Altered Brushes

If you haven't heard about altered brushes you must take a look on Donna Downey's blog to see a beautiful collection of decorated brushes. Caryl of Eezy Peezy Journals recently introduced us on in2crafts to it and this is my first decorated brush. It didn't take long and was a fun project.

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Ansota :)

Tin to hold all my markers and pens.

Sometimes I just love to sit in front of the TV with my art journal and doodle. I have been looking for something to hold all my markers and pens I need when I do. I tried all kinds of holders and discovered that this little tin is perfect for the job but I didn't like the coldness of the tin against my hands. I decided to dress it up with some crochet, felt and buttons and added a little bling too. You could say 'Oh my word but it's so kitsch!' Well... maybe it's kitsch, maybe it's funky but it's my own creation and I love it! Best of all it's nice and warm and very very handy indeed! :)

Magazine Collage!

 And for something totally different. Magazine collages! It is such a creative and imaginative way to experiment values and shapes. I did these collages by using only magazines and build the faces up with small pieces of torn pages. I know they are not masterpieces by far but it is a way to experiment and create playfully. Give it a try! 

Take care!

~Ansota~

Choices

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." ~ Mark Victor Hansen~

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Creativity

I created this mixed media for a creativity class  I teach  every first Saturday of the month. 

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Take Me Away

I glued two small boxed canvases together, painted the picture with acrylic paint and embellished it with mirrors, mosaic inserts and some glass pebbles. The feet are wine corks.

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Creative Doodling

More of my doodling pages.

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Creative Awakenings

This is the way I journal in my personal journal which I fill with mostly writing and just some altered images every now and then. Haven't shown much of this style of journaling on my blog  but thought to share these two pages. I made some prints of my face, altered it a bit and used bodies from other prints and magazines as well as some penwork to complete the altered images. This is such a fun way to explore creativity and it also helps to work through some personal issues when you journal this way. I have a file with clippings from magazines that I keep and use when I do one of these kind of pages.

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Fabric Painting Journal

This week I started painting on fabric and decided to make an art journal which will have only fabric pages. I am painting designs in different sizes and will mix and match as I go along by combining my painted pictures with other pieces of fabric and want to embellish with lace, ribbon, buttons etc. This is such a fun project because now I can also do embroidery on some of my pages and I even want to include some of my crochet work and although I am using fabric paint I don't have to heat set it because it's not something which will go into the washing machine. I can stamp and stencil as well and I even did serviette decoupage on the one with the angel. I will put all the completed pieces together in a book. Here are two of the painted pieces which I have been working on so far.

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My latest project.

I started this mixed media some weeks ago and worked on it a bit today after work. This is how far I got and thought I would share my progress with all of you. I thought I was finished but something is still missing and I will be working on it more during the following weeks when I get time but will post the finished painting once it's done.  

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Well this is how far I got. I think I will do something around the frame to finish it off? 

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Never give up

Art journal page with acrylics and mixed media.

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Art Journaling Fun

I prepared this particular art journal months ago and felt like doing some pen work today. This is the completed page. I know I could have done a lot more but I like it just as it is.

 

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Yoga

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Vintage Victorian Altered Book

The above pictures are from a little project I am working on. It's an altered book and I am naming it Vintage Victorian Lace. I will only be using vintage images and prints with lots of lace and ribbon. I am doing all the crochet pieces in the book myself which means this will take me some time to finish. I will post pictures of pages as I finish them.

Art from Within

Art journal pages using only watercolor aquarela  pencils, pens and any kind of nice prints and pictures.

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Altered Art Journal

So I started with a little Altered Art Journal and this is the first pages I have done so far. It's really stretching your creative juices to it's limits and the most exciting thing about it is the fact that you just let your inner self guide you through the process.