I Love Alcohol!!
That title ought to get the teetotalers excited! I do love my Chardonnay, yes I do, but that is not what I am excited about at the moment. About six or seven years ago, alcohol…
Category Archives: Art Journaling
Creativity Knocking – Volume One!
Well, October was not blogging month around here! I MISSED you! So much has happened since last we spoke, that it would take a whole lifetime just to list it, let alone talk about it.…
Sunday Morning Coffee #9
You never know where you will find art that appeals to you. This is a mural in The Flying Star Cafe in Santa Fe. I love it. Maybe it is the mosaic effect of the…
Sheer Heaven Moleskine Art Journal Cover
So far, my continuing quest for the perfect art journal always leads me back to the Moleskine Large Sketchbook. Heaven knows I try to fall in love with another, but something is always missing.…
Connecting the Dots . . .
There have been many, many books written about creativity. Some recent ones advocate the throwing-things-at-paper-and-see-if-they-stick theory of awakening creative ideas, but most of the books I have read were written for the design industry, and…
Sheer Heaven Travel Palette
Back in the day – before Sheer Heaven became better known for making inkjet transfers than anything else – back in the Summer of 2004 in fact, I discovered that Sheer Heaven made a perfect…
Another Little Paintbox . . .
DH asked me the other day whether I liked making art or making art supply kits better. He has a point and I am not sure of the answer. There is something about “sets” of…
Watercolor Wonderful . . .
Just as I was getting ready to test watercolor on the Super Deluxe Sketchbook, something happened which gave me the perfect subject . . I was very sad about the bird, but very happy with…
In Search of Glory . . . and the Perfect Journal
Morning Glory Sunshine © 2005, jessica wesolek, santa fe, nm The Glory is the Morning Glory, and we’ll get to that story in a minute. The perfect journal is much harder to find. In fact,…
More from the Journal Kit – Waterproof Uniball Pens
Because I use a waterbrush extensively in my journals, waterproof ink is imperative – even when writing larger blocks of text, because I often embellish by “highlighting” my writing with color, or add soft colored…