Showing posts with label art journaling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art journaling. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2012

Featuring Mary Freeman




Mary has been a blogger friend of mine for the past three years. Check out her blog here. Our paths have crossed several times, but unfortunately we have not met each other in person. Hopefully that will change this week since we are planning to meet for coffee.




Most of Mary’s work comes from her processing internal issues and time spent in quiet reflection. Mary developed her style through trial and error and experimentation.




Mary began making cards and prints of her journal pages and paintings in 2010. She also leads visual journaling workshops at her church and to small groups in her home studio. Mary teaches several techniques for creating backgrounds, but her main focus is on what she calls heart work. Getting down on the page what's going on inside is her main focus. She is continually amazed to see how putting down paint and using various supplies can facilitate the "seeing". Mary has also led workshops in several retreat settings. She always has a journal prompt available to help begin the process.





Along with her painting Mary loves to read, decorate, and re-arrange furniture in her home and other friends’ homes. Mary was featured with her reflections of faith and thoughts in an online magazine called Sprout.





Mary is generously offering one of my readers three cards from her shop A Splendid Adventure. The winner can pick them. Just leave a comment for a chance to win. The winner will be announced next Monday.




Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Inspirational Art Journal



It was almost two years ago I took an ecourse about art journaling from Paulette Insall. It was a great course to include images and text in the book. I decided to make my own journal book instead of purchasing one since I could not locate one at my local arts and crafts store, so I decided to make my own.


Excuse the sniffles, it is allergy season!

Monday, March 29, 2010

New Design


I wanted to show my latest journal book that I was creating for my shop. It should be available within the next few days.

The winner of my March giveaway is #2 post P and P! Congratulations!

Friday, March 27, 2009

My Art Journal

I have been taking an online class with Paulette Insall. I had never heard of art journaling before so I thought I would give it a try. It does require thinking through what your theme is going to be so you have to find images in magazines or over the internet to complete your pages. My first page has images of my favorite artist. The second page I used a Bible scripture to depict an image for the verse. I'm already working on my second page now. Will keep you posted on my progress