on my mind, out of my mind, oh no my mind

Welcome to another post when I'm feeling out of my mind. I have a hard time transitioning to fall. I love summer even the hot and humid days. The only thing I do like are the colorful leaves. They are just starting to show themselves.

I work for a tax accountant and I start prepping for that horrid tax season in November. I think that's why I have so much anxiety for fall. I'll be busy from November through to April 15th. Also, I hate the cold.

In the fall my art is sort of a mess. I look at it and wonder where my head is at. So out of my mind is correct. To keep my mind focused I work like to work in mixed media collage. It keeps my mind and hands busy with little pieces of paper trying to make it work. I don't know why it's calming for me but it works.

This piece is called Many Moons. Here is a picture of my auditioned papers. I spend quite a lot of time auditioning pieces and sometimes they just don't work and I'm diving into my box of scraps looking for something else.

The long strips are dried wet wipes. I keep them and use them in collage all the time. I have quite a stack.  Some are a form of polyester plastic so I figure with gel medium they will last quite while and not disintegrate.

Here is the finished piece. Its hard to photograph because of all the metallic on it. What you think is white is silver.  I also added Seth Apter's Cling Rubber Stamps by Impression Obsession called Border Lines.  I'm obsessed with this stamp!

Another thing I've been doing to keep my mind focus is color. Every time I use a stencil I spray it with water and put it down on paper. I keep going on one piece of paper until I like the way it looks. When it's all dry I put it away to use another day.  Fall is here so now I'm pulling them out and coloring them in with watercolors. I'm not a fan of watercolors so in an effort to change my mind about them I try to use them.

Fall makes me feel like I have to squirrel away all my nuts for the winter and get everything in order so working on collage and coloring in a page like a coloring book keeps my mind at peace. Well, maybe for a short time!

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VISION: A Large Art Journal Page

I've never used this Balzer Bit called Eye from The Crafter's Workshop.

So I thought pairing it with the new stencil called Wings.

I had a 12x12 piece of white paper that already had paint on it so I thought I would use that to just play.

I put the Eye where I wanted it and started adding the wings.
I added the eye once the paint was dry.

 

The Simple Feather Fragment I added to the page with black permanent marker.

 

 

I also decided to trace some of the wings to the page before I decided to add modeling paste.

Here is a close up of the eye.

 

The completed page.

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The Crafter's Workshop provided me with stencils to create this project. 

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them

Going with the flow

Hi Everyone!

This piece is on a 5x7 piece mixed media paper.

I split the piece with white BUT I accidently spilled more white and in the process of cleaning it off my table, I knocked over the black.

 

I just like it flow where it wanted and waited for it to dry.

 

I love the way it dried.

You know I can never get it to look this way again.

But I'm going to try.

 

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A Do Over. Before and After

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One thing you don't know about me.

I repaint finished paintings.

Yes I do.

When I don't like a painting once I finished it, I usually put it aside and leave for a while.

This painting I completed in October 2014.

I don't like it.

I didn't like all the blue. 

At the time, I didn't know what to do next.

Well, I could have just painted the whole thing white but decided to just wait.

To change it, I added some light blue, white and black.

The changes made all the texture pop.

I love it.

Stayed tuned for me Do Overs!

I've been changing many paintings.

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Ugly Canvas BUT not sure I saved it either!

Well, I think it's ugly.

I'm not a blue person.

I was using spray paint and by accident this painting was sprayed.

It's not a happy painting.

Black gesso to the rescue!

Maybe a little white paint.

Nope so not working.

I have no ideal what I'm doing.

So I took the new Triangle Sunburst stencil plus some heavy body acrylics

and painted the stencil design on

to look like flowers

I used the Herbarium stencil to add some leaves plus I decided to add more flowers.

I'm still trying to decided if I like it or not.

Is it still ugly?

Let's turn on it's side

Still not sure I like.

I originally wasn't going to share it.

But I like to share my good, bad and ugly projects.

Do you like?

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My First Very Textured Piece

Hi Everyone.

I'm trying my hand at very textured pieces of art.

 

Not sure I like this one.

You may have seen his one on Google+ but I haven't posted it here yet.

 

I like to post things I've done whether I like them or not.

This one is 10x10 cradled wood.

I used modeling paste and acrylic inks by Liquitex.

 

It was fun but I think I want to do more layers of colors.

Maybe sand some surfaces...experiment.

 

 

Some close ups.

Love the colors but need more layers of colors.

 

I used a few number stickers.

 

 

What do you think?

Something you would like to try?

 

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A Fish Pond: Koi

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I've been playing in my art journals lately.

I like to use them for idea and just play time.

 

I started with this journal page.

The background was created with DecoArt's Misters.

 

This is another page I created with DecoArt's Misters and TCW Stencil #242 Damask.

 

 

I decided it was a great color for fish.

I took my TCW Stencil #499s Koi Pond and traced the fish onto the paper.

I decided not to do anything more to them but just cut them out of the paper.

 

 

Once I was all done cutting, I added them to the journal page.

 

Here is a close up of  the background.

 

Fish

 

Very different for me lately.

I usually have lots of layers in the background.

 

 

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