Cinnamon Pink

Spoonflower Swatches Received

Painted Silk Flowers Fabric - Silk Crepe de Chine

Miss Tia Fabric - Kona Cotton

I received my Fabric Test Swatches from Spoonflower and I'm very satisfied. I like that the company offers the option of ordering test swatches. The swatches are about 8" x 8" and only cost $5.00 each.

The swatches gives customers the chance to tweak the colors, or other aspects of the design, and then revise it online. For example, I will probably increase the intensity of the colors in both my Painted Silk Flowers - and Miss Tia designs.

I am really impressed with Spoonflower. I plan to submit more designs as I create them. Check Spoonflower out and submit your designs.

Art Journal Page Completed

I couldn't do a blog post yesterday because we had a series of thunder storms rolling through the Carolinas.

I finished one of the Art Journal Pages that I began a couple of weeks ago. You can see the beginnings of this Journal Page here (second one down) on my May 12 post. It's kind of interesting to me to see the final transformation of the page.

You might want to try taking photos of your Journal Pages at different stages of completion. It helped me see how I embellish a page - and how I work too.

I found the quote (above) a few weeks ago and it really spoke to me. What quotes do you use in your Art Journals?

Art Journal Page Done in Two Hours

Since I usually take a couple of days (or more) to complete an Art Journal page, I gave myself a challenge today to finish a page in one day.

Well, this page took me about two hours to do and I consider it complete. I might add a few embellishments in the coming days but for now I'm satisfied with my accomplishment.

 

Figure Drawing Tutorial from Melissa Esplin

  Image from Melissa Esplin's site

Want to improve your Fashion Figure drawings? Then check out Melissa Esplin's Figure Drawing Basics Tutorial. She even offers a free download. Thanks Melissa for a great resource!

I like her sketching technique. I continue to draw daily and I definitely will try her tutorial. Now get out that sketchpad and start drawing.

Art Journaling Resources from The Broken Wings Studio

So I was looking for Online Lettering Workshops - and I found some interesting sites that featured Art Journaling.

Lauriedamer, host of The Broken Wings Studio, tells us about My favourite Resources for Art Journaling…And they are FREE!

On her site, I also learned about the Art Journaling Exposed (Volume 1) eMag which is available in the INTERWEAVE Store. You can download the eMag for $4.99. Here's a description of the eMag taken from the INTERWEAVE site.

"The Art Journaling Exposed eMag presents an interactive look at creating great pages and journals with color, lettering, and more. New and well-known artists bring their tips, tricks, and favorite techniques to you through slideshows, videos, and photographs that you can pan and zoom. The ability to enlarge a picture to exactly the size you want, to see the smallest of details, and the opportunity to play a tutorial again and again as you work along in your studio space, are just a few of the great benefits of Art Journaling Exposed."

For more details about the eMag, go here.