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		<title>An art peek</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t posted a peek at my art or sketchbook lately&#8230; so&#8230; here we are.  Still making little things, with a little time and a little glitter (but mostly paint). AN ART PEEK This piece was inspired by a Christopher Paolini quote included with one of the Get Messy Art Journal prompts (they&#8217;re sent out weekly to members to inspire artmaking and connections with the community).  I submitted it on a whim to Brush Magazine and was thrilled that it was accepted and published in Issue 3: Nature. This is what happens when I&#8217;m on hold with the doctor&#8217;s office + have access to watercolors.  Phone in one hand, paint brush in the other.  There&#8217;s no need to get complicated&#8211; five minutes of painting is always five minutes well spent. More of the same.  But with shimmer!  I love using paint mixed with mica or pearl (this palette is similar to the one I have) for its ethereal, airy quality. And lastly, a new (for me) type of handmade book: the dos-à-dos (French for back-to-back&#8230; see, being a French major is v. relevant), which is basically two sketchbooks sewn together, so that the book opens from the back and the front.  I followed a tutorial from Get Messy&#8217;s guest artist for this season, Kiala Givehand.  The theme for this season is kindness, hence the hand cut letters on the cover. I&#8217;ll share another art peek soon-ish! Also On Tap for Today: The Best Time of Day to Do Everything, According to Science from Medium (apparently 6 PM is ideal for creative pursuits) Why you should always put a coffee filter in your plant pots from Apartment Therapy Maybe painting, maybe doing laundry (because who wants to do both?) What&#8217;s inspiring you lately?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I haven&#8217;t posted a peek at my art or sketchbook lately&#8230; so&#8230; here we are.  Still making little things, with a little time and a little glitter (but mostly paint).</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">AN ART PEEK</span></h3>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-blog-width" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_6663_zpstmsikpzv.jpg" alt="art peek" width="775" height="1024" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This piece was inspired by a Christopher Paolini quote included with one of the <a href="https://getmessyartjournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get Messy Art Journal</a> prompts (they&#8217;re sent out weekly to members to inspire artmaking and connections with the community).  I submitted it on a whim to <a href="https://www.brushmag.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brush Magazine</a> and was thrilled that it was accepted and published in <a href="https://www.brushmag.com/magazine/issue-three-nature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Issue 3: Nature</a>.</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-blog-width" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/ACS_0060_zpsqbpja9ci.jpg" alt="art peek" width="768" height="1024" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This is what happens when I&#8217;m on hold with the doctor&#8217;s office + have access to watercolors.  Phone in one hand, paint brush in the other.  There&#8217;s no need to get complicated&#8211; five minutes of painting is always five minutes well spent.</span></p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-blog-width" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/ACS_0043_zpsk3hx8loz.jpg" alt="art peek" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">More of the same.  But with shimmer!  I love using paint mixed with mica or pearl (<a href="http://amzn.to/2CL5VQO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this palette is similar to the one I have</a>) for its ethereal, airy quality.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-blog-width" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/ACS_0040_zpsuhm2g6hu.jpg" alt="art peek" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">And lastly, a new (for me) type of handmade book: the dos-à-dos (French for back-to-back&#8230; see, being a French major is v. relevant), which is basically two sketchbooks sewn together, so that the book opens from the back and the front.  I followed a tutorial from Get Messy&#8217;s guest artist for this season, <a href="http://www.kialagivehand.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kiala Givehand</a>.  The theme for this season is kindness, hence the hand cut letters on the cover.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;ll share another art peek soon-ish!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The<a href="https://medium.com/the-mission/according-to-science-heres-the-best-time-of-the-day-to-do-everything-fcfb8c428bb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Best Time of Day to Do Everything, According to Science</a> <em>from Medium</em> (apparently 6 PM is ideal for creative pursuits)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/indoor-plant-care-tip-flower-pot-coffee-filter-liners-256126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why you should always put a coffee filter in your plant pots</a> <em>from Apartment Therapy</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Maybe painting, maybe doing laundry (because who wants to do both?)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What&#8217;s inspiring you lately?</strong></span></p>
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		<title>What I made &#124; 007: Gouache edition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 01:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What I made &#124; 007 sounds so&#8230; James Bond.  I assure you what follows is less secret agent and more&#8230; lady making a mess on her coffee table.  I&#8217;ve been completely swept up in Mary Ann Moss&#8217; Oh My Gouache class and have been using gouache in place of my usual watercolors, acrylics and inks.  I even made my own sketchbook (Who am I?) and promptly began painting ships in bottles&#8230; and bottles of Polar Seltzer.   So this post is all gouache, nothing but the gouache.  So help me, gouache.   No need for more nonsense.  Here&#8217;s what I made recently: What I Made &#124; Gouache from Elizabeth D. on Vimeo. I&#8217;ve also been making salads, fall schedules, and less-than-mediocre videos.  So there&#8217;s that. Also On Tap for Today: A worthwhile read: The Class Politics of Decluttering from The New York Times  Pool day! The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly from lifehacker What are you makin&#8217; these days?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What I made | 007</strong> sounds so&#8230; James Bond.  I assure you what follows is less secret agent and more&#8230; lady making a mess on her coffee table.  I&#8217;ve been completely swept up in <a href="https://omg.sketchbookery.com/" target="_blank">Mary Ann Moss&#8217; Oh My Gouache class</a> and have been using gouache in place of my usual watercolors, acrylics and inks.  I even made my own sketchbook (<em>Who am I?</em>) and promptly began painting ships in bottles&#8230; and bottles of Polar Seltzer.  </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/Image-1%207_zpsnmjliu9k.jpg" alt="what i made gouache" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">So this post is all gouache, nothing but the gouache.  So help me, gouache.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">No need for more nonsense.  Here&#8217;s what I made recently:</span></p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/175776371" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="https://vimeo.com/175776371">What I Made | Gouache</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/elizabethev">Elizabeth D.</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;ve also been <a href="https://ontapfortoday.com/2016/06/23/what-to-eat-in-the-summer/" target="_blank">making salads</a>, fall schedules, and less-than-mediocre videos.  So there&#8217;s that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">A worthwhile read: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/opinion/the-class-politics-of-decluttering.html?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">The Class Politics of Decluttering</a> <em>from The New York Times </em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Pool day!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/the-psychological-benefits-of-writing-regularly-1783693547" target="_blank">The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly</a> <em>from lifehacker</em></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What are you makin&#8217; these days?</strong></span></p>
