'WOYWW - 02/29/2012 - Art Journals, Ribbons, Metal Tapes. Oh, my!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and welcome,

For WOYWW this week, I thought you might like to see some of my Art Journals in progress. Last year I fell in love with ribbon and now adorn the wire bindings of my AJs with ribbons, ribbons and more ribbons.

On the left is a stack of metal tape (aluminum repair tape), on the right a 'gaggle of glazes' that I concocted. Click here for my tutorial on how to emboss and paint metal tape.

These are two of my AJs using my fave books - Canson Montval Field Watercolor Book (Acid Free, 140lb cold press, Watercolor Paper).

MOST RANDOM GOODNESS:

All ribbons were selected randomly from my stash - and then randomly tied onto wire binding. I prefer not to have matchy-match colors.

Do you create Art Journals? What brand is your favorite store bought blank book to use for journals? Have you tried Canson watercolor? Moleskine watercolor? Do you embellish your bindings with ribbons, and other goodies?

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STAY TUNED for my spring Giveaway coming in March! And see more artists desks at this fun hop WOYWW!

Peace,

LuLu

'WOYWW 02-15-12 Play Day in Art Journal (AJ)!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

This week I've been under the weather (flu - with fever and other gross symptoms). So I'm still playing in my Art Journal for WOYWW. Making more layered backgrounds and still practicing image transfers using mag photos and gel medium.

This book is the new 'mixed-media book' from Strathmore I bought last year at Michaels - with a coupon. This book is advertised to be useful for wet media, but I'm not impressed. The pages were too thin for my purposes. So I glued 3 together to use as my substrates. The texture is fine, the pages were just too thin for the abuse I give paper in my art journals.

 Mixed-media journal (Strathmore),

cover has a couple of my custom

embossed/painted metal 'flags'

 AJ spread,

below dried-out red ink

cartridge for rolling stampers,

needs to be re-inked

AJ spread with leaning stack

What books do you use for your Art Journals? Have you tried the Moleskine watercolor paper books? Love them - but not cheap! Soon I hope to make some books from scratch using watercolor paper from pads I've got around the studio.

Happy Valentine's Day, too. Since I'm sick and hubby works 6 days a week we plan to celebrate on the weekend. We exchanged cards and he gave me a a box of chocolate covered strawberries to cheer me up - they were tasty!

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Peace,
LuLu

What's in my bag?

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

Ensalada's post about all the bags she uses struck a chord in me.

I have a zillion bags - and a million of them are BLACK! Her post cracked me up, and inspired me to check what's in MY bag. Shown is the contents of the black bag that I used for our NY state roadtrip last week...

1. embroidered tissue holder
2. rescue inhaler
3. chapstick
4. lipstick case with mirror
5. lipstick
6. business card case
7. 2 ballpoint pens (but no notepad - yikes!!!)
8. skinny wallet - with cash, coins, coupons, credit cards, and allergies/meds list
9. phone
10. 2 ricola cough drops
11. obsolete shopping list from NY state trip we just returned from
12. tylenol in aspirin travel dispenser
13. keyring for our house and my vehicle - hanging outside of bag on d-ring of shoulder strap
14. satin scarf - hanging outside of bag on shoulder strap

Disclaimer: on our recent trip to NY state, I also carried a black daypack/backpack that had a lot of other essentials - 2 iPod shuffles with cords and chargers in Baggalini belt pouch, travel lotion, books, notepads, sketch book, journalling pens and brushes in eagle creek travel pouch, pocket moleskine, snack, small digi camera, small water bottle, etc.... You know, the non-essential essential stuff...

Thanks for stopping by - and don't forget to checkout my give-a-way post!


Peace,
LuLu
Celebrating my 1st year Blogoversary with a give-a-way!
http://lulu-too-beaucoup.blogspot.com/2010/10/giveaway-giveaway-lulus-1st.htm