tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65991746347374372322024-03-05T09:11:26.999-07:00Road to an Art JournalFollow me down my path of Art Journaling, see where it takes me.Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-35621614570444065882013-09-11T10:18:00.000-06:002013-09-11T10:18:01.423-06:001 Year and 1 Week1 year and 1 week. That's how long I have been out of the loop. I'd say time has flown but it hasn't really. It's been a long, hard road, with many trials and tribulations. But, as always, I come out the other side with new knowledge and lessons learned. I'd like to say I am stronger for all I have learned but I wont go that far, not yet.<br />
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I'm ready to sdive back into art, I NEED the distraction. I NEED a direction. I NEED ART. I really need to put my nose to the grindstone because since July 1st I
have been keeping an "Art Journal Fodder" journal. So far, it is three
pages of thoughts, song lyrics, ideas, musings, and anything and everything else.<br />
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I worked yesterday in my inspirational journal , it was so calming, comforting, and fun! It kept me busy most of the day and helped time to pass and my mind not to be so busy and cluttered. One idea down and about 50 more to go in the "Art Journal Fodder" book. <br />
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I was going to delete this one and start a new journal as I am an avid collector of e-mail addresses, web addresses, and online interests. But something drew me back here after I spent the morning praying for a direction, guidance in my arty interests. I still may not stay here, I am considering wordpress as we speak, but first, I have to put myself back together.<br />
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Once I have decided what I am doing I will post again, maybe before as I don't know how long it's going to take me to decide. :D<br />
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<br />Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-83760996195351948072012-09-04T12:13:00.001-06:002012-09-04T12:23:57.451-06:00Face 4Got my 4th done early today during a bit of downtime and a very strange conversation with an unknown in World of Warcraft. :/<br />
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Face 4 is the little cat girl at the bottom, in case you haven't been following along. They are all rather whimsical but that's the mood I have been in lately. I haven't felt like putting forth the effort for realism. I feel like drawing something that will make me smile, or drawing what I feel inside perhaps.</div>
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I plan on coloring the piece when I get as many little faces on there as I can, with what media stands to be decided. Check back!<br />
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-89107689823275607082012-09-03T21:49:00.000-06:002012-09-03T21:54:07.286-06:00Faces 2 & 3I know, Face 2 (on the left) looks a lot like Face 1. I had to re-draw it but it is different. I went to paint Face 1 and the paper in my sketch journal did not stand up well, plus I had already over shaded with graphite so it is a muddy mess at the moment, completely destroyed. I am going to try to salvage it, but not tonight and probably not tomorrow.<br />
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So, these two ladies are on a watercolor block and once I get a few more faces in there I am going to color and embellish.<br />
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They were very therapeutic to draw today and didn't take me long at all I drew them while cooking dinner.<br />
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-75208371252304068162012-09-01T23:15:00.003-06:002012-09-03T21:51:27.623-06:00Face #1 I'm off to a fair start. I got my face done today. 28 left to go!<br />
And this is how she evolved.<br />
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-18873635431022451872012-08-30T09:38:00.001-06:002012-08-30T09:58:55.969-06:0029 Faces in SeptemberAnd here I go again! At some point in my future I WILL finish this challenge. Will it be this time? Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see, huh? I think I'm ready, prepared. But it is in my nature to always feel ready for a challenge. I will, however, keep joining as long as she keeps hosting. Rain or shine. Win, lose, or fail!<br />
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-6359876341294170822012-08-18T09:30:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:55:43.220-06:00Quote Love #1<br />
I love quotes! I love songs with lyrics that mean something to me! I have scraps upon scraps of paper in my ephemera drawer with quotes and lyrics on them. The problem with that? I can never find anything when I WANT it. EVER!<br />
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I am truly a disorganized mess when it comes to "micro-organizing". Sure, all my art supplies have a place and I am pretty good at keeping everything in its place, mostly. But it's the little things that get me, the words, letters, and pictures cut from magazines that I want to work with. My scraps of quotes in a drawer.</div>
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So, this is my attempt at organizing my favorite quotes. I am adding a few here and there to this post until it gets big enough and then I will make more. Once I see what I have, perhaps I can move onto organizing them by topic, but... baby steps.</div>
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Life is not about learning to survive the storm, but rather, learning to dance in the rain.</div>
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.<br />
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-29770036683036900972012-08-18T09:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:52:18.109-06:00My Time Away<br />
I know I have spent some time away from my blog. Life sorta piled it on. There was a family reunion, a passing of a dearly loved one, the anniversary of my own father's illness, hospitalization and ultimate passing, and there was a smattering of other familial issues and ongoings.<br />
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I was around but not "art blogging" I was also making an honest attempt at getting my business blogs off the ground and organized. Sill working on that, actually. But I expect to have a little more creative time now, well, hope. I HOPE to have a little more creative time to myself now. One of my two littles started school this year and I only have one more left at home, she is a handful though! But I hope to be starting school next week. Should I get he money to pay for school then I will become a (hopefully full time) student for a few semesters and get my degree in creative media! I plan on focusing on web page design (which I already largely know how to do, but my knowledge is, admittedly, a little dated) and photography.<br />
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So, that's where I have been. I hope to get back to arting for myself really soon (as in this afternoon!)<br />
Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-54335118843671956662012-07-07T22:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:51:31.898-06:00Arting My Heart Out!<br />
I have been keeping myself busy trying to catch up on a couple projects I have taken on. Yesterday was a particularly bad day that put me in a real low place, since I have been trying to stay away from drama of any and all sorts. I have taken my muses advice and spent more time disconnected from the awesomeness of the interwebz and cell phones.<br />
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What have I done with my time you ask? Well lemme tell you!<br />
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I took on the ICAD (index card a day) challenge for myself and I decided that I would make my official start date the 1st of July. That means I need 8 cards as of tomorrow! From there I will do one a day, unless I fall behind or something, which would never happen. Riiight.<br />
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These are what I have so far...<br />
