Word for the Week - Perceptive - Arts and Wellness Café

Welcome to this week, the word has been so far 'Perceptive' and it is great to think about how the word relates to our creativity.  When you think about what you do creatively how much of it would you say you get a sense that there is more to it than you yourself put in - in regards to effort?  Do things click, work out and often give you goosebumps or chills.  

It matters not if that is not the case for you at the moment, as there are areas of what you do that you just can't quite explain, and you don't need to (smile).

I started the week off with the podcast and you can listen to the episode HERE or below

In Arts and Wellness Café I continue the theme and you can watch the video HERE or below

I share some of the work that I have been doing in the studio along with some of my stitched pieces.

Textile Wall Hanging - Amanda Trought

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Weekly Art Journal Ideas - Composition Notebook Art Journal

 Composition Notebook Art Journal 

As part of the 52 Weeks of Art Journal Check out my Composition Notebook Art Journal video above.  

There is no excuse not to create, you don't need to wait for that really nice art journal, or do you need to save that art journal for 'best'.  You can get composition notebooks for under $5 and while the pages are thin, once you add paint or collage material you are good to go!

Mixed Media Art Journal Page

 

Loose Leaf Art Journal Page

What are you doing with all your background pages that you have sitting in a pile stacked somewhere? I get them out every now and again and see if I am inspired to create something on one that happens to catch my eye.

I had left this loose art journal page in one of my piles to complete for quite a while before coming back to it and I found it at a time where I just wanted to keep things simple and use some paint and just play with the time that I had.

I really enjoy creating and seeing the figure come to life and have a story to tell, and it is also great practice to keep your hand in creatively, always have something that you can do on a daily basis, you don't have to finish a piece all at once.

I hope that you decide to experiment and play!

Supplies used to create this piece:

Folk Art Paints - https://amzn.to/3d3GkI5

Posca Pens, Black and white - https://amzn.to/3gTxD4a

Water-soluble Charcoal crayon - https://amzn.to/3wOCHNH

Arts and Wellness Café - Intuitive - Word for the Week

 

Welcome to the Arts and Wellness Café, where we continue the word for the Week and I share some of my current work.

Are there ways in which you work intuitively?  How do you think it presents itself in the way you work? Check out the video above!

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#Artsysecondsunday - Frida Inspired Painting

It was great taking part recently in the #artsysecondsunday.

You can check out my video below as I am doing a Frida Kahlo Inspired painting, I share what has inspired me about her work and create a painting in my art journal. Which you can check out below.

Products Used in this page

Folk Art Paints - https://amzn.to/3xoyrnZ

Watersoluble Neocolors - https://amzn.to/3pPYlPc

White posca pen - https://amzn.to/3zoxiij

Water-soluble Graphite Crayon - https://amzn.to/2U6o4Hl

Gesso - https://amzn.to/2RSDWMK

Stencil - https://amzn.to/3gkAALZ

Artsy Second Sunday is an art video collaboration organized by Martha from ilove2paint (AyalaArt) 

We are a group of Painters and Mess Makers that want to bring you joy and awesome paintings, every Second Sunday of each month. Please follow the links to find ALL sorts of styles and mediums in a fun filled binge. 

You can leave us a comment, a thumbs up, and of course you can subscribe to each channel if you have not done so. Our videos are done for you and feel free to ask any questions. Enjoy! 

Here are the participating artists, click on their names to go to their videos.  On the day you can join us in the LIVE premier or check out the videos after.  I have put them in order of appearance starting with Martha who goes live at 12 noon. (EST)  

Martha from ilove2paint  

Eleni S-artstuff 

Diana Art  

Archu's Art World 

Nina Fickett Designs 

Mural dreams by Laura 

Amanda Trought 

Mixed Creativity by Marie  

Nicky Parr 

Britta Mindartdk 

Mona L Creates 

Mary PittsburghArtistStudio 

Peg Adkins R 

Shel Paper Ocotillo Studio 

Look forward to having you join us in future sessions! 

Creating in Faith - Word for the Week - Overjoyed!!

 

Welcome, hope you are having a brilliant day so far today. On the podcast - today is the Creating in Faith episode. It is about Creating regardless to how you are feeling.

It is so important for us to do a creative activity each and every day, no matter how small as it is widely known that Art and Creativity have a healing effect on our health and wellbeing, so a getting involved in a creative activity will impact you in a positive way.

Check out the podcast link, the word for this week is overjoyed, and I want you to think about how that word makes you feel, what memories or reflections are brought up for you.


