January Journal Journeys continued...

Here are a few of the latest entries in my art journal this month. I am still trying to do all of Milliande's prompts. I have started an after-school art club at school and am introducing 7-11 year olds to the concept of art journals. We are going to be adding personal symbols to personal banners. I am planning on

participating in the last One World One Heart event this year. I will be posting all the fun details after midnight on Sunday.

January journal pages!!!!!

I am so jazzed that I have kept up with the first 8 days of Milliande's January Journal prompts! She explored the theme of zebras for the first week. It's really cool to see how differently the theme is interpreted

by the artists who upload their work! So many great, inspiring ideas!

It is actually a miracle I got this far because my family has been dealing with a crisis this past week. Our 6 year old yellow lab, Maggie, was at the vet's fighting for her life for 5 days! I think the journaling kept me from freaking out! She is home now and we have a regimen of 5 kinds of pills several times a day and insulin shots twice a day. She is perking up a little but she has lost so much weight she is very weak.

All good thoughts and prayers for her are very welcome! Time will tell if I can complete

the journal challenges for the entire month. Wish me luck !!!!!

New pages for June

Oh my goodness! I haven't posted for a few weeks because my computer needed a new hard drive and then my printer wouldn't scan and I was freaking out! I thought I needed a new printer. Luckily, the computer guy at my school told me how to download the latest version of the installer program for my printer and my scanner came back to me today! Ahhhhhh!

So, here are a few new journal pages and the latest round robin pages I've done for my We Dream in Color group.
I like how the layers on this page turned out, but I was trying out the 3/4 view of the face and now that I look at it here, she looks a tad bit cross-eyed. How do you like my wonky girl?

This girl's face looks O.K., but that ONE hand is HUGE! She only has one MAN HAND !
I got this cool rubber stamp from Cherry pie stamps. I was playing with the Portfolio Oil pastels and then I layered sparkly gel pens over them. My homage to Klimt!
This spread is for a journal of SECRETS... both pages have an envelope with a secret tucked inside, but I'm not telling what they are!

Catching up on my Art Journal pages

Here are some of my art journal pages from the journal I started in January. I have been working on drawing faces after taking several classes from Suzi Blu. I have taken some of the faces from my sketchbook and incorporated them into my journal pages. I am trying to add more writing to my pages, so I may add words to some of them later. I really like the idea of painting many pages ahead of time and adding a few collage elements. This gives me a choice of backgrounds when I want to start journaling on a page.

The word that got cut off by my scanner is GRATITUDE!