Art Journaling with Ansota: I love Gouache!

Art Journaling with Ansota: I love Gouache!: In between the ordinary day to day journaling I love to experiment with paints as well. My favorite paints to use for these kind of art ...

Search for Meaning

SearchforMeaning, a photo by Ansota on Flickr.

I have been reading the book by Frankl, Man's search for meaning. Raised all kinds of questions and I have been searching within to find some answers too. Wonderful book about the human nature.

Madame Zingara

Me and all my co-workers went to see Madame Zingara last Wednesday night and had a great evening! Great show and good food and only came back after twelve. We all went with a mini-bus and these two pages illustrate the evening. From my Illustrated Daily Journal.

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Pages from my Illustrated Journal

Take care

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Gouache Art Journal Page

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Believe in Yourself

I haven't painted with gouache in such a long time. After work today I decided to do a quick journal page and used gouache mixed with acrylic glazing medium. This is my finished page for the day.

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Artist Trading Card

ATC's in gouache. I took these with my camera to see if I can get a clearer picture than scanning it, but this was the best I could get. 

And this is the scanned version of the left one. Makes a big difference but I still can't get the colors to show up exactly the way it is in real life. The one taken with the camera does look more real than the scanned one.

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What I have been busy with during the holiday season.

First of all a very Happy New Year to everyone! May 2011 be a year full of wonderful blessings and may it be a year filled with laughter and love. Thank you to all my followers for all the comments and visits during the past year. I appreciate each and every one. 

During the holiday season I had a lot of time to re-think my life and  it was a time of reflection and taking stock of all the things that are important to me. I started a new personal journal which I am not sharing with the world and it is already filled with a lot of writings about all the things I want to change and also all the things I want to improve during this year. I am very good at procrastinating which is one of the things I have to watch out for as well as the fact that I always have such good intentions to exercise but never seem to stick to a routine. Have to work on that! :) 

I started a brand new watercolor journal and will dedicate this one to nature and the natural world around me. I want to explore nature a bit and do sketching outside and this will give me the opportunity to do just that. This is my first page and I am really excited about this journal and enjoyed my morning in the garden sketching these.

 I also did a few pages in my journal and used mainly gouache and watercolors. I love gouache! It's so yummy and rich and colorful! I think it's my new favorite medium to work with.

I also managed to paint this ATC with gouache

 

and then I also did this quick watercolor sketch 

 

It's been a wonderful time and sadly the holidays are now over and I have to get back to work but weekends here I come! I will be out with my journal, camera and watercolors to capture all the happenings. Until next time keep well everyone! 

Art journal pages.

From my art journal.