Doodles Unleashed

Doodles Unleashed is a 4 week online course at Strathmore.  This is a free course with Traci Bautista.

I'm also taking part in a photography challenge called 365+1.  This involves taking a photo a day and Suzie provides us with a theme for the day.  Today's theme was excitement.   Now possibly my dining room table doesn't excite you or the obvious mess (although this is quite tidy for me), however the excitement lies in the iPad (a Christmas present) on which I am able to watch Traci's video as I work.

Previously I watched the art videos upstairs on the desktop and then ran downstairs to do the work before I forgot and then ran back upstairs for a reminder viewing!

Traci showed how to make layers on your page by spraying ink through stencils or over masks.

Then adding more layers of paint, oil pastel and black ink. Then doodling with marker pens.

And finally doodle with a white correction fluid pen.

The final effect is not very 'me'.   However I'm really glad I gave it a go.  One more technique to cross off the 'Is this possibly my style?' list.

Drum Roll please

Well after going all round the houses and not being sure about what I wanted to choose as my one little word I'm back where I started.  Yes that's right my word is focus!

from Pinterest

So despite having written in a previous post  "However the problem with Focus for me is that I could just focus my thinking but not actually do anything!  I need a more active verb.",  I changed my when I came across this quote:

from Pinterest

So here I am settling on the word focus and trying to work out how I'm going to set goals to go with that.   There are areas of life that I want to concentrate on, to focus on:

faith, fitness, photography, fun, friends, fellowship, family, art. I also want to finish things that I start.

from wordle.net

I've started with the easiest one to set goals for:

Fitnessand Health

1. go for a long walk once a week

2. exercise four times a week

3. lose 3 pounds in weight per month

4. drink three glasses of water per day

I'm still working on the other goals and the action steps.

December 2011

My Art Every Day Journal is complete for December 2011.  This came about from the onliine course I did with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.

The journal starts with my December calendar.   This is for Kate Crane's 365 challenge.

My completed pages:

I'm hoping to be able to keep going through the year.