Showing posts with label travel art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel art. Show all posts

Monday, July 6, 2015

I love my little bitty handmade journal


This is my newest sketchbook. My friend Marianne at Great Wide Open Art  made it for me. Click on the link to contact her to purchase your very own. What I like about it is 1-its size, nice and small to fit in my travel case and that I can finish a painting in about an hour and 2 - that the pages are made with nice watercolor paper and 3- the closure on it is cute and works well.  
I have taken it to TVAA Urban Sketching Events...



I've taken it camping at 10,000 ft.

It went to the Grand Canyon...

Utah desert...

Mountain Biking...

In our travel trailer...
And even to a wedding...

Coming soon...road trip and more adventures in the journal!

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The angst of a blog writer

As you may or may not have noticed I haven't posted in almost 2 months.

Thinking goes like this.

It's a lot of work. Does anyone even read it? Is it relevant? Does it help me?  and better yet does it help anyone else?

So while fretting over the question at hand,  "Do I want to continue my blog postings?" I received this email today:  I'd love to talk to you about art journaling--I hope to have an example for critique :-) I very much enjoyed your blog post about the book your daughter handed down to you. It helped me feel less intimidated. I know it doesn't have to be *perfect* but that white paper is really scary! 

When I responded that I appreciated her comment because I was thinking about giving up on my blog- she commented: Don't give up! It was just what I needed when I needed it. Thanks!

Well I think I have my answer!

Here are some new pages from my journal.


I like using maps in my journal while I am traveling. I like to take out the journal at the end of the day when everyone is sitting around visiting with each other. I am not good at sitting still so this is a good way for me to be a part of the group.


While traveling, the journal is also part diary with out being boring.


It's fun going through all the papers I collect and cut out what is useful for me to tell my story. It's also a good way for me to reuse items that would normally be thrown away. 

I hope I have inspired you, remember: don't give up!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Making Art the Canadian Way and Style File


I have just returned from a 2 week trip in our teardrop T@B trailer through the Canadian Rockies.



 I brought my large art kit and made a couple collages...


don't you just love those pink smurf shoes...

while the amount of time for doing artwork was limited

there was lots artistic inspiration available while biking....

and hiking...


and hanging out with friends...


Upon my return I found out that I have been chosen to be in the Altered Page's "Style File" Style File is the 1st of 6 projects from The Pulse. Participants were asked: How would you describe your artistic style? check out Seth's blog at:

http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/2011/09/style-file-chapter-12.html