Wk 4 Art, heart and healing

Wk 4 over at Art, heart and healing was all about creating a needs angel. The focus behind it was asking the universe for your needs.

I did my angel in my art journal instead of A3 size, because I didn't have any good quality bigger paper!

We used texture gel on the wings and then painted over it.

I then painted an Angel for my friend as she is going to do my Reiki 2 attunement soon. I did this one on canvas and just did the head and wings. I got really stuck in with the texture paste on these wings as they were a lot bigger! I then painted over the gel and used an irridesent medium over the top to make them all shimmery!

I have really enjoyed Tam's free course. The amount of work and dedication she has put into a freebie is amazing and I have learnt so much. Tam is keeping the course up indefinately so I recommend you go check it out (link button on the right).
Thanks for looking,
Sami x

My whimsy page

Here is my whimsy page, 2nd week of Tams course over at willowing and friends. I am not very happy with it. I drew the whimsies onto cartridge paper as I didnt have any watercolour. They looked really good on the white paper and then for some reason when I have cut them out and put them in the board book they look really washed out! They took me two evenings to do as well!!

Never mind, I enjoyed doing them and learnt new techniques!

TFL

Sami x

Practising whimsy

It's week 2 over on Tams free course, Art, heart and healing. I have been really impressed with the quality of this course, given that its free. Tam has put so much hard work and effort into it. Both weeks there have been over 2 hours worth of videos demonstrating the weeks project plus 2 PDF files each week. There is a forum to post your work and Tam is commenting on as many peoples work as she can. Given that there are over 1000 people signed up to this course I think thats an amazing effort on her part. Because there is a self healing element to the course and you are being asked to recall past traumas and negative impacts on your life, Tam has also started a forum for support for people who are finding it difficult to deal with, what an amazing women she is! Now that I have seen what an amazing teacher she is and the high quality of a free course I am tempted to save up and take one of her other courses.

This week was in two parts, both using an altered childs board book. Part one was to do an image transfer of a photo of yourself as a child. Then think of things you wish for for this younger you. If you had a bad childhood think of all the things you would have wanted, then print the words off and stick them on your page. I have completed this part but dont know yet if I am going to put it on here as it is a bit personal.

The second part was learning to draw whimsies. You think of a negative issue from your past and then draw some whimsy characters to show how you wish that situation had been instead. Then you add them to your board book which will eventually become a book about honouring yourself.

I have been practising drawing them first in my art journal. When I have done the page in my board book I will post it on here.

practising faces and eyes...having a real problem getting the eyes right!

Getting the skin tones right

And just thought I'd post a journal page I did the other day. The lady is cut out of a magazine, she was really funky so I have not changed her clothes or legs, she was already dressed like that!! The wording says; 'Happiness is where we find it but rarely where we seek it.'

Back to work on my whimsies now, thanks for looking,

Sami x

Art, heart and healing!

Today was the start of a brand new FREE course run by Tam over at willowing.org (button on the right). The course is 4 weeks and will cover backgrounds, portraits, altering a childrens board book and making an empathy monster, plus loads of tips and techniques!

I followed the video instructions to make this page today.

First we wrote on the left hand side any negative feelings we had about our art or ourselves. We looked at the reasons why we felt those things and once we had accepted why, we covered up all that negativity with gesso! Then the video took you step by step through drawing a self portrait, colouring it and shading it (I so wish I did look like this!), then we worked on the background using lots of different techniques and layers including stamps and brayering. Then we chose a positive phrase to put on the left hand side and one word to sum everything up which was written under the right eye on the portrait.

Although my ladies face is a little wonky I am really pleased with it! I love the colours on her face but maybe needed to blend a little bit more. Overall I was really impressed with the amount of things I learned from this first video and recomend everyone to go and check out the course!

TFL

Sami x