I would love to hear what things make you feel overjoyed.


Stay blessed and be a blessing

listen to the Podcast

If you missed last weeks podcast you can check it out Here

Art and Wellness Cafe - Word for the Week - Exquisite

Welcome to the Arts and Wellness Café, thank you for joining me.  In the video today I share more about the word 'Exquisite' and you can check out the podcast and listen to the start of the week and this word.

I love being creative and sharing my work and encouraging you to be your creative self.   I also share an Art Journal page and some of the fabric art that I am working on.

If you want to catch the Art Journal Page separately you can do so below:

If you haven't managed to listen to the podcast you can do so below

Listen to the word for the week on Realityarts podcast.

Welcome to Series 3 of Creating in Faith, this is Episode 22 and the word for the Week is Exquisite

What is it that you feel about your creativity, or the work that you do?  Can you describe how it makes you feel.

You can listen to the podcast Here

Creating an Art Journal Page - Use up your Supplies

 

Join me in the studio as we work on an art journal page, the aim is to use up supplies that you have been sitting on and allowing to dry up and feel neglected.

It is time for you to dig them out and give them a new lease of life, create an art journal page with me, or create something else with what you have.

I am looking forward to see what you create and you join the journey.

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Arts and Wellness Café - Word for the Week - Profound. Art Journal Page, Slow Stitching and More!

Come and join me in the Arts and Wellness Café where the Word for the Week has been Profound.  Check out the video below to hear about some of the things that I am sharing:

Here are the time stamp sections - 

Welcome: Click Here

Slow Stitching: Click Here

Use Your supplies - Art Journal Page - Click Here

Explore and Express - Click here

One of the things that helped me through our first lock down as we dealt with the Global pandemic was to start stitching, and I completed many projects. I didn't realize how much I enjoyed slow stitching and creating projects.

Here are some projects that I am working my way through and I have been creating some smaller pieces as well.

This piece incorporates stitching with hand dyed wax resist fabrics

I like working on more than one piece at a time and here are some additional stitched pieces that are coming to a close. (I will share in another post.

Art Journal Page

You also get to see in this video how you can get rid of some of your neglected art supplies and create a lovely art journal page and here are some that I shared.

Applying the paint and using stencils to create a design enables you to make some really lovely background pages ready for when you next have time to work on them.

I had intended to use several stencils, but only used two for these pages.  It was lovely working in the journals, I had one main one and used two others to use up the extra paint I had on the pallet.  The paints are reasonably priced and over they years I have collected quite a few, so want to use some of them up before they dry out.  I have put the links to some of the supplies I used.

Supplies:

Folk Art - https://amzn.to/2Rw6MT9

Martha Stuart Paints - https://amzn.to/3yrKqTr

Apple Barrel - https://amzn.to/3vdYhL0

Stencils (one of the stencils is a recycled lid) - https://amzn.to/3hL5bmY

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Creating in Faith - Word for the Week - Profound

It is great to share this weeks episode of my Realityarts Podcast.  Every Monday we have a series called Creating in Faith - which looks at a weekly word and the need for us to create on a daily basis regardless to how we feel as being creative impacts on our health and wellbeing in a positive way.  You just have to find the way that suits you best.

Listen in to this weeks episode.  The Word for this week is Profound

 

 If you missed the previous week you can catch it below

Creating a Fabric Art Journal Page

When I am sewing I save all of the fabric scraps. No smaller than say an inch in size. There are so many things that you can do especially if you have amassed a large amount. Usually what I will do is stitch them into some small wall hangings or art pieces and they can often go to make quite larger pieces of art.

When I don't want to sew I will take them and add to an art journal - you create a fabric journal page that you can paint on in your art journal. I am sharing in this video one of the pages I sometimes create when I want to use up some of my scraps. - check out the video above.

 Art journal page

They are a mixture of jeans material and lighter Africa fabric material. They have been glued to the page using pva glue and then covered with gesso so that it will absorb the paint better.

Adding paint of choice becomes easier once you have added the gesso and you also create lovely texture as you can see from the different fabrics.

Sometimes you need to step away from the piece and as I am applying paint I can see a figure coming through but need to give it time to establish itself. Check out the video to see more. I will be doing some more work

 

I hope you enjoy playing around with a fabric art journal page and see where it takes you.

