Interview With Mixed Media May Website
My artsy friend, Cindy Jones Lantier, has a fantastic website, Mixed Media May, where she features interviews and examples of art from all kinds of different mixed media artists. I was thrilled to be included for an interview of my own and humbled to be in the company of such talent.
If you are interested in seeing the site and my interview here is the link:
"Mixed Media May" interview with Joanna Grant
If you are interested in seeing the site and my interview here is the link:
"Mixed Media May" interview with Joanna Grant
May Magnet Madness
By special request from some of my dear followers I am posting photos of some of my original art magnets that are available for sale right now. These are all one-of-a-kind originals, not prints. Each is business card sized (2" X 3.5") and made with all kinds of recycled materials and many, many layers of fun and funky little things. I have been making art magnets for almost 15 years and still never get tired of them.
Anyway, all of these that are not otherwise marked as "SOLD!" are still available and can be purchased directly from me. PayPal is easiest but a cheque is fine too. These are presently listed on my Facebook art page here as well.
Purchased through my blog or Facebook page, I will offer free shipping anywhere in North America. Magnets are $10.00US each but I always give discounts for multiple purchases.
Hope that answers all questions from those of who you contacted me about the magnets. Thank you so much for your interest in my work, as always!
Smooches!
Joanna
Anyway, all of these that are not otherwise marked as "SOLD!" are still available and can be purchased directly from me. PayPal is easiest but a cheque is fine too. These are presently listed on my Facebook art page here as well.
Purchased through my blog or Facebook page, I will offer free shipping anywhere in North America. Magnets are $10.00US each but I always give discounts for multiple purchases.
Hope that answers all questions from those of who you contacted me about the magnets. Thank you so much for your interest in my work, as always!
Smooches!
Joanna
What's On My Work Desk Right Now
I have been trying to force myself to work on a larger scale. I have always gravitated to producing smaller scale art because it allows me to see results much sooner. However, I often get asked if I have made or will make larger pieces for customers who want a more significant sized piece of art for their home or office or as a gift for someone else.
These images are from my larger Strathmore journal and each page is 9" X 12". That may not seem large to you but it is to me! I usually will have a number of pages on the go at any given time, all at various stages of development. I like to work this way because more often than not, a page will only get so far in a sitting. When I feel that I am not going to get any further with a given page, then I will move on to work on another. I never try to force myself to finish a page. I have always felt that everything comes to me when it is ready to and always have faith that everything gets done when it's supposed to. Of course, this approach means I have TONS of half-done things on the go at all times, but it also means that often when I get on a real roll, many projects all get finished at the same time too. And that is a phenomenal feeling of accomplishment!
Anyway, at some point these pages may turn into art for sale. Or they may remain just as journal pages. We shall see. I've made a few notes in the caption of each image so you can see what I am using for materials and techniques with each of these pages.
Hope you are all having a wonderful day!
Joanna
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| Gelli plate prints, stamped images, recycled materials (for the hands) |
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| All kinds of small scraps of papers glued onto page and then various rubber stamps used. |
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| Gelli plate print plus stamped images |
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| Gelli plate print plus stamped images |
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| Gelli plate print plus flower images from a napkin, dimensional paint, stamped images and face image prints |
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| Gelli print on tissues, flower images from a napkin, Gelli print scraps, rubber stamping |
MORE FREE BACKGROUNDS FOR YOU !!
Hello everyone! As always, I have some more goodies for you to use in your own arty adventures, whether for mixed media, scrapbooking, collage or art journaling. These are some more of my Gelli Plate printed pages you've seen me blog about over the past couple of months.
Following are several background pages I created that you are welcome to download to your own computer for future use. Just right click on each image and save it to your system. You can print them off whenever you like to use as you like. If you do create stuff to post or to sell, I would appreciate it if you cite your source.
Have fun and don't forget, I LOVE to see what you create with these goodies.
Cheers!
Joanna
Following are several background pages I created that you are welcome to download to your own computer for future use. Just right click on each image and save it to your system. You can print them off whenever you like to use as you like. If you do create stuff to post or to sell, I would appreciate it if you cite your source.
Have fun and don't forget, I LOVE to see what you create with these goodies.
Cheers!
Joanna
"Strength Of Purpose" Simple Art Journal Page - Part 6
Today's post is another in my series of simple art journal pages that can be done quickly and with minimal fuss or supplies. Again, I am using one of my Gelli Plate printed papers that I didn't like very much and didn't really know what to do with for the base of the collage. I am working in my Strathmore Bristol/Vellum Art Journal (5.5" X 8")
The base piece of Gelli plate printed paper was pinky-coppery-gold with a bit of black from a stencil ghost print. Pretty bland, so I glued it into the journal and once the page was dry, I dragged a palette knife loaded with lime green acrylic paint vertically down the page. When the green paint had dried, I did some stacked journaling on top of it in white Gelly Roll pen. Then I used my 1.5" diameter sponge spouncer to blob on some purple circles, which were overlaid with rings of neon orange (which barely show up in the photos), and then scribbly white outlines . Now the page is looking a little more interesting! But, I am still not that happy with it.