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		<title>What I made &#124; 006</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve shared what I made.  Grace and I spend plenty of time drawing things like &#8220;Dad with a stroller&#8221; and &#8220;Dad with shoes&#8221; and &#8220;Grace in a bed&#8221; and &#8220;Grace in a different bed&#8221; and &#8220;Baby Nick with a shoe&#8221; and &#8220;Mom in a bathing suit.&#8221;  My solo creative time, however, has been a bit limited lately.  Everything is a bit rushed, weird, slightly ugly, and mostly unfinished. Oh, and I&#8217;ll spare you the bathing suit drawing. WHAT I MADE &#124; 006 Materials used: Actual gouache (Holbein, jet black and Winsor and Newton, gold) and Holbein Acryla Gouache &#8212; which is not really gouache, but it is really fun to use (pale aqua, luminous lemon, pale peach and pale mint), Bee Paper cotton watercolor paper (6 x 9 inches, 140 lb) Just a quick little doodle while thinking about&#8230; thinking.  And the power of thoughts.  Keep &#8217;em positive, people. Materials used: Random letter stickers, Pilot Varsity pen (pink, water soluble), magazine clippings, matte medium, watercolors The new season of the Get Messy Art Journal program centers on the theme of introspection (much more my jam than last season, which just didn&#8217;t do it for me).  This is the first self portrait I&#8217;ve done in years.  It&#8217;s a bit wonky, but so am I.  So maybe it&#8217;s very true to life? Materials used: Acrylic paint (sky blue and black), magazine clippings, matte medium, Micron (black 01), Gelly Roll pen (white), watercolors I love that smiling, proud lady.  I&#8217;ve been holding onto that image for a while and figured it was time to put her somewhere more dignified than in a stack of tear-outs. Materials used: Acrylic paint (Golden heavy body + high flow), watercolor and gouache paint I really liked this week&#8217;s Get Messy prompt around ink blots (members have access to a great tutorial from Vanessa on this).  The mix of paint made for some really fun texture. Materials used: Goauche (a mix of brands &#8212; Holbein, Winsor and Newton, Plakkaatverf, Daler and Rowney), Bee Paper The top paintings were inspired by this month&#8217;s painting-a-day challenge on Creative Bug, hosted by Jennifer Orkin Lewis, a favorite artist of mine.  I love these courses for their short and sweet videos &#8212; perfect for inspiring a daily art making practice. And the bottom doodle was in preparation for Mary Ann Moss&#8217; gouache class, which starts Friday.  Just a little playing around with paint mixing and experimenting with how much/how little gum arabic would prevent my gouache pans from cracking.  Judging by the crack-iness, I didn&#8217;t exactly handle it&#8230; Also On Tap for Today: Potting tomato plants from my Dad!  Lots of good recipes: Build a better entree salad from the Whole Foods Market blog Natural ways to make your home smell amazing this summer from Apartment Therapy What are you making this week? A mess?  A new playlist?  Some cookies?</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://ontapfortoday.com/2016/06/09/what-i-made-006/">What I made | 006</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ontapfortoday.com">ON TAP FOR TODAY</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve shared what I made.  Grace and I spend plenty of time drawing things like &#8220;Dad with a stroller&#8221; and &#8220;Dad with shoes&#8221; and &#8220;Grace in a bed&#8221; and &#8220;Grace in a different bed&#8221; and &#8220;Baby Nick with a shoe&#8221; and &#8220;Mom in a bathing suit.&#8221;  My solo creative time, however, has been a bit limited lately.  Everything is a bit rushed, weird, slightly ugly, and mostly unfinished.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Oh, and I&#8217;ll spare you the bathing suit drawing.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">WHAT I MADE | 006</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4634_zps8ymk9a66.jpg" alt="thoughts become things" width="1024" height="769" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Actual gouache (Holbein, jet black and Winsor and Newton, gold) and Holbein Acryla Gouache &#8212; which is not really gouache, but it is really fun to use (pale aqua, luminous lemon, pale peach and pale mint), Bee Paper cotton watercolor paper (6 x 9 inches, 140 lb)</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Just a quick little doodle while thinking about&#8230; thinking.  And the power of thoughts.  Keep &#8217;em positive, people.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4636_zpssbwa49jo.jpg" alt="portrait collage" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Random letter stickers, Pilot Varsity pen (pink, water soluble), magazine clippings, matte medium, watercolors</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The new season of the <a href="http://getmessyartjournal.com" target="_blank">Get Messy Art Journal</a> program centers on the theme of introspection (much more my jam than last season, which just didn&#8217;t do it for me).  This is the first self portrait I&#8217;ve done in years.  It&#8217;s a bit wonky, but so am I.  So maybe it&#8217;s very true to life?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4635_zpstu1sizjx.jpg" alt="season of introspection" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Acrylic paint (sky blue and black), magazine clippings, matte medium, Micron (black 01), Gelly Roll pen (white), watercolors</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I love that smiling, proud lady.  I&#8217;ve been holding onto that image for a while and figured it was time to put her somewhere more dignified than in a stack of tear-outs.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4632_zps0rkznrob.jpg" alt="ink blot" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Acrylic paint (Golden heavy body + high flow), watercolor and gouache paint</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I really liked this week&#8217;s Get Messy prompt around ink blots (members have access to a great tutorial from <a href="http://dans-mon-crane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa</a> on this).  The mix of paint made for some really fun texture.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4639_zps34cjnvy4.jpg" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_4640_zpsqh7nkxsp.jpg" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Goauche (a mix of brands &#8212; Holbein, Winsor and Newton, Plakkaatverf, Daler and Rowney), Bee Paper</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The top paintings were inspired by this month&#8217;s <a href="https://www.creativebug.com/classseries/single/daily-painting-challenge-things-to-paint" target="_blank">painting-a-day challenge on Creative Bug, hosted by Jennifer Orkin Lewis</a>, a favorite artist of mine.  I love these courses for their short and sweet videos &#8212; perfect for inspiring a daily art making practice.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">And the bottom doodle was in preparation for <a href="http://omg.sketchbookery.com" target="_blank">Mary Ann Moss&#8217; gouache class</a>, which starts Friday.  Just a little playing around with paint mixing and experimenting with how much/how little gum arabic would prevent my gouache pans from cracking.  Judging by the crack-iness, I didn&#8217;t exactly <em>handle it</em>&#8230;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Potting tomato plants from my Dad! </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Lots of good recipes: <a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/build-better-entr%C3%A9e-salad" target="_blank">Build a better entree salad</a> <em>from the Whole Foods Market blog</em></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/5-natural-ways-to-make-your-home-smell-amazing-this-summer-230801" target="_blank">Natural ways to make your home smell amazing this summer</a> from Apartment Therapy</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What are you making this week? A mess?  A new playlist?  Some cookies?</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Today: What I made &#124; 004</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s 70 degrees and the sun is shining in Boston, so we&#8217;re making a dash for the Harbor Walk (it&#8217;s where we do our best puppy watching).  I&#8217;ll leave you with a few sunny creations from the past week or so. What I made &#124; 004 Materials used: Small hardbound sketchbook, watercolors, round brushes (sizes 2 and 6), Winsor and Newton drawing ink and acrylic paint. I&#8217;ve been following along with Courtney Pilgrim&#8217;s Make Your Mark prompts &#8212; they&#8217;re the perfect way to keep up with a daily creative practice.  The last painting (sort of abstracted storm clouds) is my favorite, so far. I think a weather series would be fun.  The senior citizen in me just loves a good weather forecast.  And trips to the post office. Materials used: Acrylic paint, black gesso, watercolors, Winsor and Newton drawing ink, white gel pen, and a pair of small + extremely sharp scissors (I&#8217;ve got the wounds to prove it). I can&#8217;t believe the first Get Messy Art Journal season of the year is already winding down.  I&#8217;ve filled this sketchbook with lots of bright colors and happy sayings, though these pages are a bit moodier than others.  The quote about breaking through is from a recent Elephant Journal post.  