Link of The Week

http://www.moderngypsy.com/green/mandala/

A Wonderful Life

What A Wonderful Life I've Had! I Only Wish I'd Realized It Sooner!
Quote by Colette

This fella is my Great Grandfather. The background is glue crackle. White acrylic over yellow cardstock and glazed with Black Antiquing Gel.

Fragment Series

Fusible web fragments on collage background. The dark layers are the fusible web which aren't very evident in this scan. Another Fragment Journal page.

Fragment Series

From Fragments Journal. Found objects on the work table. Bottom of background is glue crackle over text pages that are semi-visible on the collaged and painted upper section. The left green and blue strip is distressed lutradur.

Link of The Week

http://www.typogenerator.net/

Type a word into the box, click on "generate" and you'll get a one-time-only image! Save it if you like it. This link is making the rounds of yahoo groups and is very addictive.

Weeds In The Garden

A new technique that I'm working on using pages from magazines, gesso and fluid acrylics. I scratched into the paint before it was dry.

Eucalyptus Face

Faces found in nature have always fascinated me. I saw this one looking at me when I walked past the eucalyptus tree but when I took a step back to photograph it I couldn't find it again. It wasn't until the
I got the prints back from the printer that the face appeared again. Elusive!

Link-of-the-week

A good friend of mine has an editing business that I'm only too happy to provide the link for! Check out Rhonda's site if you're in the market for book or story editing.

http://reversole.home.kih.net/EDITS/

Man of Stone

I love it when I can use a background created for a specific reason for something completely different. The background on the left is made from torn magazine clippings that were first glued to cardstock, then scribbled on with an embossing ink pen and finished with gold embossing powder.

The collage on the left is a scan of the magazine clipping background that was manipulated in Photoshop Elements. The second layer is a digital rubber stamp image created from a cabinet photo purchased at the local Antiques Mall. The collage will most likely end up on the left side of an art journal spread.