My Traveling Art Journal My First Entry

Wow I didn't realize how far behind I am until I just now was going to post photos from my Art Journal.  I never posted the ones from the first journal.  So guess I will start there.

Ok after my painting class I did with the Witch I went straight home and got out my newly bought Journal.  I bought it to do a Traveling Journal.  

What is a Traveling Journal you might ask?

That is where you sign up with several other crafty persons/ people.  

Each of you having your own Journal and a theme for it.  

You write up the rules you want them to follow in your Art Journal.  Such as

Theme--Mine I named The Great Out Doors

What you don't want in the journal 

such as anything gory, devilish, or spiders.  That is what I put in mine.  LOL

Your name and how you want them to do there name.

I asked they sign there name and state with month and date in bottom

 right corner of the page they did there art on.

I also asked that they do a left and right page then skip  2 or 3 pages when doing so from the last persons pages.

I asked they try to keep it as flat as possible to make the shipping a bit lower.  

For example no embellishments that stick up like buttons or flowers etc.

Ok here is what I did in steps.

If you click on the photos you can see larger images.  I started by painting the pages in shades of blue.  Starting at the top with light blue mixed with white.  Then I used the light blue by itself. and last I used a medium blue.  after painting them I took my flat medium brush and dipped one side in my light blue mixture and one in my light blue.  I ran the brush in between where the two met to make it blend in.  Then did the same with the next line and shades.

Next I took a green that reminds me of green grass.  I painted the bottom half with that.  Then came the time taker.  grin.

After this I took I think 4 shades of green.  I took a tiny detail brush and one little swiped line at a time I put grass. All over in one color then change colors and do the same.  When all done I went back to the first color and added a few more strokes of that.

Next I used a stencil to add my sun.  I chose 4 shade I could envision in my mind of the sun.  

I used a first a medium yellowish orange.

Then using a darker Yellowish orange I added the face.

Then pull the stencil away and use a medium shade of yellowish orange on the rays.

I did this using lighter and lighter colors so that my tips were the lightest.

Then I looked up on the internet at clouds.

  

This is what I found and used to give me an idea of what cloud colors looked like.  Of course mine do NOT look like this.  LOL.  But I knew I should start with the grey to give mine the layered look.  

And last the puffy white.  dabbing it on to give it texture.

Next added a sticker I found of a house.

Then added my tree and path.  

Found out the path was suppose to be narrower close to the house.

This was my first entry in mine.  But I was so excited with it I did two more.

Hills on one page then added a tree.

This one I did a hurried version of grass and was not as please with my sky as the first one.

Then took a book and stenciled the flowers on the pages.  

Cut them out and added them to the Journal pages.

Then I stenciled some and drew some of the leaves on.  

Next I added one more flower and a cloud.

I added flowers and fairies but forgot to take photos so when I get it back I will add those.

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Google & Blogger

I think I'm going to go crazy one day trying to remember all the passwords Google makes me create.

  And lets not forget when you make a new one 

DON'T USE ONE OF YOUR OLD ONES. 

 It asks what is the last password that you remember.  

Um the one I have been trying to type in for the past 10 minutes.    

Well I figured if it was the wrong password I would use it for my NEW password.  

NOPE

 it says you need to pic a pass word you have not yet used.  

Well that is what I thought I was doing................grrrrrrr

Ok I got it

I know...........

And don't pick your dogs name. 

Well that is what they say....um 

WHY?  

Because if you pick your dogs name you might just remember it.  

 Yep and they wouldn't like that 

So now you don't know what password to use

so we all pick something we think no way in this world would anyone every figure it out. 

Yeah sound familiar...................

and then we can't remember it either.  

So what do we do ............ ?

we have to start all over again and pick a new password each time we sign on.  

Even though we all know this is true and we go through this every time and we get mad, frustrated, maybe throw a tantrum (not that I would do that) or even cry and reading this made you remember you have done that or been in the same place I just was in.   

I hope you got a laugh out of this.   Yes I know I had to be crazy to take so much time.  If you could see all the pics I took just trying to get the right faces, or not look scary etc.... you would die laughing.   So until my next post have a great day.  

Hello Everyone,

Well I am starting to wonder if the blond in me is just to much for computerizing, blogging etc.  Or if things are really as hard as they seem.  I for some reason can NOT get to this blog of mine without alot of work.

I have put in this link.....................http:mousiemoms.blogspot.com 
and it goes to..............The Mouse for Moms blogspot ..........that is not me.

No matter what I do I can NOT get to my bogspot without a lot of work.  And it used to be called BlogSpot.com.  Now it is Blogger.com.

If anyone out there can help me out that would be great.  Thanks and have a great week.

Mickey Jo