Joyful!

During my holiday downtown (yeah right!) I decided to treat myself to Stephanie Ackerman's Bible Journaling Class just to see if it would jump start me back into Bible Journaling. She is precious and her Bible journaling is happy and wonderful and I just had to learn from her. I highly recommend it. Her lettering if fun and doable and you can totally make it your own. Love her!

Lifebook 2016!

On "LIFEBOOK 2016" I will be teaching you how

to draw these Chunky Versals and write the

word that brings you comfort, happiness and joy.

I have many such words!

So if you would like to learn to draw these letterforms 

I will be teaching them in Lifebook 2016!
Also there are many other wonderful teachers scheduled also.

                                                 
                                           Click here to view more details

 Hope to see you there!!

Grateful

This week for the Documented Life Project journal the challenge was to show gratefulness in a creative way.  I think this is week 47 or maybe 48? Just a few more and the year will be completed. You should see my chunky journal. I will take a picture of it when the weeks are finished.

Add some leaves! Week 44 of Documented Life Project

I really love Autumn although we don't have much of a change of leaves down here in Jacksonville. But the stifling weather eases off and it is a wonderful time of the year.  I guess it takes me back to football games every Friday night and fun school things. I loved that time of my life---but I would never go back. Life is good now too!

Week 29--Make a Wish List

This was a fun week so I put my top wished for this week and next wee too. Actually Chauncey and his A-fib procedure actually goes first but Zach and their booth at NAMM in Nashville this week is hight up there too!

Imagine

"Imagine---Perfect---Peace"

Perfect----->tomorrow's post

Peace--> day after tomorrow's post

Happy New Year!

Well, here we go into another year! Goodness, they are going by fast. As I said above I usually don't make resolutions because I either break them--or forget what they were...but I do want to go into this year with a new and renewed excitement for my art journey. I want to paint for the enjoyment of painting with no expectations other than the fact that with every painting I am learning and getting better. Good or bad, agony or ecstasy, I am moving forward to becoming the best oil painter I can be. I know that it's going to take years but I am in it for the long haul. Next year if I remember, I am going to post my first painting of 2013 and my last one of 2013 and compare to see the improvement.

So, here we go... hello 2013!

Art Quotes

I think I have gone crazy with iMovie. For all you PC users--iMovie is the movie editing software that comes with the Mac. I learned this really well when I was editing my online class which starts July 22nd. 

That was a shameless plug, I know.

It is so fun to make little movies. This is just some fun calligraphy lettering in an old half used watercolor spiral notebook. The images were stamps with water washes added. I used a pointed nib for the lettering and the paper was actually too rough for the nib but no matter--it was all just practice. My one goal in my art life is to be a lettering artist first--mixed media artist next then fine artist (hee hee, it's ok to laugh at that last one!)