My Great Trip to a Ski Resort...........and the art journal for it.........

I so wanted to get a away from it all. I love my grandchildren and my children but I also needed a little time with my Honey. We spent three days and two nights at a wonderful ski Resort. The town is very artsy fartsy. We love to see all the new art displays. My favorite art show was a show called "DETOUR ART". It was just the kind of art that I love. It is mostly people from across the country that made art to be happy. Usually outside stuff or basement stuff. It was amazing. I hope you will all check out the website.  To me, it was so inspiring.

http://www.detourart.com/

I used an old little wooden box that my sister gave me long time ago to make a little art journal of my little trip. I glued long strips of water color paper together and painted it with water color and then started journaling. The cover had some old comic type characters on it. I used some of the local brochures and glued them to pieces of chipboard and made a funny structure. Then I put Liquid Pearl Satin Glaze over it all and glued a piece of an old shoe tie to wrap around the box to keep all the contents inside. 

I knew something was missing ATC art doll.........

The theme needed something. I had measuring tape arms and legs but I needed something with time. It reads "Love can not be Measured with Time and Distance but it may need Dusting". The challenge was "Dust and Cobwebs". Check the post after just before this one. The wings fold out and have clocks on them.

Love may need some Dusting.........ATC art Doll..

The Challenge was "Dust and Cobwebs"  I had already made two from old magazines because it was all I had to work with at the time  but I came home and made Denise J another. Another take on the theme.  I am trying to make 100 dolls for this year. This is about number 25 I think.

Some pages from a Large altered book that I started over two years ago...

This Altered Book is a book  that I originally used to keep track of ebay transactions over ten years ago. The book is a very large log book that is pretty pricey but I bought two (new) for a fantastic price from a yard sale. So a whole lot of writing was done in them both before I decided to altered this one. I glued pages together and painted them with gesso before starting each page.  I collaged a few things but mostly my own drawings. Each page has layers and layers of stuff underneath.
I can not just work on one project at a time. I have about 30 or more different projects and books in my art room that I am working on. I like to go back and forth with projects because my creative flow is much better this way. I will eventually finish this one as well. I like to fill all the pages of my altered books. I like to put an index somewhere in my books as well.  Like many right brainers, I rarely start at the beginning. I am always jumping around in the books and adding randomly.

another Art doll........The Challenge is Purple, Green, Orange and Black.

another Art doll..........called "REGINA"

I just love to take old advertisements and make them into ATC art dolls. I like using the written part as well as the pictures. I can usually find an interesting head somewhere in the same old magazine.

Theme ATC art doll challenge-Black, Purple, Orange and Green......

I made two of these Art Doll ATCs for this challenge..............This is the first one

Two new Steampunk ATCs.

My Grand Daughter Art

I wanted to give this picture more depth and layers so I started adding them. I think I like it better now.

Hand Painted ATCs- Water Color and Ink

Made three little ATCs that are hand drawn and painted. I usually like the Mixed Media but is was enjoyable to make these straight onto heavy cold press water color paper.  I like trying new things.

New Pictures of the Art Room..............PLUS

Not sure if I have shown these pictures

before but more other artists enjoy seeing the crazy art room spaces of other artists

 You can see where my glass art table is. I will sometimes put paper across the top when I start to get
really messy. I love all the shelves and drawers in this room filled with weird things for all sorts of art

My sizzix area to the right and my small item boxes to the left.

More crazy drawers and containers full of things

This is an overpaint picture of my grand daughter. It was so fun to make. My children

have requested art to hang in their homes this year.

This is not the art room. But it looks like it should be. My honey helped my sort thru all of the magnetic crazy letters to cover my fridge with the family names. This was fun. You can 

also see where I rotate kid's art that is made for me. 

Some more Art by Grandchildren..........

My 5 year old Grandson is learning perspective........

Micah is getting better with his perspective. I like the for-ground, and background. he has such detail with his animals. He does not even have to explain one animals....I really like his little spider by the horse . Makes me laugh.

Heart Art from the Grandchildren.........

My grandchildren are always begging for paper and markers and crayons. 

A tack board full of Fairies........

Behind the door in my art room is hanging a tack board. I have put a bunch of the fairies I have made on it. Most of these fairies and mermaids are about 10 inches tall. I do not have much empty space in the art room anymore. I have a section of overhang wall by the window that I have hung an art clothes line so to speak that have some clips. It is about the only place that I can hang new art. I will show that sometime. It is to rotate art from kids and such. I love the art that my grandchildren make. I also have a place on my refridgerator that displays rotated kids art.