It just seemed right to cut the edges of that page, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with how it turned out. Materials used: Cold pressed watercolor paper (9 x 12), watercolor paint and a round #2 brush. These paintings for Grace and our two nieces came together really quickly (as things must during Grace&#8217;s naps, which are getting shorter and shorter).  I almost made one for Clark&#8230; but no. Also On Tap for Today: Checking out a pre-school program (Gaaaaah!) An easy way to get out of a creative rut from Oh, Joy! Fresh air + bubbles on the deck What did you make this week?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">It&#8217;s 70 degrees and the sun is shining in Boston, so we&#8217;re making a dash for the Harbor Walk (it&#8217;s where we do our best puppy watching).  I&#8217;ll leave you with a few sunny creations from the past week or so.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What I made | 004</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/sketchbook%20march_zps28oqmrwk.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="1024" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Small hardbound sketchbook, watercolors, round brushes (sizes 2 and 6), Winsor and Newton drawing ink and acrylic paint.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;ve been following along with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BCb8c63kLde/?taken-by=myfriendcourt" target="_blank">Courtney Pilgrim&#8217;s Make Your Mark prompts</a> &#8212; they&#8217;re the perfect way to keep up with a daily creative practice.  The last painting (sort of abstracted storm clouds) is my favorite, so far. I think a weather series would be fun.  The senior citizen in me just loves a good weather forecast.  And trips to the post office.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2027_zpskhagwlnl.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2028_zpsbbbnzfqb.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Acrylic paint, black gesso, watercolors, Winsor and Newton drawing ink, white gel pen, and a pair of small + extremely sharp scissors (I&#8217;ve got the wounds to prove it).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I can&#8217;t believe the first <a href="http://getmessyartjournal.com" target="_blank">Get Messy Art Journal</a> season of the year is already winding down.  I&#8217;ve filled this sketchbook with lots of bright colors and happy sayings, though these pages are a bit moodier than others.  The quote about breaking through is from <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/02/you-are-not-broken-you-are-breaking-through/" target="_blank">a recent Elephant Journal post</a>.  It just seemed right to cut the edges of that page, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with how it turned out.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2034_zpsf1aj7stw.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Cold pressed watercolor paper (9 x 12), watercolor paint and a round #2 brush.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">These paintings for Grace and our two nieces came together really quickly (as things must during Grace&#8217;s naps, which are getting shorter and shorter).  I almost made one for Clark&#8230; but no.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Checking out a pre-school program (Gaaaaah!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://ohjoy.blogs.com/my_weblog/2016/03/getting-out-of-a-creative-rut.html" target="_blank">An easy way to get out of a creative rut</a> <em>from Oh, Joy!</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Fresh air + bubbles on the deck</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What did you make this week?</span></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What I made this week: A crappy video.  Olé!  (I&#8217;ll embed it below for your viewing pleasure so you can mock me.)  I also made some other stuff.  Mostly all on the same night.  Nick and I caught up on Homeland (by watching 900 episodes), and I was afraid to go to bed since Carrie and Saul&#8217;s escapades usually give me ridiculous nightmares.   So I made a bunch of stuff, and then went to bed.  And had nightmares about the toxicity of acrylic paint.  Whatever, man.  Here&#8217;s what I made. What I made &#124; 003 Materials used: Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen (blue) and Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors This sketchbook goes from subdued (this page) to extra jazzy (everything that follows) very quickly.  The quote is from No Mud, No Lotus and the pen is from college.  Those things seem to last forever.   Materials used: Sharpie permanent marker, magazine cut-out, the Wall Street Journal, Micron pen (black 01), acrylic paint, glue stick We recently started receiving someone else&#8217;s WSJ.  After three calls to their customer service line and just as many promises that delivery would be stopped, it&#8217;s still showing up on our door step (and piling up in our building&#8217;s lobby).   One of the Get Messy Art Journal program&#8217;s recent prompts was street art-inspired, so I used a page of our magically appearing newspaper as a background.   I&#8217;m quite pleased with the hand lettering and I&#8217;m glad I hung onto that random hummingbird cut out (which, I&#8217;m fairly certain, came from a car ad).   Materials used: [Left side] Acrylic paint, Micron pen (black 01); [Right side] Strathmore Artist Tiles (black), Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white), foil sheets, Micron pen (black 01) That&#8217;s supposed to say &#8220;trembling&#8221;&#8230; not t-r-e-m-f-l-i-n-g.  The b looks like an f&#8230; and I meant to fix it, but forgot.  Anyway, you get the point.   The right hand page is another Get Messy-inspired page.  I loved scrolling through Instagram to see how everyone else used that same quote (hi, Julia).  And I love cutting up my sketchbook a bit so other pages peek through. Materials used: [Left side] White velum, Micron (black 1), acrylic paint, Uni Posca paint pen (black); [Right side] Acrylic paint, magazine cut-outs, glue stick On the flip side, a great quote about happiness and and door&#8230; and some of the coral acrylic paint that I accidentally spilled all over my palette, thus necessitating I use far more of it than planned.  (I sort of wish I had spilled the sky blue instead&#8230; can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all.)  Plus a bunch of windows&#8230; and a door. &#160; Materials used: [Left side] Handmade Modern acrylic paint (platinum, from Target), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes (moved around the page with a paper straw), Uni Posca paint pen (black); [Right side] Winsor and Newton watercolor paint (black), acrylic paint, Gelly Roll pen (white) Some brain wave-ish watercolors, a &#8220;good ideas&#8221; light bulb and more cut pages. Materials used: [Left side] All pink everything&#8230; Winsor and Newton pigment markers, Sakura Koi brush pens, Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen, acrylic paint, watercolor paint; [Right side] Grey acrylic paint, paper scraps (cut into cone flower shapes), white Gelly Roll pen, glue stick The all pink page is sort of a little sister to something I made earlier this month and the right side is evidence that I can&#8217;t stop making cone flowers. Materials used: Gel printing plate, acrylic paint, string, cardstock circle, gold leaf, Uni Posca paint pen (yellow), Micron (purple, 01&#8230; I think). Lastly, I&#8217;m finally starting to get a hang of my Gelli plate (used for making mono prints).  I&#8217;ve had one for ages, but never liked anything I made with it.  I think I was over-thinking the process&#8230; which is kind of how I roll.   I really like these two pages though.  I added a bit of leftover gold leaf and some doodling to make the circle look more like the moon. Ok&#8230; now for the video. Art Journal Flip Through Video &#124; February 2016 Art Journal Flip Through &#124; February 2016 from Elizabeth D. on Vimeo. I&#8217;m looking forward to making a few more of these videos and improving as I go.  I&#8217;m glad I managed to paint my nails before filming, though.  That&#8217;s got to count for something.   Also On Tap for Today: An early birthday dinner with my parents Which type of exercise is best for the brain? via The New York Times Building your creative toolkit via Design Sponge What did you make this week?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What I made this week: A crappy video.  <em>Olé</em>!  (I&#8217;ll embed it below <del>for your viewing pleasure</del> so you can mock me.)  I also made some other stuff.  Mostly all on the same night.  Nick and I caught up on <em>Homeland</em> (by watching 900 episodes), and I was afraid to go to bed since Carrie and Saul&#8217;s escapades usually give me ridiculous nightmares.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">So I made a bunch of stuff, and <em>then</em> went to bed.  And had nightmares about the toxicity of acrylic paint.  Whatever, man.  Here&#8217;s what I made.