Daily Journaling Week 13

Farewell March and the first quarter of the year! I'm following the prompts of the original Documented Life 2014. This is Week 13 : Ask someone else to draw on your page - finish it! And from the blog for Life Documented 2017 HERE : Theme: April Showers
Quote: Created with Salvaged Words
Started by asking my sons if they would like to draw on my page. The sixteen year old : "Can't draw mum, but I can put some words on if you like...." There was some lovely inky splatter on the page that came over from last week - so I gave him a purple glitter pen (basketball consumes every minute when not at school or with his girlfriend) #♥

Been wanting to try a watercolour technique from Effy's Book of Days so decided this was a good place to do it. I did a wee test in my studio book first to see how watercolours would behave on my small dylusions journal paper vs watercolour

After testing on a few different bases, I decided that for this project I'd be fine just to use good quality watercolours - this stack is Koh-i-noor dye-based watercolour 

Love the vibrancy of these. So I followed my son's lead, and went with a heart - then swoops of colour for journaling on the opposite page

I ♥ using "salvaged" (from the prompt) or I call them "found" words in my work - in fact I have a label for that so you can see some of the ways I use them by clicking HERE. We are still having warm temperatures and this spread takes us to the end of March, so here are my words and close-ups of some of my doodles. I am avoiding any thought of April showers and just nodding at that prompt with my use of watercolour ;-)

Really happy with this page and a bonus that it covers off a Book of Days lesson. All ready for this past week's Daily Journaling. 

You can see all my posts about this project HERE and my Flickr album HERE.
See my Flickr album for all my art from classes with Effy HERE. Sign up to Book of Days or other classes with Effy Wild HERE. 

One Little Word 2017 : March Vision Board

I'm taking Ali Edwards' One Little Word OLW workshop. The monthly prompts encourage you to connect with your word throughout the year and I'm excited to see what happens with SHINE in 2017. This month's prompt is to make a Vision Board. We did this last year and as well as being a fun project, I was inspired to set it as my background on my computer to remind me about Transform for the rest of the year : 

This time I started out with an initial idea of myself with a halo effect of all my elements of SHINE : Share, Healthy, Inner work, Notice, Enjoy. I began with an image transfer that I shared here with my dream affirmation board from a class with Tam in Life Book February 2016. It started very patchy but I know it will be fine

This base became this : perfectly imperfect ♥

Word gathering 

Decided to start with a gold background in keeping with "Shine", and then added tapes and stencils for my base (background words on right are because I am using an altered book for my art journal)

Then I started to add all my words - I found some lovely quotes about Shine that I could include. Click on any photo if you want to read it larger.

I like the combination of different bits of imagery and lovely words all over the varied background elements

Close up of the main words

It was a fabulous exercise - all that thinking about meanings of my word while I sorted through inspiring magazines, and I enjoyed the mixed media elements I included. Lots of positive messages for me in my finished vision board spread

See all my posts about OLW 2017 HERE, and my Flickr album which includes any art featuring my word as well as the class prompts HERE. It's become my desktop background

Free classes and Bargain prices.....

Hello - I am feeling much more my usual self after my week of a head cold. Thanks so much to all of you who messaged well wishes ♥
Not a project from me today but a sharing of some bargains so you don't miss out. 
The lovely Effy Wild has a bunch of online course offerings available HERE. It's no secret that I'm a fan, and have to share this news of Book of Days on sale until April 4th : 

Book Of Days is on sale for everyone in Effy Wild's teaching network until Tuesday, April 4th. In order to get the sale pricing, you must be in one of her classes (even the free ones!). BOD is regularly $180 for the year (because WHOA CONTENT), but it's $99 right now.
In order to get in on the sale, sign up for a class in her network at http://learn.effybird.com and look for a personal email from her shortly thereafter.
These are her free offerings and they will give you a taste of her teaching style. Sign up for all of it HERE. 

Containing hours and hours of video instruction, PDFs, and other resources. This is a complete beginners workshop in art journaling, and includes the Effydori, Ultimate Notebook, and other bonuses to see you through the process of creating and filling an art journal of your own. The workshop used to contain four chapters, but it now contains six plus bonuses!
Succulent Stacks

Effy Wild will walk you through the process of creating a rich, complex, layered art journal spread that requires no drawing using stuff leftover on your painty table. You will also learn how to tip your finished spread into an already existing journal.
We're about to 'break' for the month of April so you can also just sign up for Session 2 :

It is better value to sign up for the whole year though, especially at the above price. I put 'break' in quotation marks because although we won't be getting our usual full-length lessons, the wonderful FB group continues with Effy presence, we still get a journaling prompts workbook for April, AND she's promised time-lapse lessons + bonuses while we are on hiatus! 

See all the artwork I've created from classes with Effy in my Flickr Album HERE - includes links to the blog posts.

Another bargain, an initiative called Art Bundle for Good - 55 art and creativity related courses, trials and ebooks worth US$2600, bundled together this week only for US$97.

There are some well-known names involved in this one, including Tracy Verdugo, Tamara Laporte, Flora Bowley....as I post, this ends in 4 days so click on that link sooner rather than later.

Also free, Strathmore's first 2017 workshop : the basics of brush lettering and loose watercolour painting. 

- read more and sign up HERE. Began 6th March and all lessons are now available until the end of 2017.
The free classes are included in my list of Cheap and Free online art classes that you can always get to in my top right side bar.