It has been a while since I posted any pictures of my projects. I have mentioned before that more and more I have to make a choice between blogging about my projects or having time to work on my projects. I am posting some of the pictures of things that I have been working on since I finished my owl project.
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| Journal Cover |
One of my friends is very interested in making journals. She saw a Halloween Journal challenge online. She asked if I wanted to do one as a challenge between her and myself and anyone else that we knew locally that might be interested. What we found was that most of our friends had neither interest, inclination, nor time to put into making a journal. Not deterred, my friend and I continued on with the project. It appears that we did not have the time either, as neither of us was able to complete the journal until December. I hate working on something that has a deadline. Stressing over getting something done on time takes a lot of the joy out of a project. I am doing artwork to alleviate stress not to add more to it.
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| We actually started Dec. 2023 |
I have been trying to learn how to paint pictures. I decided that I would try to paint the pictures for my Halloween Journal. It turns out that I am horrible at painting. But, if I wanted to learn how to paint, I need to start somewhere. So, I wanted to show some of the pictures that came out at least not horrible. Some of the pictures in the journal will never be shown though.
To keep the post from being too long, I will only post a few pictures at a time.
We used some suggestions for the themes from various sources online: birds, cats, bats, haunted houses and so on.
The raven was a pen and ink drawing. The abandoned (haunted) house and the crystal ball pictures were done in acrylics. Some of the pictures I will post over the next couple of posts are painted with watercolor, pastels, and colored pencil. I wanted to try a variety of mediums to see which one I liked best. I wanted this journal to be play time.
