Lesson One of Dina's Class...

I am absolutely LOVING Dina Wakely's Art Journaling 102 class! I'm only on the first assignment and I'm learning so much! Here are the first few pages in my journal. For the first one I took the raven that I cut out to use as a mask on the other pages, and stuck him right on this page. I love how painty he got! The border is made with water-soluble oil pastels...
The very first page is this little shipping tag - I used it as a title page. The #4 was done with a Heidi Swap Mask and a black oil crayon. I tore my name off of a bill and the stamps are the collage alphabet from Stampin Up...


Here's the back side of the tag...

And this is the next spread. I had so much fun playing here. The materials are acrylic paint (Claudine Hellmuth and some miscellaneous other brands), vintage sheet music, a hand-drawn and cut-out eye (colored pencils), Alpha stamps, a couple of Stampin Up background stamps, spray ink and water-soluble oil pastels.
Close up of the left side...
Close up of the right-side...

The subject matter was inspired by Angie Backen's daily inspiration threads at SiSTV (based on the book "Simple Abundance").

The thing I love about Dina's classes is that she teaches these wonderful techniques that you can apply to your own style of art, and use over and over again. I am still using the techniques I learned in her first Art Journaling class (which you can still purchase, by the way).

That's about it for today - I will be back tomorrow with more to share - have a fantastic Tuesday everyone!