Polka dot challenge

Dear friends,
I did this artist journal page of my visualisation board and meditation table. I did polka dots in the background. Today there was a prompt on http://twitter.com/Sarah_Whitmire to do polka dots so here it is.
lots of love from susan in australia

I love it when

Dear friends,
This is the response to a prompt called "I love it when". I used fabric with fairies on it and wrote about my times with my grandmother and our love of fairies at the bottom of the garden. i then wrote over the two pages all the things I love when...like I love it when it rains like now.
lots of love from susan in australia

Inspire me Thursday...tags

Dear friends,
This is my first response to Inspire me Thursday. They are tags and I just mucked around with felt pens and some dress tags that I gessoed.
lots of love from susan in australia

Something for free drawing challenge

Dear friends,
Doing the weekly challenge at everydaymatters and this week was to do something i got for free. These ear rings were a gift from a dear friend who spoils me a lot. She loves jewelery making and I have a lot of her creations. These are the latest and have crystals inserted ...the blue color and crystals hanging from the blue part.
I love the way nature is free and would have liked to have drawn some nature.
lots of love from susan in australia

Hangman challenge

Dear friends, This is the response to a prompt to include a hangman game on my artist journal page. My friend guessed what the word was really easily and only had two wrong answers. She plays the game well. It was great to do this challenge as it had my friend asking about my journals and art and I shared my artist journal with her.
lots of love from susan in australia

Coffee pot challenge

Dear friends,
Another challenge from the yahoo group everydaymatters This week was a coffee pot. I rarely use this coffee pot as I usually have instant coffee to save my nerves. Strong coffee is dreadful for my nerves. I love frothing milk in this coffee maker to put on top of milky coffee.
See you next week.
lots of love from susan in australia

Photo inspiration..rocks

Dear friends,
I used some photos of some interesting rocks in my neighbourhood to inspire a background. I used grays, beige, greens and black inspired by the rocks and used a massage brush and toothbrush to add the paints.
Have you ever used a photo to inspire your work?
lots of love from susan in australia

Windows to the senses

Dear friends,
This is the response to a prompt to look at how we experience our senses. I did smelling the roses, tasting chocolate, feeling the touch of a butterfly wings, see the words of books and emails and hearing the crash of waves. Doing the prompt put me in touch with my senses. I did it quickly which a lot of my responses to prompts are.
lots of love from susan in australia

Attaching fabric challenge

Dear friends,
This is the response to a challenge to attach some fabric to my artist journal page in a new way. I have never used a brad to attach fabric before so I did that and did some journaling about a Jane Austen fashion exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia.
lots of love from susan in australia

Lock challenge

Dear friends,
This is a drawing challenge from the yahoo group everydaymatters . I had to draw a lock and found these two locks linked together. I haven't a clue where the key is or where they come from. It was quick and simple to draw.
lots of love from susan in australia

Three ways to write a word prompt

Dear friends,
This ATC is the result of a prompt where I had to write a word in three styles of writing. I chose the word nature and this is the result.
lots of love from susan in australia

Up, up and away

Dear friends, This is a response to a challenge to do some art relating to going on a balloon trip. I'm headed for NY and will visit old and new friends there, Central Park and the MET. What fun.
lots of love from susan in australia

Beach sketch

Dear friends,
i have just got a new sketch pad to take on my walks so here is a sketch of the beach and the happy people at the beach here in spring.
lots of love from susan in australia