Messy Bigness on Canvas

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Pablo Picasso

 24x36" canvas

If you work on a big canvas, you have real estate galore. You can have a bunch of little paintings in one or treat the whole thing like one big spacious art journal page as I do! Golden clear tar gel, fluid acrylics, airbrush acrylics, ephemera, handpainted papers, papers from journal fodder swaps.

Thank you to Ricë (of Voodoo Cafe fame) for including Daisy Yellow's Kick-Start Prompts and No Frills Prompts in her round-up of Journal Prompts at Create Mixed Media.

The past few weeks... I've been painting on canvas, prepping for the new art journaling workshop {The Museum of Simple Things}, painting canvases, filling in the latest Rhodia Journal for the 2012 Journal swap.... an explosion of creativity.

The Rhodia Journal Swap #4

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
John Keats

boxes in gellyroll, doodles in slicci pens and hi-tec c pens

fluid acrylic background, gellyroll mandala

fluid acrylics, stamps

fluid acrylics

fluid acrylics

fluid acrylics

fluid acrylics

There are 12 Rhodia webbie journals traveling around the states. 12 folks diligently filling in the pages of the journals with all sorts of creative fodder. My fourth set of pages, the fourth journal in the swap.

A Page About a Porch

“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
John Keats

This is the book I'm altering, with a background of golden airbrush colors (aka airbrush acrylics) drizzled on the page and pushed around with a hairdryer! If you want to feel like a kid, try that. Then I aded collage, washi tape, neocolors and journaled about the photo on the right top of the page - a photo I took in Ghent when we visited in 2009. The journal fodder includes a Divine chocolate label (my absolute fav), abstract art I created, fabric, magazine clippings, subway ticket from Hanna. 

Index-Card-a-Day Deux {June + July 2012}

Yes.

It's happening. 

Again.

Go read all about it!

Index-Card-a-Day 2012 

Found a stash of old index cards in my dad's attic! Painted (well, dripped) with green and white Golden airbrush acrylics and sprayed with a fine mist of yellow. Not really art, but the beginning of a stack of new ICADs.

All of the ICAD posts have been moved to a new section of Daisy Yellow called (conveniently) ICAD. You can get there from the top menu. If you want the feed for the ICAD posts, go to the RSS Feeds section and grab it. 

The Museum Workshop {sneak peek}

Explore acrylic painting techniques and get messy in an altered book!

Registration is officially open for my new art journaling workshop, The Museum of Simple Things. In the workshop, we'll explore acrylic painting techniques in an altered book. For more information, check out the workshop announcement!

The Pen Stash Grows

comparing the  pentel slicci .25 and the pilot hi-tec c .30, both wickedly thin lines, very similar

The Slicci comes in a variety of nib sizes and I ordered the smallest at .25. {2 photos above}

These Hi-Tec C pense have .3 nib. {2 photos above}

At Janet Takahashi's artful journaling workshop there was a lot of juicy conversation about favorite pens. Janet and artists at the workshop raved about the Pilot Hi-Tec C pens and the Pentel Slicci pens. I tried someone's Hi-Tec at the workshop and it was brilliant. Hence, a splurge! I was going to stitch a pen case for myself but these Japanese pen cases were so coolicious. They will be perfect for taking writing instruments, erasers, sharpeners, washi tapes on vacation (my daughters take a lot of markers too) and for drawing adventures at the coffee shop. I've been carrying my markers and pens in a zip lok, and although functional, these are much prettier.

This was my first order from Jet Pens, whose website is wickedly fast and the order delivery was quite speedy. I'd heard good things about the company for years, and was so pleased with how it all worked. I look forward to lots of drawing adventures with these pens. My daughters already want me to order another set!