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Busy creating!

Layouts, lettering, art journaling and life drawing to show you.

More 'month-in-review' pages to add to the 2011 album....

Last weekend's Life Drawing class....

Two-minute poses superimposed....

Head study...

An attempt at drawing Beth myself at home...

Lettering class....

Beginnings of my Art Journal....

I've discovered something....

an arty home is a happy home!

CU next time!

Calling All Kids!!!

SOPHIE"S CORNER is here!

A challenge for young scrappers every single month.

Brought to you by our youngest DT member - 16 year old Sophie K.

Who is totally fabulous by the way.

All entries will go into a random draw to win prizes.

The first challenge - scrapbook about your

FAVOURITE THING.

What could be more fun!!!

Can't wait to see your entries!

:)

New Banner

Do you like it?

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Eye Candy Giveaway

How does this bunch of cuties grab you?

Hurry up and enter before the end of Feb!

HERE

Samantha sells her handmade creations on her blog...

So much colour and yumminess!

Doodle doodle doo.......

Letter Love is fabulous.

Taking me back to a former love...

DOODLING!

Such fun!

Used the techniques on my latest scrapbook page....

.....which is my DT example for the latest Show Us Your Stuff Challenge.

Background paper from ICC - gorgeous stuff....(buy it here)

White acrylic paint dabbed over this great Prima brick wall mask.

Pink Paislee Mistables Scallop Ribbon misted and wound into a flower shape.

A delicious Karla's butterfly.

A few tiny word stickers and machine stitching to finish.

Want to see my drawings from last week's Life Drawing Class?

A little still life composition this time....

Texture galore.

Those tiny leaves on the jade plant drove me bonkers!

We tried drawing our own hand....

....which almost everyone freaks out about...

but after this exercise I was pretty chuffed!

Another class in the morning.

Can't wait!

On the family front....

Darlin' Bethany swam her heart out at the school swimming carnival this week....

.....all serious and professional in cap and gogs.....

....some great results....

......and to top off her wonderful day -

a medal for Junior Runner-Up Champion.

Those swimming lessons are paying off.

It seems she has finally found her "thing".

Happy happy days.

Arty Farty Stuff

Art class was SO MUCH FUN!

I must admit I was fairly nervous at first, thinking I wouldn't be 'up-to-par'.....but Leslie, our teacher does not make you feel that way at all. You are encouraged to do your own thing and let your individual style flow, and she is right there to give guidance when you get stuck.

We had a live nude model to sketch.....after the initial shock factor, I got into the swing of it - I was concentrating so hard on every pencil line I didn't give it a second thought.

Here are my attempts (well, the ones I'm happy to show you, anyways!)...

I used a big old fat graphite stick for this one - great for big sweeping lines and getting different line thicknesses. I had trouble with the hand she's leaning on, and I buggered up the head and face area (not enough width?)...but I'm quite happy with the body proportions...

The second attempt at this pose I used a regular 6B pencil - didn't get it finished, but I'm quite proud at my first Life Drawing efforts. And I learnt so much!

Ooo excitement - my ICC papers I talked about here arrived yesterday!!!!

Oh wow - so nice IRL, thick, vibrant and arty!

I used one to cover my Art Journal for the Letter Love 101 class (link in my side bar)...

I started doing the exercises on Monday. 

Oh my - this class is FABULOUS!

It includes 29 lessons in total and is open forever.

Why don't you join me?

Here's some of the stuff I've done so far....

Hello my old friends, Soft Pastels (scrapbooking chalks)!

Thanks for looking.
Hope your day is a joyous one!

xxx

A different kind of sketch

I recently decided to take up DRAWING again after unearthing all my old HSC Art under my bed.

I bought myself a set of graphite pencils and off I went.....

I drew this baby being cradled from an old Anne Geddes calendar......

......my elephant was copied from someone else's drawing in a book.....

.....and my crazy emu I copied from an Artist magazine....

I have a long way to go.......so I'm starting Life Drawing classes.......first one tomorrow morning!

I'm so nervous.

Wish me luck!

Another month-in-review double completed....

......edging the top and bottom with strips used up lots of scraps.

Have a guess what they're lookin' at.......

Some silly woman working out on her new cross-trainer!

Too funny!

Having an audience was a bit off-putting - but I won't complain about the view!