#38/100 The Key to Immortal Consciousness #100DayProject (Journal #8)

I found these life-changing "commandments" in an article I read and decided to print them out and put them in a little book that I could easily read whenever I needed encouragement or direction.

With one or two on a page, I am able to open the book anyplace and start my day with an uplifting thought.

37/100 Puffin Tile #100DayProject

Sorry that I am behind in posting my projects.  I have 3 to post today and a 4th that is still in the works to be posted in a day or so.  Thanks for being patient with me.  I get so involved in doing the art, I find it hard to break free and post them to my blog right away.

This mixed media tile (6"x6") was inspired by one of my favorite childhood poems: The first line being, "There once was a puffin the size of a muffin who lived on an island in the bright blue sea..."

"#36/100 #100DayProject "Butterfly"

#36/100 "Butterfly"

Mixed Media 16"x20"

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens

#35/100 #100DayProject "Flying"

#35/100 11"x14"
Mixed Media

"Flying"

With a quote from Toni Morrison.

#34/100 Revision of #24/100 Now titled: "Today"

This is my revision of #24/100.  After looking at it for a couple of weeks, I had to admit it was not what I wanted.  So I took it out of the frame, put it on a larger wood panel and reworked it.  I am much happier with it now.

Go back and look at the old version, #24, and then look at the revision.  I think it's much nicer.  What do you think?

#33/100 #100DayChallenge "Yesterday" Mixed Media

10"x10"
Mixed Media
"Yesterday"

Zentangle Class at Columbia Center for the Arts and 2 wonderful students.

This first attempt at Zentangle turned out so beautiful.

This is a mono-tangle that I taught them toward the end of the class.  It's called Paradox.  

Yesterday, February 18, 2017, I taught a Zentangle class for two ladies, Christy and Pam, who had never done Zentangle before.

       They were so enthusiastic and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves the whole time.  Christie went home and did an enhanced version of her Zentangle and sent me the picture you can see below.  I am so proud of her.  She does beautiful work and I'm happy to say she wants to go on with Zentangle and continue to learn.

Take a look at the gorgeous work she did on her first try.  Not only did she shade it beautifully; but she added that touch of red that really made it pop!:

As a teacher, I couldn't be happier, for her or for me.

#32/100 2 4"x5" Mixed Media Tiles

I was watching YouTube videos and a lady was demonstrating how she makes some tiny 2"-4" tiles.  Some are small enough to make jewelry, which I am not in the least interested in at this moment.

But I was fascinated by the layers she used to produce the small art pieces.  Never one to say, "size doesn't matter," I decided to try her technique, but on a larger surface.  I cut 2 tiles, each 4"x5" and proceeded to decorate them using the steps she demonstrated on her video.

These are the results of that experiment.  So, all night long I woke up periodically wondering what I might do with two pieces of art, so small (in my mind)?

I'm really into making journals and books, these days: so I might turn them into covers for a couple of tiny books; or I might put a clock works behind each one and hang them on the wall.  I suppose I could just frame them; but for now they sit on two small easels and I just admire them as I pass by.

#31/100 1921 National Business Speller turned into beautiful Junk Journal (Journal #7)

This old book, The National Business Speller, published in 1921 has been turned into a junk journal with lots of fun pictures, ephemera, pockets, tags and even pages to write on yourself.  I had a blast assembling it, binding it, and lastly, tying it up with a green silk ribbon I had in my ribbon box.

STUDIOJINXIE My New ETSY Shop Opens for Business!

I'm very excited to announce that I've opened a shop on Etsy to sell my art work. 

It's a work in progress as I work through the process of adding each individual picture.   Check back periodically to see more, since it takes time to get the full inventory up onto the site.

It's also a place where someone can go to just to look at
all my art without having to click multiple times on blogs just to see more pictures.

Here's the link: www.Etsy.com/shop/StudioJinxie

When you visit the site, I'd appreciate it very much if you like it, to please click the "FAVORITE SHOP" link, right under "StudioJinxie" at the top of the page.

If you can remember StudioJinxie, you'll have no trouble finding it on Etsy.

#30/100 Jim's pocket notebook (Journal #6)

This tiny journal 2.5" x 3" is one I made for Jim.  He always carries index cards in his pocket to write down things he thinks of and doesn't want to forget.