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Tangles used in the double Zendala on ICAD #2 are Echoism, Cracked, Trentwith, Bales, Nipa, Strircles, and Eke.</div>
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Cracked & Strircles being some of my very favorites. First attempts at Trentwith & Nipa.<br />
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I started my ICAD (index card a day) Challenge today and had a ton of fun with it. I combined my ICAD with <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/p/31-hearts.html" target="_blank">31 Hearts</a>, and tossed in some Zentangle and this was the result:<br />
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The Zentangles used here are Cockles -N- Mussels, Cracked, Jax, Munchin, Sanibelle, and Ving. I had room for more, but I really felt it was done and looked nice once I had gotten this far. Cracked is one of my all time favorites, so is Jax. This was my first ever attempt at Cockles -N- Mussels, Sanibelle, and Ving.<br />
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You can find a whole database of Zentangles at <a href="http://tanglepatterns.com/">TanglePatterns.com</a>, if you're interested in learning how to Zentangle on your own, or you can look up a Certified Zentangle Teacher in your area at <a href="http://zentangle.com/">Zentangle.com</a>!<br />
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Unfortunately this ICAD, a couple backgrounds in my Gratitude Journal, a Tea with the Muse entry, and an entry into my BoD was all I got done today.<br />
Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-70367061201172133352012-07-05T12:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:49:03.354-06:0031 Hearts Challenge<br />
Ok, let's try this again...<br />
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In May I attempted the <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/p/29-faces-may.html" target="_blank">29 Faces in May Challenge</a> put up by <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ayala Art</a>. The challenge came at a bad time, I had some bad comments come at me regarding my art and it really unlocked the inner critic and let her run rampant through my head for weeks, throwing up blocks here and there, willy nilly. It also brought out some of my most despised flaws about myself and I let myself fail at it. I thought I was prepared for it, I wasn't. But hearts, I can handle hearts. THIS, I can do!<br />
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So, with that I am joining the <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.com/p/31-hearts.html" target="_blank">Ayala Art 31 Hearts Challenge</a>! I would take it a step further and say that I would film my daily heart making, but I have yet to get a good tripod for my phone.<br />
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I am also challenging myself to an Index Card A Day (ICAD)! I don't know for how long. Maybe 1, perhaps 10, or possibly 30! I know in the <a href="http://www.gulfsprite.com/artgeeks/" target="_blank">Art Geeks</a> FB group they started it a while ago, many ladies are already on 35ish. I didn't start with them, but I have been contemplating ICADs for a while! And with the hubby back at work I have a little more art time to myself, I am definitely going to use that time to my advantage!<br />
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Man, I sure wished I had that tripod...<br />
It is on my list of first things to buy once my art budget returns!<br />
Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-63210410739403559492012-07-04T17:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:49:44.779-06:00MDS in a Day Planner?<br />
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I haven't finished my Book of Days, volume 1 yet. It's actually sitting in the kitchen about 1/3 filled. But I kept missing weeks so I decided to try something a little different and I have moved on, for now. I have moved my <a href="http://bookofdays.org/" target="_blank">Book of Days</a>, my main Art Journal into a daily planner. I did this because I have gotten pretty good at keeping a daily journal, even if it's just a word to describe my day. But I am BAD at keeping up with my book of days. I really don't know why this is, and I really don't have time to sit down and figure it out. Wisest advise my Muse imparted to me is - Just to do what feels right and good! And so, I did!<br />
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At this point in the week I am not sure this "do what you feel like when you feel like it" is going to work as this page just looks like I bled all over it. : /<br />
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And this is week 1 finished. Now, I wouldn't say I have a theme, or that it represents anything. It's just what I felt like. I am not... pleased... No, my inner critic is not pleased with this page. Inner critic says it is a hot mess! But my muse says "It is what it is meant to be. Moving on!"<br />
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Ah, and P.S. the "lonely" on the neck of the girl on the right, doesn't really pertain to me actually being lonely. The daily entry reads something like (without quoting) - Hubby is going back to work and I have become used to his presence around the house on a daily basis and his help with the baby, so I expect there is going to be a little lonliness showing up in the future.<br />
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So, that's last week. I started this weeks MDS yesterday and normally I wouldn't share as I like to save it for a cohesive blog post once it's finished, but hey! I enjoyed creating this page so much yesterday, the act of laying down the bright colors of paint and coming across the girl in my magazine clippings was just pure therapy, joy, and peace!<br />
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So here is what this weeks spread started out like!<br />
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-46279941025409381912012-07-03T20:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:46:10.438-06:00Creative Spark<br />
There wasn't much art to be had around here yesterday as it was a day filled with preparation for my husband to return to work. He's been off work for over almost 5 months due to an injury that he got while working. He's had surgery and was ready to get back to work. Unfortunately it's his birthday, what a day to return to work, huh? But he has tomorrow off for the 4th of July Holiday, so that counts for something, I hope. PLus, we have ice cream cake in the freezer, that's enough right there to make anyone's day!<br />
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This morning, I woke up and felt that spark. That need to fling paint. No specific ideas, just wanting to work. It was a super productive day all around, I got quite a bit of chores done around the house and I got all kinds of arting done therefore I have stuff to blog about! I am one happy girl!<br />
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I started off with working in my Gratitude Journal. I am really making some headway at getting it caught up!<br />
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I had gotten as far as a couple layers into the background late last night as I was washing after dinner dishes. And this morning I finished my mom's page!<br />
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Moving out of the family part of my list I am moving on to more things that I am thankful for. Back in February our hot water heater died for a day. My husband was crafty enough that he got it working again (and it is STILL working *knocks on wood*) but not having something you use every day and take for granted really makes you notice how important it has become. I am DEFINITELY thankful for hot water!</div>
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I know, I am using the punchinella on EVERYTHING! I don't have any stencils right now as my craft budget went out the window while hubby has been off work. So, I was lucky enough to receive some punchinella in Happy Mail a few months ago and I use it on almost everything!! Ah well. : /</div>
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Next I took a sketch I had done last week (seen below).</div>