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What I made | 003</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2026_zpsxrlt3ze8.jpg" alt="what i made watercolor no mud no lotus" width="1024" height="708" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Disposable-Fountain-Assorted-90029/dp/B00092PRCA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456594975&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=pilot+varsity+pen" target="_blank">Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen</a> (blue) and <span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Kuretake-Japanese-Traditional-Professional-Crafters/dp/B00KERVO72/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456595057&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=kuretake" target="_blank">Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors</a></span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This sketchbook goes from subdued (this page) to extra jazzy (everything that follows) very quickly.  The quote is from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/No-Mud-Lotus-Transforming-Suffering/dp/1937006859/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456596093&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=no+mud+no+lotus" target="_blank">No Mud, No Lotus</a> and the pen is from college.  Those things seem to last forever.  </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2025_zpsqoky1wx7.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="698" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Sharpie permanent marker, magazine cut-out, the Wall Street Journal, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sakura-50035-6-Piece-Micron-01-0-25mm/dp/B00K3KRJK6/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456596769&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=micron+01" target="_blank">Micron pen (black 01)</a>, acrylic paint, glue stick</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">We recently started receiving someone else&#8217;s WSJ.  After three calls to their customer service line and just as many promises that delivery would be stopped, it&#8217;s still showing up on our door step (and piling up in our building&#8217;s lobby).  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">One of the <a href="http://getmessyartjournal.com/" target="_blank">Get Messy Art Journal</a> program&#8217;s recent prompts was street art-inspired, so I used a page of our magically appearing newspaper as a background.   I&#8217;m quite pleased with the hand lettering and I&#8217;m glad I hung onto that random hummingbird cut out (which, I&#8217;m fairly certain, came from a car ad).  </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2024_zpsqy2czfr2.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="711" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: [Left side] Acrylic paint, Micron pen (black 01); [Right side] <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Black-Artist-6-Inch-30-Pack/dp/B00DERBQJK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456596661&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=strathmore+artist+tiles+black" target="_blank">Strathmore Artist Tiles</a> (black), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sakura-57488-6-Piece-Classic-08-Medium/dp/B00K3KRZEQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456596691&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=gelly+roll+pen+white" target="_blank">Sakura Gelly Roll pen</a> (white), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Plaid-Martha-Stewart-Sheets--Tropical-Red/dp/B007C7XKGU/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456596718&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=martha+stewart+foil" target="_blank">foil sheets</a>, Micron pen (black 01)</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">That&#8217;s supposed to say &#8220;trembling&#8221;&#8230; not t-r-e-m-f-l-i-n-g.  The b looks like an f&#8230; and I meant to fix it, but forgot.  Anyway, you get the point.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The right hand page is another Get Messy-inspired page.  I loved scrolling through Instagram to see how everyone else used that same quote (<em>hi, <a href="http://julestea.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Julia</a></em>).  And I love cutting up my sketchbook a bit so other pages peek through.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2023_zpsardogwgw.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="707" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: [Left side] White velum, Micron (black 1), acrylic paint, Uni Posca paint pen (black); [Right side] Acrylic paint, magazine cut-outs, glue stick</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">On the flip side, a great quote about happiness and and door&#8230; and some of the coral acrylic paint that I accidentally spilled all over my palette, thus necessitating I use far more of it than planned.  (I sort of wish I had spilled the sky blue instead&#8230; can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all.)  Plus a bunch of windows&#8230; and a door.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2022_zpsg0xxkg1x.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="730" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: [Left side] Handmade Modern acrylic paint (platinum, from Target), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes (moved around the page with a paper straw), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Uni-posca-Paint-Marker-Pen-PC-5M15C/dp/B001ANVDMU/ref=sr_1_1?s=arts-crafts&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456597755&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=posca+paint+pen" target="_blank">Uni Posca paint pen</a> (black); [Right side] Winsor and Newton watercolor paint (black), acrylic paint, Gelly Roll pen (white)</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Some brain wave-ish watercolors, a &#8220;good ideas&#8221; light bulb and more cut pages.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2021_zpscwkwvrfy.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="724" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: [Left side] All pink everything&#8230; Winsor and Newton pigment markers, Sakura Koi brush pens, Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen, acrylic paint, watercolor paint; [Right side] Grey acrylic paint, paper scraps (cut into cone flower shapes), white Gelly Roll pen, glue stick</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The all pink page is sort of a little sister to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BBQeoXCy14m/?taken-by=elizabethev" target="_blank">something I made earlier this month</a> and the right side is evidence that I can&#8217;t stop making cone flowers.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2020_zpsoejen4j8.jpg" alt="gelli plate what i made" width="1024" height="753" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Gel printing plate, acrylic paint, string, cardstock circle, gold leaf, Uni Posca paint pen (yellow), Micron (purple, 01&#8230; I think).</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Lastly, I&#8217;m finally starting to get a hang of my Gelli plate (used for making mono prints).  I&#8217;ve had one for ages, but never liked anything I made with it.  I think I was over-thinking the process&#8230; which is kind of how I roll.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I really like these two pages though.  I added a bit of leftover gold leaf and some doodling to make the circle look more like the moon.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Ok&#8230; now for the video.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Art Journal Flip Through Video | February 2016</span></h3>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/156958485" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="https://vimeo.com/156958485">Art Journal Flip Through | February 2016</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/elizabethev">Elizabeth D.</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;m looking forward to making a few more of these videos and improving as I go.  I&#8217;m glad I managed to paint my nails before filming, though.  That&#8217;s got to count for something.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">An early birthday dinner with my parents</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exercise-is-best-for-the-brain/" target="_blank">Which type of exercise is best for the brain?</a> <em>via The New York Times</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.designsponge.com/2016/02/building-your-creative-toolkit.html" target="_blank">Building your creative toolkit</a> via Design Sponge</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What did you make this week?</span></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 21:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This week I accomplished a whole lot of half-things.  Which is to say, I started a lot, but finished a little.  I feel like I&#8217;ve been washing the same load of laundry for a month.  