DLP Week 3

The January 17th challenge at The Documented Life Project is "The Color Wheel".   The journal prompt is a quote from Georgia O'Keefe- "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...."

I wanted to start with black and white and somehow bring bold color into the piece.  I prepped the page with white gesso.  Then I put some black gesson on a piece of plastic wrap and spritzed some water on it and brushed it out into a thin layer.  I layed this onto the white page in the center.  I took a piece of shelving mat and used it to texture some of the black gesso around the black area.  Then I let that dry completely.  Next I took some white foam letters that spelled out the word COLOR and tried several different methods to put bright color on them.  Finally used my gellatos to get a nice bold color on them that seemed to stay.  I wrote the quote in white signo pen and also wrote "Live you life in" above the letters that I placed on the page.  I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.  It almost looks like what I envisioned in my head.  That almost never happens.....LOL.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

~pam

Bible Art Journal Challenge

I found a a weekly Bible journaling challenge that is offered by Rebekah Jones called The Bible Art Journal Challenge.  Every Tuesday she posts a new Bible verse with the challenge.  There is also Facebook group to post in.  So far there have been two challenges and I have completed both and am now waiting on the next one.

Week 1

Joshua 1:9 

Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD you GOD is with you wherever you go.

Week 2

Proverbs 31:25

She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.

Thanks for stopping by.

~pam

Bible Journaling

I just discovered a whole new world.  Bible Journaling!!! There is even a community of journalers on Facebook.  I found this randomly on Tuesday.  I was so excited I immediately ordered my journaling Bible from Amazon here.  I'm holding out for the NKJV which is my favorite version but it isn't going to be shipped until July 2015.  That's OK because I told my husband that it was going to be my birthday present from him.

But, I can't wait that long to start so I pulled out another of my Bibles that I don't use because the print is way to small for these old eyes.  And started a study of Psalms on Merri Dennis' website.  The study is called 52 Weeks of Psalms.  I don't think it will take me 52 weeks since I've already done 3 weeks in 2 days.  I am journaling directly into this Bible.  This at first seemed very wrong but I really don't use this Bible for study as I said because the print is too small so instead of it just sitting on the bookshelf why not use it for a good purpose.  I am also making something that is uniquely mine and I plan to give it to my granddaughter Lydia when she is old enough.  I am really trying to keep the art light so that the text can still be seen.  You will see in another picture that I had a little mishap and covered some of the text.  Also, I have studied more on my own in the last 3 days than in the last year.  This can only be a good thing and I believe in it.

Here is my first work:

 

For Psalms 1 I chose the passage Psalms 1:3

And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,

Which yields its fruit in its season,

And its leaf does not wither. 

I drew a tree and a leaf and colored them with colored pencil.

 

Psalms 3: 3

But Thou, O Lord, art a shield about me,

My glory, and the one who lifts my head.

I drew a shield and wrote "Shield me Oh God."

 

Psalms 7: 17

I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness,

And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

I wrote "Sing for Joy" and drew notes to represent singing.  We sing accapela in our Church during services and I love how all the voices blend in harmony.  I love to sing Hymns.  I feel like I am worshiping God this way.

 

Psalms 8:3

When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers,

The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;

This is where the journaling went a little wrong.  I used my Twinkling H2Os to paint a dark sky through a mask.  They weren't quite as see through as I though it would be.  But I love it.  I used some glitter glue to make the stars. 

 

Even though it is a little dark, you can still read almost the entire text through it. 

 

Thank you to the Admins of the Journaling Bible Community for adding me.  I am loving all the beautiful artwork and lettering that the others are doing.  To a Christian and artist this is the perfect marriage of the two things I love.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

~pam

 



 





New Year, New Journal

The Art to the 5th ladies have started the new year with new challenges and a new journal.

The first two challenges are complete.

January's theme is "The blank page and how to face it".

Week 1:  Book Paper
Journal prompt:  Be your own goal keeper.

I used many different pieces of text pages, book paper, etc as the base of my page.  I then used some watered down gesso over that so that you could still see the text through the layer.  Several different colors of paints and inks and lots random ink marks with a black fine point marker and white gel pen completed the background.
I used black gesso to pull out an area on the side of the spread to write my goals for the year.  I really liked the idea of using goals instead of resolutions.  Resolutions, at least in my life, tend to go by the wayside fairly soon after the new year.  Goals are more fluid. 

I used the word "begin" because this is the beginning of the year, the beginning of the DLP prompts and the beginnin of my new journal.



Week 2: Gesso

Journal prompt:  "The beginning is always today."  ~Mary Shelley

I used Dylusions spray inks for the background after prepping the page with gesso.  I decided to use one page for this prompt.  I used Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress ink through two different stencils. Over all this I added clear gesso.  Then I tried to use gesso through a stencil with limited success.  I tried to put the gesso on using a brush and I think I would have been a little more successful had I just used my fingers.  Oh, well live and learn.

Thanks for visiting.

~pam

DLP Week 44

Challenge:  Incorporate leaves (real or drawn/painted) onto your page in a creative way.

I wanted to have a lot of texture on my page by creating a tree.  I started by tearing masking tape into small pieces and placing it in my page in a rough tree pattern.

Once I had my tree defined I added modeling paste using a pallet knife.

I used a fairly thick coat with lots of lovely texture.  This was left to dry which took two days Then I added acrylic paint in sable brown to the tree adding thicker coats in some places and lighter in others to highlight all that great texture.

I then stamped lots of leaves at the base of the tree in pretty fall colors of orange, rust and yellow.

I cut a banner with my Big Shot and stamped a Fall saying and added some twine to make it look like it was hanging from one of the branches.

Hope you like my creation.  Thanks for stopping by.

Pam

DLP Flip Through Video

I've created a short video called a flip video where I flip through my DLP Planner to catch you up with my book .  I've never done this before so hope it works.

Thanks for stopping by.
Pam

Catching Up

What?  It's the end of October?  Really?

I just logged into my blog only to realize I haven't posted anything since May.  Life has been really busy since then.

My only son graduated with his Masters Degree from Marshall University.

My husband and I went on a cruise for my 60th birthday in July.  

We had a wonderful family get together where my 83 year old mother met her great granddaughter for the first time.

My sister-in-law and brother-in-law made a trip to our weekend cottage and we had a lovely visit.

I became the X-Ray tech for the Marshall University football team at home games.

Now it's time for trick or treat and I have a little Lydia bug to snuggle.

So now we are all caught up.  Thanks for visiting.

Pam