Where you'll find me, dear wanderer

As is obvious, I haven't posted to this blog since 2015! I kind of miss it. Although with no followers it was largely an exercise in entertaining myself. This is just to say that if you find yourself here, directed by some of my early pins on Pinterest, I am now sharing my art mostly on Instagram.

Here's a piece I completed this year (actually now I'm thinking it might have been in 2017). I've been working quite a bit with large, loose, flowy watercolors, collage, and stenciling that incorporate text,  hidden prayers, blessings, and always a little glittery magic. Tough times for dreamers these days, but thank you for stopping by. Kind Regards, Kathleen

Be Daring

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Quite unlike me, but I made 2 new art journals this year. My last journal took 5 years to finish, so maybe these two new ones will see me into my golden years (I'll post the 2nd one in the future).  I call this one my "moon journal". Which automatically makes me think of the "moon roof" from Game of Thrones, but that's a post for another day.

The lovely illustration I incorporated here is from Melissa Sweet, an illustrator I worship. I really truly love her and everything she creates. She illustrated the most beautiful book about the poet William Carlos Williams, A River of Words, and this illustration is from that book. It goes without saying that I honor her work and only use it for my own personal use in my journal and in this blog post.

A recent double-page spread. Unlike scrapbookers and many artists, I never use photographs from my actual life in my journals. I  have boards of color palettes and inspirational photographs
on my Pinterest site and I use them constantly for  journal fodder.

For this spread, I watered down some Jewel-It glue and made splatters across the pages. I covered those splatters with fine glitter.  I have to have a little bit of glitter in everything I do.

I have a close friend who's daughter is named "Dare". Isn't that the most awesome name for a child, girl or boy?!

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Be brave, be daring, and just jump.