And I&#8217;ve been reading the same paragraph of the same book for just as long (incidentally, it&#8217;s a very good paragraph and a very good book).  I don&#8217;t get much done these days. I leave a trail of unfinished thoughts, ideas, sentences, bowls of cereal, and yes&#8230; piles of laundry in my wake.  On the best of days, it&#8217;s sort of funny.  On the worst of days, it&#8217;s sort of demoralizing.  I feel like someone who doesn&#8217;t follow through.  Someone who is unreliable.  Someone who can&#8217;t be counted on.   And then I (mostly) get a grip. When Grace was a newborn, I remember how much it helped to accomplish one thing a day.  Sometimes that was taking a shower, sometimes it was a trip to the library.  As time passed, we were able to accomplish more, but even the tiniest accomplishments went a long way towards building my confidence as a new mom.   So I am reminded to both keep trying and to manage my expectations.  And to not start so many things that can&#8217;t be finished.   This part of life is crazy, but it&#8217;s also really short.  And there is so much that is never finished.  The big things, like the work and joy of being a parent.   This is turning into something waaaay more emo than I intended.  Sorry.  Here&#8217;s what I made.  Or, more accurately, what I started making.   What I made &#124; 002 Materials used: Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, Winsor and Newton drawing ink (974 white), Royal Taklon brush (round 7), Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbook (11 in. x 14 in.). The new season of the Get Messy Art Journal (click to join or learn more!) just started and the theme is happiness.  Much of what I made this week is inspired by the first set of prompts (thanks, Julia!), including this painting of the sky.  I love looking up (literally and, like, figuratively) and I love that Grace has taken to pointing out the moon and stars as soon as she spots them.   So I guess the sky counts as my &#8220;happy place,&#8221; or one of them, at least. Few things make me happier than a clear, star-filled sky.  I don&#8217;t however, like to think about what&#8217;s beyond those stars.  Outer space totally freaks me out.  And don&#8217;t even start with me about aliens.   Materials used: Posca paint pen (grey), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, Winsor and Newton gouache, Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white), Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbooks (11 in. x 14 in. and 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.). This page references the aforementioned really good paragraph in a really good book.  I&#8217;m (very slowly) reading No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thích Nhất Hạnh, which sounds really depressing&#8230; but it&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s really quite wonderful.  The full quote I used for this page is: “Without suffering, there&#8217;s no happiness. So we shouldn&#8217;t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.” Materials used: Sakura gelly roll pen (black), Handmade Modern acrylic paint from Target, Golden high flow acrylic paint (I mixed a few shades to get his pale robin&#8217;s egg-ish blue), Strathmore 400 series bound sketchbook (8.5 in. x 5.5 in.). These coneflowers (a.k.a. echinacea) are one of my favorite things to draw from memory.  And I love Thomas Merton.  And order (or some resemblance of order) definitely contributes to my happiness. I&#8217;m hoping to finish up the lettering on that page sometime this week this century.  Materials used: Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, sea salt (it creates a fun effect with wet watercolors), Micron pen (black 01), black gesso, a cardboard box and x-acto knife (to make the bird stencil). One of my favorite parts of the Get Messy program is the weekly tutorials shared by members.  This week, Vanessa shared tips on making your own stencils.  I got really fancy resourceful and cut these hawks out of an empty Cheerios box.  The quote is another one from No Mud, No Lotus: “The French have a song they like to sing, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux?” (What are you waiting for in order to be happy?) You can be happy right here and right now.&#8221; I don&#8217;t particularly like how this page turned out, so I will likely turn it into something else.  Or (let&#8217;s be serious) trash it. Materials used: Posca paint pen (black), 900 different acrylic paints, white gesso, Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbooks (11 in. x 14 in.), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor paint (Opera Rose). I had an idea about where I wanted this to go.  And then I got carried away.  Thank goodness for gesso.  I like that you can almost see all the ridiculous flowers I painted, and that their full ridiculousness is obscured by a wash of gesso.   This has &#8220;work in progress&#8221; written all over it.   Materials used:  Everything I own that is both pink and an art supply. (I can provide specifics if you&#8217;re really interested, but&#8230;) I saved the most pink and the most finished piece for last.  I sort of love how this turned out.  It makes me happy.  And what more could you ask for? Also On Tap for Today: 7 truths for creative success via Julep (the minted.com blog) Snow day&#8230; Eat Your Luck for Lunar New Year via The Kitchn What&#8217;s on your &#8220;to finish&#8221; list? &#160;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This week I accomplished a whole lot of half-things.  Which is to say, I started a lot, but finished a little.  I feel like I&#8217;ve been washing the same load of laundry for a month.  And I&#8217;ve been reading the same paragraph of the same book for just as long (incidentally, it&#8217;s a very good paragraph and a very good book).  I don&#8217;t get much done these days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I leave a trail of unfinished thoughts, ideas, sentences, bowls of cereal, and yes&#8230; piles of laundry in my wake.  On the best of days, it&#8217;s sort of funny.  On the worst of days, it&#8217;s sort of demoralizing.  I feel like someone who doesn&#8217;t follow through.  Someone who is unreliable.  Someone who can&#8217;t be counted on.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">And then I (mostly) get a grip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">When Grace was a newborn, I remember how much it helped to accomplish one thing a day.  Sometimes that was taking a shower, sometimes it was a trip to the library.  As time passed, we were able to accomplish more, but even the tiniest accomplishments went a long way towards building my confidence as a new mom.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">So I am reminded to both keep trying and to manage my expectations.  And to not start so many things that can&#8217;t be finished.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This part of life is crazy, but it&#8217;s also really short.  And there is so much that is never finished.  The big things, like the work and joy of being a parent.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This is turning into something waaaay more emo than I intended.  Sorry.  Here&#8217;s what I made.  Or, more accurately, what I started making.  </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What I made | 002</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2014_zpsc6hjzsgu.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, Winsor and Newton drawing ink (974 white), Royal Taklon brush (round 7), Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbook (11 in. x 14 in.).</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The new season of the <a href="https://getmessyartjournal.com/" target="_blank">Get Messy Art Journal</a> (click to join or learn more!) just started and the theme is happiness.  Much of what I made this week is inspired by the first set of prompts (thanks, <a href="http://julestea.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Julia</a>!), including this painting of the sky.  I love looking up (literally and, like, figuratively) and I love that Grace has taken to pointing out the moon and stars as soon as she spots them.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">So I guess the sky counts as my &#8220;happy place,&#8221; or one of them, at least. Few things make me happier than a clear, star-filled sky.  I don&#8217;t however, like to think about what&#8217;s beyond those stars.  Outer space totally freaks me out.  And don&#8217;t even start with me about aliens.  </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2016_zpself9hjbd.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Posca paint pen (grey), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, Winsor and Newton gouache, Sakura Gelly Roll pen (white), <em>Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbooks (11 in. x 14 in. and 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.)</em>.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This page references the aforementioned really good paragraph in a really good book.  