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I knew what I wanted to do with it but I don't have the drawing skills for it. I tried drawing flowers for her hair and that went to the dogs in about 3 minutes! So, then I had another idea...<br />
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I looked up some beautiful flowers and printed out pictures, cut them out, and voila!<br />
This is one of my most favorite pages ever!! I don't even think it needs words on it! I thought briefly about painting her, but I really liked her like she was. And now I love the flowers because they give it a 3-D effect because they aren't glues flat, most of the edges are lifted some so it just comes off the page.<br />
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My muse really came through for me today and is pretty happy with all we did!<br />
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I also finished off last weeks MDS (Multi Day Spread) in my Book of Days, and started this weeks. I will blog that tomorrow!<br />
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With that I am going to go watch Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World with my babygirl. 18 months old and she watches that movie like she knows what's going on, she LOVES it! :)<br />
Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-81300825227251918192012-06-28T07:00:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:43:51.087-06:00Soothing the Soul<br />
Yesterday I worked on something that completely soothes my soul when I do work on it, but something that I don't work on nearly enough!<br />
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My Gratitude Journal.<br />
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I have not worked in the Gratitude Journal for some time, since April, in fact! I haven't even added to my list since around that time! You can see the last time I worked in my Gratitude Journal here, <a href="http://roadtoanartjournal.blogspot.com/search/label/gratitude%20journal" target="_blank">in my old blog</a>.<br />
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Wow! That was a while ago. I always spend a few moments a day thinking of my blessings and what I am thankful for and I always think to myself that I should write some of this down. I don't, of course. I always say I will remember it later, I never do. But there is never a shortage of things I am grateful for, so I guess I had better get to work!<br />
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So this is what I completed yesterday...<br />
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Lukas' page. I used layers of red and blue acrylic paints and masking tape. This was a really fun background to do work on. Cut the letters from a magazine and used Opaque markers for the lettering. The red bleed a little into the sun and it doesn't want to cover very well but that's ok.<br />
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Lukas is my middle child, but he is my sunshine. He is the sweetest and most well behaved boy I know, always an angel. He was born 8 weeks early after a particularly rough pregnancy and didn't get to come home to me for 2 weeks. I am blessed to have him in my life.<br />
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Arianna's page. The baby of the family and totally the trouble child. At 18 months she is my mischief maker. Always into everything she shouldn't be in, but I love her. The purple paper in the bottom left with scribbles on it is her "art". She loves to have her own paper and pens when I am sketching or painting and after writing all over herself she usually gets to the paper eventually! If there is going to be an actual artist in the family, my money is on her!</div>
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And lastly, I plopped down with my sketchbook last night while watching TV and this came out. I am particularly proud of it because I am really working on shading and I think it is a pretty good attempt. Maybe I will paint it tomorrow. Maybe not. I may leave it like it is and just do something fun with hair, I have a couple good ideas.</div>
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Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-55969381903018278422012-06-27T11:30:00.000-06:002012-08-19T19:41:11.290-06:00Doodling doodles for fun<br />
Yesterday was doodle day, apparently!<br />
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It was Day 6 of Shiloh Sophia McCloud's <a href="http://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/divine-spark/#" target="_blank">Tea with the Muse</a>, in which I let my Muse choose a music station on Pandora, then I just listen and doodle, filling a whole page. Afterwards I am to try and decipher what it is that she is trying to tell me. (P.S. <a href="http://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/divine-spark/#" target="_blank">Tea with the Muse, or the Divine Spark 90 Day Practice</a> is another free program and TOTALLY awesome!)<br />
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I coupled this challenge with one from <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/" target="_blank">Motley Soul</a>. Mika's been posting weekly mixed media challenges in her free <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/group/mixed-media-challenge-group" target="_blank">challenge group</a>. I haven't had time to participate since it started, about three - four weeks ago. So, yesterday I started with number one! To find your doodle! Mika advises that the white page is the ENEMY of creativity! I agree, so I mixed some acrylics with water and went to work in my Muse Book. Once it had dried out, my muse chose a New Age station that had some AWESOME new age/oriental style music (it was TOTALLY relaxing) and I grabbed my trusty Micron 08 to commence the doodling!<br />
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Upon looking back over my page and thinking about what my Muse said to me these were my revelations regarding my Muse:</div>
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<li>My Muse said the squiggly line is my doodle and I should use it and turn it into other things, like the flower, and the butterfly. She says it has SO many uses.</li>
<li>My Muse is happy! Happy with the page, happy with being used (for lack of a better term).</li>
<li>She says I need to disconnect from media and look inside for inspiration more often during this time of growth and learning. And you know what?! It works! It's really there!</li>
<li>My Muse has made it clear that she is happy with my new Book of Days idea, for now and says we have to see how the book stands up to what we are going to do to it since it is simply a daily planner.</li>
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And I come away from yesterday's challenge feeling full of creativity but not like I have to use it OR lose it. It's a content fullness, it says it isn't going anywhere. IT? Is there another muse in there?</div>
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And to close, here is a photo of my current art journals. I call them the Fabulous Five!</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-41293695962881613522012-05-01T18:33:00.000-06:002012-05-01T19:04:41.507-06:00What was I up to today? 29 Faces in MaySo, as you may or may not know (I posted about it a couple days ago), I have joined the <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.ca/p/29-faces-may.html" target="_blank">29 Faces in May</a> challenge in which I challenge myself to create and share 29 faces within the 31 days of May! I am so excited for this challenge, already on the Facebook group I am seeing AWESOME faces being posted!<br />
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I asked my oldest child last night when he thought my first face should be and he said "Alice". Ah, Alice. I LOVE Alice! For my picture, I used American Mcgee's Alice as inspiration. I actually started drawing before I looked at any images and realized after I had the face painted and background started that I had done her hair wrong, eh, that's ok. She was just inspiration.<br />
