By The Tree . . .

This is the original painted background of the "colorful" picture below. I made flowers out of different papers and glued them on. Now I think it looks like a real nature lover's mixed media painting. :-)

Beautiful Video

Color For A Gray Day

Background painted by me. Digital flowers by CAH.

Art Journal Caravan Week 51 - Surrender

Original photos of woman and tree found on Facebook.

Mark Twain Quote

Art Journal Caravan Week 50 - Fearless

Photo of tree found on Facebook.

Okay. I'm Tired Of The Snow All Ready!

Here's what I'd rather be looking at!

More Snow Coming Tomorrow

I wouldn't mind it so much if our yard looked like this! See what you're missing Marguerite?

Art Journal Caravan Week 49 - Quote

Colorful Snowfall

Original photo:

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Snowman

Photos used in collage were found on Google.

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Art Journal Caravan Week 48 - Style of Kenny Scharf

Quote for week 48 -

Zany stuff!

My Opinion Of Winter

It's beautiful, but it's welcome to pass us right by!!!

Art Journal Caravan Week 47 - Quote

Some elements from kit by Miles Beyond the Moon.

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Red

Fractured Tales Continued

More craziness!

Fractured Tale

Characters from "Story Teller" kit by itKuPiLLi.

My Favorite Forest Animal

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Paddy Wagon

Geishas by TFS.

Art Journal Caravan Week 46 - Black/White and Focus Quote

Elephant by itKuPiLLi.

Snow Flurries Tomorrow - Yuk!

Of course, if we lived in Paris . . .

Little Birds

I painted this for Mindy Lacefield's "Field Notes" class. :-)

Bird cutouts by Mindy Lacefield.

Love Thy Neighbor

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Luggage

Yep, luggage made me think of going to Paris. :-)

Art Journal Caravan Week 45 - Boost

Elements by itKuPiLLi.

A Beetle

Wyanne Thompson is teaching us how to paint on "claybord." (That's the correct way to spell it.) We worked on colorful beetles. :-)

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Bath Time

Just For Fun!

Nature Haiku

I created this for Mindy Lacefield's Field Notes class. :-)

Still Enjoying The Fall Trees

Art Journal Caravan Week 43 - Merriment

Digital elements by itKuPiLLi.

Purple Rain

Digital elements by Paula Kesselring. Watercolor background by me.

Oriental Watercolor

I'm very inexperienced using watercolor, but I love the way the background turned out. I made it a simple oriental watercolor to make the background the highlight. It has gold glitter that looks beautiful on it, but the glitter just will not photograph well.

Art Journal Caravan Gladness #2

Photo taken from my bedroom window.

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Scare Me Silly!

My family doesn't celebrate Halloween, so I used something else that scares people silly. :-)

Art Journal Caravan Week 42 - Gladness

Dexter, MI Nature Trails

Koi Digital Piece

Koi element by Totally Wild Studio.

Still Playing With The Gelli Plate

Paris Cafe

I wish I was at a Paris cafe!

I wonder . . .

It's always fun to use my physical art with digital elements! :-)

Gelli Print Tree

This was "gelli printed," and then I embellished it afterward. I felt like doing a tree after writing the poem in the last post.

Being A Tree

It’s not easy
being a tree.
Bearing the weight
of so many important things.
Snowfall in the winter.
Standing wet in the spring rain.
Spreading shade during
long hot summer months.
Losing parts of ourselves
to the autumn chilly winds.
Always standing tall
as the guardians of mother earth,
giving shelter to her children,
protection to the ground below.
If only you could hear our stories,
those tales written now
and from long ago.
It’s not easy
being a tree.
But a nobler service
there could never be.

© WJC

Gelli Plate Printing

This is my first attempt with using a gelli plate. I had to touch it up quite a bit, but at least it turned out looking a little steampunk.

Art Poem

You think you’re an artist

more important than me?

You sell your stuff

at champagne shows

and have stamps in every store?

Sorry.

My art isn’t perfect

but it’s straight from the heart.

I haven’t had expensive training

nor do I follow the crowd.

What comes out is what is

and it’s the best I can do.

It feeds my soul so I can go on

and that’s what art

is suppose to do.

Lillian Russell

Original Photo:

Frida Winking

Original photo