art journal
the art journal blog of an expressionistic artist who paints the way nature makes her feel.
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6 Dollar Store Creative Art Supply Ideas
Looking for fun inexpensive tools to add to your art supply toolbox? In this post, I’ll be sharing six ways that you can get creative and save on your art supplies. We are going to start with all of the… Continue reading
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Creating Unique Patterns: My Journey with Flowers
Do you have experience with surface design patterns? Pink flowers and surface patterns. I never thought about that. Then one day I was browsing in a Paper Source store. The patterns had flowers on them, and I thought I could… Continue reading
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The Importance of Making Art
Should you observe your work? Or should you keep painting and let the answers find you? Keep painting! Right away I want to say just make. I live by these words in my creative space. Making art is important because… Continue reading
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Exploring the Vibrant World of Purple in Art
I have been working with purple. Purple isn’t a color that I usually work with. I don’t wear purple. Not sure how I feel about grape jam. I prefer strawberry preserves. For some reason, I have been gravitating toward magenta,… Continue reading
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How a 30-Day Art Journal Can Help You
For the past 30 days I have been filling up my journal with doodles and sketch ideas. In this post, I will reflect on my journal experience to see how I have grown. Art Journals are a fabulous way to… Continue reading
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Transforming Scraps into Art
In this post, I want to share how I took colorful swatches of paint to create a collage cocoon. Ever butterfly needs a cocoon to grow and bloom. I remember the time I worked on this project. There was no… Continue reading
A Painted Garden 