The Art Junkie

Artsy Fish Madness

2012-02-10T16:06:00.000-08:00

I am in a swap at IllustratedATCs called "Artsy Fish Madness". These are my fish. Three of them are ink and markers. The others are watercolor with ink that had glitter in it.

Sketchbook Project 2011 - Grey Side of Life

2012-01-26T15:21:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pages from the book I am submitting to the Sketchbook Project. The theme I chose was the "Grey Side of Life".

English Miltary 1811

2011-11-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

I joined a swap called Men and Beautiful Boys at IllustratedATCs.com. I chose to do something really different. I found an old book that described the head gear of various soldiers in 1811. I stuck with the English soldiers. I took artistic license to color in my version.

Chop stick holder

2011-11-01T20:53:00.000-07:00

I love Asian food, love collecting and using chopsticks. I used a tea tin with Japan collage sheet and Metal Tin Geishas from Ten Two Studios.

Day of the Dead Artist Trading Cards

2011-10-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

I am hosting a Day of Dead swap at IllustratedATCs. Here are my cards that I am trading. For a limited time I scanned and posted the whole swap on my flickr account. Which is on the left side of this blog. It will only be there till November 5,2011. It has some truly amazing art.

Buddy goes to the Park

2011-09-29T20:55:00.000-07:00

I am in another PAT (pick a theme) swap at ATCs for all. What makes this one extra fun is the themes are to be monochromatic. Each group has a color assign to it. The one I chose is black, white and grey. One of my group member's theme is Boston Terriers. Here is my card.

Grid Journaling

2011-09-19T13:41:00.000-07:00

I have been following Milliande Art Community for Women for a while now. I discoved Milliande on You Tube about two years ago. She inspires me to get off my duff and make art.

Right now she is doing some art journaling that I really like doing. It is very relaxing working in the grids you create. It is almost like a stream of conscience. I chose to do images from outside my art room window that looks out to the street in front of my house.

Off to do more grids

More Art Dolls

2011-09-15T10:31:00.000-07:00

Here are some art dolls for a swap I am in at http://www.atcsforall.com/. The swap is Art Dolls: Women Only. I like the 1700 fashion with a shorter hem.

Watercolor art dolls

2011-09-06T19:40:00.000-07:00

These are three art dolls I made from watercolor paper. They sort of turned out to be the three elements, water, fire, earth.

Chunky Houses

2011-09-02T15:10:00.000-07:00

These are my little houses for a chunky house swap. I always make tabs on my chunkies. There was no theme which is good for me.

Above and Below book mark swap

2011-08-30T13:06:00.000-07:00

I usually do not do this sort of swap, but the theme intrigued me. It is at IllustratedATCs.com, the theme is above and below. For some reason my bookmarks have a sleepy twist in all of them.

Blue Reborn Book

2011-08-17T20:39:00.000-07:00

This book is what my friend Lisa calls "reborn books". Basically you take a hardback book that is doomed for the trash and make an new one.

You carefully remove the entire insides and make new pages from all sorts of papers, envelopes, pockets, or whatever you can dream of. I bound my book with leather lacing and an old paint brush. I am not sure whether I will add beads or not. For now I am leaving the leather lacing long.

I have joined a journaling group and this is the book I will be working on. I am making myself do some writing which is so hard for me, I was born with a total writers block. I was smart on my part to make my book with only 24 pages.

Altered Playing Card Swap

2011-08-08T16:28:00.000-07:00

I am participating in a swap at ATCs for all. You are to use a regular playing card, one of the corners must show the number and suit. I colored in the corner to go with my paper. The white background was just to bright. The images came from Ten Two Studios.

Hand Colored Photographs

2011-08-03T17:43:00.000-07:00

I am hosting a swap at atcsforall.com called Hand colored photographs. Here are some cards I made, not sure if I am going to use them in the swap or not. I may work on them a little more with colored pencils. The cards are colored in with Copic and Primsacolor markers. I took the photographs on the left and the center. The guy on the bike is a vintage photograph that I bought at an antique store. I scanned in the photograph in my collection so I can make many more alteration to it.

Green Page - Handmade Journal

2011-07-26T12:13:00.000-07:00

This is a spread from the journal I made from watercolor paper. The top picture is the full spread open. The bottom picture is a detail photograph of the lower right hand corner of the spread.

The paper on the borders and throughout the spread were created by first using some cheap copy paper and sprayed it with some ink. I then used a heat gun to dry the paper. I rubber stamped images into columns filling up the paper. The paper was then ripped into different size strips and glued along the borders and filling in other spaces.

The photograph I took in the bottom detail is an old house near Santa Fe, New Mexico. I made a copy of the photograph in black and white. The image was then hand colored with markers and torn to fit the page.

More Glue Cards- Theme Hot

2011-07-21T09:51:00.000-07:00

Here are two more glue cards I made for a swap. The theme is HOT. Since we here in North Texas are going through record breaking heat I decided to incorporate the weather forecast in these two cards.

Collage Cards - Glue and Paper only

2011-07-20T16:42:00.000-07:00

These are two 4X6 cards that are collage with just paper and glue. It is a challenge not to mess with it using other mediums. It is a real exercise in restraint on my part

Purple Page - Handmade Journal

2011-07-13T09:34:00.000-07:00

These are pages from a book I made using a single sheet of watercolor paper. I found the instructions on Tracy V Moore Channel on You Tube. I love the idea of using a single sheet of paper and not wasting anything. I have made different sizes of this journal which working nicely for making something small you can tuck inside a backpack or purse to do impromptu art.

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tracyvmoore#p/u/22/1z6qmXGRrsE

CAT swap - Cityscapes

2011-07-07T12:34:00.000-07:00

These artist trading cards are for a "Create A Theme " swap. The theme was landscapes, so I did a city landscape for my partners. I made one long piece that would be divided into four cards. I carefully marked where the cut would be so it would not cut off a good part of the cityscape. Each card has some person or people in it. If you look carefully you will see the cuts.

From my window Barajas, Spain

2011-07-06T04:53:00.000-07:00

This is an ink and watercolor from my hotel room in Barajas Spain, which is a suburb of Madrid.

Fashionable Marie - Handmade Journal

2011-06-23T13:51:00.000-07:00

I thought about some "what ifs" with these Marie's. What if I dressed like Marie Antoinette from the waist up and wore my favorite jeans, pencil skirt or some other modern bottom. My Marie's came from Ten Two Studios Duchess Doll Bodies download.

Self Portrait

2011-06-14T13:59:00.000-07:00

This is a self portrait I painted from the photograph above taken in San Sabastian Spain last year. It is artist trading card size in watercolor.

Small Journal - Inspired by Albrect Durer

2011-06-02T17:47:00.000-07:00

These pages are inspired by one of my favorite artist Albrect Durer. I love all the fine details in the ink drawings that he did. I combined a couple drawings but changed it a bit and added a light color wash with watercolors.

Small Journal- Round Landscape

2011-05-24T14:25:00.000-07:00

I bought this super nice blank art journal at an art show this spring. It is made by Iona at www.ionahandcraftedbooks.com. I have five of them and I can't seem to finish any of them. Here is a page that is done in ink and watercolor wash. I am finally learning not to have a heavy hand with the washes and stay more monotone.

Marie Cupcakes

2011-05-10T13:48:00.000-07:00

These fun cupcakes are inspired by Ten Two Studios Duchess Doll Bodies download. They come in two sizes, I used the smaller ones for these cupcakes. I cut around the bodies, taped them to a cut skewer and then inserted into the little cakes. They are very fun.