture is a detail photograph of the lower right hand corner of the spread. 


The paper on the borders and throughout the spread were created by first using some cheap copy paper and sprayed it with some ink. I then used a heat gun to dry the paper. I rubber stamped images into  columns filling up the paper. The paper was then ripped into different size strips and glued along the borders and filling in other spaces.


The photograph I took in the bottom detail is an old house near Santa Fe, New Mexico. I made a copy of the photograph in black and white. The image was then hand colored with markers and torn to fit the page.

More Glue Cards- Theme Hot

 Here are two more glue cards I made for a swap. The theme is HOT. Since we here in North Texas are going through record breaking heat I decided to incorporate the weather forecast in these two cards.

Collage Cards - Glue and Paper only

These are two 4X6 cards that are collage with just paper and glue. It is a challenge not to mess with it using other mediums.  It is a real exercise in restraint on my part

Purple Page - Handmade Journal

 

These are pages from a book I made using a single sheet of watercolor paper. I found the instructions on Tracy V Moore Channel on You Tube. I love the idea of using a single sheet of paper and not wasting anything. I have made different sizes of this journal which working nicely for making something small you can tuck inside a backpack or purse to do impromptu art. 

  

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tracyvmoore#p/u/22/1z6qmXGRrsE

CAT swap - Cityscapes

These artist trading cards are for a "Create A Theme " swap. The theme was landscapes, so I did a city landscape for my partners. I made one long piece that would be divided into four cards. I carefully marked where the cut would be so it would not cut off a good part of the cityscape. Each card has some person or people in it. If you look carefully you will see the cuts.

From my window Barajas, Spain

This is an ink and watercolor from my hotel room in Barajas Spain, which is a suburb of Madrid.