Art Journal Page - Cherry Blossom

New Art Journals in Shop

Surprise! I was at the store getting a fun new product to try out so I bought a few sheets of paper to make a couple of new journals. They're a little wacky inside. 

Check out some more photos here!

ArtSpacific 2013

If you're a local reader and would like to see Inner Turmoil in person, it will be shown at this year's ArtSpacific show, so come check it out!

Where: Firehall Centre for the Arts, 11489 84th Ave, Delta BC
When: April 1 - 13
Reception: April 5, 7pm-9pm

Just like last year I will be doing a sit-in on Tuesday April 2nd, 10am-12pm.

Art Journal Video - Strawberry

Maggie Painting

Is it just me, or did this week just fly by?

I have been seriously itching to have fun. Serious painting fun. Perhaps I need another artsy playdate? In the meantime, I thought it wasn't fair that I painted only one of my cats, and so I decided to paint my other cat on a full sheet of watercolour paper.



I ended up tearing around the edges of what I had painted, and glued it onto an old canvas board panel I originally used seven or eight years ago! This currently how I combine watercolour with other media: watercolour first, then paint around it.



I watched an art journal video on youtube, which featured something called "absorbant ground" which I absolutely HAVE to find. From what I hear, it is a kind of gesso, that can turn other surfaces into an absorbant one for watercolours. What a concept! Is it true?

View from the Desk

Thought I'd take a snapshot of this totally unstaged ridiculous mess of a desktop! Eeeuuugghh....

Lots of people really like the REALNESS of the messy desk. I don't know... I kind of like the perfectly organized, clean, fresh, sunlit art studios!

I'm halfway through a painting of my cat Magellan that I will recycle onto an old canvas or something for our bedroom. It's sitting on a box of pencil crayons I pulled out just so I could use ONE of them. Three days ago. Good grief.

Last Chance Sale

I keep my paintings in a big binder which I rarely look through. Some paintings are wrapped tightly in a frame and I forget they exist. Many, I even forget have been sold and I feel momentarily sad that I will probably never see them again.

Sniffle.

Some of them have stuck around for a while, when I was first getting back into watercolour painting. They're kinda sweet, like a distant memory, and wouldn't mind having them on my wall.

So I've decided to add a little "Last Chance" section in my etsy shop, and added a few of these older paintings at a discounted price. If not, I have my eye on a couple of them for keepsies. Heh.