Feeling better...finally!

To celebrate I did this little "painting" with Sharpies, Zig 0.1 Micron Pen, Sakura Pen, and Gold paint pen, to celebrate May...which happened upon me when I wasn't looking! I tried to be loose with everything, using a few layers of different inks and paints...having a freedom of springtime madness and wild abandonment! Ha ha ha! Yeah, right! But it did come out feeling not so controlled. I'm not sure what it is I'm trying to say but maybe some of you understand what I mean.

I have been watching YouTube videos on how to make altered art journals again, but still lack the ability to be so free to just slap down paint, collage, etc. and come up with anything. I want to, I really do...and it is so frustrating!

Oh well. I just see all the free, happy artists out there...and then me...all scardy-cat. I'm just a wanna-be.

One day this wanna-be
Will suddeny be all free
Ideas will fly and be seen
On paper.

But for now, I am happy this little painting came out as loosely as it did. Yeah.

Cactus Monday doodle

In a succulent fantasy world...

Every- thing would be pink and orange!!

Just a little scribble...

I did this about a month ago and have had it sitting under my...yes...Christmas tree....all this time! I still have the tree up next to my microwave...as a symbol of hope for the future...
Anyway...I hope everyone will be extremely lucky tomorrow...oh, I believe it is also a lottery day here in Florida...I better get on over for my ticket! I'm feeling very lucky...

Julie draws!!! A miracle!

The inspiration for Cactus Monday...continued new growth on my salvaged prickly cactus plant (started from one pad from that chopped down tree in the neighborhood).

I came inside and took out my gel pens...found my homemade sketchbook... (it was buried in a bunch of art crap thrown into a cubby for months now...(sadly)...

And scribbled out this little pad showing some new growth! She is a cute little growth area showing promise for a new pad, and many more for years to come! I had this thought that I wrote out next to it...how can anyone be sad when they see something like new growth??? Impossible!



Happy Cactus Monday!!!

F= FrIlLy FaNTaNgLe

After being up half the night with Ms. Doozey being a silly girl and wanting to play all night...AND pre-coffee this morning....I started to frehandedly draw/doodle in my sketchbook for the F page...I decided to use fans in a circular pattern and kept adding little bits and turned it into a FANTANGLE of sorts! I added a buterfly sticker (too lazy to draw one this time), and also found some alphabet Mary Englebreit stickers...so I went back and added the letter sticker for each page up till now...I like this one...it has a fairy on it!!!

Now I am off to Lowes for fertilizer, Round Up (spraying vines on the back fence...EVIL vines, mind you...and some fence cleaner and other various and fun things....continuing yard work through today. Tomorrow morning am embarking on a little 5 day trip around Florida to places we have never been to before...and I plan to take a box of fun stuff with me to make some ATC's in each city. I can never sleep in a hotel until really late, so it is a wonderful thing to make ATC's while hubby sleeps! Will have my camera, so you will probably be seeing a few interesting things in the next week (at least to me, probably)! LOL!
Happy 4th of July everybody!!!
ME

E for eggplant and one messed up butterfly!

This day has been messed up for me and it shows in my attempt at art. I have been stressed out all day and tried to make my round-ish thing that starts with E in my recycled sketchbook...and it all just sort of came out half a--ed! I hope I can do better with my F.

D is for donut!

This was hard for me, but looking at it in optimal lighting and with my doodled butterfly covering one yucky area...it's not bad!
Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday! AND, don't forget, as Tootsie says, it's FERTILIZER FRIDAY! I'm going out to throw a little around after work, myself!
Hugs- Julie

Turning to altered art!

Well, I know this is gonna make you say "What they heck, enough is enough of her darn sketchbook already"!!! BUT.....OK...last night I decided to make and place a butterfly on each page too. I know it is weird, but the happiness I am having by adding a butterfly is measurable! So thought I would show you what I did. I know this first one, I should have cut out more precisely, but I kinda liked having the paper be on there too...a little different. These butterlies are all drawn using milky or gel pens on white sketch paper, then cut out and glued into my sketchbook. I am just enjoying the gel pens more than microns! I added some sparkle to areas also...


How bout a little tiny guy for a breast landing!!! LOL!

And a beautiful blue butterfly!

Claude had some interesting ideas for a round thing starting with D...(door knob or drum)...but I think it may have to be donut!!! It is calling me...what can I say?

C is for Cantaloupe!

Done with pencil, gel pens and White Out!

Now, if only I knew how to spell!!! Thank God for Wikipedia!!!

I watched the movie Twilight last night and it was very good, but I was glad I had read the book first, so I would know little things (like how intoxicating Edwards breath is to her), etc. I picked up the second book in the series, called New Moon, and it is as fat as the first! Yikes. I'm afraid to start it, cause I don't think I will want to put it down!!!

Happy Sunday to all!

Revised sketchbook

Well, I went crazy today and decided that I could not take the pages in by book that showed the printed artwork and words from the store! I cut more pages from 2 more large store paperbags, and then I took my book apart and took sheets (before folding) and glued the printed sides of each together so that I had 2 clean sides. I know it is a bit indulgent to glue two pages together, but it does make for a cleaner book. I am happy now!

I had one bag that had lighter paper and it looks real good mixed in. This one page here is where I had to rip off some handles, so it makes a ratty kinda funky look...I like it! I had a total of 11 folded pages in the end, so I put a lighter page about every 2-3 pages, and it is all mixed in and lovely.

I finished it off with some green twine I had laying around (instead of the too-short ribbons I had in it the first time. It still lays out perfectly flat. I tied the three holed areas off individually, and then my twine peices were so long that I brought them all together in the middle and tied a bow. I ended up with 32 useable pages in my newly revised book. I would have 34 if I had used paper bag to line the covers!
Now on to letter C.
Cheers....Julie

B is for BREASTS!

All (or at least some) artists must think alike!

Well, jusdging from the comments of a few of you, there is some interest in this idea of doing alphabetical sketches of round things! Ha! The idea was my daughters (who is an artist)...and I find it so interesting that some of you also like the idea! Well, today I will work on her suggestion of the B sketch...which will be BREASTS! LOL! I af anyone wants to follow along and do a sketch of a round B item, feel free to join in the fun, and let us see what you do! This will be fun! Come back to this post to let me know if you post one on your blog!

On a side note...I think I MUST see the Twilight movie now, as I heard yesterday from several people what a FANTASTIC movie it was, and people who have seen it, have watched it many times, they are so enthralled...I, being the so fickle and easily swayed person that I am...can declare that I have changed my mind and also feel I must read the next book in the series! Oh goodness...what have I gotten myself into??? Teri...you will love the first book, girl!!! Evidently a lot of people across the globe love it! As Claude pointed out, it has become a sensation!

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!!

Fiddley- farting around!