THE WINNER IS...

Since it is past midnite and I will be working ALL DAY tomorrow I decided to let the number generator pick the winner now..... and it is Lisa Zimmerman!! 
CONGRATS LISA!!
Thank you to all who made a comment and I will be visiting all of your wonderful blogs this week and hope to get a comment back to everyone!

Wonderful blog hop weekend

It has been refreshing to see all the posts and have so many visitors! I plan on continuing to post my progression of the journals and the ladies I paint. I really needed to visualize the process when I started my journals. So with that in mind, and all of the fun I have had posting...here is a new page ...more to come tomorrow.  AND.... THANKS to all who have posted for the give-away...all posts from Friday the 19th until tonight (Sunday) at Midnite will be placed in the drawing..so keep on posting!!

STAGE ONE>I hope this inspires someone else to try this method...I thouroughly enjoy giving ideas. I needed so many to kickstart my journaling. I was looking at creative cards at one of the local art stores this weekend and picked up on these color combos..I always am getting ideas from other patterns and then making them work for me!

giveaway for paper traders blog hop...

Leave a comment and you could win! Will pick winner on Monday April 22,2013. Pop over to the other Paper trader blogs ( see side panel for list of blogs) for more giveaway action! It is a great group to join,we have swaps, challenges and great inspiratrional artists!

She is done!

sketching in with the stabilo pencil and a watercolor wash

adding color

adding more color defining the eyes, adding stamping and a little aging with walnut ink

last stage,adjusting shading,color adding words-often at this stage I rework anything that stands out ...tearing paper off adding gesso..

the opposite page is where I journal my thoughts for the day..that leaves me with a finished art piece...that I can use later for reproduction and sale!

LOVE the sennelier brand of inks

and always have two or three pads of words..these are from Tim Holtz line.

Thanks so much for stopping in this weekend...will be posting the winner on Monday Morning!! so still time to comment!!

Progression so far...

 

 

GOOD MORNING BLOGGERS!

Today is the second day of the blog hop and here is my progression of the art journal page..

STAGE 1

 

 

 

 PROGRESSION SO FAR...

 A PIC OF MY CREATIVE SPACE...

 

You can follow along by scrolling down and watching the steps as I do a pictorial of them..also be sure to post a comment on my blog this weekend to win the ephemera Pkg pictured on earlier posts....

Esmerelda

my piece of art for this weeks Piece a week...She is an expression of my inner diva!!!! Have a great Saturday     link: http://alatvianrita.blogspot.com/search/label/apieceaweek

Blog hop giveaway !

Here is the complete package of goodies to be given away to one of my commenters, It may have a few surprises added also. Also posted is the progression of my art journal this wonderful weekend eve!

On goes the face

Extra papers are added then using gesso I dabbed and spread it on the page to blend the papers. I picked up some gesso on a brush and formed the head and body of my lady.. 

Using my amazing stabilo black aqurelle pencil I sketch in my outline..

then she begins to take shape, the black pencil lines are smudged and using a light watercolor brush I brush out the lines in the hair.

BUY LOTS OF THESE! I use them constantly and have an automatic sharpener ready at my side when I am working, they are very soft and need a tiny bit of sharpening during sketching.

BLOG HOP UNDER WAY!

welcome to the blog hop- night one! I will be posting my art journal page in progress over the next few days,last night was stage one. Tonight when I got home from work I got right down to business and here is what was created...

 

box of papers!!I rumbled through these and selected some more pieces to add to the page then..

I picked out a great stencil, I found this one at Michaels in their Wall decorating section.

Next I dabbed two reinkers from Dyna Flow  on a piece of baby wipe and rubbed it over the stencil in 3 spost on each page. I do everything in Threes..it is a perfect number!

Good evening Paper Trader Blog hoppers

If you are peeking in early here is a snippet of some of the stash goodies that will be awarded to one of the lucky "commenters" during this weekends blog hop...

I adore pink and even tho I do not wear this luscious color,my art studio and my creations can be very pinky. I am excited to have you popping in all weekend, I am creating a new page in my journal and will show you the steps and progress over the next few days. Tonights post is the first step which is gesso it up add some color and put on at least two focus pieces.

My other favorite palette is blue and green- in all shades- with a tinge of red somewhere! My background is in fine art however I have tossed my rules to the wind and have been dabbling in mixed media since the first somerset studio magazine hit the shelves in the 90's www.stampington.com . The stampington magazines and the artist that exhibit in their pages have been my teachers ever since!

Tomorrows post will be in the early evening as I have to go to my amazing day job! You see I get the priveledge of being in the lives of some amazing elders as part of their care team. Recently the agency I work for was awarded a very high honor by being filmed by the visionaries to be a replica of care across America... Take a peek and come back tomorrow for more about ME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J75NPw7xJ8E  Remembering a Better Life.

 

COLOR

I am jumping back in to my journal pages with COLOR! Often I get my inspiration when I am out in the world of retail therapy...I love to go and look and just chill my brain imagining the possibilities of each item I am drawn too...well today the colors of all of the new summer clothes were popping out everywhere..I did not buy - but I did recreate!! Enjoy my latest lady of color!

one piece!

Spring is on its way and tonight my journal reflects my thoughts...I really love art journaling and have let myself go way outside of my box. Letting my mistakes become part of my piece and not overworking it. Seems that is the way I am living in this new era of my life ..after 50!!