Responsibility

Here is another page in the altered book- a children's board book from The Dollar Store. I did the background on the gelli plate. The face is cut out from my- faces -on -top- of- morning- pages -writing. The torn paper is from copies of my own art. I used sharpie paint markers, gel pens, acrylic paint and gesso to complete it. I hope you had a good weekend and that you took some time for yourself to be creative. I am glad to see the leaves here finally in full color. Thanks for popping in and thanks for all your comments. Please visit again..........................jo ************************************************** I am linking this to Carolyn Dube's November Gelli print party.

Grow Your Garden

Back in June I took the train to Pennsylvania and visited my "bestest buddy," Patty. Patty and I have a history, spanning at least thirty years of friendship. Patty and I met as college room mates. Patty, I have learned over the years is a wonderful gardener. I have watched her garden grow through out the years and whenever I'd visit she'd always have something new to show me. This last time I looked at her garden with new eyes. I took so many pictures because I wanted to draw, sketch, paint her garden. And while she is awesomely creative in many areas, a wonderful water color artist, her garden has been her canvas for a good long while. I am amazed. I do not remember the names of these plants, flowers. Perhaps I should have taken a notebook with me on the tour. Here are a few pictures I took from Patty's garden. It occurred to me that I was working on this Dollar Store board book while on the train to visit her and also at her house. I showed you a peek of a page yesterday because I hadn't decided what I wanted to write on it. I figured it out. Sorry about the green grid underneath the photo. I didn't have enough natural light left by the time I took the photo. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a creative weekend........................jo I am linking to Aimee's Glue It Tuesday Carolyn Dube's November Gelli Print Party and Balzer Designs Art Journal Every Day.

Do The Thing You Really Care About

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the thing you really care about. ~Shauna Neiquist Back in June I took one of those glossy, hard back children's books from The Dollar Store and sanded the pages and then black gessoed it. Sometime later I took the pages and laid them down on the gelli plate in one of my crazy gelli plate sessions. I guess I lost track of photographing the entire process as I don't seem to be able to find any pictures other than when I first began. Here's one of the pages I began after gelli plate painting it with the beginnings of collage. The face is one from my 4:30am Morning Pages journal pages. Here it is finished. I hope you like it. I will have other pages in this short book to share with you. Thanks for stopping in.....jo **********************************I am linking to Julie Fei Fan Balzer's Art Journal Every Day and Aimee's place Glue It Tuesday. And Carolyn Dube's place for a colorful gelliprint party.

Getting My Feet Wet

This is kind of different for me. I don't know how I arrived at this - this art with journaling. I think it's the "foo-foo" woman who jumped onto the page that bugged me. It's so unlike me to put her there. I mean I really didn't want to letter, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful," but I wanted to. She needed to have more substance. 'Nuf said. Thanks for stopping by.......... Hope you had a good weekend................... Jo ** linking to the Carolyn Dube's Place,Glue it Lounge tomorrow and at Balzer Designs Art Journal Every Day on Friday(if I remember that by the end of the week.) lol.