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So, she was supposed to be a little bit mad, sadistic and dark with a hint of innocence. Well, I am still working on getting those emotions across in facial expressions and painting. But I am pretty pleased with my outcome, for me.<br />
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I got about half way through and HATED her! I am telling you, I was so frustrated with how the background was coming out and I still had hair and clothing to paint, I wasn't happy with how her face was painted, and I knew it would be forever before I was done. My inner critic almost had me convinced to toss Alice out and was in the middle of telling me that it would just be easier to draw a marker girl in my Book Of Days and just forget about this piece, when I realized, all the hard work was done! Sure, it might be a while before I was finished depending on how much I "fixed" her, but I should at least give her and myself a chance! So on I trudged...<br />
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So, there you have it! Face number 1 completed! Join me tomorrow to see how face #2 turns out!<br />
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<br />Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-11441020733735459402012-04-29T22:58:00.000-06:002012-04-29T22:58:20.259-06:00Portraits 123 Giveaway!Rhomany is giving away a spot in her new set of portraits classes!<br />
Check out her post <a href="http://rhomany.org.uk/2012/04/23/new-class-new-site-a-giveaway/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to find out more about it!Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-64083135243360543172012-04-29T13:30:00.002-06:002012-04-29T22:58:33.226-06:0029 Faces<div style="text-align: center;">
I am joining the 29 Faces in May challenge!</div>
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I'll have 31 days to make 29 faces!</div>
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I am hoping it will help me to improve my drawing skills and quality of work and maybe even form a couple new habits for daily arting and blogging.</div>
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You can find out more about the challenge <a href="http://ilove2paint.blogspot.ca/p/29-faces-may.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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I haven't been as active in my art as I have promised myself, as I always plan to be and because of this my art supplies have migrated yet again in search of the perfect place for me to "art". This time, it's the kitchen! Yesterday I posted to my sisters in the <a href="http://bookofdays.org/" target="_blank">Book of Days</a> facebook group that I was having problems finding time with chores and my little ones around to get projects underway, completed, and even just holding onto good ideas for my art! Well they inspired me with their advice, ideas, and input on how they do things to move into the room I spend most of my time in! Thank you ladies, you have done my heart good!<br>
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Even though the dining room is only a room away from the kitchen, in fact, it's practically the SAME room, I can't seem to get in there and BE creative. I guess, maybe, I don't like the room. I don't like it's set up, or perhaps its lighting options. The over head light gets so hot when it is turned on and up, and with summer right around the corner I know that this is going to cause trouble. The overhead light also provides light with just a hint of an orange tint, only slightly annoying and off-putting, especially since the room is usually so dark that you need the light even in the daytime!<br>
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But in the kitchen, there is a big window that catches morning light so wonderfully (in fact, that's going on my gratitude list today, that window in the morning), it doesn't have the most spectacular view, the backyard and our dog that desperately needs to be groomed, our neighbors house, some power lines, and the tops of the trees at the park, but it is such a wonderful window to open up in the morning, and morning is usually when I feel the best so I HAVE to enjoy it!<br>
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I didn't move everything. I figured most things could stay in their storage places in the dining room, I use our hutch for art supply storage. I just moved in the things that I love to play with the most, things that inspire me when I have them near at hand. My gesso and paints in a plastic tote, watercolor crayons, pens and markers, brushes, and a trash bowl. Simple!<br>
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So, I went straight to play after moving my things around and a few more things joined me in the kitchen, a tub of scrap paper and ephemera and a stack of magazines I have had sitting around for a couple months now. First I started cutting apart one of the magazines and while I was doing that I realized that I hated the first spread in my Gratitude Journal, so I decided to change it! I don't think I still have a photo of what it was before, but below is what I did with it.<br>
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Yeah, I am pretty happy with it. In all honestly I do feel like it needs something more, but I also feel like I will know it when I see it! Maybe when I am cutting pictures and words from magazines, or maybe next time I go to the store.</div>
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My Gratitude Journal is a small moleskine knock off with lines. I have taken two pages at a time and glued them together to make them sturdy enough to withstand some art, and so far, it's working pretty well, at least it didn't disintegrate like the larger one that I had and glued 4-5 pages together at a time (too much stress on the binding, I learned). </div>
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So, that's my gratitude in the kitchen studio thus far today. I am happy and arty. And, every time I go into the kitchen for something I splash some paint on something or glue something down, I have pages going in both my Gratitude Journal and my Book of Days at the moment.</div>
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I think I will make much progress in this room because it is where I spend most of my time cooking and washing dishes (the perpetual and hated chore), this will also probably help me keep the kitchen substantially cleaner as I wash dishes and do other chores while waiting for paint, glue and gesso to dry. The only downfall of this room so far, no seat! I can see now that I am going to have to invest in a stool and fast!!<br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>My baby girl sat in her highchair while I got my art on!</i></span></div>
</div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-75635819210976683722012-04-18T08:00:00.003-06:002012-04-18T08:00:05.337-06:00Lifebook Lesson 14 - Honoring your (my) Past<div style="text-align: center;">This is our week 14 lesson in <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration">Lifebook</a>.<br />I have been an unruly student and have jumped around a bunch in the <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration">Lifebook</a> course so you will often see the weeks out of order. Here I just picked the most recent lesson that Tam had posted and ran with it!<br /><br />I started this page last week, and as you can see below, she went through many processes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N1KosRDv2lMFpWdQgawHc-sAeU5foqaDKtgzNBhtUwSfOVXmPOVzjxgeQuelcOMmGpNWSy0ktXKsqG9KV3LQayVNQxPU2FMhDKze2344ijqWj64wbkuA-1cg0tYe88wjlkf7o3d6-JsS/s1600/2012-04-11_22-10-38_532.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8N1KosRDv2lMFpWdQgawHc-sAeU5foqaDKtgzNBhtUwSfOVXmPOVzjxgeQuelcOMmGpNWSy0ktXKsqG9KV3LQayVNQxPU2FMhDKze2344ijqWj64wbkuA-1cg0tYe88wjlkf7o3d6-JsS/s400/2012-04-11_22-10-38_532.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732455065827525906" border="0" /></a><br />This is how she started out, I was most proud of this drawing because I didn't have to refer to my drawing notebook to be able to complete the face.<br />Not once did I refer to my learning materials! I am getting it!