well, gentle readers, this is a long post...
I promised you this a couple of months ago...
my art journal is finished...
if you have been following the sweet life
for a while, you know that art journaling is
an important part of my life...
a necessary ingredient...
a cathartic process...
a way to deal with issues...
and
an opportunity to try out new techniques
products and make rough drafts for
art pieces...
so here you have
my
2011-2012
art journal
if you remember ... the cover looked very different from this
and to see the original cover
the old cover did not hold up to the wear and tear of
two years and so I fashioned this from an old book cover
and an antique metal scrap..
the fern piece was stitched and glued to the cover...
since the book cover was in poor shape,
I stitched the edges and covered it liberally with
gel medium...
January 2011
working on the collaborative show at
Two Graces Gallery
February 2011
writing my annual love letter to myself
March 2011
planning my move to Michigan
April 2011
rough drafts for the Two Graces show
May 2011
packing up and moving away
June 2011
To do lists, busy hands unpacking and painting..
July 2011
digging in a new garden...
August 2011
settling in and finding time to do slow stitches...
September 2011
bricolage pages, lots of things going on...
October 2011
Italian collage, working on art for my new home...
November 2011
putting down roots...
December 2011
illuminating the possibilities...
January 2012
the woman who cried flowers, transforming pain
to joy
February 2012
my annual love letter to myself..
March 2012
the promise of spring, sowing seeds..
April 2012
tribute to my mother in law
"unable are the loved to die for love is immortal"
emily dickenson
May 2012
a peaceful dream about my brother, who took his life..
June 2012
the fires in Fort Collins, affected me deeply, destroying forest and homes..
July 2012
a frayed heart, feeling the stress of death and change...
August 2012
a wonderful visit to Fort Collins, a great response to my show at EsScentuals
The French Paper series...
September 2012
more death...
October 2012
enjoying the color of the season... but feeling weary..
"a wind has
blown the rain away and blown the sky away
and the trees stand,
I think I too have known autumn for too long.
e.e. cummings
November 2012
the death of my brother in law, completely unexpected...
stitching my stable foundation back together...
December 2012
the swirling snow reminds me that the future is unknown and I must
be resigned to uncertainty..
welcome it and get used to it...
December pages, writing on the page and covered with black gesso...
colored pencil snowflakes
detail below of
hand stitched tracing paper snowflake..
mindful of the time
bringing changes...
ingredients: pencil, black gesso, acrylic paint, colored pencil, paper ephemera, tracing paper, thread
it is amazing to see all the work...
my life captured in my art...
the tears and deaths...
the hope and dreams
and the joy of the beauty of
this sweet life...
thank you
for stopping by
as always, your
kind comments are so appreciated..
and I will return
with a new journal and a new
January spread
C4N!
