Fun Art Fonts

Yesterday's art activity involved exploring a variety of hand drawn art fonts for my journaling.  Thank's to Joanne Sharpe's wonderful guidance, I'm learning to expand my lettering skills to make journaling more fun (not to mention beautiful!).

Of course, I had to play with another storyboard template to showcase the lettering pages.  As I said in my last post, they're addictive!

Having Fun with Photo Collages!

These photo collages or storyboards are addictive.  I did a search online for storyboard templates and found The Coffee Shop Blog.  It's wonderful!  Rita is passionate about photography and sharing her creations.  That's where I found this storyboard template.

In Beyond Layers, we've been encouraged to explore 'vision & blur', visual time capsules and storyboards.  I decided to combine all of these in this piece.  I especially love the top left photo in which the interesting texture on the tree is crisp while the background is blurry.  Last weekend my husband and I went to visit our friends, the Woodill's, in Michigan and although we arrived to green grass and spring-like temperatures, Saturday morning we had a big snowfall.  I wandered their huge property with my camera in my hand and Casey at my heels.  I couldn't help my self with the text - I just had to go for alliteration!  I think that's what Casey's laughing about in the top centre photo :0)

Storyboard : Art Every Day

In Beyond Layers Kim has us working on time capsules and storyboards.  Since I've committed to doing art everyday, and Arbour*, the cat, and Casey are never far away they had to be included.  I've used the storyboard template Kim provided and added her "backin" texture after adding a gradient map at 69% to remove most of the colour and then adding a sepia filter to give it a warmer 'feel'.

*We got Arbour as a free kitten from a gardening centre and we couldn't come up with a good name for her.  The next morning, my husband took the nameless little fur-ball to the vet and when the vet walked in kitty arched her back and hissed at the vet.  The vet decided to name her for us: Arbour (as in the garden arbours that arch up in people's gardens as a passage way).  What can I say, it was already on her file at the vet's office so it stuck!