​This Friday’s featured artist is Jackie Westerlund, a Minnesota artist and metal-smith. She makes topographic maps in metal that are amazing! Each layer is hand sewn out of sheet metal and fused together!

​Learn more about Jackie Westerlund and her jewelry company West Grove Design on her website at westgrovedesign.com!

​Have a great weekend!

I've combined Around the World Latitude, Just Plane Fun, Michelle Ward's X Rows stencil, Mary Beth Shaw's Greek Key stencil, and Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch's String stencil!

I also stenciled words from my Let's Go 2 stencil with Jet Black Ranger Archival ink pad and fingertip sponge daubers. Then I remove the stencil and connect the bridges with my Sakura black Identi-Pen.

Below are detailed photos of my pages:

This Friday's featured artist is Jess Weems and her Cartographic Stories paintings! I love her colors, textures and lyrical lines!

She writes:
​I work in encaustic - hot wax - to create three-dimensional interpretations of the topography of a landscape and then layer oil paint into and onto the wax. Combining these two mediums allows me to ask the viewer to both place themselves in a representational map and to consider the conversation between the land and humankind.
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Traditionally, I was first educated to be an agricultural economist and then a science teacher. After graduate school, I came back around to art through reading artist blogs, then attending art workshops, and finally dedicating myself to learning a few mediums through independent teachers around the country. I began teaching art workshops and showing my work during an artist residency in Spain in 2012.

Learn more about Jess Weems and her Cartographic Stories on her website at www.jessweems.com!

Have a great weekend!

Thank you to everyone who entered last week's giveaway for a seat in
Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!

It was so fun reading everyone’s comments! 

Drum roll please…

And the winner is…

Congratulations to Bernice Hopper! 

If you didn't win, you still have time to register for the Early Bird rate! Early Bird Rate ends on May 15th.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!
Hope you join us in Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!

This Friday’s featured artist is Jennifer Radil and her wonderfully colorful mixed media on paper works!

Find more of Jennifer Radil's extraordinary art on her website at www.jenniferradilstudio.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/jenniferradilstudio, and Instagram at www.instagram.com/jennifer.radil.studio!
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​Have a great weekend!

I am so excited to be part of
​Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels
and have ONE SEAT to GIVE AWAY
​to a lucky winner!

Let's get rebelious!
​Simply enter through Rafflecopter below! Good luck!

The giveaway will run for one week; through midnight CST May 13th.
I'll announce the winner on Sunday, May 14th!

CLICK HERE for more information about Hacking The Color Wheel: Art Journaling for Creative Rebels!
I hope you join us for the color FUN!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

This Friday's featured artist is Kip Perdue of Kartegraphik and his intricately hand-cut maps!
​They truly are a labor of love!

When asked why maps, he writes;

The circulatory system of any city is its roads. North American cities tend towards a new growth approach: scaffolded along broad, quadrilateral corridors. European and Asian cities are an older variety of animal, gnarled, inconsistent, and quixotic. When drawing a map the edges of a city are often the most difficult—where land and road merge alongside water. Certain functions of paper cutting and maps plague me when making a design. How do I best represent what's on the ground through paper? Positive or negative space? color or no color?
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Each city reflects the history of its people. London is like tiny cobwebs strung along large tributaries; little circuses all connected through radii. In New York City, Roosevelt Island seems temporarily docked in the east river; its bridges giant gangplanks onto the shore. While in Antwerp, you can sense its former glory as an economic power-house, grand and robust, yet without a single bridge across the Scheldt. People, the past and present are all bound up in a city's roads and topography.

Learn more about Kip Perdue and Kartegraphik on his website at www.kartegraphik.com!
Have a great weekend!

And, to top it off, we will have virtual sessions that you can attend live online
and be in conversation with the teachers and other students.
​It’s going to be a blast! I sure hope to see you there! CLICK HERE to join us!

​Thanks!

​This Friday’s featured artist is Marc Boyson and his amazing map art!

In his Artist Statement he shares:
As a child I remember going on long car rides on weekends. I have fond memories of looking out the passenger window watching the scenery go by. This joy of exploring with a car continued as I began to drive, taking up the weekend drives on my own, going on roads I had never gone on before, with no clear destination in mind. This contrast of moving through space with freedom now confined to the habitual route of the daily commute is a part of my art practice.
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The cartographic trace refers to the invisible line of autobiographical data revealing my daily movement however small, over a surface, between buildings, to work, errands, day trips, or longer journeys… the everyday as art. The question I seek to answer through memory, intuition, and digital recording is: how can I manifest the banal act of the cartographic trace into the beautiful.

From his large-scale map art installations in galleries, to his small and super-intricate pen drawings, Marc Boyson's work is fascinating and mesmerizing!

Check out this fun YouTube video he created, too:

Learn more about Marc Boyson and his artwork on his website at http://marcboyson.com.
​Have a great weekend!

Today I'm sharing two new spreads in my small Dylusions art journal! For both these spreads, I was inspired by Sherry Canino to maintain some white areas in these pages! Sometimes I add so very many layers of acrylic paint, collage ephemera, and pen, that I cover up all of the white and lose contrast in my composition. This was a fun challenge for me...and much easier said than done! Thank you, Sherry, for cheering me on!

This first spread incorporates acrylics, gesso, ink, and collage, along with Rae Missigman's Imaginary Bloom stencil and mask, and Seth Apter's Inside Out stencil from StencilGirl Products. I really like the idea that the secret dream may be inside that tiny manila envelope tied with twine. Below are detailed photos:

This second spread incorporates acrylics, gesso, ​ink, and oil pastel, along with Rae Missigman's Imaginary Bloom and ​Nonsensical Bloom stencil and mask, and Carolyn Dube's Fridge Poetry stencil.

I'm embracing making marks – pouring, dripping, drawing, scribble writing – all while still leaving white!
Below are detailed photos:

No doubt these pages were also inspired by the arrival of spring!
I've been enjoying time planting and tending to my flower garden, and now flowers are popping up in my art journal pages, too!

​Thanks so much for visiting my blog,
​Hope you have a wonderful week!