A Sneak Peek To My Cigar Box

The cigar box had been finally done, but this is not the finish project. I'm still thinking what I'm going to do with the inside box. Some ideas have already been on my mind. Just give me some more times ... I'll be back.. :)

Cigar Box

I just got this cigar boxes from my sis-in-law. I’m inspired to make something from these empty boxes. Maybe make a collage or painting on the cover. I’m still thinking about it. Just give me some times to work it out, and I’ll post the final artwork, as soon as I get done with the box. Be patient, please... LoL.

My First Zentangle

I recently learn a new art, Zentangle, which I can create image from a repetitive patterns. It's really fun and relaxing.
We can increase our focus and creativity thru this Zentangle art. Nice to try.

Texture of Life Album

My Texture of Life Album has done. You can see the texture from each pages which I mentioned before we used some materials such as fabrics, modeling paste, acrylic paints, recycle paper etc.
You can go here if you want to see page by page.

Texture of Life Class by Ria Nirwana

Attending my scrap buddy’s class really gave us a new refreshment.

We tried some new techniques for the album which we usually use that techniques on canvas. Yuppp… we were using gel medium, gesso, acrylic paints, modeling paste and some fabrics. We made some mess but ended with a very artful mini album. It’s a lifetime album. A special moment in 2009 month by month.
While I’m finishing the album, some of our pictures will go first here :

Art Journal ( 2)

Continuing the art journal for Alice and Sisi. Here they are the pages...

These are for Alice :

and these ones are for Sisi :

I think I still need to learn and explore more about the art journals. Have to practice a lot .. :)

The art journal will be continued coz there are still some pages left for me made by Lina and Suryanti which have not done yet. While I have to make another ones for Tiara and Suryanti .

Corkboard Painting

Finding some corkboard left from my last year project class gave me an inspiration to make a painting using the corkboard as a media replacing the canvas I usually use.

This was my trial and error doing the painting on corkboard.
Start with drawing the face, and then put some color for the skin with watercolor crayon. At the beginning, the color mixed well on her face. Then continued to her hair. But when the watercolor crayon was dried, I found that the face color was not bright and sharp enough, that’s because of the corkboard porous, it absorbs the liquid very quick.
To get a deeper color, I then put the oil pastel on the watercolor crayon. After Blending it with my fingers, I got the skin face color that I wanted.

So, finished with the face and hair, it’s time to finalize the background. I chose the water color crayon to get the background color looked less strong than the face.

Now, I’m still thinking some other way to make the use of the corkboard instead of we just put some note on it. Want to share some ideas?

Scrapgathering The Full Team

On August, with the green color theme for our outfit, we were finally gather in a full team. I know it's a quite late to post these pictures, but I have to do it anyway.

Not much to do at that time, we just tried to make the photo transfer to canvas and transparent media using acrylic paint. The rest, we spent our time with a warm chit chat, a big lunch and of course, our fave part : photo session as you can see them below.

Art Journal (1)

As I mentioned before, we are now working on our art journals besides our ordinary scrap works projects (Week in The Life album) which is still on progress. Ria has already started her art journals and she had a real great work as always. And then Alice seems improve her talent. While I and the other scrap buddies still struggling with our imaginations. But learning a new thing which still has something related to our interest always give us such a new good spirit.

I have done ones for Ria, here they are :





And these are what I've got from Ria





Sisi’s art journal for me





Alice made these ones for me




Right now I’m still working on my art journal for Alice. There will be 4 more in the line for Lina, Tiara, Yanti & Dora… What a plenty homework..! But it’s going to be fun to make it... and, of course, will take lots of time.. LoL

June Scrapgathering

This time we were gather at BSD, Alice’s place… with the RED theme color. Unfortunately Tiara couldn't join us.

Besides finishing some of the art works, we had lots of chit chat, and the best part is photo session (always) … LoL. We're really had a very guuuud time, yet we're still expecting to be together in a full team.

Art Journal Inspiration

Visual Chronicles, one of the easy reading art books, gave me some inspirations to start making my art journal. But it was not as easy as I read, since I am not very talented in drawing and sometimes get stuck with ideas.
Thank God, I found this chapter below,

My eyes were blinking and something came up on my mind.
Yes, I've got an idea!
Why don't I exchange some art journals with my scrapbooker buddies? Each of us will make some pages for the others and then after all the artworks have done,
we can bind them all together into one book.

Well, I can't stand to have them all, but I have to wait a real patient 'coz we meet only once in a month.

Hope and Faith

As your faith is strengthened,

you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control,

that things will flow as they will,

and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

~Emmanuel

Life is like a rolling wheel, sometimes life can be so easy and sometimes it can be so hard. I believe we are ever being in that good or bad situation. Wherever we’re in, good or bad, that’s the fact that we have to face in our life. Always grateful for what we have, for whatever we’ve been through. Good or bad, it’s a blessing.
Believe in hope and always keep the faith.

You've gotta have hope.

Without hope life is meaningless.

Without hope life is meaning less and less.

~Author Unknown

Scrapper Buddies

This picture was taken on our last scrapgathering, May 30.
From left to right : Alice, Ria, Patricia, Tiara and myself.
Actually, we are 6 people all together. Unfortunately, Lina couldn’t come to join at that moment, hopefully she will be with us on our next scrapgathering.