More Art Journal Picts from Class!

Thought I'd put up a couple of things I've been working on from the 2nd week of the "Art of Wild Abandonment" class...

What We Bring

This was such a fun page of painting & paper piecing! This page is about "what we bring" & I decided to "journal" about upcoming road-trips this summer. I think I need to add a camera in there somewhere! I wish I had the license on these cute girls we did in this class {they belong to the talented Christy Tomlinson} because I could make a MILLION of them! So much fun! I enjoyed this one so much that I made one for Maggie too...

i make my own magic

I like how hers all blends together & the colors are SO her!!

Next we worked on playing with layers by painting on parchment paper!

Poppies I

This was my first attempt that I wasn't too crazy about. We painted a piece of parchment paper {the kind you use in baking} & cut out the flower petals when it was dry. I should have stuck with Junelle's pretty echinacea flowers because the poppies were hard to assemble once the petals were cut out, but they are one of my favorite flowers!

So, I did it again. Only this time I painted the parchment, sketched my flowers on the back side & cut out the entire flower. It doesn't have quite as much dimension, but I like it better! {I even had a friend ask me how much I'd sell it for! HA! I told her we'd talk! ;)}

Poppies II

In the class video, Junelle uses this AWESOME tissue paper with French words in all kinds of text printed on it {from 7 Gypsies' "Metro" collection} to form her vases. Since I didn't have any of that, I made my own using a technique a girl from my ASLD collage class told me about...Cut a piece of tissue paper to fit a piece of computer paper. Glue down the edges to keep from catching in the printer. Let dry & run through the printer! Pretty simple, although my 2nd sheet did jam.

{{In between the flowers & the branches below, we did another layer page with some parchment, but I haven't finished it yet}}...so here are my Spring Branches...

Spring Branches

I don't think my tree trunk will support a spread like that, but I couldn't stop! ;) The leaves are various paper scraps & on the bottom right is a piece of plastic packaging {Tim Holtz placards} that I put some words in {Seeds=plant/grow/bloom}.

Today I spent ALL afternoon working on this canvas...

My Messy Nest

We were supposed to do it in our art journals, but I knew it was going to be too bulky because of all the found objects my Magpie had for her nest! So I did it on a 6x9 deep edge canvas. This was by far my most favorite project & can't wait to see what we're doing next!! Here's a couple close-ups of the nest & bird {which I traced off an image from the Web & painted in!}

My Magpie

the Nest

the Nest from above

So now I am almost caught up on Week 2 - I just have to watch the videos Christy did to see her spin on things! And Week 3 looks totally cool!

In my collage class on Saturday, we worked on all sorts of image transfers. I haven't had a minute to play with those this week, but I have to get to my "homework" tomorrow, so I will try to post some photos of that stuff later this week!

Have a wonderful evening!