Tag: my art journal

  • Wild Things

    Wild Things

    Lately, my art has skewed more maximalist and energetic. Even when abstract, it’s impossible to separate oneself from one’s work: the joys, concerns, and experiences seep into the process. As Jackson Pollock said: “Art is coming face to face with yourself.”

  • Leave Your Creative Comfort Zone

    Leave Your Creative Comfort Zone

    On Tuesday, I joined A Work of Heart‘s Under the Influence Art Journaling class as a featured artist. I spoke about my background, inspiration, and artistic process, and then participants explored elements I use in my own work — collage, energetic mark-making, and bright colors and splotches — as they…

  • Baltimore Journal III

    Baltimore Journal III

    Last week, I finished up the last pages of my art journal, the whole of which was filled in just over six months — a personal record! There’s definitely something to be said about finding (or making) the perfect book for yourself and your art: it allows you to just…

  • Final Pages

    Final Pages

    I started this art journal in early April of this year — I know because I stamped the date on the cover. I am nearly finished with it. Here are some of the final pages, created with collaged papers, acrylic and tempera paint, oil pastel, acrylic ink, graphite, and paint…

  • Greens & Neons

    Greens & Neons

    Recent mixed media art journal pages featuring a variety of papers, acrylic paints and inks, tempera paint, oil pastel, paint marker, graphite, and colored pencil.