Friday, June 22, 2012

Catch Up Friday

Happy Friday!



I know I have said before how much I am enjoying my Life Book class with Tam Laporte. It has been so refreshing each week to have a new lesson or activity or interview to watch. The best part is being exposed to all the different instructors. I am LOVING that! I always find it so fascinating to watch an artist and her process. Very inspiring!! Tam just recently announced that there will be a Life Book 2013 too. Yay!

Even though I love the course, I am having a hard time "keeping up." I put parenthesis around that because there is NO pressure at all and the course is designed so that you have access to the videos for quite some time. BUT, I paid for the class...I want to learn...I want to do the lessons...so, I need to get my tush in gear!! :) Plus Tam is doing a giveaway to encourage us to  treat ourselves to some art time and complete a lesson that we haven't done yet. Soooo, I was minus some kids yesterday (Thank you Grandma!) and found some time to work on one of Mystele's lessons.

I had created this background a couple weeks ago...


I added more layers of acrylic, pen, stamps, doodles. I wish I had my brayer. YES! It is still missing. It must be hiding somewhere in my house with the Blue Ray remote. My son is a master at finding new homes for things! :)


Then, like magic, shapes and figures began to emerge. A story began to unfold right there on the canvas. I didn't have any idea what I wanted to do as I started. Just as Myste demonstrates...stories can be "pulled" right out of the background already created. Little pieces of the puzzle begin to emerge and pretty soon I have a little piece of my heart laid onto canvas.


I have finishing touches to add. But, I really love working this way: creating a yummy, collaged background; then throwing whatever arty goodness I can reach onto it; finally "pulling" a story from it. LOVE. (By the way - I have NO idea if I punctuated that last sentence correctly. Don't hate on me if it is wrong. Lol.)

Life Book WIP
 You can tell I like girly, whimsy, and cutesy. I'll be back to show her off when she is all done. (PS I love that the word popping through in the large flower was written by me a looooong time ago in grade school.)

Are you taking any classes that you are loving???

Joining the lovelies over at Paint Party Friday and Studio JRU

10 comments:

  1. I am so wanting to get back into LifeBook, but really, how?

    I adore your pulling piece here. That is actually one I did do! I love the cutsie girl and her tights! yay!

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  2. that's a wonderful piece you're working on! i love the layers. happy PPF and thank you for sharing,
    hugs, peggy aplSEEDS

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  3. Hi! I love this, and I really enjoy seeing your process, how you layer your backgrounds so beautifully. Have a fun Saturday!

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  4. I love seeing how you pull a story from your background! It is beautiful! She is so sweet! :)

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  5. This is really great. I love how she turned out. Thank you for showing the process as you went along; it's fun to see how you changed the look at each juncture.

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  6. I have to be the one to catch up with this post :) Its Monday now here and I failed to read your Friday post. As always, she's so pretty and if I may say, you never fail to inspire me in doing my own craft journal.

    Have a great week Jen!

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  7. The piece looks lovely & what a cute girl...HPPF:)

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  8. Amazing how all the pieces you added made everything come together so beautifully!

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  9. had fun catching up on your blog. Loved the Father's Day idea and the kids pics. Made me laugh, love their different expressions! Your journal is beautiful, I thought the printing was Maddies, how cool it was yours.
    Enjoy your blog!

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