Your Living Canvas - Art Journal - New Pages

This double page spread is part of Christy Tomlinson's Your Living Canvas Workshop.  It is about finding balance with our 6 F's- Family, Friends, Faith, Finance, Fun, Fitness.  I haven't really had time to do all the work for the class but love watching the videos from Christy and Art and learning new art techniques.  More soon my friends.

Hugs,  Erin

Update: Art Journal Cover- Your Living Canvas Workshop

Here are the final photos of my Art Journal cover,

to be used for the Your Living Canvas Workshop by Christy Tomlinson.

We started week 2 yesterday and I just love this class!!! 

It is so motivating for me and makes me itch to sit at my table

 and paint/play/create.

Close up of the heart....might have to redo this as you can't read it very well.

The front cover

The back cover

Close up of my writing on the back, it says:

Cherish all the moments
My story has a beginning, a middle and an end...
The part that shape us are all the moments of happy and sad.

Hugs, Erin

Art Journal Cover - Your Living Canvas Workshop

The new online class, Your Living Canvas Workshop by Christy Tomlinson is FABULOUS....I could hardly wait until I got home on Monday evening to start watching the videos and reading the class instructions.  Our first assignment is to complete our journaling which are questions that make us think about things that have shaped us (challenges, accomplishments, etc).  They are the things that make us who we are today.  I had finally started my answers to the questions but couldn't wait to watch the videos.  The first video was Christy showing us how she created her Art Journal cover that we will use during the workshop.

I started with a Daler-Rowney wirebound sketchbook, found here.  It is only 65lb paper so I will be applying gesso to adhere 2 pages together.  This will give me enough paper thickness for the mixed media supplies I will be using on my pages.

Here's photos of where I started and where I ended up on Tuesday night.

The cover of this journal was not smooth so I started with scraps of patterned scrapbook paper, applied with Mod Podge.

Then I applied various Americana DecoArt paints, purchased from Christy's shop as the base for the front cover (above) and back over (below).
I then used a stamp with black ink and bubble wrap
to create some texture/dimension over the DecoArt paints.

I dabbed paint over the heart stencil

(from Walmart - can't find a link for you online).

I used some Golden fluid acrylic paint in

Quinacridone Magenta (love, love, love this color) to create circle/spirals

 and then dabbed my thumb in some DecoArt paint

and pressed it in the middle of the circle. 

And here's a photo of my fingers after swirling the Magenta paint (which is a permanent paint - like ink) on the Journal. You can see the green and purple paint from smearing the DecoArt paint on the edges with my fingers.

The Journal didn't feel quite finished so I used my FAVORITE PEN
to doodle around the edges, around the circles and the heart.
Note: the Permaball Pilot pen has been discontinued by Pilot

 so you can only buy in Christy's shop.

 

Then my youngest child (T2-Teenager 2, who is 14 and very artistic)

thought I should add some orange paint and some rectangle shapes.

So I did.

But the orange paint over the stencils didn't come out with clean edges

so I doodled around the rectangles and the stars with my favorite pen.



And then because you can't stop until you get a FEELING
that a painting/journal page/craft piece is DONE,
I added some white with a Painters pen in various areas.



as you can see above and below...both hands were messy by the end of the evening

So it was after 10 pm by the time I got to this point and

I couldn't decide what else it needed ... so I decided to stop.

I am still thinking about a title for this Art Journal.

Hopefully I will have some time tonight to

finish the cover and start Page 1 of the journal.

Hope you are having a good week!

Hugs, Erin



On-Line Art Class - Your Living Canvas Workshop (starts tomorrow)

I am a huge fan of Christy Tomlinson's art, techniques, style and of course her Scarlet Lime online shop for fabulous Mixed Media supplies.

Christy Tomlinson (taken from her blog page)

I am so excited that FINALLY the Your Living Canvas Workshop by Christy Tomlinson and Art McCraken starts tomorrow.  Note that if sign up for this workshop you will be connected with hundreds of other artists already signed up and sharing pre-workshop thoughts and art via an invite-only Facebook group (awesome!!).

Your Living Canvas Workshop (image take from Christy's blog)

Information about the workshop, taken directly from her blog:


"In this six week course we will help you discover that through art, techniques, journaling and soul searching exercises... that will help you create your canvas by design not by default.


Each week we will talk about specific ways to create your canvas. We will focus on those things that will help you creating  a canvas that has purpose.. one that you are passionate about and one that at the end of the day you can be proud of. THIS will be your living canvas.


 ALSO each week you will not only be taught a fun new art technique that is not taught in any of my other workshops, BUT we will also take what we have learned from that week's exercise and put it into either an art journal, on canvas or another project. EACH week will have it's own separate art techniques and projects. SO LOTS AND LOTS Of art :) " 

So anyone interested, you can sign up right now and join us starting TOMORROW May 21, 2012.  Go here....