"lost opportunities, lost possibilities"

fabric, ephemera, found text, painted papers

"to see deeply into outside relationships"

watercolored papers, found text

"dust things off every once in a while"

fabric, watercolored papers, cardstock, found text

"closing your eyes"

watercolored papers, found text

"distracts you with the headlines"

hand-painted papers, found text, playing card, fabric

"and go on dreaming"

fabric, found text, ephemera, hand-painted papers

"island"

teeny tiny pieces, hand-painted papers and ephemera alternating with fabric and found text

3x5" index cards, stitched 

Each week, I spend a bit of time in the sewing room aka guest room working on my 365 project for 2013. It's always there, behind the scenes. And while I certainly cannot make 365 Somethings in the blink of an eye, this is absolute proof that working bit by bit adds up to something grand.,

You can see all of the collages to date in this Flickr set and read all of the posts about my 365 Somethings project. 

I've been drawing on the pages of Dawn DeVries Sokol's new book {which is really a journal} Art Doodle Love. Doodling in gelly rolls, slicci pens and colored pencils. I keep this book in my car and it only came inside today to be photographed! I keep the 5x8" sketch moleskine in my purse along with several pens. Today I threw a zip-lok of colored pencils and a mini-sharpener in the car to use while I wait at carpool. 

What do you carry with you each day to aid in your creativity?

Last day to enter the giveaway for free MOO postcards! 

"guarantee of consistency"

fabric

"thin cloud"

fabric

"I don't allow you to be devastated"

hand-painted papers, found text

"there comes another day"

acrylic painted/stamped index card, fabric, found text

"a particular missing part"

fabric, found text

"making new reference cards"

watercolored papers, found text

"explode"

watercolored papers

3x5" index cards, stitched 

Each week, I spend a bit of time in the sewing room aka guest room working on my 365 project for 2013. It's sort of always there, behind the scenes. It's not feasible for me to make 365 Somethings in a week or even in a month, but in a year, definitely. You can see all of the collages to date in this Flickr set and read all of the posts about my 365 Somethings project. 

Just one Friday per month helps the cause! 

Grab a retro pastel orange LINK LOVE badge and read the intro to the MISSION. Linking to creative blogs you've just discovered, blogs that you adore, blogs you've read for a long time but might not be well known. Consider smaller blogs, and blogs with a fresh perspective that sparks your creativity.

Just start this Friday.

Here's my post from the first week. Last week.

1. Discovered Lynne Hoppe and found this gem about how to paint faces. 
2. How I adore Hanna's smart elegant art journal. Classic Hanna art journaling style.
3. Stephanie shares layers of depth and meaning invisible in her final painting. 
4. I like the way that Lee writes her blog posts. Tongue in cheek humour. 
5. Thrilled to see my creative friend TJ blogging at the new Studio Mailbox, can you imagine all of your artsy goodness packed in boxes for 18 months?

work in process

work in process, not sure where this is going

These mandalas are in my 5x8" drawing moleskine, with heavy off-white paper. 

Drawing in the carpool line. Win win.

 

On June 1, we start Daisy Yellow index-card-a-day. This is the 3rd year of the challenge to create art on one index card each day for 61 days. You can draw, paint, sketch, doodle, stamp, hole punch, write poetry, write a quote, sew the card. You can even cut it up and weave it back together.

This is the biggest challenge of the year for Daisy Yellow!

It could change your life.

There is NO sign-up required.

Just play. 

Learn absolutely everything you need to know in the ICAD FAQ. If you have questions, please add them to the FAQ post.

Good to know:

Daisy Yellow FB Group

Daisy Yellow ICAD FB Group

Daisy Yellow Flickr Group

Think of a word that describes what you want to write or journal about.

What colors and shapes come to mind?

Here are the shapes I cut out of a furniture magazine for my escapades with the word NEUTRAL.

Open a magazine or catalog and go on a treasure hunt looking for rectangles to make letter cut-outs. Cut out a rectangle of about 2x2" or larger. No need to measure. Cut out enough bits for each letter, plus extras just in case.

Let's say you use the word YELLOW. Gather a wide variety of yellows with interesting textures. You might find leather buckles on a yellow purse, tulips and carpet and upholstery patterns. The word DECEPTION might trigger thoughts of deep purples and grungy cement. And GARDEN might prompt you to look for petals, leaves, green, cloudy skies, insects, outdoor fabrics, birds and grass. 

