Art Journal page: Last day of 2011

I hope you all have a wonderful time ....

Some in-progress pictures:

pencil drawing

(no gesso on the paper this time)

waterproof marker

Base colors with Neocolor II

- this is a fun coloring-book step :) -

Just water and a bit of white gesso added.

Shading with colored pencils (Derwent coloursoft).

Browns and pinks for the face, pink and red for the lips,

in the hair I used purples, blue and white...

Made clouds with a sponge and white gouage,

the details are markers and silver 3D-paint.

Sokken 2011-9 en 2011-10

Art Journal page: Can you feel the love tonight

I've had this song in my head while creating this page.
Materials used:
- pencil for the drawing, and black marker (waterproof)
- white gesso
- Background: neocolors for the first layer, napkins collage (hearts), stamps with markers, acrylics (red, pink and gold), collage elements from magazines
- face: beige acrylic, black pencil for shading, black marker, (gold acrylic for the eyes)
- hair: black acrylic, white acrylic for the details

Kerstkoekjes

Dit is een deel van de koekjes die Sarah bakte... er waren er meer...

maar op voor de foto kon genomen worden ;)

Art Journal page: Acceptatie

I found the text about accepting in a magazine.
This page has black gesso as base, the face and hair are painted with oilpaint. I like to experiment in this Art-Journal ;).

With markers, 3D paint and collage added...

This is how it looked with the gesso and oilpainting...

Art Journal page: I remember pink and purple

I used to love these colors for my make-up when I was very young (15) ;)

Art Journal pages: just for fun

These pages have no special meaning. I just had some fun painting and glueing ;)

Art journal page: Familie

About three gifts you give to your children: Life, Love and Understanding.
The third one is so important if you have children with problems...

The background: Neocolors II and white acrylic paint.

Collage: text about family from a magazine

Faces: gesso and neocolors....

Details: paint markers

Art journal page: Vlinder/butterlfy

What can I say? I like flowers and butterflies...
The background is done with soft-pastels this time. Covered with spray-varnish before adding the collage elements.

Some steps:

Art journal page: on the move

This page was made with a lot of layers: paper/paint/napkins collage/gesso.....

Some of the previous steps:

Art journal page: positive people

I created this page after meeting some nice people...

Neocolors in blue and green.

Paper napkins in "ribbons"

Acrylic wash,

Collage covered with gesso

and markers

Knitting a mini-sweater

This little bunny was a little cold.

So I made him a nice warm sweater and matching hat.

My daughter's very happy ;) 

Needle felting/Naaldvilten

This is my latest creation: a wool ball with a funny face.

Needle felting/Naaldvilten 1ste werkjes

This is a new craft that I wanted to try...so I picked up some wool and needles in the art store.
I first made a little bird, and a cow....

I know... I need to practice...

But it's a lot of fun creating cute animals from wool.

I found some great tutorials and demo's on the net, just listing a few of them:

http://www.livingfelt.com/

http://www.needlefeltingsupplies.com/

Amazing what people can create, I love the "dolls".

http://miniatures.about.com/od/miniatureprojects/ig/Miniature-Needle-Felt-Raccoon/

http://stephalicious.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/felting-info-links-and-examples/

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=51271.0

http://www.lauraleeburch.com/blog/2011/01/needle-felted-dogcat-tutorial/

I'm back with some new pages in my journal

Ok, this was a long time without posting...
This is what happened :
My son (age 11) has autism, Tourette and ADHD, he had a lot of problems in school lately. So I started home-schooling him today! I had to (temporally) stop my job to do this.
The next pages are a little about my feelings about this...

I used a lot of Neocolor II on these pages. 

The details are markers.