Don't forget to be Awesome!

Wow, it's been quite a while since I've posted. I have been busy.  I teach classes at a local quilt shop and  I have not beeen able to play!  But, today I was able to spent the whole day in my studio!  Yay!!This was the result....I started out with a gelli print background.

So Blue

I drew this face and had a lot of trouble with the hair. I painted, wiped it off, painted again to many times. I decided to put it away, but, I took a picture of it first....after I wiped the paint off, again! I put it into my photo editing software and palyed with it. I changed the background color many times...I now have this girl with, at least ten hair colors! I am making notecards from the images. I need some cool quotes to type on the front of each one....and ideas?

Gelli Print Pillow!

A while back I saw a hand painted, strip quilted pillow on Julie Fei Fan balzer's blog.  I really liked it, but, never did make it.  So, I thought I would try and paint the fabric with my Gelli plate.  I cut my fabric into differnt size strips and started painting.....So much fun!!!  I used Jaquard textile paints and they worked well.  I added the word ART and a few others for contrast.

Flowers in my hair

Wow! It's been over two weeks since I've posted!  Life does get in the way. This is just a simple collage done on a gelli print background.  I cut out  a face from a magazine and painted over it and added some collage elements and printed words.  Easy journal page....The little lady circled in white is my mom...many years ago.

Paper Quilt

I made this paper quilt by sewing strips made from my Gelli printed papers. I enlarged the image from a rubber stamp and glued it on. i then, sewed on a black paper border.

Work in Progress...done!

So, I'm done1 Took me a little longer than I thought, but, I finished it today!. Life got in the way this week! I colored in more of the zentangles with the Faber Castell big brush markers, deepen the shadows on her face and colored the background teal. I decided I did not like the background, at all,so, I cut it out and put her on a black background. I think it's much better! 

 

What do you think?

Work in Process #3

I have filled in some of the zentangles, colord her eyes and did more shading on her face.

Work in Process...Step 2

Well, I remembered pictures!  I really wasn't sure where I was going with this piece, so, I just started shading a little on the face...hoping she would talk to me! I used some watered down  teal paint to shade the face and add a little more color to the background.  It seems like  hair always presents problems for me.  I really struggle with it.  As I looked at all the different colors in the background, zentangles came to mind.  I penciled in a few and decided that was the way I would go. After I finished most of the zentangles, she reminded me of a warrior.

  I will name this piece for my daughter, Lisa, who last week, had her one year check-up following
a stem cell transplant.  She has been battling Hodgkins Lymphoma for three years...She is now cancer free!!  She is a true warrior!

Works in progress

I always seem to have so many works in progress...I counted seven and that's just projects in my journals. I'll try and post pictures as I work on them and explain my process a little.  I just get involved and forget to take photos!  But, I will do my best!  The backgrounds are painted, I thinks they were scraped on with a credit card. One of them was gessoed for the face before I drew it.  The other was not.

 

Be yourself!

This journal page was done for the April challenge on the Artist in Blogland challenge.  It was fast and easy!  I had a gelli print background I did a few weeks ago. I id a little stamping on the background, then,  I cut out the figure and glued her down. really like this image!  I printed out the words, glued them down and outined around them...finished!