Zentangle Inspired Art #1

I love Pinterest® and it is so much fun to just look through all the images you can think off under all kinds of categories.  A while back I was in a waiting room and decided to just browse through my boards and found that I had pinned some cute images.  The are all fun and have a coloring book quality to them, so  I thought this would be a great way to get some more practice with my patterns.  Plus I just love gel pens so any excuse to use them for color is always welcome!

Image belongs to Suzanne Cooper©2004

So out the window go all the impossible goal and just try to have some fun and quite time. Have a great day and as always find your creative soul even in the little moments.

Wonderingmindfield

MixMedia Card #1

This is my first try at using mixed media techniques to create cards instead of art journals pages.  I was inspired by Cat Hand and her YouTube videos.  She does a lot of mix media but at a smaller scale.  Her cards are whimsical and easy and her art journal pages are just as fun.  She uses a lot of her own Gelli Arts® Prints, magazine pages and just very simple materials to create really whimsical and beautiful cards.  

It was in one of her videos that I discovered that the Uni-ball Vision® Micro pen. I have to say the pen has worked on slick surfaces and on the surfaces where I use decoupage glue.  Click HERE for the link on this video and check out some of Cat Handvideos.  

On this card I just used my Gelli Arts® plate to create my background and added some washi tape (Tim Holtz).  I cut some hearts from other scrap prints and added some texture and dimension with stencils and modeling paste.  The words came from Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Stickers.  I trimmed the edges and then glue the entire piece to a black card. I used the Uni-Ball® Micro pen  to outline the words and around the hearts, I dried the ink with my heat gun to prevent smudging (Thanks Cat for the helpful video!)

Just a little something to get my creativeness going.  It you don’t feel like creating a big piece just go small and see where the possibilities take you.

Have a great day and be safe!

WonderingMindField

Art Journal Page 29

I've been trying to experiment with some backgrounds.  It is a marvel and enjoyment to watch what other talented artist do when creating background for their art journals and it inspires me to experiment more with different techniques.  

Recently, I discovered a very talented art journal artist name “Nika in Wonderland” on YouTube.  What I enjoy about her videos is that she uses almost the same materials all the time and yet achieves such different looks.  Check out her channel on You Tube, the videos are not too long but have some very nice pages ideas.

As to this page the materials I used are:

--Dylusions® spray paints:  lemon zest, pure sunshine, and after midnight

--Stencils:  Ronda Palazzari® TCW396: Arrows and Hearts; Joggles® “Floral Fantasy mask 10-33764; Prima Stencil® “Camera” #564292; Tim Holtz® “Bubble” THS002; Texture Shine stencil style No.88505; and lettering plastic stencil.

--Dry wall tape for frame around camera stencil

--Reeves® Silver acrylic paint

The process was really about spraying and layering with the stencils until I got the look I wanted.

I started with the light colors and then with the Joggles Floral Fantasy stencil used the Dylusions after midnight spray paint to add texture to the page.  The camera silhouette I created with the Prima stencil “Camera” (564292) and used modeling paste to created some dimension.  I colored it with a silver paint marker.

This page took me about 40mins and I created at 11:30pm because I could not sleep.  It was very relaxing and calmed my mind enough to go to sleep.  I think this was better than a sleeping pill…tempting as that might’ve been.

Have a good night (or day!) and the lesson is if you can’t sleep then do some art!

Wonderingmindfield

Zenspirations #18: I’m All Over!!!

This a quick and easy Zenspirations® I created a while back while waiting for my car to warm up at 5:30am before going on my way to my second job.  It was –5 degrees outside and my car was fighting for its life, took three tries to get the poor thing to start. I had to leave the poor thing on for 15 minutes before I could take off!!

I drew the dangles with my trusty Bic® Intensity Fine pen.  I really like this pen because I tend to have a heavy hand and some pen don’t last long in my hands.  I can use it on any paper and have pretty good results.  Once the car was warm I took off and finished the drawing on my break.  The colors I completed after and I used an assortment of gel pens I have collected recently.

Doing this quick drawing helps me start my day in a better frame of mind.  Give it a try… As you can see you do not need to be a artist to have fun and find a little quiet time in your life. 

Have a safe day and find contentment in the little things.

Wonderingmindfield

My Favorite Type of TV

I am so glad for YouTube and all the wonderful videos you can find from all kinds of crafters and artist.  I am not a great TV watcher, I mean I have my favorite shows, such as Criminal Minds, Stalker and Supernatural, can't stop watching those, sooo good! Anyway, what I was saying is that I remember the Arleene's and the Carol Duvall shows that taught so many of us how to do all kind of great craft and recycle all kinds of goodies.

