SKETCHBOOK TUESDAY-Word Prompts

Hi Everyone! 

Happy Sketch Book Tuesday!  About a year ago I was participating in a Lil' Journal Project that had to do with daily word prompts.  You may remember this page if you were following along at the time.  

Each day I looked forward to getting up to check what words I'd be using and making a list of word associations for each. Then I would sketch and watercolor my ideas. This was a new way for me to work and I found it extremely enjoyable.

Yes, the sketches are a bit amateurish and stick figure like, but maybe that is because the memories associated with the words brought back the days of my youth. Maybe you will think of some fun times you had when you do a word association sketch, go ahead, and check the prompts out here! Then pull out your pen and sketch pad and get busy! I'd love to see what you come up with!

Go Sketch Something!!
Suzy

LI'L JOURNAL PROJECT WEEK 5

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Happy Friday! I'm SOooooo Happy that Ashley over at Li'l Blue Boo is back with the word prompts for our LJP!! This week in THE LI'L JOURNAL PROJECT the prompts have been about word associations and mapping.  I like the word associations and thinking about each word I can't help but put the words into visual meanings. Being a very visual person, this is how I interpret my world, some people tell me I have "watercolor eyes".  Watercolor eyes are when you see everyday objects or scenes in watercolor terms, visually trying to paint what you see. Guilty! Yes, I'm always trying to figure out what color things are made of and if it were a painting, how would I paint it? Does anyone else's brain work like that?  Do you have Watercolor Eyes? 

Click on the LI'L JOURNAL PROJECT page tab above to see each Day and the stories behind them.  Thank you for stopping by and I hope that you will also be encouraged to start a Li'l Journal Project of your very own!  Have a wonderful weekend! 

Bee Creative!
Suzy

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The Learning Prompt

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Working on two journal projects this month has been pretty exciting stuff for me, a learning process.  The Li'l Journal Project over at www.lilblueboo.com is based on prompts that  Ashley Hackshaw creates daily and posts on her blog.  Each prompt subject (s) leads to a past or present experience in your life. I find myself deep into thought some days from a one word prompt, other days is seems like silly fun to me but either way, I am having a wonderful time interpreting these word prompts. I look forward each morning to getting a cup of coffee and sitting down in front of my computer and to see what prompt Ashley will have for me today..... 

Knowing Ashley was taking a little break from prompting last week I began working on another art project called Get Your Art On, Check it out at www.tracibunkers.com. It's a 30 day project to make art, any kind and there are no prompts. Okay, by the Third day in this process, I discovered that I really like word PROMPTS which seem to give a  focus or direction to creating a page. I know, this might sound a bit lame to some people, being prompt less (LOL, is that even a word?) but speaking for myself and left to my own devices (prompt less), I wander around the pages kinda willy-nilly. So here's a big thank you to Ashley for the daily prompts! 

Here's some pages from the 30 Day Get Your Art On series:

Day 5: Push Beyond Your Norm. Sorry for the shadows on the page, it's been a crazy week weather-wise for photos.  Continuing to work with stamped tissue paper and adding acrylics to the mix. Pushing Beyond the usual inks and color palette.

Day 6: Making Art with Bree. Brianne is my oldest grand-daughter, she is 3 yrs. old and loves to come to Mimi's house to "make art". We played colored pens, silk leaves and glitter glue, after she left, I made this page using some of the same materials. 

Day 7: Morning Has Broken. When I photographing the background of this piece I noticed a shadow on the page that looked like a tree with branches, so I pulled out some papers to make a collage of the shadows. I'm not entirely happy with this but it is what it is for now, I'll go in and modify it later. 

Day 8: What's That Buzz??  You might think the title has something to do with the Bees and honeycombs but actually it was about the buzzing noise I heard when working on this piece. We were having some electrical problems and the buzzing was the air conditioner trying to come on! Yikes! This page inspired by a journal prompt on Li'l Journal Project. 

Come back and check out the Li'l Journal Project Pages later this week! Until then, GO.... GET..... YOUR..... ART.... ON!!!

