PUMPKINS!!

Halloween is almost here! My brother and I carved some pumpkins the other night - so fun! I did the one of the dog - it's my brother's dog Lucy, and it turned out pretty cool :)

my journal

the cover of my collage journal - an old victorian photo album

page 1 : I left the original message written in the front "Presented by Mr. and Mrs. John Fuch's Omaha Neb. Nov. 9 1887." (crazy old!)

grimoire pages

these are just the picture pages - I did some personal journalling as well but I thought I'd share these colorful pages as something I've been working on - on and off every couple of days...

put my paintover painting in my journal next to bird page :)

another paint-over

here is another paint-over a picture technique I did today - I love the dog!

Wednesday painting...

Today I didn't really know what to paint - actually it's been like that for a while now but I read about a technique in a magazine that I wanted to try out. You basically just paint over a photographed image out of a magazine and it turns out really cool... (I turned her suit yellow myself, and the face looks better in person) :)

I'm back from Portland Oregon for the Art and Soul art workshops. It was sooo fun. Here are a few of the items I made:Lisa Kaus' class "Be still my beating heart" was super fun.

and Dierdra Doan taught an art nouveau class called "pretty as a princess" using inspiration from Gustav Klimt's art.

and the Portland Rose Garden with Tom, Dorothy, and Mom - beautiful day...