Navigating Life's Artful Pathways

I made this journal page to participate in the first week of Journal52 which prompt is pathways.

This took my mind directly to what I am trying to do this year.
Taking and exploring new path in my life
where I include art and Christianity, share it to the world and eventually teaching it :)

The journal says:

Psalm 32:8New Living Translation (NLT)

8 The Lord says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
    I will advise you and watch over you.

WOYWW #292 But My First One Ever

Welcome to my blog and my very first WOYWW desk hopping :)

Today I'm feeling brave to share my working area as it is :)

You can see that I am only sharing the visible corner of my table since that's all I have to work on right now :/ and the rest is taken over by boxes that we are trying to organize.

Anyways... in my work area I still have the layout that I shared in this blog a few days ago, but I've been working on another journal page which is not finished yet and was letting it dry.

There is also my daughter's table easel that I borrowed ;)
My hold it all fabric basket and
a new tin bucket that I got for Christmas with chocolates that I'm still thinking what to put there... Any ideas? Please share if you have one :)

Take care,

Art Journaling _ How to Face the Blank Page

It might seem scary to face that blank page at one point or another

but remember... it's your journal... you really don't have to show it to anybody.

With that in my mind, I manage to start doing art.

If I am using a journal that has thin pages I start by spreading a thin coat of gesso.

I remember at the begining I didn't even know what gesso was,

but I went and bought it and realized that it gives the paper the strengh to support all the paint and paper you are going to put on top of it.

Anyways... I always spread it with my fingers, that way it dryes quickly while I chose the paint or paper I am going to use in my art journal page.

For this one I spread different color acrylic paints, you can see I took red, teal, yellow and a little green.

While it was drying I started looking for pictures and words in a magazine that can describe my goals for this year, which are more like encouraging myself to come out of my shell and do what I want to do :)

I glue that pieces down to the page as my heart desired :)

And that's it. That's one of the ways I art journal. 

I really don't plan the page, I let my heart take me and guide me through my art.

And if I like the outcome... I share it with the world lol

But since my word for this year is SHARE, I going a step further and share all of my work including steps by step process of them ;)

I hope with this I have helped many of you out there :)
#ArtJournal

Love,

Free Art Class Fearless Painting

I took my first step forward taking this free art class that Connie has
TOTAL ALIGNMENT :: FEARLESS® PAINTING CRASH COURSE
I have to tell you I love her personality, I love the way she teaches, just awesome!

I tell you, it took guts to show you my first attempt since this is not what I usually do,
since I am a scrapbooker I tend to do art in a very organize, trying to put things strategically placed on the page making it look pretty.

This is more of a LET GO kind of painting, come back to your childhood way of expressing yourself.
Very freeing, it left me with a feeling of I can do it all,
I don't care what people think about it lol
this is just me letting my inner child come out and play.
That part of my childhood that needed healing is getting the theraphy needed :0

(Sigh) Oh so peaceful
(Deep Breath) It feels so good :)

Now that I uploaded the picture a question came to my mind...
What does it mean?

If you have an answer please come and share with me I would love to hear what do you think :)

Take Care,

30 Day Journal

Wow! this is awesome!!!

I am participating in the 30-day-journal-project #30dayjournal

I just finished my Day 1 of the 30 day journal project, I hope I can stick with it too specially after I start working next week lol

I already discovered that I can just write and write and write as long as I have my ME time and space to do it. :) I tend to write like if I am talking to myself, hmmm... I know this is weird but that's how my writing flows so far lol

I am loving it!!!

One Word For 2015

This is something new for me also, choosing a word for a whole year. The first time I read about choosing a word for the whole year my mind started spinning... but once I kept on going with my housework activities, this word kept on popping on my head... Then I figure, why not go for it.

It goes together with my new year resolution, can you guess what my word is...?

plain and simple lol but with a lot of weight on it :)

Do you have a word for 2015? Come and share leaving a comment below :)

Take care,

Help Me Please... I Help You... New Year Resolution

I have never done this before, I have never set a New Year Resolution,
mostly because I always so that people never stick to it.
By the second or third week after the New Year celebration
people start forgetting about their New Year Resolution
for one reason or another they could never stick to it, year after year.
So I opted for not setting one up for myself.

But this year I wanted to be different...

I am setting a New Year Resolution for the first time in my life (and I am 42 :))
but I am realistic and I know I need your help
I need you to bug me about making this resolution a reality,
of course if you ask me the same, I definitely will.

I need you to hold me accountable for my promise.

So how do we do this? How do we stick with our new year resolution?
Gabrielle Bernstein (by the biggest coincidence in the world) released a video a couple of days ago (as I started writing this post) about the # 1 tool for making resolutions stick!
and the answer is:

Consistency
                                        Daily repetition
                                                                         Commitment
                                                                                                            Desire

What is my New Year Resolution you ask?
To learn as much as I can about Art, Crafts and things Handmade which is what I enjoy most, is what I am passionate about and to teach as much as I know and as much as I learn to all of you, to my community online :)

Are you with me?

I would love to know... What Is Your New Year Resolution?
Please leave a comment below with your answer or if you don't have one yet, just leave a comment with the first thing that comes to your mind :)

Love,
Clemencia