Wanda Marie Miller

Friday, February 6, 2015

ART JOURNAL FRIDAY

This is a picture of an art doll I made a LONG time ago...

I transferred her onto to hardboard for my sister Candy...

and I am surprising her with her very own journal...

to take with us to Santa Catalina, Panama this summer...

this is one of the pages in Candy's journal...

there are many different ones, painted and plain...

she can draw, write, paint and place photos in it

to her heart's content.

I can't wait to surprise her...;)

in between drying time on the other journal...

I made another very simple one for myself.

this is the front...

and this is the back ;)

this one is for painting at home or drawing away from home

and then I decided to make my own journal this week to take to Panama...

the colors turned out so gorgeous...I decided to paint it on some

Heavy Watercolor paper for a background to paint on...it feels real

chalky and toothy...something I crave to paint on!

and now the change for our window frame...

it's FEBRUARY after all

I painted a little card stock for this month...

spied these on the internet...
the little tab underneath reads,
"if you love someone, let them nap"
;)

added the little phrase under my little painting...

and here we are for FEBRUARY,

on cardboard with a pretty new skirt for

VALENTINES DAY

happy JOURNAL KEEPING MY FRIENDS!

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

INSPIRATION WEDNESDAYS

One little page...learning more

about how

ACRYLIC GLAZING LIQUID

extends the drying time just a wee perfect amount, and...

when you wipe it away, it adds depth underneath...

exciting, eh?

2 PAGE SPREAD start...

up close with the greens and greys and ACRYLIC GLAZING LIQUID

showing the best portion of the

TWO PAGE SPREAD...

CLOSE UP

and CLOSER...

CLOSER...

CLOSEST ;)

These are all the start of some works with Donna Downey and her paid class, INSPIRATION WEDNESDAYS.

She posts every other Wednesday for this entire year...if you'd like to check it out on her blog or store http://donnadowney. com

coming up Friday...more work in my JOURNALS ;)

STAY TUNED and HAPPY HUMP DAY

Friday, January 30, 2015

ART JOURNAL FRIDAY

in my journal, on this particular one...I tried to stick to only 2-3 colors

I really enjoyed it and just let go at times and then left for a meal...

and then started noodling the faces too much...

and that's okay,,,i learn so much

from painting and gluing in these books...

SO MUCH comes out of us when we just let it flow and/or take some jaunts elsewhere with brush, paint and heart...

I am just now finding out,

HOW EDUCATIONAL

FUN

FREEING

REVELATIONS

NEW EXPERIENCES

ELATION (with frustration)

putting it down with no

GRAND EXPECTATIONS

A start in my journal of playing with pretty colors,

seeing where my inspiration would wander...

picked up a charcoal stick and an ANGEL came into view...

I wanted it to just flow with simplicity and clarity...

and I lucked out...she is quite simplistic

I even tackled a palette painted flower,

INSPIRED BY...

my friend http://katherinjeannewood. has just finished with a 30 day series on the subject, and I adore her work.

it was so new and fun...I shall attempt more flowers this way.

thank YOU Katie!

this portion of "LOVE" is from one of my monoprints (copied and color changed)

exciting to me!!!

I did this just before retiring last evening

they are 2 different pages...

side by side in a different journal I sewed up this week.

they will be a start for this morning's journey ;)

I am so excited about them too!

and I just finished this yesterday for one of my nieces..

she just rented a new apartment for she and her son, and

I will be surprising her with it when it's framed.

yes...I'm excited about that too ;)

HAVE A VUNDER FILLED WEEKEND

MY FRIENDS!

Friday, January 23, 2015

FRIDAY NIGHT ART JOURNAL...starting a new resolution...

I have 4 very large paintings...

WIP...that...
I am inserting and editing here; that these girls are not my
LARGE works in progress...
THESE are what I went to, working in my journal, they are finished!
as I am STUCK ON finishing some abstracts that are large and looming in front of my face to be finished.
and this is the time now that I will put 2 of them under a bed, hidden away and the other 2 in a closet, to bring out on another day, week, month, when they decide they are ready ;)