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musings and meanderings musings and meanderings sunday october 16 2011 iris this was inspired by an iris in my garden i just love the colour combination in the flower i had a page with a bit of pink and some torn hand towel with the confetti waste stencilled on it just t he right start for the iris colours posted by musing at 4 32 pm no comments friday october 14 2011 peacock feathers i m not really one for pastels but i started off with a spread i had cleaned off a brayer on and then some strips of torn paper towel also used to finish up the remains of some paint the colours lent themselves to using some paler or fainter colours once again it took some time to work out how to finish the spread i came up with the peacock feathers and i guess they aren t too bad for my first attempts i just wish i could find a white correction or gel pen with an even flow that would go scratchy on a textured surface traci did recommend one but i haven t found it in australia any suggestions from aussies would be very welcome posted by musing at 3 33 pm 1 comment thursday october 13 2011 playing with photos a few years ago i took this photo of the moon through clouds in this one i put it behind a photograph i took of forest that bushfire had been through i desaturated the coloured photo to make it black and white in another i added some other digital trickery i have forgotten where the brushes came from i have referenced then in an earlier post technorati tags digital art posted by musing at 6 31 pm no comments tuesday october 11 2011 more art journaling this page started with some unsuccessful printing using a felt table mat i liked the blotchy green effect though and over printed it with a foam printing block traced from another table mat then i added the orange stamp made from a matt board shape then it sat for weeks because i couldn t figure out what to do next i resisted text because my text is underwhelming to say the least finally i decided to try to draw a pomegranite one of my favourite shapes and then the flowers i googled for images to copy as i totally lack confidence in my drawing i used both cheap water colour paints and the fabulous derwent inktense pencils in the colouring a very similar process used here another of my favourite shapes the printing on this started as navy and red i hated it out came my new best friend gesso the lime sparked it up a bit i really like using the water colours and the intense pencils as the background really shows through and here it adds texture to the poppies maybe one day if i have anything worth saying i will add text to these but for the moment i am happy to leave them as is posted by musing at 1 36 pm 2 comments monday october 10 2011 traci s online class i recently joined a traci bautista online class on art journaling i really enjoyed the lessons though i was always behind because of various family things i combined what i learned in her classes with some of the printing techniques from ro bruhn s workshops and here are a couple of pieces i came up with i am discovering my style at last it appears to be a combo of grunge and fairly stylised flora but who knows where it will end up i have more stuff in an actual journal which i will gradually add posted by musing at 5 07 pm no comments back on board i haven t blogged for around two years life got in the way and when i wanted to be creative i felt i needed to spend more time doing and less time reading and writing on the web having found my muse got my studio up and running again and attended a few workshops i feel i have something to contribute again the first thing i would like to share are the pics of my beautiful repurposed coat made in the workshop held by ro bruhn and patsy worledge i highly recommend this workshop ro and patsy take two students at a time help with the design elements and patsy does all the sewing on her industrial overlocker how good is that not only that but i have a one off garment i would happily spend a considerable amount of money on if i found it in a boutique my fellow student maha also made a beautiful coat totally different from mine so if you would like to get an idea of the types of things you could make check out the page on ro s blog and then if you live in melb do yourself a favour and contact ro re organising a class no i don t get a commission i m just a very happy customer posted by musing at 4 02 pm 2 comments sunday december 20 2009 kk necklace lucy has received and opened the necklace i made as her kris kringle present so i can now show everyone else the beads were made from primo polymer clay i think it is called blue pearl i was surprised that the colour wasn t even throughout each bead i m not sure if it s meant to happen or if i somehow messed up but i actually like the effect i haven t got my muse back as far as paper or digital art is concerned but i am really enjoying the jewelry side of things posted by musing at 1 07 pm 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me musing victoria australia i am a retired high school principal who loves to dabble in arts and crafts i am particularly fond of mixed media work and a real technique junky i m not sure whether this is because i haven t found my thing or simply because i love to learn new things i also love to travel and that will be the meanderings part of this blog i have pretty strong views on human rights and the environment so from time to time i will not be able to resist making comment view my complete profile some of my favourite music blog archive 2011 6 october 6 iris peacock feathers playing with photos more art journaling traci s online class back on board 2009 33 december 2 september 2 august 5 july 3 may 2 april 5 march 1 february 6 january 7 2008 26 december 1 october 1 september 1 august 8 july 2 june 5 may 8 my favourite blogs anne le toux annette in oz artymarty assemblog of michael demeng crazy art girl dans ma maison il y a grrl dog jenny crossley kattsstuff keith lo bue linda and opie s burnt offerings michael demeng misty mawn ornamental nina bagley red velvet ro bruhn val s altered heart journey labels bandanna backgrounds charms sister arts our new yahoo group click to join sisterarts activist and aid websites medecin san frontier www msf org www getup org au www avaaz org awesome inc theme powered by blogger