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qFwvRLeerNtPDDcALI5MQ-DtFPNh1VdOrZVWXZ0xCacsnMjBP3tXQEYMNIpi8gigUaXf1L3GyZBHM9JCnrzuidh2ch_lf8N5QVL3gh6LJdQEKNuimhKqz6VRyxs_mJE0YzlPTEImJ7j8/s1600/2012-04-16_20-40-39_700.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qFwvRLeerNtPDDcALI5MQ-DtFPNh1VdOrZVWXZ0xCacsnMjBP3tXQEYMNIpi8gigUaXf1L3GyZBHM9JCnrzuidh2ch_lf8N5QVL3gh6LJdQEKNuimhKqz6VRyxs_mJE0YzlPTEImJ7j8/s400/2012-04-16_20-40-39_700.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732455069817169426" border="0" /></a><br />Then I watercolored her face and worked on some shading. Shading is always difficult for me but, practice makes perfect right?!? Have to keep after it.<br />I got her roughly where I wanted her without too much fuss but then she sat for several days, I had lost interest and I didn't know where I was going with her.<br />Last night I sat down and re-watched Tam's videos and worked along with her and this is where it took me...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrdmBBKmVsjF2VRzKUp9oljoGKN0ScCe5MOHzsV68fSSXdQQCtKsmZYdBkA8PkL3UCwZT7ppeC6WHpoL16r3xaOaof79PIgJ77sAAnIwb1BHo3Rdr_LNBPJLy6hTCxnmio-oLeKLaFP4Y/s1600/2012-04-16_21-58-45_278.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzrdmBBKmVsjF2VRzKUp9oljoGKN0ScCe5MOHzsV68fSSXdQQCtKsmZYdBkA8PkL3UCwZT7ppeC6WHpoL16r3xaOaof79PIgJ77sAAnIwb1BHo3Rdr_LNBPJLy6hTCxnmio-oLeKLaFP4Y/s400/2012-04-16_21-58-45_278.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732455079342978514" border="0" /></a><br />It was around here that her hair had changed. I had lost the outline of the short "do" that I had penciled in but it didn't seem to fit anymore. I don't know why she turned out this way but I was lead to it and it feels right.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDqk-2wHce6H3JcFxOMRjtLgt3Wv0ZFNkCXCrzfoGkqnSVvfZQyGY7JPxqhnqw4E0XVh8O6CCur_nr_OE1yAiPIv-IV-yT6op_z8l3raJm3ZFY7U3KNkBMNTIMu7Ym8netkgforAj0huvh/s1600/2012-04-16_23-41-48_664.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDqk-2wHce6H3JcFxOMRjtLgt3Wv0ZFNkCXCrzfoGkqnSVvfZQyGY7JPxqhnqw4E0XVh8O6CCur_nr_OE1yAiPIv-IV-yT6op_z8l3raJm3ZFY7U3KNkBMNTIMu7Ym8netkgforAj0huvh/s400/2012-04-16_23-41-48_664.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732455090155046866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZ2h1M3zW1ad6bqL33SHKMdn47JwiOw-3nHbaqsmdFPMIxYyi1COX95BpYD4Djipy85EdUxRkoC8rIDFfej7VezdnYMYX9jRRmkS7rRIlnDlWrKoNwCD3YCeXC7WcpZla7GXgwhM38T0F/s1600/2012-04-17_08-43-01_447.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZ2h1M3zW1ad6bqL33SHKMdn47JwiOw-3nHbaqsmdFPMIxYyi1COX95BpYD4Djipy85EdUxRkoC8rIDFfej7VezdnYMYX9jRRmkS7rRIlnDlWrKoNwCD3YCeXC7WcpZla7GXgwhM38T0F/s400/2012-04-17_08-43-01_447.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732455100742673970" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Voila!<br />Well, it is missing a fold out piece but I have yet to come up with something creative to do that will not cover my picture.<br /><br />I am really enjoying the Lifebook course, many of the lessons are really fun and interesting!<br /><br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-4127855445504735302012-04-17T09:54:00.010-06:002012-04-17T12:29:14.620-06:00Last Week's BOD Spread<div style="text-align: center;">For the first time in over a month I finished a <a href="http://bookofdays.org/">Book of Days</a> spread and it felt soooo good!<br />It FEELS good to get back to art. I have been arting a lot in the past week. About half way through the week I was starting to get discouraged, specifically in my <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration">Lifebook</a> page. I had hoped to sit down and art it out! One day, done! Alas, that's not my life, there are little interruptions, BIG interruptions, bad days, busy-ness, and plain old laziness. But, I belong to a group on Facebook for the Book of Days and it has evolved into the most wonderful of support systems! When I am feeling down it's what I surf around on for a while and I always come away with a smile for I have found art posted by my sisters to inspire me or I have witnessed someone post with honesty about how they may need positive energy/prayers sent their way and I have seen a group of women swoop in to the rescue to offer prayers, love, support, and kind words. It leaves one with the most wonderful feeling that there are indeed still wonderful people in this world and this is just a sampling of such good hearts.<br /><a href="http://effythewild.typepad.com/effy/2012/04/bawdess.html">Effy Wild's blog post really says it all.</a> <3<br /><br />And so, onto the art...<br /><br />I have been loosely following along with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's <a href="http://balzerdesigns.com/30Days.html">30 Days in your Art Journal</a>.<br />Well, I bought and paid for the class and finished week one with no problems in March.<br />But then, in week two she does this awesome spread where she uses tags to journal on and I kept putting it off, meaning to buy the tags but never getting around to it. Weeks slipped on by and I started looking around my house for things to use instead, don't get me wrong, Julie offered up several awesome substitutions but I REALLY just wanted tags.<br />Finally the 1st of April rolled around and I knew I had been art-less for too long.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoARkmdcDsY-fBJJJo-KXOf4w__tEmxv1yiOSXTSuxUyDmKlsJjpOw8FJ2pa_5Wt2bJuxkVF4gb6VUU_SnVCSnZ_1bN4XCNlHVMkdfElrJty1_V1FkMVFpK8ds3Wc-vzja7TCtPWUR4JFy/s1600/2012-04-11_13-01-12_125.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoARkmdcDsY-fBJJJo-KXOf4w__tEmxv1yiOSXTSuxUyDmKlsJjpOw8FJ2pa_5Wt2bJuxkVF4gb6VUU_SnVCSnZ_1bN4XCNlHVMkdfElrJty1_V1FkMVFpK8ds3Wc-vzja7TCtPWUR4JFy/s400/2012-04-11_13-01-12_125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732406827465386610" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >This is the background as it sat for over a month, untouched.</span><br /><br />Painted with wet craft acrylics, I did the base in apple green over a non-gessoed page, then smeared a corner with another craft acrylic in a shimmery red which just turned out to be pink.<br />Stamped the circles with a toilet tissue roll and black acrylic paint.<br />Then I took my most favorite shimmery purple craft acrylic and colored some circles in and then painted some clear glitter acrylic paint over them because there just wasn't enough sparkle.<br />Yum, loving glitter.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hLAPk_ndoQcpWEuOW94Jo4dCE80GCHTUBD2rm2mSU7kB3sfiDPXyA_5ehICxR0ewZHqPgJPP0xXtGRxcIN3wicDaHgkxfu9yCLUm7hpbfX6K1zPxthOwGlOa1jMMILeusFET5Ca5jH_u/s1600/2012-04-11_13-01-42_537.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9hLAPk_ndoQcpWEuOW94Jo4dCE80GCHTUBD2rm2mSU7kB3sfiDPXyA_5ehICxR0ewZHqPgJPP0xXtGRxcIN3wicDaHgkxfu9yCLUm7hpbfX6K1zPxthOwGlOa1jMMILeusFET5Ca5jH_u/s400/2012-04-11_13-01-42_537.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732406839934896018" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lHKLHmiOYpOtawJGsV66ezITNpWim-YHXDXm65SRJP4Isry5e7ABFgaYMLTex1NtNmkXA716j5MgdkO7A2IXZvLciItyTl1b3xKKAYz-b1Hf7Oo_IlgLOESL26zRJfegnxsgmTTU72Fh/s1600/2012-04-11_13-02-44_898.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lHKLHmiOYpOtawJGsV66ezITNpWim-YHXDXm65SRJP4Isry5e7ABFgaYMLTex1NtNmkXA716j5MgdkO7A2IXZvLciItyTl1b3xKKAYz-b1Hf7Oo_IlgLOESL26zRJfegnxsgmTTU72Fh/s400/2012-04-11_13-02-44_898.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732406845515747474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Gratuitous glitter close-ups!</span><br /><br />So after a month of ignoring my <a href="http://bookofdays.org/">BOD</a> I decided it was time to move forward and put this pretty background to use! I had considered using those subscribe postcards that fall out of magazines<br />(I started collecting them from all over), but they were a little too busy for my liking,<br />I considered card stock cut in the shape of tags or just in funky shapes but it seemed to plain.<br />And one day I was cleaning and re-organizing all my supplies and I found a stack of<br />multi-colored post its and that was IT!