A Little Decoration For Grandma

Although only six- years-old my daughter loves to paint and do crafts.Recently she has started showing interest in sewing.I showed her some basic things and helped her to make this heart for her grandma -"baba "in Bulgaria.We made another one to decorate our Christmas tree a couple of months ago.I am so glad that she loves to do arts and crafts because creative people are never bored.

A Different Creation

Sometimes my creativity takes a different turn.This is what I made a couple of weeks ago. I knitted this hat for myself as I had hard time finding a warm hat to suit me.All of the hats in the store were stocking type, more like for teenagers than for women my age.So I bought this beautiful yarn from Hobby Lobby and knitted it with five needles.

Actually back then when I lived in Bulgaria I liked to knit a lot.Here I lost my motivation spending more time doing my hobby #1 painting.

More Drawings From The Movie

I am still in the atmosphere of the movie.

A Game Of Love

I am having a wonderful time at home.I took a week of vacation and I am enjoying every minute of it.In the morning I will take my daughter to school and then will go on line checking the art websites.After that I will go to my studio to paint or draw.

Today I worked on my Tour de France oil painting.It is a present for my husband who is an avid biker. I also did some pencil drawings from a movie.When I was in Bulgaria last summer I bought a bunch of old Bulgarian movies which I grew up with.Today I watched a movie called A Game Of Love or A Play of Love,you can translate it as you like it.It was made in 1979 and I remember when I watched it for the first time I was really excited.It is a wonderful story told by talented actors.

So,here are two of my drawings, completed with pencil in my Canson sketch book.

Altered Book-Journal2

Here you have two more pages of my journal #2.I did not mention in my previous entry that my intentions were to make it a travel journal for my first visit back home in 2005.I got the book ready,which means I glued bunch of pages together,cut some pages so it did not get too fat and painted some of the pages with acrylic paint.When I got ready I realised that I misplaced the memorabilia and the notes from my trip.Then the flood happened and although it was salvaged I almost threw it away because I had a lot in my plate already.So,recently when I've started thinking about a new art journal i remembered about this baby and decided to re purpose it.In the first layout I was just trying different techniques and the second one is my 2008 list of exciting things or first-time-things that happened to me during the year.I saw it in some body's blog in a different way and changed it to suit me.In the other blog it was a list of 100 hundred things and you had to highlight the things that happened to you.

It is a pretty cold sunny day,today.The temperature is 3deg.F/-15C/.It would be nice if there was not that nasty wind that make it feel colder.

My New Art Journal

I knew I wouldn't be able to go for too long without a journal so at the end of the old year I started my new art journal. It is in the technique of the altered books or in two sentences you take one old book,paint and decorate it and it turns into an altered book.If you want you can incorporate text or you can just use the language of the images.As I am more traditional person I like to write long entries for the events of my personal life and share my thoughts.

This is one of the pages in my journal.I coll aged one of my drawings onto the page which was gessoed and painted with acrylic pains beforehand.I wrote the entry with a golden color gel pen which supposed to be acid free.The drawing was completed with ink pen and watercolor pencils.

Three Sketches From January 22

These are the three sketches I completed while staying home with my sick little girl on January 22.The first one was done from life.We have two bird feeders in our yard and we have a lot of different birds visiting them in these cold winter days but the main attraction are the cardinals.There are two cardinal families visiting our yard regularly.How could I know they are two different families but sometimes they come together.

The other sketch is of my daughter eating an ice cream on a hot summer day.I took the reference photo during our trip to Bulgaria last year.

And this cute boy's name is Anatoly.He belongs to my friend Plamena who lives in Bulgaria.I took his picture when visiting my friend in the summer.My daughter loved to play with him because he was very patient and cuddly.

I completed the sketches with watercolor pencils in a Canson sketch book.

Just A Drawing

It is an old one , just a drawing with an ink pen Micron.I haven't done any new ones.The last day off I spent in front of the TV watching the inauguration of the new president Barak Obama.It was really exciting.Could have done some sketches but did not feel like that.For today I planned to paint with acrylics but my daughter is at home, sick with a cold and I will try to do some sketches.

