Sooty

Dear friends,
this is my old cat Sooty as a moveable cat in a basket.I used brads on the limbs, head and tail and then tied a bow to hold the cat on the page. it is part of the 21 secrets workshops.
lots of love from susan in australia

Transformation

Dear friends,
this is some art from the 21 secrets workshops and I did some sponging with sponges in the shape of a butterfly in pink on a plain yellow page. I then added ways I am transforming in pink felt pen. More of my simple art. still don't like things too complex with my art.
lots of love from susan in australia

Index cards

Dear friends,
these are some of my first index card art. I only recently discovered index card art. I use index cards to remind me of jobs that need doing and have things like shopping, library written on them. I decided to paint and decorate them and am enjoying using them
lots of love from susan in australia

21 secrets.. emotional evolution

This is part of an online workshop called emotional evolution. I had to write down one of my fears which is traveling on country roads and gesso over it. Add images which I did with a country road and my chauffeur who now helps me go places instead of being in danger on roads. I added words and all is finished. a bit of fun

lots of love from susan in Australia

Fun with mac

Dear friends,
Had fun with Photobooth on my MAc computer and an editing facility I just learnt. this is great fun and I will do it a lot more in different ways. I'll share what I come up with later.
lots of love from susan in australia

Sparkles

Dear friends,
these pages are part of a Sparkles course from Jamie Ridler. I took photos of images with certain colors and then chopped them up to create new images. Enjoyed doing this and will do again.
lots of love from susan in australia

Altered book pages

Dear friends,
Been awhile. I have still been doing my art in zippy mode but haven't had anything worth adding to my blog. I enjoyed doing these two pages with my altered book. I added brown paper with white pattern to pages. Gessoed around the paper and used gesso to stamp on page using a stamp made of a jar with wool twined around it so I could paint the base covered with twine. makes great effect. I then added some words about inner peace from the altered book pages I removed. That's it...more of my simple art.
lots of love from susan in australia

21secrets course

Dear friends,
this is some of my art work for a course called 21secrets with 21 workshops on artist journals
lots of love from susan in australia

house with canvas paper

Dear friends,
This is a little house I made using canvas paper which I have never used before. I had a lot of fun with this and it now sits on my coffee table.

lots of love from susan in australia

Latest artist journal pages

Dear friends,
These are my latest artist journal pages. I got some alphabet stamps so had some fun with those and also used tissue paper and a key

lots of love from susan in australia

Artist journal page

Dear friends,
Latest artist journal page using paint, paper, dictionary pages and stickers

Lots of love from susan in australia

Fabric book pages

Dear friends,
My latest fabric book pages.

Lots of love from susan in australia

The gift of possibility

Dear friends,
I am doing art celebrating Julia Cameron's famous book on creativity The artist way. Chapter 5 is the gift of possibility and these are the pages I did representing the river of life and being in the flow of it.
lots of love from susan in australia

Letters

Dear friends,
These journal pages I did a page that opens out and I journaled inside. there is a tab to grab to open page. I used a serviette with butterflies on to decorate the pages. I did wooden letters that I used as headings for the journaling. I have been doing a course from Strathmore and this was the result of one of the workshops.
lots of love from susan in australia

Brave girls soul restoration

Dear friends,
I did a course with "Brave girls" called soul restoration (just google it). These were the final pages of a fabulous course. this is about caring for myself and keeping myself well tuned like a guitar.
lots of love from susan in australia

Blind painting

Dear friends,
On a creativity site some of us were challenged to do some art blind...with eyes closed or a blind fold. I decided to take on the challenge and did a face. I learnt so much like how the paint feels on the page, needing to wait lots of time for it to dry because you don't know when it is unless you feel it. You have to keep an idea in your mind of what you have painted. You need the paints ordered so you know what color is what by feel. Most interesting.
lots of love from susan in australia

Latest altered book pages

Dear friends,
Here is my latest altered book page. I gessoed the pages leaving some of the printed material. I added two images and then painted on some leaves on the images to alter them. I added some buttons on wool thread.
lots of love from susan in australia

Latest artwork

Dear friends,
My latest art work printing with bottle tops, one using torn tissue paper and sketching, the hearts one with the bow is using netting for the hearts and a friends doodled heart, then one is printing with potatoes made into shapes and then one of hearts that came on cellophane from a florist on Valentines day.
lots of love from susan in australia

Eyes

Dear friends,
I did a cut out through some artist journal pages to some eyes and these pages resulted. i also got some new stamps from my visit to the National gallery of Victoria.

Crosswords with Milliande

Dear friends,
Did this crossword page inspired by Milliande....check out her ning group and her monthly journaling.
lots of love from susan in australia

Stripes

Dear friends,
Another piece of art inspired by Milliande from her ning group and her January prompts.
I had a lot of fun with this and used white ink for the first time
lots of love from susan in australia

Latest artist journal pages

Dear friends,
i've been inspired by Milliande these past few days. Google her and check out her site.
I've also just got a personal trainer and thinking about my body so the aboriginal painting meant a lot to me and became part of my journaling.