Have courage, Be brave, an ATC swap for Life Book 2015

By on 10-17-2014 in Art For The Creative Mind Yahoo Group, Journal pages, Mixed Media

This pair of ATCs was created for the Life Book 2015 swap that was set up in June. Unfortunately the person who was picked to swap with me has not answered me back although I have emailed her more than once. Here they sit and if I do not hear from her by the end of July I will send them to somebody as a swap. To me being brave is having the courage to follow the sun which shines upon us with it’s bounty, warming us and helping us grow. When we stay in the shade of our lives we begin to face inward and stop reaching. We have to spread our arms and reach out to grow.

Be Brave, Have courage

Love and Light with Danielle Donaldson

By on 10-17-2014 in Art For The Creative Mind Yahoo Group, Journal pages, Mixed Media

These little girls were fun fun fun to do. Danielle wanted us to cut her out and place her on a clothespin and add story words to a cup and attach her. I just simply wanted to keep painting little girls so that is what I did. Paper dolls and water paints .. is there anything better? I think not. The first one was done as Danielle did and I used her supplied pattern and the second one I changed from the pattern. The second two I drew myself and I also gave them big smiles.

love and light
love and light

After the rain and The rain, two pages for June

By on 10-17-2014 in Art For The Creative Mind Yahoo Group, Journal pages, Mixed Media

After the rain was created for the Junk Box challenge at the Just Art Site. We were given a quantity of papers and elements that didn’t match to use however we wanted. This is the first of two pages I made.
After the rain

The rain is the second page. For this page I created brushes from the flowers so I could use them in different sizes by simply changing the brush size. The image is one gleaned from an old book that is out of copywrite and found on the Archive site.

The Rain