Catching up

I've been busy the last couple days again but not so much that I couldn't get a few artsy things accomplished. I played around with a couple faces yesterday. They aren't all that great because I was just quickly sketching on some excess book pages I have from altering a book for Christy's Eclectic Altered Journal class. But at least I'm somewhat caught back up with 29 Faces with face numbers 15 and 16.

I also doodled some flowers and played with my new Prismacolor markers on the book pages. I have a lot to learn with the markers yet. I only have a set of 24 but it's plenty to play with. I really like them so far. I played around with some of my sprays and stencils yesterday too with those book pages. I have SO many book pages I have a lot to mess around with. I will use these in my Eclectic Altered Art Journals... or somewhere.

One more thing I've played with is finishing the couple bound journals I made for my youngest daughter. She keeps a journal now that she's a freshman in college. Just a writing journal. She's not so much into the art thing at this point. But I made a couple coptic bound journals for her with plain copy paper and they turned out awesome. I recycled some boxes for the hard covers and used a roll of white paper I have here for the little ones to play with to cover those with and then used markers to doodle the cover. The second one I left plain for her to decorate herself. I am so tickled with how they turned out and want to make some for myself as well.

I'm not sure what it is about binding my own books that I love so much but I adore the process. I could easily just keep making them and end out with way more books than I'll ever get through so I guess I have to find more people to make them for!

The next thing I need to catch myself up with is Rhomany's Portraits class and the latest Art Geeks prompt. I've fallen behind again. I think that catches the blog up for now. I should be able to get some play time this weekend to do some more before next weekend's big graduation craziness. My baby is graduating. The last one! I can hardly believe it.

So much for being ahead!

I haven't drawn a face since the weekend! I was two or three faces ahead in the beginning and now I'm two behind if I don't get any done today. But I WILL get them done. If not today then definitely tomorrow.

It's been a crazy busy last few days. My youngest is graduating in a few weeks and had his very last "May Fiesta" choir concert this weekend. It's a big deal in our town and they always hold a special little ceremony for the senior choir members. Yes, I cried. He's my baby!

Then Monday I had my sick grandson while his mommy and daddy worked. He was really clingy so he pretty much set up camp on my lap the whole afternoon. Needless to say this did not create much time for drawing/painting.Today I had to grocery shop and then my youngest daughter came to spend the afternoon with me... a kind of last minute thing. She is a summer RA in her college dorm so isn't coming home for the summer. It's just a couple blocks away though. But she has so many jobs and duties there that I hardly ever get to see her and she had a day off and wanted to use my craft supplies for a project. LOL  And now that same grandbaby is here for the evening while his parents are at a baseball game. So definitely not much time for art. I'm thinking tomorrow I am putting on comfy clothes and not leaving the house all day so I can play at my art desk.

One thing I did do while my daughter was here was work on a hand-bound journal that I'm making for her. Just regular paper, coptic bound for her to write in. I got all the signatures sewn together. I just need to put a hard cover on it for her and she wants me to decorate it somehow. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE to bind my own journals??