For a while there it was rather boring with not much out there to watch, now there all kinds of great YouTube channels where crafters and artists from around the world teach and inspire us every day. Here is a list of some of my favorites, if you don't know them then please check out their videos and be inspire as I have.

1. Ellen Wolters (Zentangle)
   
2. Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (Mixed Media)
3. Sea Lemon (DYI-Crafting)
4. Nika in Wonderland (Mixed Media)
5. Cat Hand Mixed Media-Cards) 
6. Patti Parrish (Gelli-Plate Guru)
7. Jennifer McGuire Ink (Card Making & Crafts)
8. Clarity Stamp (Gelli-Plate & more-UK)
9. Lindsay Weirich "The Frugal Crafter" (Crafter)

One of the most recent artist I have been watching is Cat Hand.  I like her channel because she uses mixed media to create some very adorable cards, and using a Gelli® to create some very nice backgrounds.

Be inspired and inspire others and your life would have more meaning!  Be safe and take good care of yourself.

WonderingMindField

Zenspirations #17

I couple of weeks I took went to the Goodwill near my town and was looking through their book’s sections and found a little book of quotes.  The title is “Webster’s Book of Quotations”",” published in 1994.  Nifty little book with quotaions for everything from ability to anger and to youth among others.  Very interesting little book.  Another find at the Goodwill was a few old books that had sheet music so I am very exited to used them in the future for my art journal.

I enjoy going to the flea market and the Goodwill® there are so many interesting things you can find there and it is a great place to find art supplies like stamps and stationary.  The best thing to find is old books and pages to create art journals or mixed media projects.

I was on my night class and during break I started this Zenspirations drawing and used one of the quotes I found on the book to practice with my lettering.  Unfortunately I did not write down the page of the quote so I can’t remember who the person is that wrote.  So for the sake of disclosure, it is not my quote!!!! Is just a nice quote that I think society these days needs come to appreciate more.

Thanks for visiting this little corner of my mind and have a great day, be safe and keep finding joy in your creativity.

Wonderingmindfield

Art Journal Page 28: Coffee!…Java!… Café!

Coffee!…Java!… Café!…No matter what language is still the morning vitamin for many, specially my husband.  Now, I am Puerto Rican and coffee is in your blood at birth, so I had a taste for it when I was young and love to have it with hot milk, then I would dunk soda crackers with butter on them and just eat them for breakfast before going to school. Now don’t judge my mother this was many, many years ago and we know better now..she did diluted the coffee with the milk.  It was just a cultural thing!

The point is that I love it so much that when we came to this country back in 1987, that morning right before heading for the airport, I sat and had a tin can of coffee with milk and a small stack of crackers covered in butter and said my mental goodbyes to my town, friends and my morning coffee as well as my life as I knew then in Puerto Rico.  That was the last time I had coffee, 28 years ago.

I saw this stencil for $1.25 and since I can resist a bargain I got it and created this page reminiscent of my past love of coffee.  Materials I used are:

• Background:   Dylusions® Melted Chocolate spray paint and Tim Holtz® “Wild Honey” Distressed Stain. I used stencil by Tim Holtz® Mini Texturized TCW437 with Folkart berry wine paint to create texture.
• Folk Art® Licorice Cup and Lettering for the coffee cup which was stenciled using Reeves® Payne’s Gray acrylic paint.
• Washi tape for the side borders and black and gold paint markers to outline the cup and coffee beans.

A quick and no fuss art journal page to keep the creative process going, specially when time is short and you just want to do something different to relax.
I am by no means an experienced artist but just a beginner that enjoys the process, I believe is about the journey not the destination.

Have a blessed day and keep creating.

Wonderingmindfield

Zenspirations #16

This Zenpsirations® was created during my break at my second job.  I only had a Bic® Intensity Fine market and a red Pentel® write pen in my purse so I decided is all I needed and this is the result.

Like the Zentangle® this method can be just as relaxing and fun to do.  You don’t need a lot of materials and with a few curves and line come up with a cute drawing.  Zenspirations™ is a Joanne Fink creation and if you are interested check out her blog and/or YouTube videos by Sakura®.  The Zentangle® method was created my Maria and Rick and for more information check out their website.

Have a great day and if you have never done Zenspirations™ or Zentangle® give a try, they are both a great way to relax and create something fun and pretty.

Wonderingmindfield