hootenanny! » art journal

when i fall…

maryjojo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:02:09 +0000

Not much going on… got my hair done today and worked. Just one of those days where you go do X, then time to do Y, and in the end, catch some Zzzzs

If only I had super powers…

maryjojo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:05:35 +0000

…I’d probably be asked to do more in a day.

Today was a good day back at work: easy yet lame. I doubt having any super powers would help the day get any better but definitely open more job opportunities. I’d probably be on call and not get any more sleep than I would these days.

All I gotta say is I’m happy that I finally got to go to trainer session today. I am ready to kick my booty into shape and prepare for that snow season. Maybe once the snow comes i’ll be so pumped that i could do flips…. ok. maybe not.

So remember yesterday where i said i signed up for that “Art Every Day Month”? Well the journal entry to the right is my art for today. I think I’ll add more to the page but after working out, i didn’t have much time or energy to actually spend time on it.

All in all… I got another day done.

On another note, I’ve been hinting to a certain person about something I did. Not sure if that certain person reads these posts and knows that I’m talking about that person or if they know what will be coming by the end of the week. Tee hee. I wanna so tell that person but I’m working up the surprise. tee hee.

the doctor comes for a visit.

maryjojo — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:57:20 +0000

I had a visitor this evening as I was painting away at background for a new challenge on art journalling. No one else but the Doctor. Oh how he is just fantastic to show up near my new find from the thrift store. A cute little very narrow mug. I realized that I could have it hold some pencils near my work computer. A great fit that allows my “finds” to mix in with the rest of our clutter.

As I was mentioning before the Doctor showed up, i was working on some backgrounds for a challenge that our fearless leader, Suzan, brought for in the Many Manics Creating Art. I’m up for the challenge! She wrote that we can’t use any pre-made images such as clippings, photos, paper in our work. Something that I cling to when working on art journalling. I thought this would be a great time to one, working on some watercoloring, two, work with some watercoloring I found at the thrift store (why waste good stuff?), and 3 work on layering. So I have some examples drying on my easel.

I’m pretty happy about how my layering working on one example.. It was fun to have the watercolors layer over each other and yet gained a zen sense by just making squares over squares over squares. Quite nice.

While I slaved away at my art, my DH and friend was working on flooring in the kitchen. It’s looking fabulous! Definitely getting there. Hopefully by tomorrow night it’ll be all done and, after three days of no traffic (geez!), painting begins. It’s been a week without a proper kitchen. I had to clean a BUNCH of dishes today before they started otherwise I swear we’d have something else living in there.