Wohoo! Finally some journal pages.

The first page of my artjournal made on the inside of the cover. Once again, please excuse my terrible camera skill.
The colours aren't as bright and beautiful as they appear in real life.





Showing the detail of my favorite part, the green border next to the house. ^_^


And there are a few pics from my Japan journal.
I had some lovely handmade paper I bought in Japan. I cut it in small squares and glued them on the front.


"First" journal page. There is a few before this one, but they are mostly lists of Kanji and how to count in Japanese. ^_^ On this page I remember what my first trip to Tokyo was like.


Back cover. Incomplete. Girl is not by me. She is cut out from a Japanese ad.

I wanne try this one day. It seems cool and fun to make your own sketchbook like that. Then it really feels like yours. :)

I am saving up for the Timbuk2 artist's canvas bag. I want the black and white one. The bag is made up of good quality canvas ready to be customized by the artist. I've heard a lot of great things about the Timbuk2 bags and I need a new bag, so this was just perfect.

Suziblu has updated with her assignment and we are to make accordion pages. Wohoo! ^_^ I'll get started on that tomorrow because now it's bed time for me. I have to try to paint less in the middle of the night and more in the middle of the day. ^^

A sketch and a fairy

I made a little fairy to keep in a pocket in my new moleskin. Hope she'll bring me good luck. The colours are stronger in real life. I'm just really crappy at taking pictures. Maybe one day I'll learn how to really work a camera.







I kind of like how this lady turned out despite her failed boob job. I don't think I will be doing anything more with this picture though. I'll just leave it as it is. Again, please excuse my crappy camera skills.

While we wait for art journal pages

Here are a couple of older pictures of mine. The first is a selfpotrait of sorts in mixed media and the other is a quick sketch done with the wacom tablet. Both done in November 2007 I belive.

YAY! More suziblu

Suzi is starting something new today. She will be posting an assignment every last sunday of the month, then we have three weeks to complete it and mail the åics to her, and then she'll be showcasing it in her next video. I can't wait for her to post the video. Just what I need to get going again after this stupid flu. ^_^

An artists wishlist

Being all creative makes me wish for more stuff to be creative with. :p I've recently bought The creative lincense and The decorated journal for some inspirational reading. Wating for them to arrive from amazon.com soon (I hope).

I also really wanne buy this lovely metal art and these skull ribbons for decorating my art journal.

And this drawingboard would be handy.

And these. Don't know quite what to do with them yet, but they are so pretty.

I wish I wasn't so broke. *sigh*

Artsupplies = love

Sadly I haven't finishes the artjournal pages yet as I hoped I would. I'm afraid the flu got to me first and I just can't get any work done while it feels like dinosaurs are playing ping pong with my head. However I did manage to sneak out of the house for a little while today and that lead to the
purchase of some new art supplies. ^^ So since there is no picture of my art today, I'll bore you with some random pics of some of my artsupplies stuff insted.

The current journals that I'm working on. Bottom is my art journal. The next one is my Japan motivasion journal. I am currently studying Japanese and I find it hard to focus. I'm hoping this Journal will help me keep my eyes on the goal. Next is my quotes and poem journal. Here I write poems and quotes that I like or that means a lot to me.  The top journal is a Moleskin sketch book that I bought today. I will use this as more of a day to day journal as well as a sketch book.


Todays purchase. My lovely new Moleskin sketchbook and the "Drop dead cute" art book. "Drop dead cute" is a book that features women artists of Japan. I bought the book mostly for Aya 
Takanos work. It is her painting you see on the cover. 


Two things I use a lot in my journals these days. Derwent watercolour pencils and alphabet stamps.


I went to an art sale last week and I found this horrid basket bag thingy that I really didnt like at all, but I bought it anyway because of it's content. Behold the oil pastels. :) :)  I really want to play around more with oil pastels and learn how to use them properly. This pastels are of lovely quality and according to the man in the shop, some of the best in the world. Looking forward to trying them out. ^^





 

AIR and Mino paper

I really wanne apply to the AIR program at some point. Most cities seem to take people in based on open call and with no art education necessary. It would be interesting and exciting I think, to  
go abroad for three months to an unfamiliar place for the sole purpose of art exchange and to just paint, paint, paint. :) I need to do some more researh on the subject.

I really want to get a hold of some Mino paper, but I dont know where.   It's so pretty. Maybe ebay? *goes to look*

I have been thinking about applying for art school, yet I fear I'm not productive enough to fit in there. I wish I painted and drew much more then I do, but I am still to unsecure about my art and my abilities. Also I seem to have a hard time sticking to one idea at a time. There is no red thread to follow thru any of my art. My Bf thinks I should paint a bunch of paintings and then put them on display somewhere. He says that you can not wait for inspiration, you just have to sit down and paint and it will come to you. There is some truth in that i guess, but it is also true that I hate what I paint when I don't feel like it. There is no heart and  soul in a picture thats been forced in my opinion.  Blah. I'll stick with art journalling for now, and maybe I'll start on a canvas piece next week.  
Of to finish of some journal pages. :)

Art on its way

I got one page in my Life Book (another name for my art journal. Suziblus idea. :)) mostly finished today and two more are well on their way. I will try to post pics tomorrow. I seem to want to do nothing but art these days. Its like my mind is in creative overdrive. I can't stop thinking about drawing and painting and what to do next. It's quite frustrating really cause I never seem to be able to finish one project before I start the next. There is just so much I want to get down on paper and it's like I'm afraid I'll forget all the ideas I have so I need to do them right away. But it's fun also. I haven't been this crafty in years. I credit a lot of this new inspiration to Suziblu. It was her videos that got me started again. Thank you ever so much Suzi!

Art journalling

This blogg will be my art blogg. Paintings, art journal pages, drawings and more will be posted here. For ramblings about my life in general, go to thelittlewitch.insanejournal.com .

I am really into art journalling lately. It's so much fun and a great way to get over my artistic block.  I couldn't seem to get anything down on paper for a while. Also, with art journalling, I find that I try much more new things, new medias and new techniques. I play around with colour alot more then I used to. Before I seemed to almost be afraid of anything that wasn't just plain black and white. Now I've invested in lots of acrylic paint and colourful paper stacks to tear up and glue all  
over my journal.  Today I also bought a beautiful set of 24 oil pastels. Really good quality pastels 
that are easy to smudge as much as I want. :) 

I'm hoping to have my first art posts up sometimes during this week.  I'm working on a couple of art journal pages that should be finished by the weekend. If I don't get to distracted by my new oil pastels that is. ^^