I&#8217;m (very slowly) reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/No-Mud-Lotus-Transforming-Suffering/dp/1937006859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1454965443&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=no+mud+no+lotus" target="_blank">No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering <span class="by">by </span>Thích Nhất Hạnh</a>, which sounds really depressing&#8230; but it&#8217;s not.  It&#8217;s really quite wonderful.  The full quote I used for this page is:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">“Without suffering, there&#8217;s no happiness. So we shouldn&#8217;t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.” </span></p></blockquote>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_1248_zpsuxr5ncp3.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_1249_zpsz75fyhoz.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Sakura gelly roll pen (black), Handmade Modern acrylic paint from Target, Golden high flow acrylic paint (I mixed a few shades to get his pale robin&#8217;s egg-ish blue), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HTD0BC?psc=1&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00" target="_blank">Strathmore 400 series bound sketchbook</a> (8.5 in. x 5.5 in.).</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">These coneflowers (a.k.a. echinacea) are one of my favorite things to draw from memory.  And I love Thomas Merton.  And order (or some resemblance of order) definitely contributes to my happiness. I&#8217;m hoping to finish up the lettering on that page sometime <del>this week</del> this century. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_1251_zpscxfnxiqn.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Winsor and Newton professional watercolor tubes, sea salt (it creates a fun effect with wet watercolors), Micron pen (black 01), black gesso, a cardboard box and x-acto knife (to make the bird stencil).</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">One of my favorite parts of the Get Messy program is the weekly tutorials shared by members.  This week, <a href="http://dans-mon-crane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa</a> shared tips on making your own stencils.  I got <del>really fancy</del> resourceful and cut these hawks out of an empty Cheerios box.  The quote is another one from <em>No Mud, No Lotus</em>:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">“The French have a song they like to sing, “Qu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux?” (What are you waiting for in order to be happy?) You can be happy right here and right now.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I don&#8217;t particularly like how this page turned out, so I will likely turn it into something else.  Or (let&#8217;s be serious) trash it.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2017_zpsy9genqai.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Posca paint pen (black), 900 different acrylic paints, white gesso, Strathmore 300 series mixed media sketchbooks (11 in. x 14 in.), Winsor and Newton professional watercolor paint (Opera Rose).</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I had an idea about where I wanted this to go.  And then I got carried away.  Thank goodness for gesso.  I like that you can almost see all the ridiculous flowers I painted, and that their full ridiculousness is obscured by a wash of gesso.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This has &#8220;work in progress&#8221; written all over it.  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2015_zpsl49hb2a1.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="747" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used:  Everything I own that is both pink and an art supply. (I can provide specifics if you&#8217;re really interested, but&#8230;)</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I saved the most pink and the most finished piece for last.  I sort of love how this turned out.  It makes me happy.  And what more could you ask for?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.minted.com/julep/2016/02/03/jessica-hisches-7-truths-for-creative-success/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=jessica-hisches-7-truths-for-creative-success" target="_blank">7 truths for creative success</a> <em>via Julep (the minted.com blog)</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Snow day&#8230;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/eat-your-luck-for-lunar-new-year-228005" target="_blank">Eat Your Luck for Lunar New Year</a> <em>via The Kitchn</em></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What&#8217;s on your &#8220;to finish&#8221; list?</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Today: What I made &#124; 001</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This year, I thought I&#8217;d continue to share a weekly look at recent paintings, drawings and illustrations.  Rather than keep posts like this limited to my art journal, I plan to keep things a bit more open-ended, knowing that some weeks I might make time for something really sort of great&#8230; and other weeks, I might be lucky to doodle on a napkin. For the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been caught up in patterns and repetition and have stuck with a single paintbrush, a small palette of watercolors, a few bottles of drawing ink and two identical watercolor sketchbooks.  And 900 paper towels. These days, my ego is a bit more fragile than usual.  I chock it up to the lack of sleep and constant second-guessing that comes with caring for a newborn and a toddler.  And while I&#8217;m so much more confident the second time around, I still catching myself repeating that new mom refrain (be gentle to yourself) over and over. And so I&#8217;m not in the mood to try anything new.  Or risk making something totally ugly.  Or need to clean up a bunch of supplies.  I want to be pleased with what I make.  There&#8217;s something really relaxing about doing the same thing over and over.  And being done when I run out of time or paper or brain power.  This is what gentle art-making looks like for me. What I made &#124; 001 Materials used: Strathmore 400 series 8.5 x 5.5 bound watercolor sketchbook (I alternate between two identical books to avoid having to wait for paint to dry), Winsor and Newton drawing inks, Winsor and Newton professional watercolor and gouache tubes (set up in a super cheap plastic palette), Winsor and Newton Cotman watercolor brush (size 3 round). Also On Tap for Today: Visiting with Nick&#8217;s grandmother before she returns to Portugal Catching up on Serial The Simple Secret to Finding Beauty via Apartment Therapy What are you working on?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This year, I thought I&#8217;d continue to share a weekly look at recent paintings, drawings and illustrations.  Rather than keep posts like this limited to my art journal, I plan to keep things a bit more open-ended, knowing that some weeks I might make time for something <del>really</del> sort of great&#8230; and other weeks, I might be lucky to doodle on a napkin.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">For the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been caught up in patterns and repetition and have stuck with a single paintbrush, a small palette of watercolors, a few bottles of drawing ink and two identical watercolor sketchbooks.  And 900 paper towels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">These days, my ego is a bit more fragile than usual.  I chock it up to the lack of sleep and constant second-guessing that comes with caring for a newborn and a toddler.  And while I&#8217;m so much more confident the second time around, I still catching myself repeating that new mom refrain (<em>be gentle to yourself</em>) over and over.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">And so I&#8217;m not in the mood to try anything new.  Or risk making something totally ugly.  Or need to clean up a bunch of supplies.  I want to be pleased with what I make. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"> There&#8217;s something really relaxing about doing the same thing over and over.  And being done when I run out of time or paper or brain power.  This is what gentle art-making looks like for me.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">What I made | 001</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%204_zpslcdaldcc.jpg" alt="what i made 001 " width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%2010_zpsfovqzgtw.jpg" alt="what i made " width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%205_zpsttcvn4rz.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%206%202_zpsw6rkxqt2.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%207_zpsbzufdbfc.