Drawing + Writing = Learning! Visual Art Journals

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If this project gets enough donations, 25 students in California (South) will get resources MY CLASS needs to learn!!!!!

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Sketchbook updates!!!

Here are a few more pages in the sketchbook project I am doing for the Brooklyn Art Library.

The completed book needs to be mailed in January and will tour the country with thousands of other sketchbooks in the exhibit! Cool! I will try to go to San Francisco to see it next June.

Buried in Altered Books!

I have FOUR books here to work on and send on in the altered book groups I'm in. I got 3 at once and here is the second layout I did. This theme is, A Gift From The Sea, and the colors are beach glass colors. I did a retro layout and included the poem, maggie,millie,molly and may by e.e. cummings. What do you think?

You Can Do Magic...

Here is what I did yesterday in a round robin group I'm in called We Dream in Color.

The color theme here is Greens and purples with a touch of gold and the book is titled Spells and we were to illistrate a chant, spell or recipe for something we desired. I wanted to illustrate song lyrics on my page. I journaled some of the lyrics to You Can Do Magic by America. Doo doo doo do do doo doo do do!

Traveling Sketchbook Project: The Beginning...

Here is the cover and some of the first pages of my Sketchbook Project journal. This project is sponsored by the Brooklyn Art Library and you can check it out here: Sketchbook ProjectI ordered the Moleskin journal from the project website and I need to complete the journal in any style I choose and send it back by January 15th. Thousands of artists journals will travel in the exhibit to museums around the US. They are all bar-coded and you get an e-mail whenever someone checks out your journal to look at your artwork. Cool, huh? This journal has the very thin pages so I am gluing thicker pages in to make it sturdier. I was worried about completing it in time, but because I can use sketches I have in other books I have a good start!

Memorable moments from our beach retreat

We stayed near Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and it was just beautiful!
Weston enjoying the Meditation Garden wearing his Ipod the whole time of course!
Dave and I watched the sunset one evening from the perfect viewing spot.
The coy pond at the meditation garden was awesome.
One of the only pictures we got of Dave smiling- gotcha!
The view from the top of the meditation garden-wow!
We came across a family finishing up a HUGE sandcastle on the beach- I loved the cool details.
We enjoyed gorgeous blue skies every day on our vacation.

Happy Fourth of July!

I made this for my mom's birthday, which happens to be on the fourth of July. I am also entering a challenge that Suzi Blu put out this week. She has a fabulous NING group and tons of inspiring videos and online classes. Check it out here http://www.suziblu.ning.com

My wonderful husband Dave took these pics after I gave it to mom today. I did include her feet and it has a bigger background in shabby red,white, and blue. That's her dog Abby who had 5 puppies today!