The art challenge for week 38 in the Documented Life Project was: “Draw, paint, doodle, sketch a feather onto your page. Don’t draw, paint, doodle or sketch? Incorporate a real feather onto your page! Get creative and have fun!” Jan: … Continue reading
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The art challenge for week 37 of the Documented Life Project was to: “Use white pen prominently on your page.” Jan: A few weeks ago my husband discovered a new vine with amazing flowers growing on our property. Neither of … Continue reading
The Documented Life Project challenge for Week 21 was: “Add embroidery or embroidery floss to your page – no floss? use thread.” This challenge reminded me of the last Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap I did using embroidery floss on my … Continue reading
The challenge for this week’s Documented Life Project was to do something “Monochromatic: use shades, tints and hues of one color.” While I was in New York, on one of my walks, I became fascinated with the designs on the … Continue reading
Last week I shared a post with you about the new Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap in which Melinda and I are participating. If you would like a creative project to work on and then be able to bless someone … Continue reading
The Documented Life Project Week 4 challenge was to write a secret message and then to paint over all but one key word. Jan: The first thing that came to my mind was a very simple art technique we did … Continue reading
Today I was playing around with some watercolor techniques described in the book The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: Landscapes by Gordon MacKensie.I saw an exercise that looked like it would be really simple to do– negative painting. Negative painting (or drawing) … Continue reading
Over three years ago a longing to learn to paint with watercolors began to grow inside of me. I bought watercolor paints and some paper and brushes, and they sat on a shelf waiting for me. Of course, my excuse … Continue reading