I picked one clipping at a time and drew a block letter with a purple neon gellyroll marker.

I cut out each letter and used the first letter each time as a sizing guide for all of the rest.

Don't worry about what letter will be cut from each block. I cut an extra few, in case I went crazy with the scissors, or a letter got stuck upside down to the paint container. Little clippings are always winding up in strange places.

Cut out all of your letters.

Put a glob of Golden titanium white heavy body acrylic paint on a piece of heavy cardstock.

Roll the white paint around the paper using a 2" brayer.

Immediately set the letters on the WET page however they fit best.

Wash and dry the brayer and roll the brayer in a forward motion {I worked from the right side of each letter to the left side} simply "press" the letters into the paint, so that they stick.

Here are the letters nice and flat after dry brayering. If paint gets on the brayer, and onto the letters, such is life. Just go with it!

Scoop out a blob of heavy body acrylic paints and push the paint around with your fingers. I used copper, white, phthalo blue, white and teal on this page. Be sure to wash your hands right after you paint. 

And here's the page as I build up paint around it. At this point you can just paint around all of the letters or make marks in the paint with an old pencil. Let the page dry thoroughly {this may take a few days} and then journal in gellyroll or sharpie on the painted area, using the word as a prompt.

Daisy Yellow Journal Prompt Cards are on SALE through the end of May!

Have you entered the MOO giveaway?

What word will you create?

EDM #24: Draw a piece of fruit. First I drew a KIKU apple, which is yummy, but it was so wonky that I decided to try my hand at an old grapefruit. I like the grapefruit better, but I have difficulty with organic shapes. But moreso, the first few drawings after not drawing "real" things are always weak.

EDM #25: Draw a glass. In this case, this is a glass jar from Favorit swiss cherry preserves.

EDM #26: Draw anything you like. Here, I drew one of the stitched index cards I made for my 365 project. 

Three EDM drawings from March. These are in my 5x8" watercolor moleskine. I'm working through Danny Gregory's Everyday Matters {EDM} drawing list. All of the drawings are tagged EDM Challenge.

an art journal page on loose drawing paper, 2010

“That without experimentation,
a willingness to ask questions
and try new things,
we shall surely become static,
repetitive, moribund.”
Anthony Bourdain

Most folks think of a journal as a noun.

But I think it's a verb.

To journal.

The simple act of journaling, or working in your journal, is the essence of art journaling.

You win simply by working creatively, whether with paint or words or images. You can work in an actual journal, in a wire-bound pad of paper, on the cardboard back of a cereal box, in a hand-bound collection of random papers, even in an old children's book.

 For your exploration, the annual Daisy Yellow project list, updated with fresh ideas + old favorites. These are projects that are fun to do WITH your kids, to share creativity. And we still kids at heart so these will work for all of us! It's a list of diversions that I put together as a resource for kids + moms during school holidays, summers and even those days when the kids aren't feeling great but want a diversion!

Ideas from Daisy Yellow

 A note about my "age" references - a project marked "3+" might be perfect for teens. The age is only an indication of the physical capability required to "do" the project. Most of these projects would be perfect for anyone! 

• Plan Discovery Zones {all ages}
• Make Acrylic Leaf Prints (age 2+)
• Make FIMO Fossils (age 2+)
• Make Marshmallow Structures (age 6+)
• Make bagels together
• Get kids a camera; photograph and play with light together (age 6+)
• Make an Infinity Calendar (age 4+)
• Make an "All About Me" Board (age 4 - 12)
• Make a Board Game (age 4+)
• Discover Block Printing (age 3+)
• Draw Shadow Spheres with pastels or colored pencils (age 4+)
• Try Neocolor Circles and Kids, Neocolors, Water (age 3+)
• Make beads wth the FIMO Polymer Clay Project (age 4+)  

• Make FIMO Pendants (age 2+) 
• Weave Paper into Artist Trading Cards (age 7+)
• Print with Bubble Wrap (age 3+)
• Draw Comic Strips (read Calvin + Hobbes first) (age 5+)
• Make plaid abstract art with a brayer (age 4+)

