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  • Shiny image of an orange beach sunset created on clear packing tape from a magazine image.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 20: Easy Image Transfers

    / May 14, 2023

    It’s Week 20 of the 52-Week Art Journal Journey, and I’m experimenting again… but not with watercolors… though that was tempting. I figured not everyone would be as excited as I to keep…

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  • All the colors of the rainbow being painted in an abstract watercolor wash.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 19: Go with the Flow

    / May 3, 2023

    It's Week 19 of the 52-Week Art Journal Journey, and we're exploring watercolors this week. Reclaim your creativity and establish a healthy habit of creative self-care with me.

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  • Fun, funky paint effect that gives a wrinkly and smooth effect with wrinkly plastic wrap on green at the bottom, with blue, then yellow above, with orange in the top right corner for a sunshine vibe.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 18: Paint Playtime!

    / April 28, 2023

    It’s Week 18 of the 52-Week Art Journal Journey, and we’re going to have some fun! You’ll need your watercolor and/or acrylic paints. Other things I used are plastic wrap, table salt, coarse…

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    Week 17: Taking a Closer Look from a Step Back

    / April 17, 2023

    We're back to drawing this week. It's not about seeing what I want to see or making it look how I think it should, but about seeing what is.

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  • Image of an art-journal page with pieces of colorful hand-painted paper cut into squares and arranged in a rectangle to represent a quilt.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 16: Our Patchwork Lives

    / April 14, 2023

    It’s Week 16 of the 52-Week Art Journal Journey. And I just had to get back into the paint. If you’re new here, check out Week 1, where we made our journals, and…

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    Week 15: Favorite Things

    / April 9, 2023

    Welcome to Week 15. This week we’re art-journaling FAVORITES. What are some of your favorite things? If you’re new here, check out Week 1, to make your journal, and this journey your own.…

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  • Image of abstract painting on my art journal page. Sun-warm colors over the dark.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 14: It’s Up to You

    / April 2, 2023

    Okay, Friends, let’s do something a little different this week… If you’re new here, check out the Week 1 prompt to make your journal. Week 1: Make this Journal… and Journey Your Own.…

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  • Image of my hand getting ready to outline black crumpled paper print on an art journal page. To relax.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 13: RELAX

    / March 26, 2023

    Welcome to Week 13 of the 52-Week Art Journal Journey! How’s it going? This week you’re going to need some scrap paper, just a bit smaller than your journal page. Scissors, if you…

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  • Image of coloring my feelings, that contrasts dark and light. In a frame to remind me feelings are just feelings.
    52-Week Art Journal

    Week 12: Multicolored Feelings

    / March 19, 2023

    Before you get started with this week’s small art, take a few minutes to do some journaling that’s a continuation of last week’s theme of celebrating and expressing YOU. Well, at least this…

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    Week 10: Painting a Memory

    / March 5, 2023

    This week on the 52-Week Art Journal Journey, we're painting (the emotions of) a memory. If that sounds... weird... to you, try anyway. If I can get comfortable processing things like this, so…

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Work in progress for #AcrylicLandscape2023… Can Work in progress for #AcrylicLandscape2023… Can I just take this opportunity to say I hate working with reds. I mentioned that in this week’s video, and here we are. Doesn’t look like a murder scene, though, so there’s that. I THOUGHT the red I chose would help me get a decent color for the ground in the reference photo I chose. No. Just, no. Anyway, I may or may not try more to fix this forest floor tomorrow, as well as brighten up my sunbeams. Never stop learning, right? My first acrylic landscape. Ooh, I just saw how much better it looks from a distance. 😆🙂 Approximately 7”x5.5” on random thick textured paper I found in a closet. Liquitex Basics pyrrole red, phthalo blue, cadmium yellow deep hue, transparent mixing white, and I think there may be a tiny bit of ivory black mixed in somewhere. Thanks, jeddorseyart and acrylicuniversity #acrylicpainting #paintexperiment #landscapepainting #paintingtrees #liquitexbasics
Leftover paint means more gorgeous collage paper. Leftover paint means more gorgeous collage paper. Would you have guessed quinacridone magenta, phthalo blue, and cadmium yellow deep hue? It’s fun and interesting how many colors can be made with a limited color palette, and how they can go together because they’re created from the same. #collagepaper #colormixing #liquitexbasics
Having some craft-acrylic-paint fun (because recla Having some craft-acrylic-paint fun (because reclaiming your creativity doesn't have to cost a lot) creating the impression of flower gardens this week on the 52-Week Art Journal Journey. Link to prompt in bio. It's never too late to join! #artjournalwithmelinda #reclaimyourcreativity #52weekartjournaljourney #paintfun #artideas #artwithme #craftacrylicpaint #easyart
Nature inspiration + neurographic art = happy hear Nature inspiration + neurographic art = happy heart. Try it! Link in bio. melindavanry #neurographicart #creativeselfcare #artvideo #artidea #artjournalwithmelinda
So much art inspiration in nature. Check out this So much art inspiration in nature. Check out this week's 52-Week Art Journal Journey Neurographic Monarch Wing small-art prompt. Link in bio melindavanry #monarchbutterfly #artprompt #neurographicart #creativeselfcare
This week we're revisiting neurographic art to cre This week we're revisiting neurographic art to create monarch-wing closeups. Make art with me! It's never too late to reclaim your creativity and join the 52-Week Art Journal Journey. Link to full prompt in bio: melindavanry #artjournalwithmelinda #reclaimyourcreativity #52weekartjournal #creativeselfcare #neurographicart #monarchbutterfly #butterfly #butterflyart #sharpieart #watercolor #abstractbutterflywing #abstractart #latesummer #mightymonarchmigration #cnyartist #mixedmediaartist #orange
Practicing creative self-care with my daughter. 😊 There’s still time to relax with this week’s prompt before a new one starts tomorrow. It’s never too late to join the 52-Week Art Journal Journey and reclaim your creativity! Link to full video in bio melindavanry #artjournalwithmelinda #52weekartjournal #reclaimyourcreativity #artidea #artvideo #creativeselfcare #sharpieart #betterwithart
Craft-acrylic-paint-scraping fun relaxation I thou Craft-acrylic-paint-scraping fun relaxation I thought would also be part of a 52-Week Art Journal Journey video prompt. But it doesn't look like that's the way it's going to work out. That's okay. My tired body and brain needed the art break. How have you been practicing creative self-care this week? #creativeselfcare #reclaimyourcreativity #paintfun #paintplay #taketimetoart #maketheart #breathe #abstractart
Closeups of experimental art-making inspired by lo Closeups of experimental art-making inspired by louisefletcher_art’s Find Your Joy, marabethquinart’s Learning to Paint with Paper, yuvalzommer’s “Big Book of Blooms”… as well as some themes I’ve had going on this year. Take time for creative self-care, Friends. Make the art. #reclaimyourcreativity #creativeselfcare #makeart #abstractart #collage #acrylicpainting #learningtopaintwithpaper #tissuepapercollage #asemicwriting #mixedmedia #findyourjoy #bigbookofblooms
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