'The hills have eyes'....... for AJJ

Hello

I've always had a bit of an over active imagination, seeing pictures in clouds and abstracts and imagining that the birds understand me when I talk to them... and hoping believing there really are fairies somewhere in my garden and little magical worlds down below.
So for  AJJ 'anything with eyes'  today my artwork was created with oil pastels - I'll leave what I was thinking to your imagination :)

There's some amazing entries already for 

this month AJJ challenge 'Anything with eyes'

hope to see you there :)

Happy Saturday..

hope you have a wonderful weekend

Gill x

New Year - New Adventures

Hello

I hope your New Year has started well... 
at  AJJ the theme is New Year, New Adventures   and this month the lovely Erika from BioArtGal is hosting. 
Every new year I seem to say I'm going to do such and such and then never remember what I said at the end of the year. This year I'm giving it more thought for achievable things I can keep up which I will tell of in another post... but some adventures have already begun!

So my page for AJJ this time was made with Portfolio water soluble crayons, watercolour paints, white candle as a resist and then lastly I digitally added the word art.

 

and also linking to Moo Mania where the theme is

WELCOME Somebody / Something / The New Year

thanks for stopping by

Gill x

ARCHITECTURE the Art of using space

Hi... hope your weekend is going well.
Linking today another piece to Art Journal Journey challenge where the theme this month is 'architecture' and there's loads of amazing inspiration to see.

This digitally created piece is incorporating my own Steampunk lady artwork (soft pastels) I've used before and a photo of helter skelter on a local pier. Tried to make it look like the helter skelter was emerging from her hat. The soft coloured patterned background is digital too which I made a couple of years ago. The remainder is clipart/tubes type of thing. All digitally blended together.

Thank you so much for visiting today

Have a great day

Gill x

Work In Progress

Hellooooo...... I've been playing with another drawing (although at time unfinished but needed a break from the pastel dust) so went and made a digital page with it.... (little voice inside is saying 'housework, housework' ....nahhh.. not now )

 

So I copied the image and using the usual software I use (Craft Artist) altered transparency on one layer and added some colour burn too.

Then added some more digital Steampunk elements which I designed some time back and then added some quotes/words art.

 

Ok so the sun is shining and I really am going to do some housework and gardening so will catch up with you later ..

Have a lovely day and thanks so much for stopping by

Gill x

WHERE DID THE WEEK GO?

aka Diary 5th to 12th September 2015

Hi... .. I was going to ask where last week went again, but I can see exactly where it went from my digital diary page.

I've probably been spending too much time drawing and too much time looking out my window and not doing those never ending household chore type of things that are always there ...arghhh....

Do you find it hard to make the choice - create? or clean the house? 

Digital kit used by G&T designs called 'The Artists Memories'

Kits used 'The rustic gardener' 'Projection' and 'ClicknSummer addon' all by Algera Designs..

This week so far I've sat playing with pastels again and looking on line at colour charts and different brands of soft pastels and paper pads but my order is now placed and now I can't wait
 for my arty parcel to arrive.

Used one of my other pastel drawings and altered it with my software to recolour and then added some digital elements and a quote.

All for now

Thank you for stopping by

Gill x

Dream, Create and Inspire

Happy Sunday to you - as I post this it is just after 4pm in the UK and I've had a lovely Guinea fowl stew - better than it sounds - honestly! and one glass of wine which seems to have been much stronger than I thought, thus leaving me quite happy and relaxed.



I can't stop drawing faces this week - and to my finished artwork work (using mainly Pan Pastels) 

I have added digital embellishments using a lovely digital kit called 'Equinox' by G&T Designs   and to finish it off merged and slightly altered two quotes.

The font credit to Chris Hansen.

All this year I have been making a weekly digital diary page so I can look back on the year and see where it went. Last week I probably have done more drawing than ever before and also more wine was drunk too - note to self - must cut down a bit next week (on the wine that is!)

And if you read about this is earlier in year on my other blog,  this is the 'Gratitude jar' that I made and I'm still filling up. I use just a  small piece of paper  (1.5 x 2 inch) and write on front and back a few things to read at end of year, to remind me of nice things to be grateful for or that have made me smile, achievements, people that touch my life - that sort of thing. I started writing every day for the first two months but now just write new or memorable things. Will be an interesting read for the New Years eve maybe.

Thank you so much for stopping by today -

have a lovely week

 Gill xx

Art is my Life...

So I was good yesterday having only a glass of water with my lunch instead of wine before another afternoon playing with Pan pastels and Portfolio Pastels and coloured/water colour pencils.
Again I've added my artwork to a digital layout..Kit used 'Grunge en Rouge' the flowers were originally made from paper which I photographed a few years back when making the kit. Font thanks and credit to Chris Hansen.

Thank you for stopping by and your comments .... Gill x

GO

Another afternoon of fun drawing (learning) following a lovely meal and bottle of wine again -
I really must cut down - but the dear OH belongs to a wine club and will keep buying it
and of course I have to be polite and try it :)

I've been playing with different types of pastels over the last few days after having them for ages and not really doing much with them.  The Pan Pastels I've liked and used but never for drawing and now I think I'm really falling for them and want more.
The background pattern on the right hand part of drawing I made using one of those  battery operated erasers.

So after I finished, I took a photo again and using my lovely Craft Artist software added a matching strip of colour on right, added a few embellishments on neck and hair and the border thing on right using a free digikit for CA called 'Julies Wish'.
Finished with a quote (the arty font is thanks and credit to Chris Hansen)

Thanks so much for stopping by....Gill x

Just a thought...

 Had a bit of drawing/painting session after lunch with a nice bottle of wine, then I took a photo of my artwork along with another  photo of a blank piece of water colour paper and using my Serif Craft Artist software blended them together.
The poem I wrote over a couple of days this month, the forget-me-nots and bee are digitally cut out of a photo.
The font I made too - I've been trying to learn about fonts lately and how to create them - it's not that easy when well done - and mine was a quick one as you can see LOL.   
I think I got on a bit better today with the Porfolio water soluble oil pastels but I probably should have used some Gesso as a base first.

thanks for stopping by  x