• Make your summer reading list at Top Picks: Books for Kids 0-12
• Paint terra cotta pots for your container garden (age 4+)
• Visit your local farmers' market (all ages)
• Sew paper or make a stitched writing journal (depends on the child; hand sewing, age 5+, machine sewing, perhaps age 7+)
• Paint Spooky Painted Webs (age 3+)
• Start Art Journaling (age 5+)
• Make art with stamps (age 2+)
• Draw mandalas {age 2+}
• Doodle with glue or ink-colored glue (age 4+)
• Play with india inks (age 7+)
• Make maps of real & imaginary places. {age 2+}

a mandala my older daughter (then 9) drew while we were in Germany, 7"x9" paper, papermate markers

Ideas from around the world

• An abundance of summer-themed projects for kids at The Crafty Crow
• Macrame a hemp bracelet from Rings & Things (age 6+)
• Great resources to get your kids sewing from Sew, Mama, Sew in Easy Hand Sewing for Kids
• Try any of the 50 Summer Project Ideas from The Long Thread
• A list of Odd Art Jobs from The Teaching Palette fill smaller bits of time and get organized
• Do Spin Art with your kids at Brassy Apple (bonus journal fodder for you)
• Watch the cutest Schoolhouse Rock grammar videos, each 3 minutes long and kid friendly, with bonus 1970s typography: Adjectives {above}, Adverbs, Pronouns, Nouns, Verbs, Prepositions, Interjections {my kids' fav}, Conjunction Junction
• Stop by The Artful Parent for an array of artful projects for kids, including An Activity a Day (31 activities) 
• maya*made has a lovely list of projects to make each season
• Funky children's projects by material from The Crafty Crow: What Can You Make From Cardboard Tubes?  From Plastic?  From a Cardboard Box? and From an Egg Carton?
• At The Wonder Years, Craft Weaving.
• Do a Wire Sculpture at Camp Creek Blog (and learn about the Project Approach)
• At 2 Things Challenge you "Interpret the 2 weekly subjects any way you wish, in a photograph, collage, painting, poem, song, or whatever you can dream up" and responses are presented in mosaic format. I enjoyed the interpretations of Hot/Cold. Via Kids Who Think.
• Do a polka dot leaves experiment and Acorn Jewelry at 5 Orange Potatoes.
• Create Mexican amate drawings with this lesson from Davis Art
• Make paper sculptures at Color Color Color.

• Pink and Green Mama has a myriad of kid-centric art projects, including Gorgeous Georgia O'Keefe Flowers
• Try the Story Starter Game from Red Bird Crafts.
• At Chocolate Cake Moments, click on Seasonal Fun for projects by season.
• Fabric painting using stencils made from freezer paper at  do stuff!
• Art Projects for Kids has a project called "Watercolor Still Life" involving painting a picture with just one color, adjusting the color by adding different amounts of water. 
• Math Cats provides a string art project which can be done with colored pencils and a ruler or string.
• Paint your driveway with cornstarch sidewalk paint at Pink & Green Mama.

My go-to printer for Daisy Yellow Art Journal Prompt Cards is MOO. The quality is fabulous! I am thrilled with the quality, color and clarity of MOO stickers, business cards and MOO cards and wanted to test their postcards with larger images. Postcard dimensions are approx. 5 3/4" x 4 1/4". You can find MOO's US site here and the UK site here. So I went through a zillion photographs and selected a set to print as postcards. They arrived as promised and the colors just rocked! I really like them! 

Courtesy of MOO, I'm doing a giveaway.

{THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED}

Three (3) winners will each receive 80 MOO postcards. Each winner will receive a promo code valid for a free set of 80 cards. The winner will need to upload their own images to MOO and place the order.

To see what the postcards look like at MOO, here's a link to the US postcards page and the UK postcards page.

To enter, just add a comment on this post and tell me ONE THING that you could do to START a blank white page in your art journal. Think of something unique... like painting with a feather? Be sure to include your email address OR blog address when you add your comment, so that I can contact you if you win!

I'll select the winner on Saturday May 18.

The Fine Print: I purchased my first set of postcards, the cards you see above. MOO asked if I wanted to do a giveaway; MOO sent me a second set of free postcards in return. 

Please join me on the mission to keep the link-love flowing every Friday. Here's how to get started.

And here are the three winners!!!!

Winners:

#26: Gretchen aka Indigo Garden

#4: Dawn {blogs at Girl Unwinding}

#6: Patricia {blogs at Magenta Matters}

Thank you to EVERYONE for entering your ideas for conquering the blank page. I will nudge you to try one of these ideas in the week ahead!!!

I shall contact the winners!

The mission continues.

