Playing around in my art journal!

I'm having fun just playing around in my art journal. I've decided to step back ands just play around. I think it's a good thing to do help keep the mind fresh.  I have been playing around with color combinations trying to find new combos I like. I gesso the pages slap color on here and there and then go back and pick a page to work on. I'm having fun with drawing with a charcoal pencil. I sealed one with a lacquer now I'll see what mediums work on top of it if any. 

My hubby and kiddos are going for a daddy daughter overnighter. I'll miss them but I'm excited to have a 24 hr period of being able to do as much art related things as I want to!

Here are some pictures of what I've been working on....enjoy!

Not much art but I had a nice vacation & beekeeping adventures!

I'm a tad disappointed I haven't been able to do much on the artwork side but we went on vacation over Father's day. It was a great time had by all on the Oregon Coast. There was a mix of family and friends. In typical Oregon Coast fashion it rained but we were blessed with no rain when we needed it not too! Zach and I took the kids to see a movie when it was really rainy one afternoon, that was a fun treat. We saw Epic everyone liked it. I was so happy to be able to use our motorhome!

The bees have been keeping us busy too. It's hard to have time for art when your dealing with regular mom wife stuff and swarming bees. The hubby was on duty when we had one hive swarm. Guess who got to get them? Me that's who! It was a large group of bees too. I'm very proud of myself I had to do some problem solving to get it all to work, but I got them in the box and they are doing well. I figured if I'm going to call myself a beekeeper I need to buck up and give it a try. I had seen Zach do it a couple times so I knew what needed to be done. It was just a tad bit more intimidating when your the one looking at putting 30,000+ bees into a box! Luckily all went well!!

Peace

Crazy life!

I've been up to my neck in life and haven't been able to blog. I hate long periods in between posts but stuff happens. I've mostly been messing around in my art journal because that's what I've had time for, it's actually been quite nice. I recently bought some pan pastels (finally) what beautiful creamy goodness! I can't wait to use them on something other than my journal. I've also gotten some faber castell big brush pens they are also wonderful. I love being able to highlight and shade with them. For awhile now I've wanted some faber castell gelatos but their price tag has made me wait. I stumbled on a youtube video where the lady used faber castell gel sticks from the kids section. Her opinion was that they were the same thing as the gelatos. I bought a pack of 12 gel sticks for $12 and even if they aren't exactly the same I love them anyways! I like the price and they work fantastic. I'm curious now to buy a pack of gelatos and compare them. I'm also having fun playing with a pair of flip flops from the dollar store....that's no joke they have the best pattern on the bottom! As a mixed media artist I've learned to always have my eyes wide open it's amazing what you can find.

I've completed a couple custom pieces this week. It felt awesome to get paint allover my fingers(found some clear up on my bicep this am too!). I don't bother with barrier cream, the paint makes me happy because it means I'm getting to do what I love! I'm including pics of the custom pieces.

The bees also take up a lot of my time we've had lots of adventures with them over the past few weeks. I'm also posting a pic of one of our queens just because I think she's beautiful!

One if my next big goals is to get an Etsy store up and running. Gotta get my work out there...