for fellow color geeks:

great video takes you "behind the scenes" at Pantone http://vimeo.com/11563607

new journal pages

better late than never

a lovely birthday gift from a dear friend last december
a long art-less dry spell
a new creative longing
a new art journal is born

i want to go stay here

The Panatone Hotel in Brussels

everything old is new again

I wish I could go see this exhibit at the Met: Playing with Pictures

Photocollage was popular with Victorian set....

finished a moleskine

I finished I Moleskine art journal I've been working in for years -here are the last few pages.

I am looking forward to starting a new one I got for my birthday from my friend Linda.

Zentangle Chucks

recipe:

a pair of white chucks

a fine point permanent black marker

et voila

a swirl of ideas....

still loving playing with pattern and zentangles, stirred in a few teesha moore videos and some cool magazines from greg

et voila

my new passion ~ Zentangles

My new issue of Cloth Paper Scissors came the other day and in it was an article on Zentangles by Sandy Bartholomew it just resonated for me since I have been playing with patterns for weeks now. I love the black and white graphic quality of them, but being a color freak I also had to mix them up with some color too...
Try it -you might have fun!
Notes on how to create a Zentangle and some vocabulary

Zentangle vocabulary practice

more "vocabulary" and a

tangled Blackberry

Mixed Media Art Challenge

I joined a fun scavenger hunt over at

Mixed Media Art on Ning

You had to find some things for
yourself, send some things to someone else
and a third person would send things to you.

The things to send and receive were buttons, fiber and paper. Jean sent me hand made enameled buttons, hand dyed ribbon and some very cool resin treated paper and a photo image. She sent a beautiful flower, but I ended up using a mermaid...

I had to find for myself:

Something from nature (shell, wood, botanica, etc.)

Something rusty

Something wire (a piece of rusty copper wire, chicken wire, barbed wire)

Something made of glass

Out of all this came my mermaid assemblage...