Category: Art Day

Art Day: Glitter Animals Find a Home in Mixed Media Flowers

Ready for Art Day

Every Sunday is Art Day at our house. With the cold outside, nothing is cozier than tucking in with coffee, good company and creativity!

Next Stage of Found Flowers

This week I worked on the next step in my mixed media found flowers. I created a strong outline and then worked on adding colour to the shapes.

The Animals Want Their Turn

The animals wanted some attention too!

Glitter Giraffe

I found a wonderful way to combine the two projects!

Glitter Rhino

Both giraffe and rhino loved being amidst the flowers.

The Set

Who knew that my art journal page would become a set for glitter animals!

By the way, if you’re aching to have some creative fun like this, join me for my Art Day Virtual Retreat. We’re going to have a blast!

Art Day: Enjoying Animals, Making Marks & Creative Mess

Art Day Mascots

Every Sunday is Art Day at our house. The kitchen table offers a veritable feast of colour, sparkle and paint. My glitter-bombed animals have quickly become favourite mascots.Creating with Index Cards

My sister Shannon and I are taking Year of the Spark with Carla Sonheim and Lynn Whipple and this week’s class had us creating with index cards. I absolutely love working with index cards because they are so unintimidating!

Making Marks

We made marks.

Finding Animals

And then went on a journey of discovery.

Crayon ColoursWith art supplies all around, it’s easy to get inspired.

Creative Mess

And we always follow where inspiration leads!

By the way, if you’re aching to have some creative fun like this, join me for my Art Day Virtual Retreat. We’re going to have a blast!

Art Day: Mixed Media, Collage & Finding Flowers

Animals and Art Supplies

Having a weekly “Art Day” practice is bringing so much joy to my life. Even setting up is fun for photos!

Collage Board

As I mentioned on StART: Creating As We Go, I had so much fun with a recent mixed media exercise that I wanted to try it on board. I braved the cold to get a 12 x 12 wood board to play with. One thing I learned quickly is it likes lots of glue! Next time I think I would gesso it first, even if I’m just collaging on top.

Mixed Media Journal and Board

Once the board was collaged and ready to dry, I went back to the painting that inspired me, getting ready to build more definition into the flowers that I discovered on the page.

Elephant on Stage

Sitting there it didn’t take long to realize the board was a fun backdrop for more glitter animal photography!

Lion in Waiting

Even this Lion-in-Waiting wanted his moment on the stage.

JRS Found Flowers

I tried a few different techniques with this next stage of the painting. I feel like I should have four or five on the go so that I can be experimental with each of them. It’s fascinating (and a bit frustrating) to be in relationship with the work, discovering what it wants to be.

Art Day: Painting on Plexi, Glitter Animals & a Mixed Media Garden

JRS 1 Art Day Snow

Snowy Sunday afternoons are just about the perfect time for an afternoon of art, especially when soup stock is bubbling and a crockpot dinner is cooking for when we’re done!

JRS 2 Art Day on Glass

My sister Shannon and I are enrolled in Carla Sonheim & Lynn Whipple’s The Year of the Spark and absolutely loving it. This Art Day we focused on a lesson about painting and collage on plexiglass. We actually couldn’t find any plexiglass so we worked on glass, using basic clip frames you can find in the dollar store. The acrylics do lift off fairly easily from the glass surface so we experimented a lot to discover approaches that would work and enjoyed every moment!

Animals Standing By

All the while, my gessoed animals were standing by wondering when it was going to be their turn.

Glittered Animals

The thing is, if you stand still long enough, you’re going to get glitter bombed!

Glitter Moose Photo Shoot

And end up in a photo shoot!

Developing a Mixed Media Garden

As if that wasn’t enough fun, I managed to sneak in some time with my art journal, developing this mixed media piece of imaginary flower images I “discovered” in the background I created days ago. I love that experience uncovering a mystery and can’t wait to continue to work on this piece.

A regularly scheduled Art Day is having a huge impact not only on my creative life but also on the way I show up on Mondays! I’m looking forward to bringing an Art Day Virtual Retreat to you March 21st. You pick the project. Together we create the safe space :)