Creating A Life Less Ordinary Through Art / arty tutorials - watercolour

A Wonderful Life with Art

A Wonderful Life with Art

It's a wonderful life, chronicled from time to time (I only missed writing in a few weeks this year too), no chemicals used (ink doesn't count). I'm a limited edition! Art journaling in my Dylusions small Dyary on a premade yellow red page using a few favourite arty treasures and Tim Holtz stamps, Specimen and Entomology.
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Everything's Rosy in My Garden

Life laugh love in a world of art ... creating a beautiful garden with Dylusions and Tim Holtz cling rubber stamps, watercolour pencils, paints and crayons and a black Archival ink pad inside a 6x9 sized journal filled with wonderful watercolour paper.

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Calypso

Calypso was my inspiration for my art journal page. She is a Sea Goddess well known for sinking ships, making big waves in stormy seas and putting curses on pirates. The theme "goddess" was for Tash's journal - part of the AAJS.

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Full Moon DAJ

A magical piece of art is this beautiful painting of the Moon and Earth. Created for the theme "Moon" in a DAJ swap (deconstructed art journal)... basically you create a single art journal page back and front, 8"x8" in size and fold it in half.
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There's an Elephant in my Journal

I love elephants. They're incredible, kind, compassionate and strong with such beautiful wise old eyes and big hearts! I've drawn so many of them often over the years including this quick scribble I sketched in pen and wash.
I drew the elephant a tad crooked so decided that he's just scratching his leg on the tree!
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