Watching the clouds go by....

Sipping a steaming cup of rose hip tea, and standing at my art room window, I watch the clouds pass over my house. I walk out of my art room, across the landing, into my bedroom, and I find myself looking out another window, watching the clouds again. Back and forth, from window to window. I take a picture of the clouds.
Creative inspiration has left me. So I am typing this in hopes of releasing this creative slump out into the universe. Does this make any sense at all to you?
On the weekend I forced myself to search my bookshelves for a hardcover book to alter. Trying my hand at an altered book would be a refreshing change now, wouldn't it? I haven't worked on an altered book for a very long time, I've just been doing a whole lot of art journaling for several years now.
So, I found a book. It's a book by Deepak Chopra. In the first several pages of the book he has self-discovery exercises one can utilize. The remaining pages are all blank except for inspirational quotes in the corners. Hmm, I wonder if finding this book was fate?
Well, I have started altering the book, and have left the pages with the exercises unaltered so I can refer to them at any time I feel the need. And I have journaled on a page. I am not sure how this book well develop and grow. But as it stands now, it's part altered book, part personal journal.
I'll have all the time in the world to play, but only for a few more weeks now. And right now this creative slump still hangs over me like a black cloud. Will I wake tomorrow with desire and passion, and the excitement in my soul to create once again? I hope and pray that I will.

Reviving old art....

"End of Season"
"Forest Dreams"
"Past the Point of Leaving"
"Desolate Moon"

I went through some old art stuff of mine this past weekend, and came up with a few old paintings of mine. Prefering the look of a canvas stretched on a frame as apposed to framed paintings behind glass, I decided to put these 4 paintings onto canvases. One of them is of the boat in my last post, but now finished off with a tangerine background.

A Comp Jour gift...

Above are pics of a "Comp Jour" I started
for a friend. I've altered the cover & prepped about
twenty backgrounds with paint, scrapbook papers,
stamps & images, to start the book off for her.

My grandson...

I had to share a few of my latest pictures of my
beautiful grandson Braiden. Isn't he a little doll?

Comp Jour spread: Slow Walk....

I started Comp Jour #1 by first creating backgrounds on over a dozen spreads. Above is one of my finished spreads in the journal. "Slow Walk", the poem in this spread, is one of my own. Here are the words to the poem:

Slow walk
a shroud of silence
unaware, yet aware
of a misty cloak of rain.
To each, a blanket
of grey security.
Rain, delicate and cool falls
onto two solo faces
pondering and drawn inward
to that hallowed place
of oneness, solitude.
Yet, the pondering of each
is of the other:
Apprehension
chemical tension
side by side
alone, together.
Canopied in
green indifference.
Trees surround them
under purple-bellied clouds.
And the slow walk continues
down destiny's path....

Calendargirlz journal additions for May...

Hello everybody! This month in the Calendargirlz round robin I worked in Lisa's "Japanese Woodblock" journal. It's such a beautiful journal, with gorgeous artwork created by the group of fabulous women in the round robin. Above are the spreads I've created for Lisa. As always, I am really enjoying this RR!

Comp Jour #2

Hi all! Another at home project I've been working on has been a Comp Jour #2 I am trying to be less rigid with the layout/composition of my pages. It's so hard to break the mold you are so used to! Anyhow, above is a spread I've created. The left page is complete, but I'm still working on the right page.