I wanted to show you the page in my art journal that I completed from Monday’s post:
Below is the photo from Monday of my unfinished page Art Journal Prompts:
I enjoyed a trip down “memory lane” and found this photo of me ice skating with my dad when I was almost 5 years old. (Notice the old cars in the background!)
I encourage you to create your own art journal prompts! I hope you share with me what you do!
Cheers! 🙂
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It feels like winter has arrived in the Pacific Northwest…
So this tropical bird showed up for today’s weird bird:
It was so cold outside that my cat hesitated, not once, but 3-4 times to go outside! Brrr!
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
P.S. Speaking of tropical, I have decided to take a short blogging “vacation” until the end of November. You will find me snuggling with my cat to stay warm!
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A package may be landing on your doorstep soon…
Since Christmas is just around the corner!
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
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I was out in my yard yesterday and noticed the birds leaves falling…
After all, it is FALL!
Several birds were in a tree and it got me thinking about my weird birds.
There is such a variety of leaf shapes much like birds!
Perhaps there is a leaf bird? Have you seen any lately?!
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
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Today’s weird bird was inspired by an online class called, “Creating Simple Characters.” The class is taught by Nelleke Verhoeff from the Netherlands and hosted by Carla Sonheim. Nelleke is known by her illustrations, “Red Cheek Factory,” and likes to give her characters red cheeks!
One of the assignments was to create faces with expression by smudging charcoal on your paper and then erasing it with a soft, rubber eraser. These faces appeared for me, I used Pan Pastels to give my characters red cheeks:
Of course I had to try a bird!
Professor Smudge teaching Family Life Etiquette…
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
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When I was growing up, if mom or dad were taking a photo with a camera, they said, “Say, Cheese!” In order to get us kids to smile.
This memory came to me yesterday when I “whipped up” this weird soufflé bird:
The description from an old cookbook was the perfect recipe to create my cheesy bird.
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Say, Cheese! 🙂
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A French Baguette bird wearing a beret…
Flew a great distance to meet his “Everything” Bagel bird wearing barrettes:
Do you think it was love at first bite for these two bread birds?
No “knead” to thank me for these weird birds… I just hope they give you a smile today!
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
P.S. Did you know that the word, beret is often confused with the word, barrette?
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I was having a root canal the other day…
And the Endodontist mentioned that I had a doozy of an infection in my tooth.
In order to distract me from the dentist drill, I started thinking about my weird bird for this week:
A dipsy into my pocket book for a doozy of a tooth!
This bird’s name sounds better than a dentist drill, don’t you think?
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
Cheers! 🙂
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Did you know there is a Firecracker flower?
So I figured, there has to be a Firecracker bird!
This weird bird burst onto my paper just in time for the 4th of July celebration in the States on Thursday!
Happy Weird Bird Wednesday!
And happy 4th of July for those who are celebrating!
Cheers! 🙂
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Paper that is!! 🙂
I promised Laura Kate who is a fiber artist, that I would post about sewing on paper today.  I hope you check out Laura Kate’s AWESOME blog!
I like experimenting with many different art materials as many of you may know!
In January of this year, I shared about sewing on Canson mixed media paper in my art journal.  If you want to revisit that post, you can find it here: In Stitches…
Last year, February 20th, I shared about sewing on Swedish Tracing Paper, you can find more about that here:   Swedish Tracing Paper
I recently created some new experiments using Swedish Tracing paper.  It is difficult to SEE that the sewn image below is a eye… I love looking at the back of a piece too!
Sew, (pardon my pun) what papers are best for sewing? Â Thick or thin?
Well, I have discovered that depends if you are hand sewing or using a machine?
If hand sewing, such as this eye-opener on 140 lb hot press watercolor paper, it helped to use an awl to pre-punch my holes.  (A needle would also work if you don’t have an awl).
If machine sewing, be sure to use a sharp needle (paper will dull it rather quickly) and sew at a slow pace.  I used rice paper here:
If the paper is slippery like deli paper, it is better to double it so the stitches won’t rip out.
I often use my sewn paper experiments on my Gelli plate. Â I like how the stitches create their own subtle patterns.
I think the best way to learn is EXPERIMENT!! Â And record your findings in a journal.
How do you remember YOUR art experiments? Â I hope you share them with me.
Cheers! 🙂