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/FullSizeRender%208_zpsonoghd3m.jpg" alt="what i made" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HTD0BC?psc=1&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00" target="_blank">Strathmore 400 series 8.5 x 5.5 bound watercolor sketchbook</a> (I alternate between two identical books to avoid having to wait for paint to dry), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Winsor-Newton-Drawing-Bottle-Indian/dp/B000KNP96C/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1453989722&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=winsor+and+newton+drawing+ink" target="_blank">Winsor and Newton drawing inks</a>, Winsor and Newton professional watercolor and gouache tubes (set up in a super cheap plastic palette), Winsor and Newton Cotman watercolor brush (size 3 round).</span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Visiting with Nick&#8217;s grandmother before she returns to Portugal</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Catching up on <a href="https://serialpodcast.org/" target="_blank">Serial</a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-simple-secret-to-finding-stuff-thats-really-beautiful-to-you-227053?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Category%2FChannel%3A+Main" target="_blank">The Simple Secret to Finding Beauty</a> via Apartment Therapy</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What are you working on?</strong></span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>All I want for Christmas is this. Materials used: Cold-pressed watercolor paper, Winsor and Newton professional watercolors, and a super crappy paint brush from a set of approximately 900 (it set me back a whopping $2.00 #treatyoself).   I won&#8217;t turn down a good night&#8217;s sleep, two snuggly babies, and a cold and long-running IV of Diet Coke, however. I hope you are enjoying a peaceful day filled with love. Also On Tap for Today: Listening to the Happy Holidays playlist on Spotify You better watch out, you better not text via Boston.com Cruising for Christmas lights What&#8217;s on your wish list?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">All I want for Christmas is this.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/peace%20on%20earth_zpsuq1ldcck.jpg" alt="all i want for christmas" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Cold-pressed watercolor paper, Winsor and Newton professional watercolors, and a super crappy paint brush from a set of approximately 900 (it set me back a whopping $2.00 #treatyoself).  </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I won&#8217;t turn down a good night&#8217;s sleep, two snuggly babies, and a cold and long-running IV of Diet Coke, however.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I hope you are enjoying a peaceful day filled with love.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Listening to the <em>Happy Holidays</em> playlist on Spotify</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/2015/12/22/santa-hijacked-the-highway-signs/yaankL1w8f6b4CFhskSZ2L/story.html?p1=well_ICYMI_subheadline_hp" target="_blank">You better watch out, you better not text</a> <em>via Boston.com</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Cruising for Christmas lights</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What&#8217;s on your wish list?</strong></span></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>[So&#8230; most of this post was thrown together well before yesterday&#8217;s tragic events in San Bernardino.  This is not a post about grief or guns.  But those things, rather than paint and sketchbooks, are what I&#8217;m actually thinking about today.] This week was sort of half-baked, creating-wise.  I messed around a lot, threw out or painted over a bunch of art work crap, and sort of followed the prompts for this week&#8217;s Get Messy Art Journal program.   Semi-related: All of my art supplies now live on this cart, which tucks into our front hall closet, when they&#8217;re not strewn about our coffee table.  City living at its finest. Get Messy Thursdays &#124; Magic, Week 3 This was sort of a warm-up for some of the other things I worked on this week, and an attempt to get a bit more comfortable with the journaling aspect of art journaling.  I used my tiny black Moleskine album for a few quick sketches and projects.  I like not having to paint the pages black (something I often end up doing), but the size (3.5 x 5.5) is not super functional.  I like big sketchbooks&#8230; and I cannot lie.  Also, I clearly cannot comprehend measurements&#8230; because I thought I was ordering this album. Another quick one.  Nick ordered a burrito from our friendly neighborhood Mexican/Chinese restaurant (every neighborhood needs one&#8230; maybe) and I stole the fortune from his cookie.  Does anyone like the actual taste of fortune cookies?  No, right?  Regardless: your special way of doing things is magic.  Or whatever. File this under &#8220;super random.&#8221;  But magic.  If it actually happened. This page is a work in progress, but it&#8217;s supposed to be an abstract of the brain&#8217;s hemispheres.  Pretend, if you can, that it doesn&#8217;t look like a technicolor bowl of worms. I planned to pair it with another quote (about the power of positive thought) from The Secret Garden, but I got distracted.  By what&#8230; I can&#8217;t remember.  Probably because these days, my actual brain feels as wacky as this one looks. And speaking of brains, here&#8217;s my attempt at mapping my own insides.  I took some liberties with my silhouette (a slightly less pointy nose and three fewer chins than I currently have), but the things floating around in my brain that make me me are pretty accurate.  I think. Also On Tap for Today: 10 Self Love Tips to Boost Your Mood Instantly via Kristi Watching Love Actually&#8230; with my dog #noshame How to talk to anyone: the experts&#8217; guide via The Guardian What&#8217;s on your mind these days? &#160;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>[So&#8230; most of this post was thrown together well before yesterday&#8217;s tragic events in San Bernardino.  This is not a post about grief or guns.  But those things, rather than paint and sketchbooks, are what I&#8217;m actually thinking about today.]</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This week was sort of half-baked, creating-wise.  I messed around a lot, threw out or painted over a bunch of <del>art work</del> crap, and <em>sort of</em> followed the prompts for this week&#8217;s <a href="http://getmessyartjournal.cayleegrey.com/" target="_blank">Get Messy Art Journal</a> program.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Semi-related: All of my art supplies now live on this cart, which tucks into our front hall closet, when they&#8217;re not strewn about our coffee table.  City living at its finest.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_9898_zps9o5y80om.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="1365" /></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Get Messy Thursdays | Magic, Week 3</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_9897_zpsg6vdzhzz.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This was sort of a warm-up for some of the other things I worked on this week, and an attempt to get a bit more comfortable with the journaling aspect of art journaling.  I used <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Black-Album-Pocket-Albums/dp/8866135291/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=31gAeeTmJdL&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&amp;refRID=03QG9ZX8KT7XC7S6ZWS3" target="_blank">my tiny black Moleskine album</a> for a few quick sketches and projects.  I like not having to paint the pages black (something I often end up doing), but the size (3.5 x 5.5) is not super functional.  I like big sketchbooks&#8230; and I cannot lie.  Also, I clearly cannot comprehend measurements&#8230; because I thought I was ordering <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Black-Album-Cover-Albums/dp/8866135313/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1449181799&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=black+moleskine+album" target="_blank">this album</a>.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/IMG_9896_zpschmi4kwy.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Another quick one.  Nick ordered a burrito from our friendly neighborhood Mexican/Chinese restaurant (every neighborhood needs one&#8230; maybe) and I stole the fortune from his cookie.  Does anyone like the actual taste of fortune cookies?  No, right?  Regardless: your special way of doing things is magic.  Or whatever.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/money%20tree_zpsw3kqw8re.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">File this under &#8220;super random.&#8221;  But magic.  If it actually happened.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/brain%20abstract_zpsjap82il0.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This page is a work in progress, but it&#8217;s supposed to be an abstract of the brain&#8217;s hemispheres.  Pretend, if you can, that it doesn&#8217;t look like a technicolor bowl of worms. I planned to pair it with another quote (about the power of positive thought) from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Secret Garden</span>, but I got distracted.  By what&#8230; I can&#8217;t remember.  