Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂
- Creativity is…
- Breathe in. Breathe out.
- Comfort rereads.
- Wake up. Think.
- Warm beverage.
- Some favorite quotes from books.
*…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…* -Chaos
Presumed not dead due to loud snoring…
Tag Archives: art journaling
Art journaling falalalalala!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!
- Colorful lyrics
- Framed
- Scribble doodle
- Our life is…
- Space is the place!
- Slightly less colorful scribble doodle
*ALL THE FELINE JUDGING* -Chaos and Mayhem
I *heart* art journaling… but you probably figured that out already. :)
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂
- All cats are beautiful
- Do you eat vegetables?
- Everyday art meanderings
- Art journaling
- Opening the door
- Winter is coming
- Hello hello hello
- All the colors
Not art journaling, but I absolutely love Cloud Cult’s new song “No Hell”.
“Where the hell is Mom?!?” -Chaos
(Photo taken by the catsitter last month when I was in Cleveland.)
Just Another Art Journaling Monday
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I actually went to a two-day art journaling workshop over the weekend, but I haven’t taken any pictures yet, so… Onward. 🙂
- Keep walking.
- Sort of circular rainbow?
- Accepting imperfection.
- Good thing I accepted imperfection…
- Black cats!!!!!
- Very blue.
- More haunting music.
And a bonus picture of some very judgmental Halloween decorations at Target.
“Wha…?!” -Chaos
Seriously, how stoned does he look in that picture?!
Art Journaling Monday (now with bonus flamingo-themed Little Free Library)
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂
- Scribble rainbow
- Music that haunts me
- Scribble lyrics
- Books that left an impression
- “Your thoughts create your world.”
Plus some photos from my walk around Lake of the Isles yesterday – it was 85F and gloriously sunny. (The high today is supposed to be at least 20F cooler.)
The flamingo house has added a flamingo-themed Little Free Library and flamingo chair.
Chess, anyone?
I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust this trash bin. At all.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos (completely not dead, not matter how this picture looks)
Art Journaling Monday
Congrats to Zunni, who won Nothing Serious by Jessica Jarman!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂
- Colorful doodle
- Space is the place!
- Pretty as you feel
- Journals I’m working on and journals I’ve completed in 2015
- Playing with opaque watercolors (aka gouache)
And don’t forget to register for Art as Journal at ArtiCulture if you’re in the Twin Cities!
“I can’t believe you didn’t think I would fit in this shoebox, Mom.” -Mayhem
Art Journaling Monday :)
Since the results of the informal poll indicated that cat pictures were the most important thing, with some interest in art journaling updates, welcome to Art Journaling Monday!
- Scribbly water-soluble crayons.
- Encouraging words.
- Perforated scribble doodle.
- Quote from me.
- Experimenting with gelatos/gel sticks/gel crayons.
- Tutorial for an easy page background.
- Found poetry.
- Fall fashion.
- Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
- Coloring book pages.
“You can look, but you can’t touch!!” -Mayhem to catsitter
Monday, Monday, Monday – why is there always a Monday?
I have to admit, I’m finding it increasingly challenging to get motivated to put together Misadventures posts. (I’m going to guess this isn’t a surprise to most of you, based on how few Misadventures posts I’ve made in the last few months.) Thoughts on the lack of Misadventures, anyone?
But hey, how about some recent art journal pages instead? 🙂
- The Anti-#2 Pencil Testing page
- Scribble quote page
- Things that I love about my condo, now I’ve lived here for over two years page
And a cute bonus picture of some black kitties!
Also, this week, I’m featuring Chaos and Mayhem photos that the catsitter took last week while I was in Cleveland. 🙂
“I am deeply suspicious of your intentions, person who is NOT MOM.” -Chaos
The Codex Leicester instead of the Misadventures
Once again got busy doing stuff today and ran out of time for the Misadventures. Whoops. 🙂 (And also once again forgot to schedule the post before publishing. D’oh!)
