mescrap studio: July 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

A day off

I feel so much boring with the continuously busyness work task in last few months.
Since there is not much urgent task in hand.
I apply a day leave in order for me to freshen my brain.

See what I got !!!

Hooray !!
I'm so surprised when I found this 1000 Artist Journal Pages in one of our largest book store in KL.

Some fabulous pages inside.

Besides, I also bought myself a Moleskine ~~ water colour notebook .

The moleskine products is so much expensive in Malaysia !!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Soul Journaling ~ Day 10-12

Day 10 : Recreate our home. Draw a basic house shape. Draw low on the page as to create a pocket to our home (used brown paper bag / brown envelope). On the opposite page, draw more houses or my outside world.

Day 11 : Collage some of the drawings.

Day 12 : Colour the pages.

and my final house.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Soul Journaling ~ Day 7 & 8

Day 7 : Use ball pen to fill both page with small writing. With the page prompt "I forgot to tell you..."
Tape over the journaling page.

Day 8 : Sand the page. Then drybrush a layer of gesso, and immediately wipe it off. Add more colour to the page. Then, sand the page again.

It's so much fun to join with Sarah in Art Journal.

Soul Journaling ~ Day 6

Yeah ! Sarah have included me as one in her Soul Journal fellows :)

Day 6 : Cut out magazine image into small squares. Use a grid pattern arranging the images in any order.

Day 7-8 : next post

Day 9 : Light colour the squares.
And write 8 words describing the pictures ; circle one picture ; draw a messy square around 4, draw a dotted line.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Soul Journaling : Day 5

Day 5 : Covered page 3 with dictionary page and gesso while page 4 is gesso & no dictionary page. Light wash the page with acyclic. I used Umber, Yellow, Orange, blue. Blot some areas to lighten them while the paint is still wet with paper towel.

Soul Jounaling : Day 1-4

I have been start my Art Journal since I join the Crusade. Then, I'm continuing until today.
My passion on it is still burning.

Just few days ago, after visit Trish's new blog ~ Art Junkies. I was so excited about link to the Soul Journaling from Sarah. The purpose of this activity is to re-claim our journals and motivate us to practice what we might teach/preach/or learn to become journalers. It is also a thinking project. So go read all about the project and then join in the activity and learn more about the practice and perhaps yourself but definitely follow along.

Day1 : Pick out either a sketch pad, traditional diary, watercolour tablet, notebook. literary book.
1st assignment is t glue random Dictionary/book pages to the first 3 pages is journal.
Start with prompt : "Today I feel..." write at least 5 minutes.

Day 2 : Gesso over all of the writing.
Stamp or write "This books belongs to ". Write full name underneath by using different fonts.

Day 3 : We been asked to think about what you need to protect and nourish your creative spirit. Think about the things tht sustain you. What's needed to shield you from outside criticism and your inner critic.

College the armour.

Day 4 : Decorate the armour

Day 5 : Journal around armour and added light wash of walnut inks.

I redo the page as you can see that I'm impatient to wait the ink to dry.

Friday, July 25, 2008

All about me

I attended a training course last month.
In the self-discovery section, the trainer given us a set of question to answer.
After answered all the question.
The trainer described that I'm kinda 'GLOBAL person', which I find is so true about me.

1) Learn by doing something ~ Must physically involve
2) Less organised ~ ooh...my scrap area is really mess
3) Do several things at one time ~ I can blog & scrap at one time

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A journey of self discovered

Don't limit yourself into the frame !!!

'Learn how to attract HaPPineSS to your life'

and

'Love yourself more than other people do'

Friday, July 18, 2008

Mysterious Secret (Canvas)

Huh...finally I have completed the canvas that I have been talked about few days ago.
It's really take some time to complete it satisfactory.

Edited ( Size of this canvas is 10x8 inch)

Canvas background I did before add on details. I can't remember how many layers of acrylic paint that added.

Mysterious Secrets of Deliberate living and Perpetual Happiness

{ F A M I L Y }

Felt fusion & it's negative

Metal charm butterfly ~ Bought from SnC.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I still alive

I shall allocate myself some time for little Arting in each day ~~ Resolution of 2008
The journal page that we did in 20 minutes.
Whereby KWen (eldest daughter) ask for some painting before go to bed.

I bought some canvas to work with.
First attempt to paint on canvas. Hope it turn out well.
Love to applying layer of layer of layers of acyclic colours.
However, still in progress of putting on some details.