Help me SHARE THE LINK LOVE by posting a list of 5 or more blogs on Fridays in May and June. Participate as many Fridays as you wish.

Even one Friday helps the cause! 

Grab a retro pastel orange LINK LOVE badge and read the intro to the MISSION. Linking to creative blogs you've just discovered, blogs that you adore, blogs you've read for a long time but might not be well known. Consider smaller blogs, and blogs with a fresh perspective.

Here's my post from the first week. The second week. The third week. Another week.

My links for this week:

1. Jennifer reviews homemade vs. packaged gesso at her blog PixieDust.
2. Michelle documents an art journal page from start to finish.
3. Lori talks about designing the life you wish to have, and the impact on your kids' lives.
4. Karen shares insight about artistic growth.
5. Natasha asks an interesting life question in Card #9/52: Oh for an Insider's Guide.

If you are participating in SHARE the LINK LOVE, please add the URL to your blog post in the Mister Linky below. Links to your home page or links not about our MISSION will be deleted.

"future recedes quickly"

fabric, found text

"looked behind us"

hand-painted papers, fabric, found text, ephemera

"step by step"

fabric, found text

"because the mail stops coming"

fabric, found text

"the competition:

fabric, watercolored paper, found text

"a parade in a day or two"

fabric, found text

"and another witty and inexpensive poem"

stamped index card, fabric, found text

My background project for 2013 is to make 365 stitched collages on 3x5" cards. I say "background" because it's sort of always there, behind the scenes. It's not feasible for me to make 365 Somethings in a week or even in a month, but in a year, definitely. You can see all of the collages to date in this Flickr set and read all of the posts about my 365 Somethings project.

A daily conundrum.

What drives you to get the laundry done?

The dust bunnies herded?

 

I've collected the bicycle shots from photographs from our trip to Italy all together!

every so often

i find myself

completely immersed

drawing lines

in a coffee shop

The beauty of creating art simply for the sake of creating art is that you gradually learn to focus on the process of making. Not the rules. Not the right-wrong thing. Not whether this matches that. Just the doing. The joy and flow. My mantra. Create simply for the sake of creating. 

It doesn't have to be extraordinary.

"the sandstorm chases you"

acrylic squares painted on index card, then stitched in grid, quote

"sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm"

acrylic painted index card, fabrics, quote 

"keeps changing directions"

acrylic painted index card, fabrics, quote 

"swirling up into the sky"

acrylic painted index card, fabrics, quote 

"you change direction"

 thin strips from my gel printing experiments, quote

"short storm crossed"

fabric

"adjusts over and over"

fabric, found text, maps, japanese papers, hand painted papers, paint chip, cardstock, ephemera

One of my projects for 2013 is to make 365 stitched collages on 3x5" cards. The more I make, the more I am drawn to make more. You can see all of the collages to date in this Flickr set. A twist in this set - I used fragments from the Murakami quote in most of the collages. And some of the index cards were painted already with acrylics, so I used them too.

Have you ever done a 365 project? What was it like? Did it spark creativity? Did you fizzle out at some point? Would you ever do another?

 

Some of the marvelous mail art received for Hanna's postcard swap!

To be a groovy mission member, grab a LINK LOVE badge and learn about why I'm asking you to join me in giving digital hugs and spread the link love. The goal is to post 5 links every Friday. Links to creative blogs you've just discovered, to blogs that you adore, to blogs you've read for a long time but might not be well known. Think also of niche blogs that spark your creativity but might not be in the disco light of the blogosphere. 

Just start this Friday.

I am committed to sharing links at Daisy Yellow and I hope that you will get in on the action and do a link round-up on your blog too. This was one of my favorite things to do when I started blogging and it has fallen out of fashion. 

Here's my post from the first week. The second week. The third week. Another week.

So without further ado, my links for this week:

1. Roben-Marie has a fun new set of mixed media stamps that I adore.
2. Stephanie adds new details as she reworks a mandala from several years ago.
3. A cutie patootie tutorial at Artsyville about making little file folders.
4. On a much softer note, I discovered Mother Henna's blog Exploring Grief Using Radical Creativity, and her warm video post about discovering beauty even in our dark moments.
5. Teresa speaks simple life truths in her 52 Weeks of Noting project.

If you are participating in SHARE the LINK LOVE, please add the URL to your blog post in the Mister Linky below. Links to your home page or links not about our MISSION will be deleted.

