Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Altered Book Journals
I have always liked the altered book journals. Some women in my Mixed Media Meetup are interested too so we are having a day of journaling in our altered books on every Second Saturday 10-1pm! So grab an old book tear out some of the pages to thin it out. Gesso or glue the pages together and bring it in for a wonderful day of journaling. I will have many ideas floating around in my head and from books. Also other Artists will have ideas.
Here is a great video on how to find and prepare your book. I watched this video a few months ago. It is so good she talks about book binding and wet journals, she shows you how to tear out the pages with a ruler and how many to take out.
I'm looking for books this week. Hope you can join us!
Chandra
Friday, December 28, 2012
Ready for the New Year!
My Business is changing. I am looking into creating a wonderful space in The Cozy Craft Corner for Artists. A community of Artists with similar goals. It will be a membership shop. Where you join and have many perks to the membership. Perks are; your own space in the shop to sell your goods, one class teaching a month, you get to be part of an amazing group of Artists, have a community of creativity, get to work in the shop! You get your art out there and join in a creative community. I am still working on this and fine tuning it. So keep an eye out for more details in January 2013.
I took Kelly Rae's business class and have learned so much, met many new friends and felt a movement in energy towards future goals. I learned that I love mixed media art and have been doing it I just didn't know what it was called. I have started a mixed media group on meetup. To learn more about it, and meet other artists. I couldn't find anything in Sacramento about mixed media. So I am creating it! This already has so much interest I am excited to see how it turns out. I have various mixed media classesat the shop already Artist Trading Cards, Journals, Collage and this month we are going to do a collage for what we want in this coming year, like a treasure map or vision board. It has many names but all the same effects. You gather pictures from magazines and create your future. If you visualize what you want it will come. manifestation is a powerful tool! This is one of the ways my shop came about.
| Here is my piece I worked on in the meetup! |
I also have my jewelry classes on meetup under wire wrap jewlery. The jewelry classes are earrings, bracelets, pendants and rings.
I might throw in a few beaded bracelets and necklaces. I know I have had many comments on this necklace that is beaded and woven in a graduated color scheme.
Personally I am so happy to be able to do what I love! Create Art! I love making ATCs and have a great group to trade with. I am creating more inspirational card decks, these are so fun! I am dabbling in mixed media art. I am making an art journal. I am signed up for a book group where we read The Artists Way and take a month to do each chapter. I am hoping to take Life Book
Happy New Year!
Chandra
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Mixed Media Meet Up
We had a wonderful time at our Mixed Media Meet up! I and two other women talked about how we came to make mixed media art, what supplies we have and how to use them. We each learned something from one another, traded supplies and enjoyed learning more about each other. This is exactly what I am looking to create at The Cozy Craft Corner. A group of people who support each other, create art and enjoy our time together. Here are some pictures I would like to share.
| my supplies |
| my journal page that I used up the left over paint on |
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| my painting |
| another page in my journal where I used the left over paint |
| my hand with paint on it |
Happy creating come and join us in our Mixed Media Meetup here!
Happy New Year!
Chandra
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Say it again...
I love this song by The Weepies where she sings this line I wrote on this doodle.
You are Golden!
Chandra
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas to you...
Some doodling with color backgrounds
I used a credit card to smear the acrylic paint around. This idea came from Kristal Norton and her Journaling 101 blog post about backgrounds. I wrote on top and doodled a woman and a bird cage and bird. When I was a child I loved Raggedy Ann she always had a heart on her chest that said I love you!
Here I drew a zentangle pinecone ornament on the tree and colored it in.
Merry Christmas to you!
Chandra
Monday, December 24, 2012
Winter Wonder Land
Here is a Zentangle snow scene it's not quite finished or maybe it is? What do you think?
Walking in a winter wonderland,
Chandra
Sunday, December 23, 2012
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