Year: 2009

  • How Will You Challenge Yourself?

    The interwebs are full of personal challenges to grow as an artist, writer, linguist, whatever. Many of my friends work hard on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Several of my online friends participated in National Non-stop Journaling Month(NaNoJoMo) back in November. Some of them (you know who you are) are still working on the prompt…

  • What have I been up to?

    Wholly goodness there have been tons going on here at The Artistic Biker!  I’ve been posting art journal and video blogs on YouTube.  I’ve been building some online workshops over at Artjournaling.ning, leading art journal discussions at Artist’s Daily and Wet Canvas, and hosting a live broadcast weekly at U-Stream!  I have been sharing all…

  • Art Journal Winter Wonderland Part Deaux

    You may recall that last week I painted an outdoor winter scene.  There was a cold snowy storm on the left hand side and a warm glow through the window of a house on the right hand side.  I love the view of winter like this, but I love it mostly through a picture window…

  • Art Journal Winter Wonderland

    We finally had our first snow of the season this week!  I went outside to warm up my car and it was snowing.  I put the dog on the back porch, put on my coveralls and coat, and went back outside to see that it was all gone.  The snow lasted all of ten minutes….

  • Art Journal Fairy Princess

    This week, I continued playing around with my spray bottle backgrounds, and using spray paints and junk mail to make paper dolls and cutouts for my journal.  I like the crisp definition a cutout brings to the image.  I also like the 3-D pop-out effects like with the flower.  I want to experiment more with…