Golden heavy body acrylics, airbrush colors, machine stitching, gellyroll, Uniball marker, ephemera, japanese washi papers, Caran D'Ache Neocolor II wax crayons.

In early 2012 I started with a hardback book and transformed it into an art journal. These are pages from what I call The Noticing Journal. It contains my messiest, most paint-filled journal pages EVER. In this journal, I focus on simple ideas that I might otherwise overlook or forget to document. The journal has been through so much that it has literally fallen apart. Having loose art journal pages {or pages that have fallen out of a journal or altered book} is a wonderful opportunity! Before stitching or binding the pages or gluing them back inside, you can take the chance to sew them with a sewing machine!

After I’d painted blues and whites and the pages had dried {this takes up to a few days, depending how much paint... dry to the touch is not dry to the core}, I decided to attach two things with stitches. I attached the photograph of my daughter using a zig zag stitch. The print is from my Polaroid PoGo Printer, by the way. It has a nice retro feel and a peel-off sticky back. {PS. When I bought the PoGo it was under $50, and so perhaps they've updated the functionality because now it's more expensive.} Then I used a straight stitch to attach a paper I’d dotted with neon acrylics. If you don’t have a machine, you can hand stitch metallic embroidery floss around a photo to add interesting texture to the page.

As I worked, I thought about what I wanted the page to symbolize. The key was the swing. I still find it difficult to come up with words to write. And remember, no rules! But I "like" having at least a few words on my pages. One trick I use is to find something on the page to focus my attention. So I wrote about my daughter’s lifelong love of playground swings. I considered stamping the word FLY with alpha stamps but envisioned something larger with movement to echo the word and the photograph. I painted the word FLY directly on top of the hand-painted paper on the left in bubble gum pink.

“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.”
Isaac Asimov

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want.
But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.” 
Neil Gaiman

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing,
then the desire is not to write”
Hugh Prather

Making collage fodder.

Experimenting.

Watercolors, masks, alcohol inks...

 Spin your assumptions around with creative recklessness!

What haven't you tried lately?

I wanted to share with you some of the gorgeous artwork posted in the discussion group and facebook group for the workshop. I'll be sharing another set of pages at the end of May {so if you've taken my workshop and want me to share your work, just let me know via the comments}. Please note that this work is shared with permission from the artists.

Louise D created this masterpiece.

In her words, "I really struggled with the very first exercise but by this one I suddenly 'got it'. It sounds a bit corny but it felt like the paint was my friend, working its hardest to make 'happy accidents' for me. I tend to work rather quickly and loosely (messily) and this medium is perfect for that! Thank you so much for introducing me to a new friend." 

Natasha White painted this amazing work, with so many little paths to discover and places for the eye to play.

In Natasha's words, "I have used my watercolours more since I started this workshop then I have since I got them. The more I play the more I love them. I have only briefly dabbled before and then went back to my acrylics for the most part, but right now...it is all about watercolours I am loving how vibrant I can still get the colour and experimenting with my control and lack of it!"

Natasha shared a few more of her pages at her blog, Define Your Joy.

Patricia of Magenta Matters created a lively playground in the workshop! I love the flow of the paint and the energy and freedom of color. Learn a bit more about her experience with watercolor.

Lynn created a beautiful page using a technique called bubbles. Lynn blogs at Lulu's Art Life and included her playground page from the workshop in this post. In Lynn's words, "I loved this class Tammy and learned so much so thank you.  I love watercolours even more than I did before." "I think I loved this technique the most! It was so much fun watching the colours mix and blend.  I blended my neocolours a lot more than you did in your video but I kind of got carried away with the vibrancy of the colours blending. And I liked it like that!"

Some comments from the workshop discussion group:

"What I love about your videos so far, is that because I have a smidgen of knowledge I love how your exercises are teaching us basic steps of controlling the paint without making it boring.  We end up with something that is cool to look at and can be used.  I don't know if teaching comes easy for you but I would say that you definitely have a knack for sharing in a creative and interesting way!  I have learned a ton just watching your videos and can't wait until I dip my brush into water and some beautiful paint.  Now maybe I will get those expensive paints I bought out and take them for a spin."

"I really enjoyed this exercise and I am finding that the exercises are really helping me to practice mixing my paint with water to get the right intensity of colour."

"I can't tell you how much I enjoyed doing these pages. My only other attempt at doing watercolor was based on learning from a book, and it was so abysmal I put it away and never got back to it. Thank you so much for these brilliant ideas/exercises, Tammy! I am hooked on watercolors."

