~ Visual Journal ~

Creating  Every Day….

I’ve been working in the journal that I made from the old children’s book, I talked about it here.visual journal

visual journal

visual journal

I added watercolor paper mainly in this journal. So it’s ready for whatever type of mixed media techniques I want to play around with.  I do love watercolor paper!  I have journals with other types of paper and I like the feel or look of it, but the bleed through that results sometimes I find very frustrating.  I have just been adding whatever strikes me at the moment in this journal (as you can tell), no rhyme or reason.  The previous owner of the children’s book had glued comic strip pages inside.  I left them for character marks.  You can see them in the background in the first picture.

Visual journal

Visual journal

Visual journal

I made a spot in the living room for my “auction find” paint table.  I love my Inspiration Room in the back of the garage, but I really enjoy being a little closer to the wood fire in the winter.  Although my stash is getting bigger and bigger inside.  I keep going out and bringing more in.  Using two spaces can get tricky.  Our living room is pretty cozy this time of year though and January is my hunker down month…ahh enjoying!

~ Watercolor Christmas ~

watercolor christmas

watercolor flower

art journal page

flower art journal page

antique silk quilt square

antique silk quilt squareSome watercolor play and journal pages from the past weeks. Oh, for quiet moments to create.

I found this silk quilt square at an antique store.  I love it!  I’m thinking it would make a great journal cover, maybe my next one.  Hope you are finding some quiet moments this holiday season.

~ “My Creation Week 3” ~

We went camping again last week. The same spot back up to the lake in the  Adirondack Mountains, but this time with the Beekeeper’s family.  Finding time to create was a little tricky, I did work on a few pieces that may end up in my journal and I took a lot of photos.  Since photography definitely counts for creating in my book… I’ll start with those.

leaf on the water

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geese

blue heron

 

young loon

young loon

four young loons

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fisher with a fish

creation week 3

sunset

watercolor

creation week 3

 

creation week 3

watercolor

So the leaf on the lake is my favorite, I just love the way it turned out.  Sunsets on the lake are always beautiful and a great photo opportunity, as is the wildlife.  The geese that were using the lake for a stop off point on their way south didn’t like our kayaks passing through.  I’m not even sure how many picture I took of this blue heron, who usually evades me and this trip decided to pose for me.  I was so excited to see the young loon again that I wrote about in this post, but this time I discovered that there are four of them now.  I think they make their migration trip together, anyone know ?  The Beekeeper did lots of fishing, as did the fisher in the picture under the hubby’s hands on the reel.  If you look close that little black creature (the fisher) has a fish in his mouth.  The fire was one of “my creations”, and then the artwork I was able to get in, not a much as I had hoped, but some anyway.  It was a good week, but I’m glad to be back home.

~ “My Creation Week 2” ~

Well here we go…week two. I’m a little obsessed right now with my art journal, bear with me.  First I just made new pages for the little one I started.

art journal page

art journal page

journal page

journal page

But that wasn’t enough so I had to create a whole new journal….

art journal

art journal

art journal

art journal

 

 I’m taking  this online class with Mary Ann Moss.  I really like it.  Mary Ann is a great teacher and a little quirky (I love that!). The Beekeeper says the same thing about me, I find it endearing.  This is the first journal from the class.  My plan was to make a journal with only watercolor paper to take with me camping for Columbus weekend, but I couldn’t seem to stick with that once I got started.  I had this old children’s book in the store that was the right size for my paper.  The cover was coming off anyway, so I figured it would be a good candidate for this exposed spine journal.  Plus I loved the cover.  But when it came right down to it my antique loving self had to keep the inside of the book with the cover.  So now I have just complicated my first journal making experience.  My seven, three page  signatures have to each include a signature from the old book.  I ended up with two signatures of just watercolor paper and five with a combo of watercolor, ledger paper and the old book sections.  I’ve started putting clear gesso on the book pages to strengthen them and prepare them for watercolor (I plan to watercolor the black and white illustrations).

 

The rest of my creating time has been spent building a website to move my blog to.  Just a switch from wordpress.com to wordpress.org, my URL will stay PatriciaFisherDesigns.com.  So, Coming Soon, a new look!  Here’s a little preview…

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~ “My Creation Week” #1 ~

I’m a firm believer in the fact that everyone is creative.  The people that know me very well know this about me.  I have a hard time being quiet when I hear someone say, “I’m just not a creative person”.  We were all created by the ultimate creator (artist of all time), and we do carry His genes.  We may not all be in touch with Him or His creativity, but the potential is still there.  It’s a little different in all of us, but it does exist.  So I’m kinda launching off the idea of Creation week in the Bible.  Having said that I can now explain my new plan for myself.  Being creative isn’t the hard part for me, but making the time can be.  So that brings me to the reason for this post title.  I’ve come up with a way to motivate (push) myself to create something every day, which I intend to post about the following week….Eek!  I figure it will get me thinking everyday about ways to be creative, about documenting it with a photo (which is creative in itself)… and a weekly blog post to keep me committed.  So it should be a win-win for me…I make something and I have a way to remind myself of all that I’ve done each week.  So I’m thinking anything that I make goes; painting, drawing, art journaling, writing, gardening, sewing, crochet, jewelry, cooking and baking, photography…..pretty much anything goes.   Since we all know that God rested on the seventh day, I may also.  So it isn’t about exact numbers, but it is about exercising creativity as often as possible.  So here goes week one, which started last Monday.art journalwater colorart journalwater colorart journalcanned tomatoesjewelry

So from art journaling to watercolor to canned tomato sauce and a new pair of earrings… it’s not the sun, the moon and the stars, but it’s a start.  Join me and document your creativity.