So, my next step was to take some India Ink in an eye dropper and drip it down the page from the top edge, allowing the drips to end at different lengths and then set it aside to dry once again.
Now what?? As with other journal pages, here is where the page sat for a couple of months. I had NO idea where to go from here. I'd see the page every now and then when I came to work in this journal. I'd sit and look at it for a few minutes and inspiration would NOT come so I'd go do something else. Until, that is, a few nights ago when I was rummaging around in my hoarder's pile of images and stuff and found this awesome vintage image of a woman warrior. I love it when I discover treasures like this among all the crap I refuse to part with! Isn't she awesome? She looks kinda pissed at someone and I sure wouldn't mess with that big-ass sword of hers!
I ripped the edges of the image to give it a battered, vintage-y look and then ran a black ink pad around it so no white edges showed. I find that really helps when you are going for a vintage or grungy look. Then I fiddled with placement of the image on the page and when I liked where she would live, glued her down. Once she was in place, I realized that I didn't like how the black drips were cut off by the image. They no longer looked as random as I wanted.
So the final step was to take my India Ink marker (Faber Castell Pitt Pen) and embellish those drips a bit so they looked better. First, I tried India Ink in the eye dropper again, but it would not adhere to the smooth paper the image was printed on, so the marker was the next best option.
And there you have it! I opted to leave this page simple because it has lots of power in it as it is. It did not strike me as the kind of page that needed to be too fussy. And the title of it, "Strength Of Purpose," came to me in a flash as soon as it was done. When the names come to me that fast, I know I am tuned in what the piece is saying to me.
Hope you enjoyed this lesson. See you again soon, my friends!
Joanna
The base piece of Gelli plate printed paper was pinky-coppery-gold with a bit of black from a stencil ghost print. Pretty bland, so I glued it into the journal and once the page was dry, I dragged a palette knife loaded with lime green acrylic paint vertically down the page. When the green paint had dried, I did some stacked journaling on top of it in white Gelly Roll pen. Then I used my 1.5" diameter sponge spouncer to blob on some purple circles, which were overlaid with rings of neon orange (which barely show up in the photos), and then scribbly white outlines . Now the page is looking a little more interesting! But, I am still not that happy with it.
Now what?? As with other journal pages, here is where the page sat for a couple of months. I had NO idea where to go from here. I'd see the page every now and then when I came to work in this journal. I'd sit and look at it for a few minutes and inspiration would NOT come so I'd go do something else. Until, that is, a few nights ago when I was rummaging around in my hoarder's pile of images and stuff and found this awesome vintage image of a woman warrior. I love it when I discover treasures like this among all the crap I refuse to part with! Isn't she awesome? She looks kinda pissed at someone and I sure wouldn't mess with that big-ass sword of hers!
I ripped the edges of the image to give it a battered, vintage-y look and then ran a black ink pad around it so no white edges showed. I find that really helps when you are going for a vintage or grungy look. Then I fiddled with placement of the image on the page and when I liked where she would live, glued her down. Once she was in place, I realized that I didn't like how the black drips were cut off by the image. They no longer looked as random as I wanted.
So the final step was to take my India Ink marker (Faber Castell Pitt Pen) and embellish those drips a bit so they looked better. First, I tried India Ink in the eye dropper again, but it would not adhere to the smooth paper the image was printed on, so the marker was the next best option.
And there you have it! I opted to leave this page simple because it has lots of power in it as it is. It did not strike me as the kind of page that needed to be too fussy. And the title of it, "Strength Of Purpose," came to me in a flash as soon as it was done. When the names come to me that fast, I know I am tuned in what the piece is saying to me.
Hope you enjoyed this lesson. See you again soon, my friends!
Joanna
UPDATE Great Canadian Travelling Art Journal Challenge
Greetings fellow art journalers! I thought you would enjoy an interim update on the Great Canadian Travelling Art Journal project that we started back in February. If you missed that post, click HERE. You can see what it looked like in its "before" state.
As a reminder to you of how the project got started, I took a few Christmas cards and recycled them into a little art journal that measures about 6" X 6" and has 16 pages in it. Each artist is doing one page in the journal as it travels across Canada and back.
We've now had half a dozen different artists take a turn at creating a truly unique page in the journal and I must say, we have some phenomenally talented people taking part. Here are some of the artist's work (each artist is noted below their photos).
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| Rebecca Uren |
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| Kimberly Ans |
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| Close Up - Kimberly Ans |
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| Close Up - Kimberly Ans |
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| Jane Super "We are all like the bright moon, we all have our darker side." Kahlil Gibran |
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| Nancy Allingham |
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| Nancy Allingham |
This little journal is going to be a really special, one of a kind treasure when it is done. I can't wait to see it all finished. It has one more stop in British Columbia before it heads to New Brunswick and then back across Canada home again. Stay tuned. I'll have more updates as our featured artists finish their pages.
Thanks for watching!
Joanna
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