Started out with no plan on my Mixed Media - Art Journal and ended up drawing Sunflowers and alot of Watercolor and Pastels...

My Sunflowers

Started out with pencil

Started coloring in with Caran D'Arche Neocolor II

Took a paint brush and water and below is what it looked like

Added more colors

And more color

Then pulled out my Pitt Pen Markers

Finally i pulled out my Rembrandt Pastels

And with my finger I played with those pastels...

Took my Pitt Markers and did more filling out and filling in the sun flower seeds

Final look.

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Alot of New Drawing... - Sharing my Mixed media & Art Journal with all... - My Mermaids

Since i'm so far behind I am just going to show some photos of the drawing's I have been doing lately...  Got a few video's I need to edit - and then will get everything caught up.

Products used above are:  Pencil, Colored Pencils, Charcoal, Neocolors II, Pastels, Pitt Pens

My Tracey Weinzapfel May Challenge... A Letter to my Infant, Toddler or Teen self.

So Tracey Weinzapfel May challenge was to write a letter to the infant, Toddler or Teen Self....   I'm taking the approach of lesson learned...

"It's Not Selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, & to make your happiness a priority.   It's a necessary.

I used gelatos, Pastels, Paint, Washi Tape, PITT Markers, and Montana markers

I hope you enjoy...  I love her challenges

Been doing a ton of drawing... Here's a bunch of different Art Journal Pages I've created....

As I said I've been drawing and drawing... I've been self teaching myself to draw faces and I have to say I love it...   Highly suggest I would never have thought I could draw anything that even looked like a face...

Pinterest and YouTube are amazing tools...

Below if my first time using watercolor pencils.

Below is my first time using charcoal.

Below is my first time using watercolor paints.

Below is using water colors pencils, Using Caran D'Ache Neocolor II, and Gouache Paints, Pitt Pens

Finally below was my 1st attempt at Pastels

I hope you enjoy - and really hope you grab a pencil or whatever and you start drawing...

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New Mixed Media - Art Journal - Art Enables Us.... 4.23.13

So a great friend tagged me on facebook with a quote

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

This couldn't explain me better these days...  

So here's my art journaling tonight - took all that I learned at Donna Downey's Inspiration Weekend

I hope you enjoy..

Supplies List:

Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions Creative Journal

Golden Paints

PITT Markers

Gelatos

Stencils

I promise the next time I sit down to journal I'll video tape it... this was a 4 1/2 hour process - had no idea what time it was when I was done...  

I really hope you enjoy it all.

Thank you

Lisa