Art Journaling: The Perfect Bathroom

Thank you, thank you, thank you  for all of your love

and well wishes for Josh and our new family of 4.

Thank you for sharing in our joy.

We are overwhelmed

& taking in every minute.

I'm linking up with Gussy's Inspiration Workshop today

I thought it would be a good excuse to play in my art journal.

The only rule I have for my journal is to play & try new things.

The prompt:

The Perfect Bathroom

For my background I started with a few colors of paint.

Then added paper.

Then doodled and dreamed.

Then added more paint.

And put it all together.



My perfect bathroom would have to have...

fresh flowers everywhere
an enormous claw foot tub
really good water pressure
an abundance of perfectly folded warm white towels
yummy glass jars full of expensive soaps from France.
a separate space for a well ligthed beauty station
did I mention fresh flowers everywhere?

Paint with me...

So my doodles have continued...
I can't seem to stop.


I was super excited to see this on Simply Feather
(yep, it's me!)
blog love right back at you heather.

Join me in paint with me...
This week's prompt is three.
hence, the three doodles.

In real life this week,
It was our first full week of summer...
We went to a pirate concert in the park.
Not really what I meant when I wrote this
(concerts in the park)
but it worked for us.


I decided I needed structured grown up conversation time this summer.
so I started my first ever play group.
our first play was yesterday.
and what is more fun than jumping on all of the couch pillows onthe floor?

I think we ate a whole watermelon today.
and some sand.
and we also licked some broccoli.

In the studio I'm working on my Christmas trades for Cloth Paper Scissors.
It's weird to get in Christmas mode in the middle of June,
but i think it's coming together.
Here's what I have so far...

Doodles continued...

Thanks so much for all of your encouragement with Boot Camp.
It was fun to take a new direction with my art.

I rarely finish anything, especially in mixed media, so it was really satisfying to start and finish and go on with my day.

Drawing this way feels so much like play. cathartic.

so I've kept on doing it.

plus, I can doodle and watch him do this at the same time.
and he's been doing a lot of this lately.

without waiting until nap time or holing up in my studio at night.

these were actually done last night.

while enjoying my most satisfying guilty pleasure: The Bachelorette.

Love the show. Love Ali.

I'm not sure what I'll do with these next.

Maybe I'll carve stamps like these and these.
I've been wanting to do that for so long.

Maybe I'll stitch them up and add them to a mixed media piece.

Maybe I'll use the Bubble Jet Set that's been in my garage for over a year + sew them on pillows.

Maybe I'll just leave them as art for art sake.

Any ideas?

Creativity Boot Camp: Hush

Day 11: Hush

this baby is sleeping
and if you wake him up
it won't be pretty.

Creativity Boot Camp

Day 10: Full bodied
Love this prompt.

Creativity Boot Camp: Drizzle

Creativity Boot Camp
Day 9: Drizzle


Okay, I'm loving boot camp.
it feels like play.

I'm loving the pace.
Since boot camp is so quick (a piece a day)
it requires me
to let go
and go quick
without over thinking.

and without even finishing.
i want to paint
and use watercolor crayons
and stitch...

but I'm letting myself be okay
with this
undone
black + white
right now.

Creativity Boot Camp: Fly

Fly


Fluid

Creativity Boot Camp: Grow

Creativity Boot Camp
Day #5: Grow


So, I really, really wanted to participtae in
Creativity Boot Camp
to get my creative booty into shape.
But it's such a busy
(I hate the word busy)
but it's been a really full time.

The idea behind boot camp is to choose one medium
and create one thing a day within that medium.
And journal too. with words.

So, I'm just going to jump into days 7+8
and glue days 1-6 onto the back end...
if that makes sense.
That's the goal.


Ever since my class with
her at Artfest in March
I've wanted to explore
sharpies + watercolor + watercolor crayons
+ sewing fabric into my art + leaving some white space...
so that's what I'll be posting for the next 30 days or so.