Probably because these days, my <em>actual</em> brain feels as wacky as this one looks.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/brain%20map_zpssno6s6bd.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">And speaking of brains, here&#8217;s my attempt at mapping my own insides.  I took some liberties with my silhouette (a slightly less pointy nose and three fewer chins than I currently have), but the things floating around in my brain that make me <em>me</em> are pretty accurate.  I think.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://lifesprinkles.com/10-self-love-tips-to-boost-your-mood-instantly/" target="_blank">10 Self Love Tips to Boost Your Mood Instantly</a> <em>via Kristi</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Watching <em>Love Actually</em>&#8230; with my dog #noshame</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/how-to-talk-to-anyone-the-experts-guide" target="_blank">How to talk to anyone: the experts&#8217; guide</a> via <em>The Guardian</em></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What&#8217;s on your mind these days?</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Today: Get Messy Art Journal &#124; Magic, Week 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>With Thanksgiving this week, I didn&#8217;t get much done in the way of creating (except for a plate of super easy, semi-lazy, delicious onion tartlets) until last night.  For the second week of Get Messy Art Journal&#8216;s magic theme, I went semi-dark. Once I broke out the paint and brush pens, I was on a roll.  I like when that happens.  Unfortunately&#8230; it rarely happens.   Get Messy Art Journal &#124; Magic, Week 2 Materials used: Sakura Koi watercolors and brush pens, Micron pens (black 1, 01 and 03), clear alphabet stamps  I&#8217;m especially happy with the way the crystal ball turned out.  The purple sort of reminds me of a Magic 8 ball.  I wish I had one of those kicking around these days &#8212; mostly because I&#8217;d like something to tell me definitively when this baby plans to arrive and give me permission to eat another bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream and help me decide between black yoga pants or black leggings. I&#8217;ve always found magicians and that sort of magic to be creepy and my one encounter with a supposed psychic was really bizarre (she thought I was a flight attendant, but knew my grandfather&#8217;s name)&#8211; but I do think what we believe is our reality.  And that extends beyond card tricks and ladies being sawed in half.   If we believe in myths or rumors or love stories, they&#8217;re as good as real.  That kind of power is magic when it&#8217;s positive.  We should believe more good things about ourselves. Materials used: Clear alphabet stamps, Sakura Koi brush pens and Pigma brush pens, Sakura Gelly Roll pens (white and gold), Winsor and Newton Pigment Markers, magazine cut outs, paper scraps (for the crowns), Elmers glue stick (no need to be fancy) True Life: I made this while watching a dog show on television.  On a Friday night.  The glamour of my life abounds.  Also, a Frenchie won the non-sporting group (whatever that means) and the little thing was so cute that my out-of-control hormones almost tricked me into reserving a bulldog brother for Clark online&#8230; but fortunately (for everyone), my hands were too busy with the cutting and pasting and doodling and stamping.  Materials used: Magazine cut-outs, Sakura Pigma brush pens (BB and FB), clear alphabet stamps, Golden fluid acrylic paint (Pyrrole Red), glue stick This one is more fairy tale than magic, but I&#8217;m guessing a wolf would need some sort of magical power to talk, right?  And, then like, eat a Grandma and then dress up like her?  Regardless, most fairy tales are dark, dark, dark&#8230; and terrifying.  The trees outside our house have lost all their leaves, so used them as a guide when sketching the background.  I think they turned out sufficiently creepy.  Oh, and red is usually not my thing&#8230; but maybe it should be. Also On Tap for Today: Not watching a dog show Solving the procrastination puzzle via lifehacker Not getting another dog What did you make this week?</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">With <a href="https://ontapfortoday.com/2015/11/26/today-happy-thanksgiving/" target="_blank">Thanksgiving</a> this week, I didn&#8217;t get much done in the way of creating (except for a plate of <a href="https://ontapfortoday.com/2015/11/29/today-ten-minute-onion-tartlets/" target="_blank">super easy, semi-lazy, delicious onion tartlets</a>) until last night.  For the second week of <a href="http://getmessyartjournal.cayleegrey.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Get Messy Art Journal</a>&#8216;s magic theme, I went semi-dark.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Once I broke out the paint and brush pens, I was on a roll.  I like when that happens.  Unfortunately&#8230; it <em>rarely</em> happens.  </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Get Messy Art Journal | Magic, Week 2</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/if%20you%20believe%20it%20it%20is%20real%202_zps2kbmorfl.jpg" alt="get messy art journal magic week 2" width="1024" height="745" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Materials used: Sakura Koi watercolors and brush pens, Micron pens (black 1, 01 and 03), clear alphabet stamps</span> </em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;m especially happy with the way the crystal ball turned out.  The purple sort of reminds me of a Magic 8 ball.  I wish I had one of those kicking around these days &#8212; mostly because I&#8217;d like something to tell me definitively when this baby plans to arrive and give me permission to eat another bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream and help me decide between black yoga pants or black leggings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">I&#8217;ve always found magicians and that sort of magic to be creepy and my one encounter with a supposed psychic was really bizarre (she thought I was a flight attendant, but knew my grandfather&#8217;s name)&#8211; but I do think what we believe is our reality.  And that extends beyond card tricks and ladies being sawed in half.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">If we believe in myths or rumors or love stories, they&#8217;re as good as real.  That kind of power is magic when it&#8217;s positive.  We should believe more good things about ourselves.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/good%20witch%20bad%20witch_zpssjmsmcvs.jpg" alt="get messy art journal magic week 2" width="1024" height="699" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Clear alphabet stamps, Sakura Koi brush pens and Pigma brush pens, Sakura Gelly Roll pens (white and gold), Winsor and Newton Pigment Markers, magazine cut outs, paper scraps (for the crowns), Elmers glue stick (no need to be fancy</em>)</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">True Life: I made this while watching a dog show on television.  On a Friday night.  The glamour of my life abounds.  Also, a Frenchie won the non-sporting group (whatever that means) and the little thing was so cute that my out-of-control hormones almost tricked me into reserving a bulldog brother for Clark online&#8230; but fortunately (for everyone), my hands were too busy with the cutting and pasting and doodling and stamping. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="http://i1352.photobucket.com/albums/q641/elizabethev/over%20the%20river%202_zpsdprdzx6w.jpg" alt="get messy art journal magic week 2" width="1024" height="768" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Materials used: Magazine cut-outs, Sakura Pigma brush pens (BB and FB), clear alphabet stamps, Golden fluid acrylic paint (Pyrrole Red), glue stick</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">This one is more fairy tale than magic, but I&#8217;m guessing a wolf would need some sort of magical power to talk, right?  And, then like, eat a Grandma and then dress up like her?  Regardless, most fairy tales are dark, dark, dark&#8230; and terrifying. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">The trees outside our house have lost all their leaves, so used them as a guide when sketching the background.  I think they turned out sufficiently creepy.  Oh, and red is usually not my thing&#8230; but maybe it should be.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Also <strong>On Tap for Today</strong>:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Not</em> watching a dog show</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/solving-the-procrastination-puzzle-a-field-guide-to-fi-1744297021" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';">Solving the procrastination puzzle</span></a><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"> <em>via lifehacker</em></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><em>Not</em> getting another dog</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'PT Sans';"><strong>What did you make this week?</strong></span></p>
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