"Thank you for making watercolor fun! I was getting too stressed trying to get things to come out like the original picture in other watercolor books. I wish I started with this class first before trying to learn from books."

"Still working on this page but I'm finding it really interesting. I'm usually all about instant gratification and this is not that type of exercise. That's the first thing that's good for me about this - learn some patience. Secondly I'm finding that the further I get I'm sort of getting the hang of how the brush works - i love that it's starting to make sense to me."

"Thanks again for helping me to become more comfortable with watercolors. I know that I have a way to go, but I feel good about this start at exploring this medium. It's quite fun and therapeutic!"

"I loved doing this and find using watercolours oh so relaxing! I know I will be using this technique A LOT in my journalling to come. I love the rawness and roughness of your work Tammy."

So if you are curious about watercolor, and art journaling, register for 21 Secrets! This link will take you to Dirty Footprints Studio, where you can register. 

Please note that the art work in this post is shared with permission from the artists.

"knowing how visual"

hand-cut petals - hand-painted papers, cardstock, found text

"isn't it odd"

misc. ephemera, cardstock, hand-painted papers, fabric, found text

"intensity collector"

fabric, found text

"religion and science"

fabric, found text

"document these qualities"

acrylics painted on index card, fabric, found text

"remember duties"

painted index card, fabric, found text

"13"

fabric, number stamps

All of the collages are stitched 3x5" cards.

What's up at Daisy Yellow?

1. My project for 2013 is to create 365 little collages. I'm actually quite ahead of the game.
2. On a mission to share the link love every Friday in May. Yes! We are officially continuing into May! Please join me this Friday. Thanks to those who participated, commented, or followed just one link in April!
3. I've been doing simple cut + paste collages.
4. Making gelatin prints addictively.
5. Teaching a watercolor workshop for beginners at 21 Secrets. Check out the little video intro. Getting super duper positive feedback!!! 
6. My 2011 workshop for 21 Secrets is now FREE to all. It's an acrylic painting technique called Urban Layer Cake.
7. Art Journal Prompt cards are back in the Etsy Shop in sets of 5, 15 and 52. You can also buy them directly through Daisy Yellow.
8. I'm working on DY Zine #8. But I'm being a perfectionist. Until I get it published, enjoy Zine #7.
9. I've been watercoloring and doodling lots and lots and need to share that with you here!
10. There will be a MOO giveaway this week!
11. June 1 is the start of... well, I think you know. The challenge that shall not be named. 

my new joy, tubed watercolors...

Please join me in the campaign to give virtual hugs to our fellow creative bloggers. Link to blogs that you love to read, link to blogs that you've just discovered, link to blogs that are growing but not yet well known. 

I'm on a mission to revive link love! Get involved! Commit to posting a set of 5 or more links once each week for the rest of April the month of May! Grab a LINK LOVE badge and learn more about my goal.

It is not too late to start. Just start today.

I am committed to sharing links at Daisy Yellow and I hope that you will get in on the action and do a link round-up on your blog too. This was one of my favorite things to do when I started blogging and it has fallen out of fashion. 

Together we can bring it back! 

Here's my post from the first week. The second week. The third week. Another week.

1. Olivia is rocking the world, sharing her experience in teaching a green cleaning workshop. Plus she sent me the sweetest happy-good mail that I will post soonish for you to see.
2. I like the idea of looking at your month visually. Roben-Marie shares a fun monthly instagram photo wrap-up.
3. At Tim's Sally, a video of a blossoming painting. I like the concept of underpainting in white paint and white colored pencil. 
4. Quinn writes about losing weight and her new sparkly photo. And I'll add that I struggle with my weight, as my mom did, and her father. Some people treat overweight folks as if they have a character flaw. They feel that we need to be reminded to fix ourselves. Not only to we feel uncomfortable in tight spaces, but we are uncomfortable in maneuvering through life as well. Since you don't know me in person, this might be a surprise. 
5. Sandra draws the coolest doodles in her Rhodia journal, as part of the Rhodia Journal Swap. You can see our Journal Swap tumblr here.
6. At Cappuccino and Art Journal, a collection of travel journals. Love the ephemera.

If you are participating in SHARE the LINK LOVE, please add the URL to your blog post in the Mister Linky below. Links to your home page or links not about our MISSION will be deleted.

The Main Street Arts Festival is an annual tradition.