Life Book, the Final Few

 Hello All.

Here are my final three pieces for the Life Book Taster course.

Stephanie Lee - The Shape Of Patterns. We glued down collage, sketched the flying bird shapes, then painted around them. In hindsight, some words and splatters would have made this a bit more interesting.

Leaca Young - Creative Intentions. Leaca showed us how she creates little watercolour botanical, then we layered them together with some collage papers, sari ribbon, and words.

Effy Wild - Journal Jam. We started an art journal page with a few prompts, then went with the flow. 

I'm linking this page to Tracey's My Favourite Colour is October theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

More LifeBook Art

 Hello Everyone!

Here are a couple more pieces from the LifeBook Taster Sessions.

Kassi Martin - A fun collage of torn strips of some of my gel prints, with added yarn, and some doodled birds and flowers.

Shemi Dixon - Collage, scrunched tissue, stencils & texture paste, acrylic paint, pieces of sari ribbon, and buttons. A whole heap of fun! I finished with some touches of gold metallic paint. Definitely a favourite!

I'm linking the above piece to Tracey's My Favourite Colour is October theme at Art Journal Journey. 

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison

A Mixed Bag of LifeBook Art

 Hello All. 

The thing that I love about the LifeBook course is the different types of art that is on offer. Here are 3 totally different styles, with different mediums.

Tiare Smith - Colourful Posca paint pen flowers on a black background. Tiare used blackboard paint, but I only had black gesso, which worked perfectly.

The quote reads...'May you always be the one who notices the little things that make this life pour through, and may they always remind you there is more to life, and there is more to you.'

Jenny Manno - We masked off the circles and some strips at the bottom, then used water soluble crayons and white gesso to activate them. Then we took the masks off and used watercolour paint, then added white gel pen writing and soft black pencil outlines and marks. Interesting techniques.

Rachel Kentish - Mindful Watercolours. The little packs of cards are colour coded prompts for colour, shape, and line & pattern. I picked out monochromatic colour, but I used the circles and line patterns that Rachel used. We added small circles of metallic watercolour (I used gold), smudged soft black pencil outlines, and white paint pen dots.

Thanks so much for coming to see my art. There'll be some more tomorrow, as I catch up with the many lessons.

Alison

More Life Book Art

 Happy Sunday Everyone!

Here are a few more pieces of Life Book art.

Holly McLaughlin - Mindful Art. I'm not really into meditation in art, but I did enjoy creating this abstract piece, and adding all of the marks.

Emma Petitt - This class blew me away. Using a magazine image for reference, we painted in the shading first in a very abstract way, then added the facial outlines and details. I love how this turned out, and I'll try this technique again. I had to add some splashes of paint, just to make it my own 😉

Dyan Reaveley - Art Journaling with Prompts. On top of a simple painted background (I used a Gelli Plate to create mine), we cut some small phrases from magazines, then wrote in some thoughts relating to them. To hide the journaling a little, I created a flap, and added some of my hand-carved stamp creatures. I'm linking this page to Tracey's My Favourite Colour Is October theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison

Life Book 2022 Taster Sessions - Laura Dame

Hello All.

Here's another of my Life Book pieces.

Laura Dame - Collage, texture paste, acrylic paint washes and drips, and marks with oil pastels. Loved this class! 

I'm linking this spread to Tracey's My Favourite Colour Is October theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a happy weekend.

Alison

LifeBook 2022 Taster Sessions - A few More Pieces

 Hello Everyone.

Here are a few more pieces from Tamara Laporte's LifeBook Taster Sessions.

A Quirky Lady with Toni Burt. Graphite pencil sketch with watercolour paint.

Altered playing cards with Shay Michelle. Collage and inspirational quotes with Tim Holtz phrase stickers.

Creating perfectly imperfect flowers with Francisca Nunes. Using dead flowers as inspiration, and using water soluble pencils, charcoal, and black ink. I added washes of diluted coffee, and some splashes of coffee and ink.

We ripped up the pages to create collage fodder.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

More LifeBook Taster Classes

 Hello Everyone! I hope you're all having a good weekend. It hasn't stopped raining here today, and we got very wet walking down for our annual flu jabs.

I have some more LifeBook art to share with you today.

A colourful watercolour cow with Cinnamon Cooney. I used Cinnamon's template and traced the cow onto my paper, then went over it with a black waterproof ink pen. Then I went mad with the watercolour paint. Of course I had to add some of my signature paint splashes.

Kim Dellow had us making lots of marks and doodles on two pages with paint, pencils and pens. We had to keep to one colour on the sheets. Then we made templates to place over the pages to find a cohesive design, and cut out a postcard, bookmark and heart. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo before I cut my pages up.

Melanie Rivers' class 'Between The Boundaries' showed us how to create a face with a white side and black side. I really enjoyed this one!

And finally for today, Iris Fritschi-Cussons showed us how to create some worry stones with polymer clay, acrylic paint, and paint pens. I love how these turned out.

I hope to be back tomorrow with my October calendar pages. It was dark by the time I finished them today, and to be honest today's heavy rain has made it so dark all flipping day!

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

Life Book 2022 Taster Sessions

 Hello All.

Tamara Laporte's Life Book Taster Sessions began on Monday, with an abundance of wonderful tutors and classes. I'm already behind, but here's what I've created so far.

This was my piece for Tam's warm-up lesson...

Tam's 'Rainbow of Joy' lesson on Day One...

And Eulalia Mejia's 'Art For My Heart' lesson on Day Two...

Thank you so much for dropping by today,

Alison