Free Ebook Featuring my Article: Travel Journals, Using Maps as a Starting Point

Interweave Press and Cloth Paper Scissors are offering a free download of their ebook on art journaling.

Art journaling is a way to express yourself through writing and art at the same time.  This creative process pulls together a variety of materials to create mixed-media art. You can buy pre-made journals and fill them with your doodles and designs or craft  your own custom journals to record everything from your travels to your art technique  experiments to your innermost thoughts. In short, an art journal is whatever you want it to be. But you have to start someplace,  so we've created this free eBook,  Art Journal Techniques: How to Make a Travel Journal, a Handmade Journal, plus  Art Journaling Ideas. In this free eBook you'll get art journaling tips, including how to make a travel journal  from maps, how to make an art journal in stages, and how to choose the right  tools for your art journal adventures. Travel journals by Jacqueline Newbold. In “Travel Journals, Using Maps as a  Starting Point,” Jacqueline Newbold  describes how to use maps (or copies  of maps) as a foundation for the visual  journaling of your journeys. She offers  ideas and tips for how to make a travel  journal that are easy and enjoyable.

Be My Valentine, the Making a Valentine Card

Mixed Media Valentine Card for my Husband

Using my Flip, Flaps & Fold-outs ideas that I will be teaching at the CREATE in Irvine, CA I created this Valentine card for my husband.  I used a shipping label from the office supply store, gesso, watercolor paints, gold gesso, ribbon and some stamps.  I hope he likes this better than a store bought valentine.  Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!
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Home Tweet Home, A Lesson in Shadow & Light

HOME TWEET HOME

I just finished teaching my Watercolor Toolbox class and we ended the class by painting a birdhouse on a stucco wall.  We mixed the 3 primary colors to get a colorful background and played with adding salt to make the texture on the wall.  We glazed to get darks in the shadows of the bird house and put some reflected color in the shadows.  We also learned about lifting highlights by using a plastic template.  Everyone was a pleasure to have in class!

My Students Rock!

I just taught a beginner's watercolor class called Watercolor Toolbox at ARTWORKS in Tumalo.  I had such great students!  They tried to tell me things like they were not artistic or that they didn't know how to draw.  Well, I think I proved them wrong!!! I just gave them a few basic watercolor concepts and then they painted their very first watercolor painting.  Look how beautiful they are.

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