Everytime the moon is full it inspires me.
And so does online classes! Still sketching in Alissa Burkes online sketchbook delight class.
I'm still here,I've been wanting to post for awhile but I didnt have any art to share. I'm taking misty mawn's online workshop. Its so inspiring. This past week we learned alot about sketching. I decided I enjoy sketching so much,its so relaxing. The girl above took me four hours and I didnt even realize it was that long. I'm still kinda working on her. I think I'm happy with her face,but I still have to finish sketching her arm which you can't see in the picture. I'll take another picture when she's done. I would really like to learn how to draw figures better.So this year I decided I would attempt to sketch figures more! 
God showed me something today,he opened my heart. I was driving my daughter to school today and I was deep in thought worried about money problems. I just was argueing with my husband the night before over money and we usually don't do that. After I dropped niki off at school I'm driving home still worried and you want to know what I was worried about? My grandsons birthday is this weekend and I told my daughter I would buy him this toy that is alittle costly but trying to be a good memaw I said oh I'll get that for him and anyway things are really tight for us right now and we just don't have that extra money this week. Yup you heard it right I was worried about buying my grandson a toy! I argued with my husband over a toy! Guilty!!! Well anyway back to my driving home as I was worried and talking to God about it I looked over on the side of the road and there was a family a mom and dad and a little boy about the same age as my grandson,they were digging in the trash,I don't know what they were digging for but I just started to cry because I was worried about how I would buy a toy and God showed me how some people don't even have food. I wanted so badly to pull over and give them money but that made me cry more because all I had in my wallet was some change, I said I don't have anything to give them and then I realized or as I like to believe God whispered in my ear and said you have a voice,say a prayer. I love when God does that!
Just wanted to thank everybody who recommended some online journal workshops. I did sign up for a few of them,yes you heard right a few more then one! My husband thinks I'm addicted to online workshops.(Which I am but I won't let him know that). As I was signing up for one then another,then another, he ask me exactly what I was looking for in a workshop, I thought about it and said well I just want to paint, collage ,draw and get my feelings out and then he said "so do it" "why do you need somebody to show you how?". After telling him he just doesnt understand and then dwelling on it for a couple of days I came to realize he was right! (I hope he never reads this,I'll never live it down) After signing up for all the online workshops,I decided just to do what I want to do in my journal and now I'm happy. But I did have fun in the workshops and I did learn a couple of new techniques. I think the most important thing that I learned is to just do what you like to do whether that be just smooshing on a few drops of paint with your hands and adding random papers that match the paint and journaling some, to the more extreme where you make a whole story on a journal page. Its all up to you,have fun and let go. Will I continue to take some more online workshops?? Yep because I am addicted and they make me happy!
"You use a glass mirror to see your face,you use works of art to see your soul"
The Theme over at Mixed media mondays is games people play,As soon as I heard the theme I thought of my little girl who is now 12 so she really doesnt play too many games any more and then I started to get sad thinking how fast they grow up and what she used to play with and thats how I came up with this journal page.
I just love to use quotes for inspiration, sometimes I write them somewhere in the the journal page and sometimes I just think about them while I journal. Here's a quote that inspired me for this page. "What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened it has all worked together to bring you to this moment and this is the moment you can choose to make everything new,right now" Author unknown. The past is familar,the present is now but the future is unknown. which way will she go?
Do you ever feel like a big black cloud is over you? Just when you think it is gone and theres blue skies,its back again,kinda like the past how it sometimes haunts you even though you thought you dealt with it and moved on,it shows up again just to tap you on the shoulder and say I'm not going anywhere,I'll be with you forever!
You know the saying "Don't look back" well sometimes we have to look back and face the past before we can move forward again. Whether it be painful or sad, face it,look at it, and then "Let Go" and move forward.
This one I decided to do in my journal book.Its a sad story about a house. In case you can't read it,it says "Once upon a time there was a house full of love and laughter.The house thought they would be together forever but soon everybody left one by one." There is alot of meaning behind this short story! I know it looks kind of cluttered but I'm used to doing alot on one page.My thoughts just go on and on!
