Link: Valentine Postcard Tutorial

Lyric Kinard has posted a tutorial  at the Sketchbook Challengle blog showing how to make a collage Valentine Postcard.

Drawings from Geneviève Crabe's Tangle Journal 2012

These are a couple of the lines drawings from Geneviève Crabe's Tangle Journal 2012.  She is having a giveaway and I wanted to be sure you knew about it.  You can find out more at  her blog. 


The first one I have already posted in the review I wrote about her Tangle Journals.  I painted it using Peerless Watercolors, but have only recently got around to tangling it.  I used Micron Pigma Pen, and added highlights with a white Neocolor II water-soluble wax pastel.

The second drawing was also tangled with a Micron Pigma and then painted entirely with the Neocolor II Wax pastels.  I used a waterbrush, but was careful not to wet the paper more than was needed to blend the color, and I left some color dry.  There was no buckling of the paper.

Link: A Valentine Creative Paperclay® Delight Clay Project

Barbara Moore has posted a tutorial showing how she made Valentine Heart embellishment with Delight Air Dry Modeling Material.

Link: Zentangle Journal Page #5 - Tangle and Writing Prompts

Patty Farrell has posted a zentangle discussion "Are There Perfect Zentangles" and both a tangle and a writing prompt.

Link: Journaling Background using Spray Gesso

Lesley Venable demonstrates how she creates a beautiful 'doily' background in her art journal using Spray Gesso.

I know!  I'd never heard of Spray Gesso either.  It looks pretty neat.

Link: Doodling over a paper-pasted collage

Leslie Tucker Jennison shows how she doodles over paper-pasted collages using ephemera from her travels and local events over at the Sketchbook Challenge blog.

If you aren't familiar with the Sketchbook Challenge you might want to check out How the Challenge Works.  Besides all the fantastic mixed media tutorials, there are monthly prizes, a Flickr group and you can participate whenever you like--no minimums or maximums or themes required!

Link: Neil Burley Adds ‘Templates’ section to his blog

Neil Burley has added a section of templates that he has used for his projects over the years.