Arts and Wellness Cafe - Word for the Week - 'Eager'

 

Arts and Wellness Cafe - Amanda Trought

The word for this week is 'Eager' and we look at the way in which our eagerness translates to our creativity.  What is it that you are eager about in what you do. I love to create and so will find many different types of materials to make something.

I shared above a recycled art journal that I transformed and then used what I had to cover it, it will be a space where I can add to the pages when I want and just create.  Sometimes when I approach an art journal page all I want to do is just add an outline and in this case this is what I did on one of the pages so that I can come back another time and it would already be started

I shared some of the fabric art pieces that I have been working on and decided to work on this one over the next week or so, I am busy looking for fabric to be the backing.

Beading is also an important part of the piece for me and I will be spending time looking through some of the beads that might be just right.

Here is another one that I am looking forward to working on and I also have a wood burned wooden piece to add to it.

I also share details of the book by artist Shimoda and her book - The Art of Care Giving you can check her out HERE or http://www.shimoda-accessories.com

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Creative Gardener - Harvesting Cassava

Come and join me in the Creative Garden this week as we look at harvesting Cassava from my garden.

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Creating in Faith - Eager (Word for the Week)

Welcome on the Podcast today we look at a new word each week.  The Word for this week is 'Eager'.  When we think of our creativity and the words we should think about how it relates to us and how we can use the encouraging aspects of the word to motivate and propel us forward into our creative pursuits.

You can listen to the podcast below.

Did you catch last weeks Art Journal Page video and the word 'Quiet'

Thank you for watching, Stay blessed and be a blessing

Looking Back - Art Journal Page Process

 

Glad you could join me today on the blog.  In this video I share with you how I transform a page that will eventually end up in my art journal.  You see it go through the various stages as the painting progresses.

The story is of a young girl and she is looking back over her life, all the things that got her to where she is and the relationships and choices that she made.

Don't be afraid to make changes in your creative work and over time you will begin to see how things will unfold.

Supplies used in this piece

Recycled Paper - free

Brushes - https://amzn.to/3xoqkcd

Folk Art paints - https://amzn.to/2R6NRgP

Gesso - https://amzn.to/3u381as

Realityarts Podcast - New Episode for Creating in Faith

 

Welcome to a new week of creativity.  The word that starts us off this week in Creating in Faith is 'Quiet'.  I started the Creating in Faith series as a reminder first to myself that each and every day I need to show up and do something creative.

When we show up in faith, we are met with ideas, strategies, revelations, answers and more!

When was the last time you actually had a moment of quiet to gather your thoughts?  Are you able to take time out of your day just to think or are you one of those people who say they think better when there is stuff going on around them?

Join me on Wednesday for the Arts and Wellness Café where we will look at the idea of quiet in the art studio and in our creative walk.

Turning a Composition Notebook into an Art Journal

I recently brought myself a Composition notebook to create an art journal with.  The are fairly cheap and you can pick them up at the Dollar or local store.  In this video I share with you how I transform the first pages.

I wanted to use supplies that I had been holding on for a while and got a selection of handmade papers, words, atc cards and Gelatos that I had sitting in a draw.

We can sometimes be really precious about our supplies, leaving them for what we call 'best' and not ending up using them at all and before you know it the supply has dried up and you have wasted your money.

What I plan to do with this art journal is to share some of the process pages - sharing techniques and ideas so that you can try them as well in your journals.

The more I played with the page the more supplies came out and I stencilled on the page and made marks and brought the page together.

I realised how many cards and papers that I had painted on and left in the bag that I was able to use. They now have a home in the composition art journal and it is also a great escape for me to be able to be a lot freer with my supplies.

If you would like to see the FULL version of this video in 'real time' you can do so HERE on my Patreon account.

Stay blessed and be a blessing.

Everlasting Art Journal - Art Journal for Beginners - Video included

Welcome to the post, I created this art journal from greeting cards that I had printed out and for some reason or another just didn't use them.  They are A6 cards of a variety of colors and some have shapes cut out of them for inserts.

 

It is a lovely size to work with as it fits quite neatly in your hands.  One of the things I like with this art journal is that it uses the scraps of paper and card that you may have especially those smaller pieces from other projects.

Check out the video below to see how I have worked on the pages, and get some hints and tips of how you could use your hand made art journal.

Let me know if you have any questions about the Art Journal and pages and if you decide to make one I would love to see your results!

Creativity and Healing - with Larissa Russel and Amanda Trought

I recently joined Larissa Russell of Creative U and we spoke about the healing power of creativity you can listen HERE or catch the video below

Watch the Video of the session