So, instead I’ll show you the pages from one of my art journals about seeing Leonardo da Vinci, The Codex Leicester, and the Creative Mind at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on August 14. Collaged my ephemera from the event, the article in my neighborhood newspaper (without which I would never have heard about the exhibit), and some relevant images from an old encyclopedia and an old dictionary. I wrote a bit about seeing the exhibit with the tiny amount of space I had left, then used a gold colored pencil throughout to unify everything.
If you are anywhere near Minneapolis, I highly recommend that you visit this exhibit before it closes on August 30!
Click to embiggen any of the photos.
*still enthralled* *doesn’t believe it’s just a branch* -Chaos
Linkity largesse
Randonymity
Bookity
- New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance).
- Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
- Haruki Murakami’s workspace.
- 15 writerly quotes from Kurt Vonnegut.
- Favorite books of 20 famous “nerd heroes”.
- Who can tell me what Minneapolis bookstore this is?! It isn’t Magers & Quinn.
- Bookish art from Tumblr.
- Excellent response to the old “What are you reading?” question.
- Kindle Cover Disasters has an interview with one of their regulars.
Think, Learn, Do, Make
- The Drinkable Book.
- “Can you play? The NHL and marketing to the LGBT community“.
- Major breakthrough in ALS research because of the Ice Bucket Challenge!
- July 2015 – the hottest month in recorded history.
- “The psychology of fandom: Why we get attached to fictional characters“.
- “15 groovy science music videos“.
- 15 tidbits about kraken.
- Things you might be surprised you can take on airplanes.
- If you’ve ever wanted a luggage-eye view of the airport…
- “Table salt is also sea salt“.
Cookity
- Very berry smoothy breakfast cookies. (via anna-sugarfairy)
- Baked oatmeal cups.
- Sweet potato veggie burgers.
- Fried cauliflower rice.
- Vegetable jambalaya.
- Arctic char rice bowl. (via The Kitchn)
- Slow cooker chicken enchilada soup.
- 20 five-ingredient chicken dinner recipes.
- “Low-rent” tuna poke bowl.
- Fresh peach frozen yogurt.
- Bee sting cake.
- Cherry chip cake.
Gluten Free
Crafty
Cool
- The Mississippi River passing through Minneapolis in 1955. (via stuffaboutminneapolis)
- Mad Max: Fury Road recreated with go-karts.
- Jurassic World recreated with LEGO.
- Lovely video of the coast.
- Tour forests and mountains from the air.
- Cat bookends.
- Yes, this.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
- S’more bench. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
- The Star Wars Collection from Covergirl.
- Star Wars car floor mats. (via The Mary Sue)
- Centaur anatomy art.
- Dismaland.
- Weeping Angel string lights.
Wha…?
- Who thought this was a good idea?!
- Actual pumpkin in Starbucks’ pumpkin spice lattes?! *gasp*
- Contraband cheese ring?
- Beer jelly.
- Turn a Barbie into a Swiss Army knife.
LOL
- “10 times autocorrect almost ruined summer“.
- Creepy Cake Wrecks.
- A very short film about Minnesota.
- The fourth largest religion is not what you’d expect.
- Creative inflight safety videos.
- New Simon’s Cat!
Teh Cute
Reading Update
Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life by Keri Smith. Ok short activity book about how to bring more creativity into your life, which apparently involves a lot of stickers and vaguely New Agey sentiments. I did like the directions (page 61) for how to make a wee book from a single sheet of paper.
Collage, Paint, Draw: Explore Mixed Media Techniques and Materials by Sue Pelletier. Ok collage how-to book that’s not particularly relevant to collage for art journaling, as it focuses on creating works that are not flat. (I don’t see myself using plaster-of-paris or 18-gauge wire in my art journal.) Plus I found the artist’s style repetitive – mostly dresses, Mary Janes, and birds.
*continuing to be enthralled* -Chaos
(Spoiler: It’s a branch. Not a bird. Not a squirrel. A branch.)