Sisters

This is one in a series of six sister cards I created for my Papert Traders group. I later embossed the edges with gold to "age" it, but the card scanned poorly with the glare of the shiny gold edges. I'm not crazy about my handwriting, but I'm trying to improve.

Ancient Text

I have been playing with the concept of thoughts and images "beyond words". Some thoughts, feelings, expressions are served so inadequately with the spoken language. I like using text and phrases in my art. In this instance, I took a page from a French play and altered it to look distressed and illegible.
I'd like to make a larger piece like this. This one is only about 5x7.

Angel Orange

My latest ATC. I'm playing around with the backgrounds. This is a wash of orange acrylic, and a walnut ink, stamped with a pink script, and the postage stamp, and transparent angel added last.

Artist's Statement

Inside Pages

I made these inside cover pages to look ancient. I tore out pages from a French play in an old book, and painted them with a wash of beige acrylic, then dabbled them with other neutral colors. I painted the book in a similar palette. I glued the sheets onto the book, then further distressed them, pulling up pieces of the pages as I did so. I glued a few additional images on, then varnished the entire piece when dry.

Traveling Art Journal

The cover to my traveling art journal. I painted and collaged a discarded library book, then bound it with new heavier weight paper.
This is the side view:

Star of Heaven

Edward Robert Hughes

Musings and Meanderings

My musings and meanderings journal, which I'm creating for a traveling art journal through the Art Garage hosted by tatt22dgoddess. The background is acrylics and chalk, the unusual jellyfish images are by Ernst Haeckel. This vellum sleeve is made for the journal instructions to the other artists participating in the round robin, and for their signature cards.