Finished Pages From Radiant 2 Class

From Felicia Borges' lesson.

From Effy Wild's take on Felicia Borges'.

From Dyan Reavely's lesson. I thought it was to busy so I decided not to do any lettering.

My take on Dyan Reavely's lesson.

From Effy's take on Dyan's lesson.

Radiant II: Art Journals

I have started another mixed media online class called Radiant II: Art Journals.  It's hosted by Effy Wild. 

If you do at least 15 out of the 31 lessons you can be entered into a drawing to win a prize. So I plan to post my finished projects here on my blog so I can enter it.

In Effy's 1st lesson she demos how to make a folder type journal for you to do all your lessons in. She also shows how to make a Matching Ultimate Notebook for you to make notes on the lessons. For me personally I decided not to do these. Yes it would be nice to have all your projects from one class all together, but I have made several journals for a particular class with that intent but not followed thru. I also like to work on different kinds of paper. For years now I have taken notes on the different online classes I've taken. For me I like to put them in a 3 ring binder. I'll start with handwriting the notes and if I think it will be something I will watch several times I'll will type them up on my computer and print them out. That way the next time I watch the video I can easily make further notes if I want to.

Effy does mention that if she starts a layout and doesn't finish it in one sitting most of the time she doesn't finish it. I have been art journaling for over 5 years now. I have several things I haven't finished. In going back and looking thru my journals often I wonder what was the inspiration to start that unfinished page. On my finished pages and unfinished I sometimes wonder how did I do that and what products and colors did I use. Sometimes I would put sticky notes with the colors I've used on the page so I would know when I went back to work on it. Now I've decided to do a better job in taking notes on my journal pages and keep them in a 3 ring binder. 

A great place to find scrap paper for note taking is in your children's used school supplies. All those half used up spiral notebooks that will never get looked at again are great for this. I've done this for years. Finally I am seeing the end of this stash. I have started saving computer paper that has been printed on one side that I no longer need to use to take notes on.

Another Mandala

Here is my latest Mandala.

In the past I have always done my mandalas by starting with my homemade templates  and a compass to make the grid. This is time consuming. So I decided to make the grid on my computer. I can print that grid out on what ever type of paper I want. The above mandala is on 140lb hotpress watercolor paper. 

In the above picture you can see the grid lines that were printed closeup. So I am printing it with even fainter lines. 

Here is my next Mandala that I have started.

After I get all the line work done and colored in, I think the faint printed lines you won't be able to see.

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# 10 of 29 Faces Sept 2014

My 1st thing I did with my new Teesha Moore stamps. Just felt that those striped legs needed to go with one of the flowers in my paper napkins stash.

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#9 of 29 Faces Sept 2014

29 Faces 4 - 8

I want to do so much better in completing 29 faces this month. I only did 18 two years ago when I did this challenge. With going out of town for a couple of days and trying to do backgrounds for some of my other faces; I got behind. So today I decided to do several faces on one page. Told myself not to think about it much, only how to make it different from the last one. These 5 faces took me about 40 minutes.

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29 Faces 1, 2 & 3.

2 years ago I participated in the 29 Faces challenge. I only got 18 done. I've decided to participate again. Here are my first 3.

Looking forward to doing this challenge.
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