<br />They were bright and colorful but still a little plain for my liking, so I took a total of 12 of them and painted them all different with my watercolor crayons and then sprayed them with a spray I made from my shimmery red acrylic paint and water<br />(Again, it turned out pink, not red! Oh well!)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZd1fDm9UGNrnB-708tTwQqq9RYSQFIHzaiBGVnsl_C6PkG2qMO09e8zBU6GvmnmvuzOFTb1dq4ix3S8T0Kn8u3VS1e6QWqn5LbGdHSEg-HQUFQq1vvQnws1AugqyQ2kRh4pZ4CcoXRM14/s1600/2012-04-11_13-03-39_586.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZd1fDm9UGNrnB-708tTwQqq9RYSQFIHzaiBGVnsl_C6PkG2qMO09e8zBU6GvmnmvuzOFTb1dq4ix3S8T0Kn8u3VS1e6QWqn5LbGdHSEg-HQUFQq1vvQnws1AugqyQ2kRh4pZ4CcoXRM14/s400/2012-04-11_13-03-39_586.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732406854283111794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Shiiiiiiimmmmmmmmerrrrrrrrr!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWRe8CmMlBR5UCrLMnYrHmcRQFixkEwAEUz6bkOHB1FTs-7WytkQLhWV4_1RKfOTF1TxxV8GQ_Ohdl6DyLCGVi9P8RhWCTXNiquAEmhgb2Z61n6RI9ERaXn8QQPHFacTKy_lGRn6voTjH/s1600/2012-04-11_13-37-01_780.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWRe8CmMlBR5UCrLMnYrHmcRQFixkEwAEUz6bkOHB1FTs-7WytkQLhWV4_1RKfOTF1TxxV8GQ_Ohdl6DyLCGVi9P8RhWCTXNiquAEmhgb2Z61n6RI9ERaXn8QQPHFacTKy_lGRn6voTjH/s400/2012-04-11_13-37-01_780.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732406860457551794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Stacked in sets of 2 for journaling in a possible layout plan.</span></span><br /><br />So, then the work started! This was one of the easiest journal layouts to keep up with!<br />I just tucked the sets of 2 glued together post its in my book and everyday I would pull a set out and journal on it and glue it down!<br />The layout was pretty much complete, I just had to journal!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_bKqIu_TwF3q2djLIwaeblTKKy3R7Vs0Z8rAhETCZP7r9odrj8ofv3MgYTpQs3EUbZVM8KZ-AE0l0LzeduzQ8rufgVJ7fA9QNnZE-RoWNXTEMJoxEpvAa3pu74tTKitG7JDwPLKURIEX/s1600/2012-04-13_15-06-21_25.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_bKqIu_TwF3q2djLIwaeblTKKy3R7Vs0Z8rAhETCZP7r9odrj8ofv3MgYTpQs3EUbZVM8KZ-AE0l0LzeduzQ8rufgVJ7fA9QNnZE-RoWNXTEMJoxEpvAa3pu74tTKitG7JDwPLKURIEX/s400/2012-04-13_15-06-21_25.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732421454806540546" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Half finished!</span><br /><br />My layout ran from Wednesday, April 11th to Monday, the 16th.<br />Somewhere in there I had decided that I needed something more and I cut some post its into three equal pieces and watercolored them and glued them in thinking I would write important words or something on them or something that would pertain to each day but I was undecided so they stayed blank for a day or two.<br />On Sunday, I realized that I should just incorporate my daily prayer journal into my BOD because I have been a bad panda and haven't been keeping up with it at all!<br />I belong to a <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/group/30-day-prayer-journal-group">30 Day Prayer Journal</a> group on <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/">Motley Soul</a>, and Mika is usually so good about posting a scripture daily and thus far I glued and clipped all the ones from March into a composition notebook, but I hadn't done anything in April.<br />So, why not put those in my BOD!?!<br />I mean, I joined the group wanting to make scripture and prayer a bigger part of my life!<br />Well that's what I did!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8xVRwUn8BaOEGrygIWizym0aOvTGVzQL_CWC8ULlh3bE2wJJCTAVQ3C6iuSCmUScowlGMjYugrI_QhwigENGT1zFMbvRWh8VI2sGciAEhvOqREd7EEwKghThNrcvc4T0esOeK0N_LtUp/s1600/2012-04-16_21-57-35_91.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8xVRwUn8BaOEGrygIWizym0aOvTGVzQL_CWC8ULlh3bE2wJJCTAVQ3C6iuSCmUScowlGMjYugrI_QhwigENGT1zFMbvRWh8VI2sGciAEhvOqREd7EEwKghThNrcvc4T0esOeK0N_LtUp/s400/2012-04-16_21-57-35_91.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732421469682649970" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The finished page!</span><br /><br />On Monday I got Happy Mail from on of my BOD Sisters and in the envelope was my very first row house, some awesome napkins and papers, paper doilies and PUNCHINELLA!<br />I have been wanting some but found none in my small, small town, and I never get to go to the city anymore, so I was SO thankful that my sister H. Crump sent some to me!<br />To commemorate my first bit of punchinella, I used it!<br />As a stencil first with orange paint and I also cut off a small bit and glued it onto the corner!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMRkby23eVvMxNAVK8S5F7cACEpFw-RcLllTdwiS1u0bL6bElCEz4fGifvAKrsx5Q3pUURB1y9fLfQzIYTqrN_cRLeVqtwEstB-Ltixx25LBOgBLw8r0vG8nNMBqu8m7pdUjtpUfdezJY/s1600/2012-04-16_21-57-24_654.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMRkby23eVvMxNAVK8S5F7cACEpFw-RcLllTdwiS1u0bL6bElCEz4fGifvAKrsx5Q3pUURB1y9fLfQzIYTqrN_cRLeVqtwEstB-Ltixx25LBOgBLw8r0vG8nNMBqu8m7pdUjtpUfdezJY/s400/2012-04-16_21-57-24_654.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732421459260953394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Had to take a picture with the light hitting the shimmer paint.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRaTow6DU36j5psFTDkqHvg0jdiRovI1gv5d4UmwlvRr8TVClHIyYKlZWeZi3xFczvxUXQTPlKuLlVLSTngZbzi7j1zfDrQxA1OjKUwIsInvdOfPOjxpXQhR4-Z2i6Q_z3CYWk9Otrb0so/s1600/2012-04-16_21-58-14_239.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRaTow6DU36j5psFTDkqHvg0jdiRovI1gv5d4UmwlvRr8TVClHIyYKlZWeZi3xFczvxUXQTPlKuLlVLSTngZbzi7j1zfDrQxA1OjKUwIsInvdOfPOjxpXQhR4-Z2i6Q_z3CYWk9Otrb0so/s400/2012-04-16_21-58-14_239.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732421479837645058" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And finally, showing most of the glued in scriptures!</span></span><br /><br />And that's it for Tuesday's blog!<br />I finished two other projects yesterday/last night as well but I am going to blog about them one at a time and will schedule them to post the next two days so check back I am trying to make blogging a more regular thing!<br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-12432201744869276992012-04-12T08:00:00.000-06:002012-04-12T08:00:10.051-06:00Book of Days<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0bPtl8aCf6OgoxAgIAvJcem9joFs7sj92PyWSuo3F4X_7ZdsMutE0eCJTceuXF_iY8OdBpeOjYQVwrs7DDUXdHSYpAsXy31Zffks27yxG1thh6zDBxYyRVsQruM1y-m5etpvxF_8EFiu/s1600/2012-04-11_10-12-35_883.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 503px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0bPtl8aCf6OgoxAgIAvJcem9joFs7sj92PyWSuo3F4X_7ZdsMutE0eCJTceuXF_iY8OdBpeOjYQVwrs7DDUXdHSYpAsXy31Zffks27yxG1thh6zDBxYyRVsQruM1y-m5etpvxF_8EFiu/s400/2012-04-11_10-12-35_883.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730191197882705778" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is the last page that I completed in my Book of Days for the week of March 3rd!<br />I am such a bad bad girl!<br /><br />And again, instead of trying to make up a month and make myself totally miserable (though I do have the daily journaling done in my day planner), I am just gonna let it go and start anew right now! No sense dwelling in the past and being hard on myself for procrastinating, it will only feed procrastination, laziness, and depression.<br /><br />You might sort of recognize the layout, it's my interpretation of a lesson in a class I had started.<br />I had started Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's <a href="http://balzerdesigns.com/30Days.html">30 Days in your Art Journal</a> and I had completed the first spread and totally was loving on the class when life took a bit of a detour and my Book of Days was interrupted, again!<br />But now, I am really going to make an honest attempt at forming a daily arting/journaling habit.<br />I am INSPIRED!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT_7S9XXWMkioxFlAyKUdULO5kC4ExjRYq4iYR0A_ugfUNR004TFWmxXUlWVo6D9tS5NvzzmiYtSzt7qjkdpJlvGlA3XEG2xH7Uf8hXqmvKMvvvg9N5ng2EsBNqZQFWgVrGrm5f62SeJVR/s1600/2012-04-11_10-13-10_958.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT_7S9XXWMkioxFlAyKUdULO5kC4ExjRYq4iYR0A_ugfUNR004TFWmxXUlWVo6D9tS5NvzzmiYtSzt7qjkdpJlvGlA3XEG2xH7Uf8hXqmvKMvvvg9N5ng2EsBNqZQFWgVrGrm5f62SeJVR/s400/2012-04-11_10-13-10_958.