The Two Mona's

The two Mona's are an experiment with medium and paper. This green Mona is a rubber stamp sprayed with green ink and applied to mix media paper. Since I used too much ink the fine details of the stamp was blurred. I filled in around the face with micron and sharpie fine ink pens.

 This is the same rubber stamp, this time I used a flat watercolor brush and applied the watercolor directly to the stamp. I laid a non bleed specialty paper on the stamp, lifting it carefully. It has some better details on the face. I colored in the face and made swirly hair with watercolor and a fine brush.

Handmade Journals/Art Journals

I love to make books, but I am not authority nor that great at it. I am always interested in different ways to make books. Ten Two Studio has an online (at your leisure) class, One Pad Art Journals. I highly recommend this class because it so easy and you make a very lovely book. Here are mine.

I found some deckle watercolor paper at my local paper store a made the book that has the charm on the cover.  I also colored the cover paper with ink to make it blue. I am planning on taking it on vacation in Galveston, Tx this August.

Dawns or Sunsets Watercolor Artist Trading Cards

I am still trying my way through watercolors. These are artist trading cards for a swap - Dawns and Sunsets.

Green Grids

Still fascinated with doing little drawings in a grid. I had some green watercolor out and made these grids and inked in garden musings

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.