Monday, September 19, 2011

Art Journal - Alisa Burke inspired

Recently, I discovered the wonders of Alisa Burke and her blog - Redefine Creativity.  WOW!!  That blog and I spent several delightful hours together hanging out - me fawning over the blog and the blog demurely whispering, "thanks, I'm happy you are enjoying me so much". . .who paints their hallway?  Alisa does; who paints watercolor shells in her art journal (complete with a video)?  Alisa does; who does amazing free motion stitching, has a book out and offers online classes?  Alisa does.  I could go on and on but now it is time to talk about how cute my art journal page is. . .after all this is my blog. . .
I love these doodled flowers!!  So fun to draw - painted with my watercolors and then matted with black in my art journal on a bed of Mod Podge covered paper bags.  Too much color frightens me so I toned it down with the black and kraft but that makes the colors pop from the page!!  Egads!  What was I thinking?  har har
Look what I painted/doodled on the other page - still vibrant and graphic but only in yellow/black/white.  I've got big plans for that page that will be revealed in a future post - - - -
It is a rainy dreary day here - how's yours?

4 comments:

Kimberly Jones said...

Fabulous pages! Love both of them!

veronica said...

who does a cute watercolory flowery vase? michelle does!

Lisa Lara said...

Wow...what a cool idea. An art journal. Those are YOUR doodled flowers? Marvelous Michelle. I love them. I am so impressed. I love the colors and how you colored your vase.

Michelle said...

Oh, wow! Michelle these pages are wonderful! I love the colourful vase of flowers, BUT, my favourite colour is yellow and that yellow and black page is just yelling out at me for my attention! Fantastic drawing, too! Wow! I'm being inspired to start an art journal. Did I say "wow" enough yet? Wow!