Bee Creative!
Suzy

Linking to: www.lilblueboo.com  www.tracibunkers.com

Li'l Journal Project Week 4

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During Week 4 of the Li'l Journal Project we were asked to make a Job Time Line, do some mapping with a twist, make a diagram of our social network, remember a trip or vacation and look at magazines subscriptions. 

It was a very exciting week for me, some of the prompts we were given had me digging deep and realizing I've have a blessed life. My attitude of gratitude is renewed for the many gifts I've been given. 
Here's what I learned:   

• God is the director of my social network
• Blessed to be a Wife, Mom & Grandmom
• I have a Adventurer's Heart and an Artist Soul 
• Love to travel, but Home is where this heart resides.
• Love magazines 

You'll get the scoop with each page if you click on the Page Tab above marked Li'l Journal Project.  Here's a Sneak Peak of my favorite prompt: 

 Ashley is taking a week's break with the journal prompts so this is a great time to play catch up on your pages or jump in and start a Li'l Journal Project of your very own! You can check it out by clicking on the link below.  I hope you will consider joining (let me know if you do!) and I promise you will have so much fun! 

Go Make Art!
Suzy

Li'l Journal Project Week 3

Hi Everyone!  

Come join me this week as we continue to explore the Li'l Journal Project prompts provided by Ashley at Li'l Blue Boo ( www.lilblueboo).   Last week we explored our childhood neighborhood, our favorite Children's books and we added special papers and memorabilia to our pages (some one got a little carried away on this), we created a Family Tree and we drew and painted with our non-dominate hand!  It was a busy, creative week in journal-land for me. There's a story behind each journal page prompt, all you need to do is click on the Li'l Journal Project (LJP) Page Tab above to see and read more about each page.  

Thank you for joining me for another week of inspired art journal prompts!  I hope you will be inspired to join in the fun! Oh yeah, I've also added some more Art Journal pages too! Click on Art Journal (AJ). I'm having fun, are you?

Bee Creative!
Suzy

Linking to: Sew Many Ways Find a Friend Friday www.sewmanyways.blogspot.com &

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Journal Tuesday

Hi Everyone! 

Welcome to Journal Tuesday! So happy you dropped by today! I'm sharing Week 2 Li'l Journal Project (LJP) pages after another great week of thought provoking prompts from Ashley at http://www.lilblueboo.blogspot.com.  If you are new or just dying to try your hand a journal, this is a perfect place and project to get started! Just jump over to Ashley's blog and dive right in! Make your daily pages as simple or as elaborate as you desire, it's easy: each day Ashley gives a prompt to help inspire and stimulate your memories and she even gives a peak into her own journal so you can see what she is doing. It's a lot of fun!  

This week we took a jog down a few memory lanes and what fun it was to remember "the good ol' days" with the Cars In Your Life prompt on Day 7. 

Day 8 we made Color Palettes and named the colors. Day 9 a Group photo, Day 10 Treasures/Trinkets we keep. Click on the Li'l Journal Project (LJP) tab above where you will find photos of each journal page and stories for Week 2.

Let me know if you join the Li'l Journal Project over on Li'l Blue Boo and come back each week to see what I've done on LJP and while you are here, check out Art Journal (AJ), Verse Journal(VJ) and coming soon.....Travel Journal. 

Have a wonderful week! 
Suzy

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Lil Journal Project on Journal Tuesday

Hi Everyone! 

Last week I introduced my first journal pages and launched the Journal Tuesday Series where you can see my Art Journal (AJ), Verse Journal (VJ), and coming soon Travel Journals (TJ). Be sure to check these Pages each week! I'll be adding to them on JOURNAL TUESDAYS.  

OK, DRUM ROLL PLEASE>>>>>>
I've just started a new Journal Page called Li'l  Journal Project! This is the brain child of  Ashley Hackshaw over at Li'l Blue Boo blog. I was jumping around on one of my favorite blogs SEW MANY WAYS http://www.sewmanyways.blogspot.com where I saw a link to a journal page and that's how I found Ashley's blog. Her journal project captured my imagination right a way with the promise of daily prompts!  

Ashley had us start out