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730192032445849346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-5215080829553748922012-04-11T10:40:00.002-06:002012-04-11T10:42:01.839-06:00My mind and its magnificent walls<div style="text-align: center;">I have been around but I haven't been very active with art of any kind and it makes me a sad person, I think, to not work on art.<br /><br />Though, I discovered just how clever my mind has been lately at keeping me from starting/completing projects or working in my journal. My craft area has been a wreck for over a month now and I usually just look at the mess and sigh, perhaps I wish I had a maid or could blink and make everything clean again, at the very least I just wish for the energy to get something done. I haven't had a lot of energy lately. But on Monday I woke up with an immense amount of drive to get some things done around the house and that helped, A LOT! I got the kitchen clean with the exception of the pantry and fridge. I also got the dining room sorted out and my craft supplies re-organized in there! Now I have a place to art and can find my things when I need to!<br /><br />So after all that was done, I was wiped out! So I took my sketch book to bed with me and I intended to play with drawing eyes. Lesson 2 of my <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/page/face-2-face-drawing-workshop">Face to Face</a> class, yes, I am still only on lesson 2! But my sketch book sat there for the entirety of the night, every time I saw it my mind came up with SOMETHING new.<br />These are thoughts that have occupied my brain when thinking about working on eyes...<br />-You've worked too hard today and you're shaky, why don't you give it a day or two?<br />-You're OK at eyes, you know how to draw the basics, what do you need to finish that lesson for?<br />-Eyes are NO FUN to draw, plus you aren't any good at them, just move on. (Notice the conflicting thoughts there?)<br />-You should print out the pictures of faces but you're almost out of ink, oh well, guess we'll do it another day.<br /><br />So, somewhere along the way I decided to bite the bullet and work on some eyes. I snapped some pictures with my phone camera of the faces (eyes) I had looked up on the computer so that I could draw while Anthony played his game and off to drawing I went.<br /><br />First was a worksheet on which I was supposed to draw three sets of eyes in boxes, I started on the first set reluctantly but by the time I finished them I was having fun! Imagine that, FUN! I easily finished the last two sets and I realized they weren't perfect, far from, but I was OK with that, I just wanted to draw more eyes!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANtI1seYP020IBycKeC30fAjqUl0nVOwAIIdWYha2e9G-JmNhK5t9UxI06dMOELxLQmcAmweCWPRRqaBdNEwZX8grMYpxOQkl78kLSYwXYgR-D_-ZpkV9aH2YDUzREusIGo9Lnty0JLIN/s1600/2012-04-10_19-06-05_877.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANtI1seYP020IBycKeC30fAjqUl0nVOwAIIdWYha2e9G-JmNhK5t9UxI06dMOELxLQmcAmweCWPRRqaBdNEwZX8grMYpxOQkl78kLSYwXYgR-D_-ZpkV9aH2YDUzREusIGo9Lnty0JLIN/s400/2012-04-10_19-06-05_877.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730180415763318834" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Here's my worksheet.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />So, then, I got out my phone and worked on drawing a pretty set of Asian eyes. Unfortunately this was the only set I finished before bed, but I was looking forward to drawing more, and I did, I finished off the exercise yesterday and am looking forward to moving into Lesson 3!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30bGAYdsLFbptg8gVcAmCBtW6jM_SYSvBvPILKTaPvrHuuvemP0BliczGnWVKT8lIfcEWXh-tiQDs5IEYD9g7QOo4FCDlDNvlEcRhsUHoi9cRgsZw4mBci0xiJaESgeXYTv9WeVkuuyj0/s1600/2012-04-10_19-00-18_878.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30bGAYdsLFbptg8gVcAmCBtW6jM_SYSvBvPILKTaPvrHuuvemP0BliczGnWVKT8lIfcEWXh-tiQDs5IEYD9g7QOo4FCDlDNvlEcRhsUHoi9cRgsZw4mBci0xiJaESgeXYTv9WeVkuuyj0/s400/2012-04-10_19-00-18_878.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730180424786710978" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Working on getting comfortable drawing from pictures.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vOlxLAXAEJolic0QtvjiG4Ixd1OCzBq-KMRl1zVwS_Jni6RrS4CLVlOv6uMx_5o8oistAvXiaQqmzZSAz3Mc6o-bJCmdVSBOv7Ntfuj8tTWu85UMtgHTV6pd5dzKFwyLYdPlL5iKerpC/s1600/2012-04-10_23-27-47_284.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vOlxLAXAEJolic0QtvjiG4Ixd1OCzBq-KMRl1zVwS_Jni6RrS4CLVlOv6uMx_5o8oistAvXiaQqmzZSAz3Mc6o-bJCmdVSBOv7Ntfuj8tTWu85UMtgHTV6pd5dzKFwyLYdPlL5iKerpC/s400/2012-04-10_23-27-47_284.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730180430132353826" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sans eyelashes, eyebrows and most shading,<br />just trying to get to where I shut my mind down and draw what I see.</span></span><br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-3222640809744815642012-03-06T02:00:00.006-07:002012-03-06T02:57:28.489-07:00Life Book Week 5 - Kylie's Lesson<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blissfulpumpkin.blogspot.com/">Kylie's</a> lesson in week 5 of <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration">Life Book</a> was both inspirational and so much fun!<br />It took me 6 days to complete it and I definitely had some moments in which I wanted to rip it apart and throw it away, but I just put it away for the day and picked it up the next.<br />I tried to make sure that I did something on it everyday.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnUmSjA9vPr9TqdymRjYQDFFNiApaWjEzEWFsRjhKO8e-uebgxmx5cZ1-amJZjjXq1s6qWUuMZ96KL2g3zW5qfIUpkWK5tdwFIKljYUScyKqURhQtlsTpCRoK2Yg0O78cZSj_IfQuv38Z/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJnUmSjA9vPr9TqdymRjYQDFFNiApaWjEzEWFsRjhKO8e-uebgxmx5cZ1-amJZjjXq1s6qWUuMZ96KL2g3zW5qfIUpkWK5tdwFIKljYUScyKqURhQtlsTpCRoK2Yg0O78cZSj_IfQuv38Z/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709835958341394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It started with a tissue paper and scrapbook paper collage, a layer of gesso and a layer of watered down pink acrylic paint, then a watered down layer of brown acrylic paint.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgpx26_jVWGX5bZHgltLetaBTZGFrO6iM89PrNXlL_Xfv3BVNgqUUwP68KSvTs78_PdRNoguK085IrVxKt5hwUXY2douRzBAT4sT8b1oMl2U-RfPCHE6N0HWDqzrOTAp6BMBde6XBAzt3/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-1a.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgpx26_jVWGX5bZHgltLetaBTZGFrO6iM89PrNXlL_Xfv3BVNgqUUwP68KSvTs78_PdRNoguK085IrVxKt5hwUXY2douRzBAT4sT8b1oMl2U-RfPCHE6N0HWDqzrOTAp6BMBde6XBAzt3/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-1a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709834812826994" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Next, I started working on the background.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">These are a selection of words that I feel describe me.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiivx5lCsgEpkjVIn2OxcWH4L5-NlrJhFtquNuqoYy7lzPi1l5JsEIm4gqEfulTI3BCHhjw67bqhfrgrIl85eXjuUGzb6iV4cyJpriAL6o4dbbfB9ElZf6vo4bKTj9x2oe2I9g8139bh9A/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiivx5lCsgEpkjVIn2OxcWH4L5-NlrJhFtquNuqoYy7lzPi1l5JsEIm4gqEfulTI3BCHhjw67bqhfrgrIl85eXjuUGzb6iV4cyJpriAL6o4dbbfB9ElZf6vo4bKTj9x2oe2I9g8139bh9A/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709840451256066" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I worked on clothing and color a wee bit and totally messed up my own teeth!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnqxWHJSYcbVaqAHFLF4MlPfXleL7K4ETeTcxru5ASSIwEbtQnXMr_5DqSBfHyMPNfX7Y_Y_HOoRTsbnHkJGkvzfVQhHDvZxRQTIvK7chcZzOvaXEa1G2npxMYDbD4r2Hw4XQ_yjPgLJG/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnqxWHJSYcbVaqAHFLF4MlPfXleL7K4ETeTcxru5ASSIwEbtQnXMr_5DqSBfHyMPNfX7Y_Y_HOoRTsbnHkJGkvzfVQhHDvZxRQTIvK7chcZzOvaXEa1G2npxMYDbD4r2Hw4XQ_yjPgLJG/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709847101431362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And finally I reached a point where I was pretty happy with my project!