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

Art Journal Caravan Week 40 - Euphoria Quote

My panda seemed to fit the quote we were supplied to use, because seeing pandas always makes me happy.

Not sure if a panda would appreciate this craziness, though! Some elements from Tangie's Oct. Grab Bag.

Oriental State Of Mind

I guess I've been in an oriental state of mind the last couple of days. One day I drew bamboo, and the next day I drew a panda. Today I combined them together using Photoshop. That's what I call real mixed media. Now I have one happy panda bear! :-)

Macarons!

Sick with a cold today that our grandson passed on. Wish I had some of these macarons!!! I know I'd feel better. :-)

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge - Paintbrushes

Some elements from Rebecca McMeen's "Painterly" and Finecrafted Designs "Paris Studio."

Mandala - Bloom True Boot Camp

Flora Bowley has a short course where one of the prompts is to create a mandala. I wanted to go outside to try to create one with things from nature. However, it has been raining for days, so that was impossible. I decided to create one my normal way, digitally.