Inspirational Cards#4and5

These are my two new inspirational cards,I made them today.The first one is called Green Eyes and the second one My Music.

For the first one i drew the cats on a piece of newspaper,painted them with acrylic paints,cut them out and glued them on orange card stock and then pasted that to chipboard.

For the second one I drew the image of the girl with the violin,painted it with watercolor pencils.Cut it out and pasted it to a piece of scrapbook paper.Actually it is one of those pieces of paper that are called Art To Borrow and come as a bonus with the issues of the Somerset Studio magazine.I cut the roses from scrapbook paper and embellished the piece with the strip of lace.

Imagination

This is another mixed media creation of mine.Its size is 4x6 on watercolor paper with acrylic paints, collage,stamps,jell pen doodles and all the works.The flower drawn with a crayon that I incorporated in my work was done by my six-year -old daughter.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everybody and tons of inspiration to the people who like art, love art, enjoy doing art, breath art and can't live without it.

These are two of my mixed media creation which I talked about the last time.I called them inspirational cards.I am not sure if I came up with this name or I borrowed it from somewhere but I like it.They are 4x6 and they can easily fit in a photo album with pockets.I prefer this size better because it is kind of easier to work on than the ATC size.To make them I did collage,used stamps,painted with acrylics,drew,doodled,used different kinds of papers.I hope you enjoy them.

Sonya Watching Barny

This is another page of my art journal- a double sketch of my daughter at the age of three.

I am not in a mood of painting today- too busy getting ready for Christmas.I have to wrap some presents ,to get the stoking fillers ready,to write and send some cards to relatives here in town and so on little things that are time consuming.

I will be happy if I have a little time for a sketch or a mixed media something.I have finished three mixed media cards which I would call inspirational cards but I haven't found the time to upload them in the computer and post them in my blog.

It is still very cold outside as it was the last three days.This morning when I took my daughter to school it was 6 bellow zero.It felt cold but not so bad.There was not any wind which was nice.I don't want to sound crazy but I love winter,especially the winter sunny and snowy days.

Another Angel

Another page of my art journal.

From My Art Journal

This landscape in my journal has been done with ink and watercolor pencils by memory.

Another Drawing From My Art Journal

An angel.

An Angel

This image is from my art journal too.It was inspired by Christmas wrapping paper.it was done with watercolor pencils.

Another Page From My Art Journal

This drawing has been done with ball point pen during one of my morning breaks at work.I was working on a card project and wanted the image to remind the vintage postcards.The size is about 3x4inches.

A Page Of My Art Journal

When my daughter was a little baby I did not have much time for painting but the urge to create was so strong that I would use every little bit of time to do something art related.

I concentrated on art forms that were not so time consuming or bigger projects that could be done in small segments of time.So that time I did a lot of sketching and got interested in artjournalling that gives you a lot of freedom and allows you to experiment with different media.I finished one journal that time,doing some collage ,some sketching and drawing,some stamping,some paper decorating and page designing.I would sketch and draw on stray pieces of paper at work during my breaks and would incorporate my sketches in my art journal pages.I would work on card projects and would try new ideas,I would even write down some recipes for delicious dishes.

Now I spent more time painting and keeping my two blogs up to date.I also spent time on the website of Wet Canvas which is kind of time consuming.But I kind of miss my art journal and I am not going to be surprised if I start another one pretty soon.In the next several posts I am going to show some pages of my art journal.This particular page was created with bits of paper I designed myself with acrylic paints and with stamps I made myself out of school erasers.

Two More Sketches

These are the last two sketches from my trip to Bulgaria.The first one is of a little girl on a slide and the other one of my daughter in the sand box.We practically spent all our time at parks and children's play grounds.

At The Park 2

This is another one of the series "At the park".I sketched it almost at the same time as the first one but it took me forever to paint it in color.I sketched it from life at the school park when I picked up my daughter from school.Here she is helping another girl to swing.I used an ink pen Millennium,watercolor pencils and a water brush.