Recently, he came home and said that he wished he had a small notebook to write some of the interesting information people tell him while he is acting as a docent at WAAAM (Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum) in Hood River, Oregon.

Since I am very much into making journals of all sorts and sizes, I decided to make a tiny one that would fit in his pocket.  I printed out a photograph of his 172 sitting in the snow the first winter he bought it.  The front half of the plane is on the front cover, the back half of the plane is on the back cover.  Both covers were made of sturdy cardboard, so he could write without having to find a surface to put the notebook on.

He was very excited when I presented it to him.  A few days later, he went to his regular Saturday morning breakfast with his pilot friends and showed it off.  I believe some of them were actually jealous of that adorable little notebook with Jim's very own plane on the cover.  Don't really know; but I guess they were.

#29/100 Clifford's Journal - Complete (Journal #5)

Remember Clifford's Journal (#18/100)?  I took the empty journal and decided to use it to record my art since I completed my Zentangle training, last April 2016.

Inside, I mixed blank art paper with some of the original pages from the story book and printed and pasted pictures of where zentangle has taken me.  Here you see some of my wearable art.  Some of the first zentangle inspired art I did: a pair of keds and a baseball cap decorated with zentangle.

The 15" x 15" mosaic tile piece I made was from a zentangle design I originally did in a smaller version on a 3.5" x 3.5" zentangle paper tile.

Inside the cover, I stamped the date, "2016," and "Art by Jinx," along with some decorative stamping.

Now I have a pretty complete record of all the art I have done up to the #100DayChallenge.

"Cats" Journal #28/100 #100DayChallenge (Journal #4)

I took a Little Golden Book and cut the covers and pages away from the binding.  Then I inserted sketch paper, cut to size (4 pieces), between each page.  Last, I punched the covers and pages and bound it all with a spiral wire.

These are shots of two interior pages.  On one side is a blank sketch/writing page and the other one of the original pages from the book.

This little journal will fun to fill up.

Cosmos #27/100 #100DayChallenge

I'm getting behind on posting.  So, today I'll be posting 4 projects, starting with:
 "Cosmos."  11' x 14".  Done in acrylic on a wood panel.  The patterns were made with stencils I made from hot glue.  Reminded me of the cosmos, hence the name.

#26/100 #100DayChallenge Curio Tin

This little tin has been repurposed as a treasure trove for some old curios.  It's decorated front, back and inside the lid with old newspaper ads from the 1930's.  In the main compartment is an old photo of a couple sitting on the stoop in front of a house, a house key, a pendant with the initials WW, and an old button and some flowers.  The top of the lid has a button for the knob that is used to open the tin.  It's just a tiny curiosity containing a story that each person will tell differently upon opening the tin and studying the contents.  It would be a great writing prompt.

25/100 #100DayChallenge Mini Love Journal (Journal #3)

This little cutie is barely 2" x  4" and has 18 blank pages for anything the artist or writer wants to put in it...poetry?  words of love?  recipes?
The front and back are covered with some of my original art (except the stamp) I thought the stamp might inspire ideas for the contents.

24/100 #100DayChallenge "It's All I Have"

I'm sorry my picture taking skills are so iffy.  And the glass reflects the light.  But here is #24/100, a mixed media work that doesn't show up very good at all - with 2 lines from an Emily Dickenson poem:
      "It's all I have to bring today -
      This, and my heart beside."
I'm loving poetry these days.

23/100 #100DayProject

"The Storm"

Acrylic on wood.  

The last stanza of Robert Frost's A Line-Storm Song - Poem is included as part of the art:

"Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the sea’s return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern;
And it seems like the time when after doubt
Our love came back amain.
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain." 

22/100 #100DayChallenge "The Raven"

"The Raven"

Ever since I did the mixed media piece entitled, "The Lady of Shallot," I've been fascinated with the concept of the art of literature.  This morning I completed a dark and mysterious piece entitled, "The Raven."  In mixed media with some new techniques used for the background and the first stanza of EAP's famous poem written over the face of the man, himself, and a couple of ravens, one perched above a chamber door.  I love the way EAP seems to be staring at the viewer through the words of his poem.

What do you think?

21/100 #100DayChallenge "Hope Springs"

Tissue paper collage with bird.