Smile With Your Soul

5 1/2" x 4 1/4" Card

Prismacolors

Image by Magenta

Greeting by Daisy Bucket Designs

Thy Will Be Done

Micron Pens

Watercolour Crayons

Letter Love

Here's an alphabet of my own design - for Joanne Sharpe's Letter Love 101 Class.

Micron Pens

Leaf Squares

Artist Trading Card

Prismacolor Pencil Crayons

Micron Pen

Let's Try Painting a Picture

This is something new for me - drawing and painting a picture.

4" x 5"

Watercolour Pencils and Crayons

Playing with Funky Letters

This journal page uses Fill In, Fiesta Spirals, Cursive, Sketched, Type, Art Nouveau, and Akim Cursive letters.

Watercolour Crayons and Pencil Crayons

Micron Pens

Summer Squares

Artist Trading Card

Prismacolor Pencil Crayons

Micron Pen

Another Whimsy Grid

From Joanne Sharp's Letter Love 101

Pan Pastels

Micron Pens

Time Flies.....

We're half way through July already, and summer has finally arrived on the "wet coast".  My office/studio is unbearably hot after noon.  I've had a bit of time to take Joanne Sharpe's on-line Letter Love Class, and I'm lovin' it!

Micron Pen, Pan Pastels

Composition Journal

When Your Heart Speaks

Journal - 4 1/2" x 3"

Watercolour

Micron Pen

Do Not Worry about Tomorrow,

for tomorrow will worry about itself!

Prismacolor Pencil Crayons

Gel Pens

Stamped images by Maryse Carrier and Prima

Before I Put the Wax Crayons Away.....

I think they've done their job for now, but before I put the wax crayons away, here's another journal page:

Wax Crayons

An Abstract Vase in Pencil Crayons

Another in the series, this one an Artist Trading Card in pencil crayons:

Artist Trading Card

Prismacolor Pencil Crayons

A Doodle a Day?

Artist Trading Card

Micron Pen

Pencil Crayons

Even Better in Watercolour

Working in a series is soothing; it removes part of the creative block.  I liked the abstract flowers exercise from Art Projects for Kids so much I decided to try one with watercolour crayons:

Watercolour Crayons

More Crayons

Art Projects for Kids is a fabulous blog filled with, yeah, art projects for kids.  I'm just an old kid, so I like lots of them.  And as wax crayons seem to be a current craze of mine, I thought I'd try the one on an abstract flower vase.  Fun!

Wax Crayons

Crayons

Do you ever suffer creative block?  I not only suffer from it, but I'm fascinated by it.  A post about crayons on Heidiology resonated with me as a possible cure.  For me, the fear of the blank page is rooted partially in perfection and waste, so the idea of taking the cheapest supplies, crayons and scrap paper, and creating something with them made sense to me.  Heidi suggests if you can't think of what to create, make a scribble and colour in the spaces.  The absolute freedom from expectations it brings is wonderful.

Doodles and Inchies Shift

Usually I do my inchies done straight up.  Usually they are a separate layer attached with adhesive.  Today I felt like a shift, so I doodled them on the diagonal:

Artist Trading Card

Micron Pen

Tim Holtz Distress Inks