Illustration Friday

My IF entry for this week. I’m really having fun with these prompts. I think I’m going to keep doing it.

I’m trying to fill this book up by the end of the year, so I can start a new one. I’m not sure it’s gonna happen. I still have 8 or 10 pages left to do. Eh, whatever. It doesn’t really matter. I’m not traditional. I’ll just keep puttering along, and if I finish it by 2009, great! If not, it wasn’t meant to be.

(i fixed my blog, photos are clickable again)

poor dear. she tried to do art all day, but she kept hearing loud negative voices in her head.

“blah, blah, blah.
your art sucks.
why do you bother?
are you kidding me?
you can’t draw.
you can’t paint.
you call that art?
you call yourself an artist??!!
blah, blah, blah”

if you’re an artist, you probably know this voice well. it’s that voice in your head asking what you think you’re doing. always criticizing and being negative. it could be voices you actually heard in the past, and you’ve got them stuck on replay for some reason. or it could just be your inner critic.

well, i got one thing to say about that.. since you know the voice so well, tell it to shut the *bleeeep* up and go away.

ah!
all better now.

This is my contribution to Illustration Friday. The topic is Voices.

New page from my altered book art journal. I get confused on what to call it. it’s really an altered book, but I prefer to call it my “art journal”. it used to be a book about golf. Although I’m a sports fan (basketball, football, boxing, skating, ALL extreme sports, the Olympics..yeah, i will pretty much watch anything sports related) i’m not into golf (or baseball, unless i’m there in person). So, technically it is an altered book..turned into my art journal.

Art Journal entries from yesterday. Since I joined the 3 Week Challenge I have been working in my art journal almost every day. I’m not keeping up with the other stuff because eh..I don’t want to. The challenge is too rigid for me, and it’s not really my cup of tea. I knew that going in. I knew I wouldn’t stick with it. Surprisingly, I have been art journaling though. Something clicked with me when I started doing it again, and I’m loving how stress-free it can be. No worries. It’s just something I’m making for fun and for ME!

it must be fall. i’m hungry all the time, and i want to go to bed early every night. i seriously need one of those sad lights, so i can feel better during the fall/winter months. actually, i’d use it year round. i love my house, but man, it is DARK. i need to have lights on during the day, even when it’s bright and sunny outside.

has anyone ever used one? does it work? or, how about the full spectrum light bulb that just screws into a lamp? i had one in my shopping cart at amazon the other day until i found out i was going to get charged over $10 for shipping. for a light bulb??!! i think not.

sooo, they think they’re going to arrest casey anthony on homicide or murder charges. you think?!!?

i don’t feel like typing correctly right now. i’m too tired to bother with upper case letters. hm..i just tried to add new links to my blogrolling account, but it’s been hacked. oops! i’ll try again later.

here’s my latest mixed media painting…dandelions daisies violets

available in my etsy shop

I’m in the process of making another journal. This is the little girl I drew a couple weeks ago. I still have to smooth out the beeswax a little more, cut the paper, punch the holes and coil bind it. I think I’ll wait until tomorrow to finish it up. I’ve spent way too much time on it today. Time to shift gears and think about eating something for dinner.

brr..it got chilly here all of a sudden. This morning was muggy and sunny. This afternoon it turned cloudy, windy and the temperture dropped. I will be putting on my sweat shirt soon, for sure. Maybe even trade my shorts in for sweat pants before the night is over. Those thoughts make me sad. I don’t want summer to be over. It’s my favorite time of year. I hate being cold.

Another assignment for Suzi’s workshop was to make a healing art journal. We are going to record our art progress in it each day. I finally got mine finished today. Well, it’s still a work in progress, but I got the gist of it done. I will seal it in beeswax once I’m sure I’m finished messing with it.

She is holding a sign which reads: I AM WORTHY.

And, you better believe I AM.
I am worthy of making art.
I am worthy of calling myself an artist.
And, so are you!
If you don’t believe me, just watch this…

Oh, and to give you an idea of the great artists in Suzi’s workshop, you should take a look at the links below. Aren’t these artists fabulous?

Suzi Blu doll pool @ flickr
art junk girl
Shabby Girl
Sarah Fishburn
whimsies & folksies
a purple daisy
collage diva
october wish

And that’s just barely making a dent in all the wonderful art I’ve been wallowing in since this class started. It’s only been a week, and it was well worth the $55 for this class. Suzi is going way above the call of duty..making us extra videos and pdfs. She is really putting her all into this. And..I have 7 more weeks to go! YAY!!!!

I just added a new art journal section to the site. Have a look, if you like. Many of the pages aren’t finished yet, but I took photographs anyway. It may take years before I finish some of them. Or, i may do them all tonight. Who knows? My art journals are forever changing. If I waited until each page felt complete, I’d never photograph them. heh!