Spread 0112 - "Who Are The Savages?" 05 November 2012 Acrylic paint, vintage and personal images, tracing paper images, black & white Sigano pens. For the first time in my life I am truly afraid. Who knows what is best for us? Who are the savages, really?
Spread 0111 - OGG - Maui 01 Nov 2012 Crackle paste, acrylic paint, vintage and personal images, maps, sigano white and black gel pen. Our first trip to Maui was a month ago yet it still has an effect on me. It was not the perfect trip, but it was pretty darn close. I [...]
Spread 110 - Bow 20 October 2012 chalk pastels, matt medium, tapes, vintage image. I will not become stagnant. I will explore within myself. I will bow.
Spread 109 - Dandy Friends 25 October 2012 Vintage and personal papers, can label, tissue paper, matt medium, acrylic paint, tracing paper image. My partner and I met some wonderful new friends recently and although it was our first meeting we chatted and laughed getting to know each other like we had been friends for [...]
Spread 107 - Transformative September 8 2012 Vintage and personal papers, Acrylic paint, ink, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, matte medium, matte varnish, pencil and colored pencils. It was a particularly bad day at my particular work. Completely computer related and out of our control. I just came home and jumped in my pool, the cool [...]
Spread 106 - Scavenger Hunt 8 September 2012 Vintage and personal papers, matte medium, acrylic paint, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, matte varnish, Signo white pen, black gel pen, red Sharpie poster pen. When I was young my older brother would make me elaborate scavenger hunt maps. These maps would send us on adventures on our [...]
Spread 105 - They Call Adirondack Sprays, found papers, Ink. The process of preparing for an artful weekend for me just makes it impossible not to play a little in the moment. It is like all my paints, papers, fotsom and jetsum call to me, "play with me". I have to just tinker around a [...]
Spread 104 - Four in 1 26 August 2012 Vintage wallpaper, Panther stamp, vintage and personal papers, acrylic paint, Signao white gel pen, black ink pen. And on the last day of our journaling journey with Orly Avineri in San Diego, the memories are sharp yet vague to me. I drew a map of our [...]
Spread 103 - Visual Harmony 26 August 2012 Vintage wallpaper, personal papers, acrylic paint. Sometimes you just need a friend to tell you when to stop. To leave well enough alone.
Spread 102 - pages 5 & 6 - My Voice Box Altered Book, black gesso, private photo, acylic paint, Tim Holtz Distress Ink. 26 August 2012 When I was little I could spend hours creating. For many reasons I stopped. Finding my artistic side again has opened my eyes and enriched my life. I feel [...]
"Voice Box" - pages 3 & 4 Altered book, vintage papers, white gesso, acrylic paint, black ink, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, red tracing paper. 25 August 2012 Seek and you will find. Find pages 1 & 2 here
Spread 0099 - Take Direction 25 September 2012 Acrylic Paint, tape, napkin,vintage papers, builders tape, Tim Holtz Daubers and Adirondack Color Wash Sprays, Zettiology Stamps. There is a comfort in taking direction from someone you know, love, and trust. I spent the weekend with some wonderful, caring, creative friends. We created, we followed directions, [...]
"Spread 0098 - Bruce" Water color paper, vintage and found papers, water-color paint, acrylic paint, gel pens. Do you live with an internal critic? This spread is from one from my first year of art journaling in one of Orly Avineri's classes. One of my favorites and I think where I got hooked on art [...]
Spread 0097 - Operation 5" X 8 1/4 " Moleskine Acrylic paint, vintage and personal papers. I've been painting, collaging, layering all day. Maybe it's the heat here. I need a break. I need some space. I need to get out of my head. This is from one of my very first journals, a small [...]
"Ysabel & Maman" by John Arbuckle The Caption above the envelope on the right reads: Ysabel lifted the fold of the curtain inside the confessional. She felt the crispness of the paper tucked inside the hem. She let out a breath. For days she had been coming to the church hoping that something would be there. Carefully [...]
Spread 0096 "The Nature of My Journals" Stabilo Biggie Woody water color pencils, tape, Faber-Castell Pitt brush pen, black gel pen, watercolors, personal maps and images, Photoshop. 28 July 2012 Today I had the pleasure of taking a nature walk in the woods in the middle of Redondo Beach at the Hopkins Wilderness Center with [...]
"We Were There 6.11.12" 08 July 12 Acrylic paint, matte medium, Press on letters, Personal Photo and paper, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Sigano white gel pen, Micron black pen. Another of my visual journals comes to a close with my biography pages. This one tells the tale of the day our LA Kings won the [...]
Hello and welcome to A Paperbear, my art blog. If this is your first time welcome! Look please take the time and look around at past posts! This is my repost for Seth Apter's "Buried Treasure", where artists repost a favorite blog post. I am currently at the end of a summer cold and I [...]
"Why Do I Still Search?" 9 July 2012 Vintage and personal images and papers, acrylic paint, Montana spray paints, Sigano white gel pen, black gel pen, black and white gesso. So long after why do I still search? All I have is right here. Right now. In front of me.
Spread 0090 - "Cheeper" 17 June 2012 Vintage and personal papers, black and white gesso, acrylic paint, matte medium, matte varnish, Adirondack color wash sprays. Edited: 27 June 2012 There are many things about growing up on a farm I am nostalgic about, chickens are not really one of my favorites, chickens are mean generally. [...]
