Sunday, August 12, 2012

Art while Traveling

I find it really hard to work in my art journal or do any kind of art while traveling. I'm sure this is something I'll work out as we travel more but I did finish one spread this past week. Last Sunday, Effy Wild hosted a live video "Art" play time. Several of us arted along with her with video on and others used the chat feature. It was fun and I actually got all my art stuff I had brought with me out and played for a couple of hours. Here is the result.


This page was a drawing I did of a "Whimsey" Tree which turned out kind of fun when I made it with the wire. I did finish about 8 gem trees this week for a customer order so that was a big accomplishment. Sorry no pictures of those yet. I find it is really hard to take good photos of the trees unless I have my light box at home.


We did manage to make it to one of the larger antique malls in Lincoln City yesterday. Here is my haul...no much for me. Some bottle caps and mother of pearl buckles to use in jewelry making and 3 books to take apart and make journals out of. The Louvre one is half French and half English with color plates of paintings. Very cool book and the most expensive of the three.

Now a couple of pictures of the the dogs just so tired from their walk this morning.



We head for home tomorrow so things will start getting back to normal soon. Have a great week.

13 comments:

  1. This is awesome and both the page and the tree are totally swooooon worthy! xo

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  2. The trees are gorgeous, but so are the dogs. Followed you here from Swoon Sunday x

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  3. I really love the painting. The colors speak to me. The wire tree is awesome too!

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  4. love the Whimsey tree... so pretty and nice to see it finished. The wire tree is fabulous... I might need one of those as gnarled branches right now are bringing me comfort.

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  5. I love your Wimsy tree and your wire tree! They are beautiful! A hug to the dogs from me!

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  6. Love the little dots under the leaves. From swoon :)

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  7. I love the colours you've used in your painting and the whimsy tree is so lovely!
    (via Effy's Swoon)

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  8. Best wishes settling back in … and make time to reflect back on those lovely traveling pages. :)

    Oh, and I LoVe the puppers!

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  9. oh my. love your trees and your pups!! and i so know what you mean about traveling and arting! this last trip we did, I MADE myself art a little each day - and felt so good because of it... normally, I just forget about it when on trips and miss it desperately and feel out of whack. so it's good to sneak some time and move the color.

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  10. Love both pages, especially the whimsy tree! Very cool! Your dogs are adorable too!
    Deborah (from BOD)

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  11. Your doggies are the cutest! Don't you just love wearing them out!!! I adore what you did with the tree art. Please share Picts of the journals after you make them. I'm curious now!

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  12. I loved the pic when you posted it to the FB group! And the wire tree is awesome!!! The dogs are cutie pa-tooties!

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