Some art work to share.

I am taking a second online class of Jane Davenport's. I have thoroughly enjoyed both of them and hope to eventually take her other ones also. Here are the latest ones I've done.

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Supplies catalog

Loved this video on how someone kept their supplies catalog. Inspired me to start working on mine again.

http://www.youtube.com/user/purklepoi?feature=g-hist


I've always kept lists of the different supplies I have to keep me from buying duplicates. After taking a watercolor class I started making tabs of the different paints. The tabs I use to keep in a small box. After seeing this video I have started to put them in a notebook. My supplies notebook has 2 sections.

The second section is the lists of colors of a particular supply I have.

The first section I am adding the tabs by color. The right page is water colors and the left is paints.

I am still working on markers and colored pencils. I'm going to have to get a thicker notebook. It's a lot of work but I enjoy the benefits of it.

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Finally took apart my art Journal

For the longest time I kept thinking about taking apart my Strathmore Visual Journals for various reasons. I thought it would just be to hard and mess up the Journal. After seeing a video (wish I could find it again) of someone taking apart her Canon Journal I decided to go for it. I am really glad I did. The pages are so much easier to work on. When I am doing a double page layout the wire binding is not in the way. When I make mandalas I like to use different kinds of papers depending on the art media I use. When I put the mandala journal back, I'll be able to put the different papers together. 

Below is a picture of the covers I've done for one of the journals. I followed this video in doing the different layers of colors.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX7LrJ3_9jY&feature=g-hist

When you do take apart the journal the back cover comes off first then the front cover. That's handy if all you want is to do the covers.

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Seed of Life

A couple of weeks ago I did these two mandalas.I used my guides to create the sections for the circles.

This one I used my brand new Twinkling H2O's

This one I was inspired from  here. I used colored pencils on 140 lb watercolor paper.

A couple of days ago I came across a great website: Guada's Circle she offers a free class on creating a mandala. This method of creating a Seed of Life mandala is a lot easier than using the guides that I came up with. Seeing how she colors hers is very inspiring.

Here are a couple of links that I found on You Tube that also use this method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Su-m19xTpw&feature=g-hist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHvXUNeYGs0&feature=g-hist

Thanks for reading!