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Wednesday 16 February 2011

The rest of Milliande's prompts - days 20 to 24

Hello from a very wet Cornwall today!  I am so pleased to say that I have finished all of Milliande's Art Journal January :-D  You can see that I have started to attack magazines for lettering & am using a lot of colour now. So here are the rest of my pages...

Day 20 ...My Front Door.  Well this isn't my front door but I have always wanted a barn door! Preferably attached to a cottage haha I used acrylics & wax for this one. 


Day 21...Bluebells.  I was going to go for snowdrops because they are easier to draw but then I thought that as this is supposed to be challenging I should attempt the bluebells & not be a chicken!  I so feel that there should be something opposite them tho...that big gap is bothering me still!


Day 22...A day in my Life.  I spent an age on this one.  You can see that I made a feeble attempt to draw myself from my avatar pic above hahaha!  I am thinking now that I need to get some 'face' colours!!!  I used the lovely Derwent Coloursoft pencils for my picture...the rest is watered down acrylics.  I threw rock salt at the wet acrylic and when it was nearly dry I used the heat gun.  Makes a lovely nobbly effect beacause some of the salt melts!!!


Day 23...My Favourite Poem.  this speaks for itself really hahaha!  Wax crayons for this one.


Day 24...Circles.  I nearly went blind drawing all the little circles hahahaha!  I used Inktense pencils for this one.


So there you are...all done!!!!  I have certainly learnt a lot from doing this.  So if you fancy a go (the prompts are up permenantly) go for it!  Don't be scared...remember that if you don't like a  page you can just bin it & start again!  Thank you for looking today my lovelies, HUGS XXX

13 comments:

Di said...

Oh my, how gorgeous are your pages Karen, fabulous work my lovely xx

Kaz said...

Wow well done Karen, you've got lots of gorgeous pages going on. So much fab colour xxxx

Von said...

Your pages are just just amazing :) and yes I see what you mean about the gap on the bluebell on how about a verse from the Bronte sisters they wrote poems for the pretty flower :)
Hugs Von x

Gez Butterworth said...

Cor Karen you are such a clever crafter. Your pages look amazing. :) Something to treasure & look back on!

Janice said...

Ooh He's called the hidden paw! I love TS Elliot's Cat poems, they are brilliant and so are your pages, you have really progressed. I think your self portrait is really good, I did recognise you right away.

Angelnorth said...

Fab pages and your self portrait looks brilliant, much better than my attempts at drawing would be, I can tell you!

Traceyr said...

Karen these pages are amazing and spectacular I love them all.

You are one clever lady. x x

:)

cheryl said...

oh wow hun,you really have out done yourself this time,this is just amazing,gosh you really have some talent hun hugs cheryl xxxxxxx

Kathy said...

oh wow Karen! these are all so fabulous - I wish I could draw....

Crafting Queen said...

Wow,these are stunning pages. I just love the cat!!! Hugs Anesha

Chris said...

Oh Oh...you are putting me to shame... I still haven't done any more pages...on my to do list...lol

Yours are all fantabulous my gorgeous talented friend especially the one where you did a self portrait (FANBLOOMINTASTIC...go you)!!
Derwent do a tin of coloursoft portrait pencils for about 7squid...I love 'em bet you would too.

hugs
Chris xx

p.s. the tissue thing... I sort of roll it into a tube and then fold it over to get an edge (does that make sense..lol) it's a lot less forgiving than a tortillion

Unknown said...

WOW & wow your journaling pages are fantastic! love them all. I can see I have been missing some great work.

Unusual that Cornwall has grey wet weather when in the NW it lovely and warm with the sun still shining at almost 5pm

Loving the teddy bear page and well done with the pears. \\i used to hate pears biut I found I had been eating the wrong horrid bitty kind I have found williams pears which are so yummy

sorry waffled so much but I haven't been round in a while

Love Dawn xx

thekathrynwheel said...

Wow,wow, wow, I'm loving your journal pages :-) Fabulous!