04 Thursday Jan 2018
Posted in Gratitude Journal
Collaged into the background of these pages are the notes I made for a letter to my husband about the joys of 2017. It was a very difficult year and this really helped me end it feeling more positive about it and hopeful for 2018.
I wish you a happy and healthy new year!
22 Friday Dec 2017
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There is a lot of gratitude captured on this page layout. I had a fun trip to a new art supply store with a friend. I sat on our new couch and watched Saturday morning public television. My husband and I participated in a lot of activities with the Unitarian Fellowship and holiday preparations. And I’m doing a lot of art experimentation. Mostly it hasn’t gone how I envisioned, but yesterday I decided to take a different route. Now I’m excited again to get back to work on it.
13 Wednesday Dec 2017
Posted in Zentangle Method Class
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100 Mandalas, 100 Zendala Challenge, Art, DC345, Diva Challenge, holiday cards, holiday mandala, holiday Zendala, Mandala, Zendala, Zentangle
This is the Diva’s 7th anniversary of hosting the Zentangle challenge. Congratulations Laura! The Diva’s challenge was to create a holiday tile or Zendala. A Zendala is a Zentangled mandala. Join me this Saturday, December 16th from 2-5 to make your own holiday Zendala. Lets share a little holiday spirit while taking some time to meditate and create a small work of art. I will be at the Morris County Art Association Studio 10 Catherine Lane, Morristown, NJ 07960. There is a $5 materials fee that will include all that you need to create 5 works of Zentangled art. The class costs $40/$35 members per session. Please use the contact form on my website or call the Morristown Studio at 973-267-1722. I hope to see you there!
This is mandala 54 of 100 and Zendala 6 of 100.
11 Monday Dec 2017
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This is the last week of my exhibit at the Alhamra Art Gallery in Bernardsville, NJ. Here are some photos of the gallery director, my art, and I. For more information about the pieces in this show see this post.
08 Friday Dec 2017
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Art, Art Journal, Dewd, Gratitude, Gratitude Journal, Journal, mixed-media, Zentangle, ZIA
I’m grateful to be getting back to my art journal more regularly. I created a lot of art this year, but in the last few months I haven’t done as much in my journal and I missed it. I have had a lot to do during this holiday season. I have also had a lot to do with my continuing & increasing health challenges. But not only did I make a To Do list, I got to check a whole lot off of it. It reminded me of Santa checking his list twice. Checking a list as completed and then going back to review my accomplishments and checking them again was very satisfying.
I hope you have a beautiful day and wishing you light in this time of darkness.
01 Friday Dec 2017
Posted in Diva Challenge
I’m having fun playing with this new Tangle Pattern. To see more variations on Dewd check out the Diva’s Blog.
30 Thursday Nov 2017
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I’m happy to be back participating in the Diva Challenge. This is my first post from my new laptop. Getting this up and running should help me keep up with all my blogging and arting friends. To see more Zentangle fun check out the Diva’s blog.
27 Monday Nov 2017
Posted in Art, Diva Challenge, Gratitude Journal, Zentangle Inspired Art
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Gratitude, handmade cards, holiday cards, Thanksgiving, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangle Method, Zentangle Tile
I have been very fortunate this year to have friends to drive me to my many doctors’ appointments and invite me to join in fun activities as I am able. So I decided to send out Thanksgiving Cards as my holiday cards this year. I have been making lots of Zentangle Tiles and people ask me what I do with them and now you can see. They make a lovely accent on a simply painted watercolor card.
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a beautiful day.
18 Saturday Nov 2017
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Art, Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, Art therapy, collage, Gratitude, Gratitude Journal, Journal, oil pastels
These gratitude journal pages cover most of November. In creating all the art for my current exhibit I fell behind in my gratitude journal. The recent election results give me hope for the future. I just hope that immigrants, people with health problems, those who face economic challenges and all of us who hope to believe in democracy can hold on until the 2018 election. The layers of red text on the left hand page were created with inspiration from Claudia McGill’s handwriting explorations. The right hand page is lots of influence from the collage class I have been taking.
I want to come back to the red text. It was made from an image I created with my therapist. She is an art therapist and I make very different things in there than I do at home. Here is a recent one. This is how I feel about doctors in general and being diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of 50. I don’t generally enjoy working with oil pastels, but in this context they are perfect.
They also work as an interesting transfer. I then flipped this over and wrote in 2 directions on the back to do some journaling about my recent health exploits in my gratitude journal. That is what appears so subtly on the left hand page. I think I’m going to have to explore this combination of techniques some more. This was very therapeutic.
Jeanette Clawson Art 