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWwUwnztvVe9eSwquF5li7tOhy0xkPBJ6dMS-RRcWGrLzeAqwK5-DVGnw626K095OKW6gCKJQ4zd9sDcj2HUUZJPErTs7TQZgp2nJRws6Qm70yQt5c6Fz6fFjTwtOq1otxE9GmN65MNQf/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6e.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWwUwnztvVe9eSwquF5li7tOhy0xkPBJ6dMS-RRcWGrLzeAqwK5-DVGnw626K095OKW6gCKJQ4zd9sDcj2HUUZJPErTs7TQZgp2nJRws6Qm70yQt5c6Fz6fFjTwtOq1otxE9GmN65MNQf/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709950966772546" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I was not super happy with the paper I used underneath the face, it ended up being a lined scrapbook paper and I hadn't realized that until after I got the photo transfer of the face down, but oh well.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">And, while I was burnishing the photo transfer it started to peel! Oh no!</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I just went with it though.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB66zORU6uFXLDkhaFsRmEL4QnGE2inCHelppyzaLQGx8Z6YBLWCR2C8dZr93qTLvQwbpjTWE6IA8X_aNoQIQHeMuJsBFBXTylythxmL1pI-TZvfx2UBdSmtuFhtRwJ1ks_w2ixT4s63l9/s1600/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6c.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB66zORU6uFXLDkhaFsRmEL4QnGE2inCHelppyzaLQGx8Z6YBLWCR2C8dZr93qTLvQwbpjTWE6IA8X_aNoQIQHeMuJsBFBXTylythxmL1pI-TZvfx2UBdSmtuFhtRwJ1ks_w2ixT4s63l9/s400/LB-January-Kylie+Fowler-QueenInside3-6c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716709851708349538" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">After I finished burnishing the transfer I still had to shade it in and add some color and while it is not perfect, I really ended up liking this project! It was a really great learning experience, it inspired me, gave me a hundred more ideas, and I think that photo transfers are going to become one of my most favorite new techniques!</span><br /><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Yes indeedy!</span><br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-34551868913881296782012-03-04T14:16:00.004-07:002012-03-04T14:48:46.024-07:0030 Days in your Art Journal<div style="text-align: center;">I bounded into a small amount of extra money and I signed up for yet another class!<br />This'll probably be the last for a bit but I should have plenty to blog about with all the classes and challenges I have taken on.<br />Just soaking up the art, thanks.<br /><br />So, my new class is <a href="http://balzerdesigns.com/30Days.html">30 Days in your Art Journal</a> with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and just two days in and I simply ADORE it!<br />I went to get back into my Book of Days because I had been neglecting it and I found that I was completely blocked. I was so worried about all the time I had missed and overwhelmed with the fact that I would have to make all of that up. I have been keeping up with a daily journal in my day planner, mostly these symptoms I suffer but often notes about what inspires me or what I am thankful for. But I let it go so long that all I could think about what how overwhelming it would be to catch up. And thus, I kept tucking my Book of Days back at the bottom of my stack of journals.<br />:(<br /><br />So, last night I made a decision to wipe the slate clean and "forgive" the time I fell behind. I came up with this idea...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl1UXkgzYwFUyIwZM_oBHa66sJsgqM9UE9ETznKniNLcTLgVt24lPYSSzr1lnc4g4GIjGFF-Na2PRTGTCTr_GgwG3DiLKUz0-PgWPuIZquIYikZDRxiBaCfPY3b5jW4eSutbolToHVQFm/s1600/2012-03-04_13-49-29_940.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl1UXkgzYwFUyIwZM_oBHa66sJsgqM9UE9ETznKniNLcTLgVt24lPYSSzr1lnc4g4GIjGFF-Na2PRTGTCTr_GgwG3DiLKUz0-PgWPuIZquIYikZDRxiBaCfPY3b5jW4eSutbolToHVQFm/s400/2012-03-04_13-49-29_940.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716155901292213650" border="0" /></a><br />Picture is a little blurry, I think I had a fingerprint on my lens.<br /><br />So, what I did was took a printed picture from the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, I think it was one of their wallpapers.<br />I simply folded it in half and tore around the edges, slapped it in the book with some Mod Podge, scribbled with watercolor crayons all around the edge, and wet that up with a brush with water and gesso on it.<br />When dry I wrote about the game having kept me busy and away from art for so long.<br />There, slate = clean!<br />Moving on!<br /><br />The next page is the first day of my <a href="http://balzerdesigns.com/30Days.html">30 Days in your Art Journal</a> and while I have pictures of it in the process, I really don't want to share it until it's a completed page. At the very least, until I have more than a couple pictures to show off.<br />I am enjoying this class greatly though, I can see myself going through it a couple times through until some of the processes are ingrained as habits.<br /><br />I am also still taking my <a href="http://willowing.ning.com/page/life-book-2012-open-for-registration">Life Book</a> course. I hit a bit of a snag with one of the lessons and lost interest for a while. But I recently wandered back in and moved on to the next lesson and am having a blast with it. I will just go back to the one I skipped later, I am sure it will hold more relevance to me at a later time.<br /><br />I am also immensely enjoying my <a href="http://motleysoulmixedmedia.com/page/face-2-face-drawing-workshop">Face 2 Face class</a>, in which Mika is teaching us how to draw faces!<br />This class has to be my most favorite because I am learning SO much from it, but I am taking it real slow and getting in a lot of practice tries into my sketch journal. I don't sketch everyday but I would say that I make some effort about 5 days a week.<br />I wont inundate you with magazine sketches until I come up with something really good!<br /><br />So, there is my current class review. So far I haven't regretted a penny spent on any of my classes.<br />And I even have a wish list of classes to take or things to learn, including.<br />I hear <a href="http://rhomany.org.uk/">Rhomany</a> has a great Lettering class, I could stand to learn how to draw letters better.<br />And I have always wanted to take the <a href="http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/christytomlinson/sheartworkshop.html">She Art</a> workshop by Christy Tomlinson.<br />And lastly, I am really interested in <a href="http://www.paintingherselfintobeing.com/angels-in-my-studio/?hop=kpepfowl">Angels in my Studio</a>, a class I stumbled across while surfing blogs!<br /><br />We'll see what's next as I really need some new supplies so funds may have to go towards that for a bit!<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599174634737437232.post-44525678591481170902012-02-29T22:27:00.004-07:002012-02-29T22:42:10.316-07:00Face 2 Face - more magazine sketching<div style="text-align: center;">I finished this picture late last night.<br />Now, let me be clear, the point isn't to add all the shading as it should be, really, it is to work on proportions, to practice, and for training.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghD0kEsQgHME26YMucx9vZbim4NzE0Kzul0XvkR9tqWnS88_eklodOIFo-UcMREiDhy5lJCoprRhHpdMZ3sjTsGc37pYK6F6rmU8oJy7zDYUcknq9Z-GcsPebCFDVJzhLF2tQqU6YXt35E/s1600/2012-02-29_17-59-57_517.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghD0kEsQgHME26YMucx9vZbim4NzE0Kzul0XvkR9tqWnS88_eklodOIFo-UcMREiDhy5lJCoprRhHpdMZ3sjTsGc37pYK6F6rmU8oJy7zDYUcknq9Z-GcsPebCFDVJzhLF2tQqU6YXt35E/s400/2012-02-29_17-59-57_517.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714796455271181234" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I was drawn to this picture because of the mouth, I always do pictures with closed mouths.<br />So, last night when I was done with it I HATED this picture. Put it away a little bit frustrated, but this afternoon when I pulled it out to take pictures to send to Mika I thought it wasn't so bad after all.<br />It's an honest attempt and I can only get better.<br />At least it is closer to the photo than my last one was!<br /><br />Hubby bought me a new journal so I think later tonight or tomorrow I will work on some backgrounds.<br /></div>Michelle Jaramillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456229249711920547noreply@blogger.com0