Art Journaling: Happiness

My first Art Journal got a second page lately. It's about reminding myself of steps to increase my happiness.

I take part to Inspiration Avenue's challenge with this page as it fits surprisingly well to the theme "Hearts and Trees".

I strongly link happiness and heart together. The heart shape was the starting point of my first drawing. The final shape with barely visible outlines is important. I wanted to leave out any barriers. The leaves came along in middle of the process. They say to me to go on, something good is going to grow out of listening yourself... :-)

And if you wonder - the main quotation is from a song (Secret) of Madonna, :) Started to listen her record after many years and somehow that line stroke me!

As for technique: I continued the earlier ink drawing with water-based acrylic colours. I'm surprised that the golden flower stamping seems to work! Took some risks with it...
The white gel pen was really useful when writing and finishing the page.

29 Faces 2014 #14 and #15

Here are two more faces... I'm keeping a steady pace. :) Today I have also felt better, maybe I'll be in better shape soon, yay!

Number 14 looks little like a person I photographed few months ago. The hair is more festive though! It's interesting to surprise yourself by finding familiar features from a random drawing.

Number 15 is my try-out of a face of an older person. Very inspiring thing to go for! I'm pretty satisfied with the result.

Thanks for visiting! I try to return the visits more now that the flu thing is giving up.

29 Faces 2014 #12 and #13

Continuing with some random new drawings...

Face #12:A dancing fairy. Aimed for ATC-size (2.5 x 3.5 inches) but result is about (6 x 8 inches).

Face #13: an ATC-card that didn't turn out as I had hoped, although it looks better on screen. :-)

29 Faces 2014 #10 and #11

Hello! I hope your Valentine's day is better than mine. I'm behind the schedule because got some kind of infection this week - My doctor gave some antibiotics but feeling weak anyway. Hopefully the doctor soon finds out what this infection is and whether I have the right medicine.

Well, I'm taking easy, and keeping things simple. Today I tried to continue the challenge by re-drawing two old pencil drawings of mine. Used colour pens on black paper.

Now back to bed - I hope I can catch up everyone soon! x

29 Faces 2014 #6 #7 #8 #9

Today I have a quartet of faces for 29 Faces challenge.

After all those colourful drawings I found myself picking up a white gel pen and some black drawing paper.

The results, #6 and #7:

I thought this technique was harder than I had imagined. The upper one is pulled from my imagination. The lower face I made by using an old photograph of a woman as my model.

#8 and #9:

These two I made yesterday and they certainly look different than the former try-outs! Tried to fill the black space more evenly and managed to overdo that a bit! I had to fix some small spots with black ink. I'm glad they look as good as they do. :-) They have something in common with the seventh face that I made last year.


Hope to catch some time to visit you soon! :-)

29 Faces 2014 #5

My fifth face for 29 Faces challenge this year describes somehow my mind wanders at the moment... Slept very little and made a long day at work to finish in schedule. All went well so now I'm just taking easy :)

I enjoyed drawing the fifth face!

Used watercolour pencils - Olive Green and Prussian Blue. Applied some water also - not very much, but enough to spread colours more evenly.

Plan to catch up the challenge on weekend, see you then! x

29 Faces 2014 #4

I have somewhat busy week at work so I decided to stick to my previous idea of choosing a colour and making a face to match it.

Today it's Olive Green. My scanner insisted not noticing that the light tints are olive green too. Tried to switch to manual settings etc but had to give up the fight for now. Maybe this weekend I'll give it another try, and see who's the boss, lol ;)