I have entered the world of art, art journaling and sketch booking this year. It has been a very exciting journey, learning all about the myriad forms of journaling that goes on around the world. There are so many blogs about these different forms of journaling that one can spend the whole day looking at them. I have to restrict myself or else another week has gone by and I haven't accomplished anything.
So far this year I have been very slowly working through Betty Edwards "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" which has told me that I can draw, I must needed to learn how to see. I have enrolled in two on-line workshops - one by Design Matters on Sketchbooks and another by Jane LaFazio on Sketching and Watercolour. These courses have been really great and I hope to continue next year with Design Matters and finish their full course.
Learning about watercolours has been really fun. I have always loved the effect of watercolour painting - the lovely washes of subtle colour and the delicacy that can be achieved. There is no doubt that my efforts are very basic at this stage but I will definitely persevere with this particular medium and hope to become quite competent. Below is a Mango that I painted as part of Janes's course.
It was quite hard to get the colours blending as it was a large area and the paint dried very quickly as the temperature was around 30C that day.The year had flown with Christmas less than two weeks away. It is time to look forward and see what next year will bring.
I found a journaling group called The Documented Life Project and have decided to join this group and follow along with the weekly prompts to see how my journaling will progress. A side group of this I found is Documented Faith which is a Christian group doing a journal with a Biblical focus. As my word for next year is FOCUS I this would be a great thing to do a well. So a full year ahead with, I hope, a really good Focus to start with. I do pray that my life will be Christ centred this next year and also art focused.
Blessing at Christmas and a Joyful New Year ahead
Pam
