But I think I touched it.

I used masking tape in my journal while painting these flowers and was so excited to see if it worked that I removed the tape too soon!  Then I spent the next several layers having to be careful not to go outside my crisp edges.  

NOTE TO SELF:  Leave the tape until finished with the page!

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Pam Garrison inspired...

Pam Garrison has a class on Creativebug called Creative Sketching.  These are my exercises from Part 1.  Neither of them look much like Pam's - apparently, I am too structured and uptight for that.  LOL  

It was fun using lots of colors and pen work - I prefer the one that is more earth colored - probably because it is the calmer one.  I do love my neutrals. . .

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AEDM - Jane

She never looked nice.

She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;

it was supposed to make you feel something."

                                    - Rainbow Rowell

Love that quote - what a great sentiment!  It has been quite the mucky week with torrents of rain and wet leaves getting tracked in multiple times a day.  As yucky as that has been at least it is better than the predicted low of 24 on Sunday morning.  

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AEDM - Life is. . .

Life is about change

Sometimes it is painful

Sometimes it is beautiful

But most of the time - it is both.

So I took my cut up flower painting and made a book using this tutorial.  I even got out my trusty Scor-Pal for old times' sake.  No worries if you don't have one - just use a scoring blade on your paper cutter.  Makes me want to get out and use my papercrafting tools again. . . 

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AEDM - Doctor's orders

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AEDM - Day 6

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AEDM - Lisa Congdon inspired

This page was inspired from an exercise in the Lisa Congdon class - More Sketchbook Explorations.  I love watching her draw - she makes it look so easy - then you try and the easy part turns out to not be that easy after all.

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Art Every Day Month -

Hey - I've missed you - life has been challenging lately and my creative side took a big hit. 

I'm hoping that taking part in the Art Every Day Month challenge will help get things moving - at least I painted today which is more than I can say for the past two months!  Anything is a move in the right direction! 

My flowers are all cut up for the next step in their transformation.

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