The Artful Journey - Day 8 Texture Background

One tired little artist, so my art and my photos for the day are the same thing! I know I know I hear your groans from here! I just got home from food shopping and ikea, and I'm just exhausted. Today I worked on my homework assignment for my Supplies Me Course with Jane davenport, I didnt want to get behind first week, and my leaves were drying slowly after a few coats of gel medium. The assignment was to get a textured background.

Here is my attempt - unfinished due to drying wait times! but I now have a heat gun thanks to my darling man!!


I played with distress inks as watercolours and laying them down from a clean transparency to get beautiful blocks of smudgey colour. I played with a resist technique I learn from the darling Christy in her latest Art Geeks challenge. layed some collage papers from the gulfsprite store, drew a few things and layed a girl on top, still with facial features to come.
so there is my art for the day and my photos for my Thursday! I need to crawl into bed and give this girl a face!
pop on over to Traci's Blog for her art for the day.

The Artful Journey - Day 5 - the ruffle

Ruffles! and pretty abstract flowers were on today's page for GulfSprite's Art Journal course. Its been so much fun pushing myself tonight I shall tackle a bunch of lilies.

the main part of the prompt was to make the ruffle as a boarder element for your page! Using your sewing machine to keep them all cute and folded. I did have a little sewing rage but I got my act together lol.
these are the two girls I drew on the drive home from Inverell, and shes almost finished I have to do some cover up work on the mumma, as little lily decided to draw two huge black lines on her cheekes..ugh I almost lost the plot! so lots of gesso and layering and I will get her back to her former glory lol


and keeping up with a week in my day...this is my Monday, watching my darling little girl play with her new dollhouse, which was mine and the boy's birthday gift to her, (her actual birthday is today) and the my catch up art day while watching a recording of the last church of art, with effy wild.
boring I know, but not everyday can be awesome and full of win!
I shall see you tomorrow for another installment of art and my day in photos.
pop on over to traci's blog to see what shes creating for her 30days

xox Courtney

The Artful Journey - Day One & Creative Space

The journey of Art Saves begins, most of you who read my blog, know that this month will be my the month of the Fighting the 'Black Dog' with a paintbrush in hand and a pencil in my hair. I am determined not to fail! So This is Day 1 of Tracy Bunkers Get Your Art On and also since its Thursday..creative space day aswell...and what else oh the Art Geeks Hair Prompt and.. what else..no no thats it till tomorrow.


So below are the bigger versions of my pre sketching a few nights ago, Christy challenged us to create three girls, with three different hair styles.. this prompt was dedicated to me, so there was no way I wasn't going to dive in, as hair and how it should look on my girls is always the worst part of the creation process...but I think my problem was not looking at actually hair styles besides the ones in my head.

so I got my prisma pencils out, as it was too cold so sit and paint, I snuggled down into bed, and chatted to the boy via video as I created these 3 very different girls. It's been such a while since I used my pencils like this, I forgot they used to be my medium of choice!



added a little bit of watercolour to them today just for something different.
Tomorrow..I also start my week in Pictures, that I'm doing with a few of my girls, which shouldn't be that hard with my picture taking for get your art on..plus I have a new printer waiting for me back in Sydney... I was spoilt, so I shall be creating like a crazy woman with prints and making a book my week in photos lots of ideas ran through my head when he told me he'd bought a new printer. squeeee..I am such a kid.

that is me for the day!
pop over to all the links in this post, lots of beauty and stunning art to look at...
I shall see you tomorrow for day two of the Artful healing Journey.
xx Courtney

Sketching is Hard!!

Afternoon my darlings,
well its been a bit since my last post hasn't it, we are in Sydney for a week, and I finally have a moment where I can sit down and just create. Over at Wild Precious I have joined a grp dedicated to the bare bones of sketching...to get out of our comfort zones and to really challenge us as artists. I thought why not! sketching is where it all begins, and with a lot of practice and constant work you gradually get better! its like anything, you keep doing it over and over you are bound to train yourself to improve. What sort of artist would I be, if all I could draw where girls faces...a one dimensional one. So this is my attempt to broaden my horizons!
So this weeks prompt was something in your kitchen... I saw three items on my kitchen table and went from, my juice from lunch, my iphone and my H lead pencil...so I started sketching in a 3B, I then did some darkening with just some basic ballpoint pen, then added a little bit of shading and colour with my water paints.



it was so much harder than I expected lol, but I get the saying is true practice makes perfect...so I guess I'll get practicing! Why not pop over and join us and put yourself to the test! We have all given ourselves permission to suck!

and on the topic of sucking and practicing things we aren't that great at..side faces...they are out to get me, but I will keep creating Frankenstein girls till one might just work! look at her random sized eyes lol ugh... I'll get it..it will just take time...
that is me for the day! I'll get back to filling out the side face with more detail and maybe some colour, and I might even sketch out some more kitchen things! who knows lol.
take care make art and just live a little, take an arty risk!

xx Courtney