I was about to finish my journal on Christmas Eve Eve during my show, The Artistic Biker Live! (Thursday nights from 6-8p US central), when I noticed that I had missed a page from September! Â Since it would have been during the end of summer, I used sunset colors and a late summer theme.
This is all crayon, watercolor, and acrylic paint and it actually made the winter night seem a bit warmer.
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It worked out that the last page in my journal coincided with the last episode of The Artistic Biker Live! of 2010. So this page is dedicated to the end of one year and the beginning of another.
I enjoy mixing colors on my canvas instead of on my pallet. Â I also enjoy using only primary and secondary colors to get the tints I want. Â I’m reading a book about color by Nita Leland that talks about that very thing, but more about her in a few weeks after we settle down for a chat.
On the last page of these journals, I like to acknowledge the wonderful people who were present when I finished it. Â This time, the list fits on one column of one page. Â This time next year, I hope I have to add a couple of flaps to fit ’em all in.
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Last week on The Artistic Biker Live! I did a quick tribute to Elvis’s Blue Christmas. Â I’ve been singing Christmas songs since finishing our Thanksgiving dinner and it’s driving the family mad. Â Mostly it’s because I don’t know all the words and make them up as I go. Â For instance: Oh Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree… O Christmas TREE, O CHRISTMAS tree. O Christmas TREE, O Christmas Tree… Â Anyway, you can see how that might drive someone a bit crazy.
This page is really just a lighthearted piece done with spray paint, acrylics, and cut out file folders.
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Last week, Girl2’s kindergarten class was given the way cool assignment of disguising a turkey. Â They were each given a drawing of a turkey that they colored and pasted a disguise onto so that it wouldn’t be found on Thanksgiving Day. Â My wonderful daughter put a big red nose and antlers on her turkey. Â She said, “He is Rudolph. No one would eat Rudolph because that’s Santa’s reindeer.”
Can you say venison? I thought that you could.
Anyway, I thought that was a brilliant project so I decided I would paint a scene depicting a hidden turkey and journal about her project. Â Initially I was going to have 21 turkeys hidden throughout the page to remind everyone that time to sign up for 21 Secrets is running out. Â However, as my friend Rhomany says, once you break out the small brushes, the paintings done. Â She’s absolutely right because once I painted the turkey lamp, I lost all interest in painting anything else.
I also sang a little tribute to Arlo Guthrie.
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This week I did one of Connie Hozvicka’s challenges from the latest issue of Art Journaling: It’s All Good. The challenge was a Boogie Monster. Also, I’m not a Bee Gee.
I decided to do The Artistic Biker Live! this week about using prompts in your art journal. Â Prompts are great for when you REALLY want to work in your book, or on canvas, or anywhere else, but you just don’t have the muse. Â I keep copies of Wreck This Journal and Doodle Diary around just for those times I can’t decide on what I want to work on. Â The e-zine Artjournaling: It’s All Good comes out every other month and usually has TONS of prompts in it. Â In this issue, for instance, Connie blessed us with a list of 101 prompts. Â You should never run out of things to journal about.
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