Project Life-February13

I am so behind in updating my Project Life pictures. Only yesterday I ordered the March photo prints!!
Still I am grateful for documenting our life this way.
And today I'm posting the snaps from February.

 The first card is a short note about how the month was for us. The right side print is from my handmade stamp. The last two are postcards that I received for the postcard swap hosted by Marcia of Artistsinblogland.

 This pictures of the snow storm looks quite unreal to me now. Thankfully we are now enjoying Spring.

 That is my little artist on the top left and on the right picture, my little one is just exploring the colors. The last three pictures are the tags I received for the tag swap.

The children's pictures were the first that I took with my new camera. It was a Valentine gift from my husband. February 16th, we celebrated our ninth wedding Anniversary. The last two pictures are part of the anniversary day.

More pictures of the children. Ashish doing his homework and Siddy just goofing around. And yes, on the right is the picture of a tired looking Mom:).
I would love to learn to take good pictures. I am looking for affordable online classes to learn  about good photography.
Thank you for being here
SusaN

Sunday Sketches

Last week I didn't get to draw that much. But as usual when I browsed through my old sketch books I found this sketch in watercolor pencils .

This watercolor flowers was done a couple of weeks ago in my altered art journal. 

Linking this to Sunday Sketches.
Thank you
SusaN

Gelli plate Art Journal Pages

Some time ago I bought a Gelli plate and spent a couple of nights experimenting. Let me tell you, it is very addictive. All that resulted in so many sheets of pattern papers and then I had to force myself to stop from adding more chaos to my art stuff. So, then I started thinking of ways to use the pattern papers and of course some of them went straight into my art journal pages. These are a few of them.

I love this page as, when I started it I had no idea about how I wanted it to turn out. You can see the gelli plate prints peeping out through the other layers on both the sides of the page. I did that watercolor flowers last year and decided to use it here. One of my handmade stamp prints can also be seen among the layers of paint. I finished it off with random words and numbers that came to my mind.   

 This is another gelli plate print that I glued to my journal. Waiting for my heart to speak and then create some loveliness here:) 

  Yet another page. This is actually three different pattern papers. I tried to create the leaf impression in two ways. Love this but you know what, I don't consider it to be complete; for me a page evolves only within a long period of time. So I'm waiting for that spark within me to come and complete it in the way I want.[I might even end it up with a quote]

Ok, now for another girl that I created. I transformed one of the canvases and added a lot of texture to it as the background. But my girl didn't turn out well. She went through a lot of  painting stages with me and I guess I just spoiled her. Still I wanted to post her here as we were together in it for many hours. I will slowly recreate this canvas but for now this is what it is.

 

Finally, a handmade book that I did yesterday night. I need to practice sketching faces and wanted a sketchbook for that. I found an awesome tutorial here, for coptic stitch binding.

It has been a long long time since I've taken my book binding supplies and was happy to learn a new binding technique.Didn't come out perfect but the book is strong and I can use it for my requirement. 

Hopefully,.this book will appear on my blog with many 'wonderful' faces.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful and creative weekend. Thank you for all the comments and support you give me. Sometimes when I feel that my art is not good enough, just reading these kind words  help me to rise up  and create more.

SusaN   
Linking this page to PPF and Art Journal Everyday

Watersoluble pencil sketches

These are some of the sketches that I did with Derwent Inktense Watersoluble pencils.

 

Linking this post to SundaySketches
Wishing everyone a wonderful week
SusaN
 

She Art

I am so thankful for the change in weather. Today I was able to take the children for a walk, atlast.

As for art, these are two of my favorite She Art girls that I did on canvas. I was inspired to do the backgrounds of both the pieces after watching the very talented Junelle Jacobson's work here and here

Wishing you all a great weekend. Sharing my art with PPF and Art Journal Everyday
SusaN