Morning beginnings...

A little coffee...

a little paint..

How do you begin you mornings?

WOYWW inspired by 21 Secrets

I'm linking up with Julia over at Stamping Ground today.

WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday)

This is what my desk most recently looked like
(before I put the piece of art that is in the foreground away
so that the cats don't chew on it).
The rest of the stuff always stays there.

I signed up for 21 Secrets
at Dirty Footprints Studio
to learn more about art journaling.
The above is inspired by Tammy Garcia's, of Daisy Yellow, workshop.
I love to learn about products that I've never used.

I am having so much fun!

Hop over to Stamping Ground to be inspired
by a few other artists that are playing along.

Also, don't forget that my May Flower Challenge starts May 1st.
I'll be blogging about flowers every day during May.
I hope you'll join me at least for a day.

Flowers ...

It's Spring!

It has finally been above 50 degrees in NY. Yippee!

I'd like to think that means that Spring is finally here (fingers crossed).

Spring brings flowers so I've had flowers on my brain.

Louise Gale started her monthly Creative Color Challenge up again

so I'm jumping in with flowers, of course.

A little water color fun.

I almost forgot, it is Paint Party Friday, too. 

Thanks for stopping by.

WOYWW - Art Journaling

Fellow WOYWW bloggers and followers, thank you for all the love last week!

Here is my desk (after many piles were moved). 

Living in a 320 square foot apartment means that my desk has multiple uses and for the past couple of weeks it has served as a collecting space for mail, magazines, collected art supplies, and other random "I'm not sure what to do with this" stuff. (Secret, I finished my sketchbook by creating a workspace on my bed.)

So, here is my desk this week:

I recently purchased a journal at a discount and I decided that my first page was going to be a reminder to myself. This journal is going to be a place for me to play with paints, inks, stamping, etc.

Be Brave

I'm not sure what it is about the blank page but sometimes I can stuck on it. 

Does a blank page ever intimidate you?

By the way, if you missed my post on Monday you can find it here. Monday was my 300th post and I'm giving away one of my photographic prints to one of you who comment on that post. So hop over and leave a comment. 

I'm linking up with Julia's WOYWW. I encourage you to visit a few desks for inspiration.

October Color Challenge

Blogtoberfest Day 28...I fell off the wagon for a few days.

I'm linking up with Louise Gale's monthly Color Challenge.
This month color challenge was woodgrain. I love browns so I enjoyed this and found that I wanted to use brown often.

If you've been following along this month you may have noticed that I'm a little obsessed with leaves lately. I am having so much fun drawing, doodling, painting, stamping, etc.

I was inspired to use a large oak leaf and my watercolors to stamp.

I painted the back of each leaf with  watercolors and pressed the leaf to the paper. Depending on the look you want you may want to dry each one as you go.

I then created an abstract painting using the same technique. 

                     

I love how the abstract turned out. The lines, the pattern - it reminds me of aspen trees in the snow.

During a walk in Central park yesterday I collected very small leaves and will be creating more leaf art today. Be sure and visit and see what else I create.

Visit Louise's website to see all the wonderful art that was created with this color combination.

WOYWW - Leaves

Blogtoberfest: Day 17
(blogging every day during the month of October)


I'm linking up with Julia at Stamping-Ground today for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW).

Well, my desk kind of looks the same, but I live in 320 square feet, and I haven't found a home for everything I bought with I visited my parents. So, to use my desk I just move piles off and put them back. I'm sure that my desk will look like this for a few weeks.

At the top of the picture above is a collage that I made for a page in the Sketchbook Project journal that  I am doing. Simply made out of origami paper.

Over the weekend I created art from leaves. 

Sketching...

and stamping by painting the back of the leaf with watercolors and pressing it to paper. 

Here I stamped and sketched...

Autumn Leaf Stamping           http://lorimoonstudio.blogspot.com  (c) 2012 Lori Moon

And, here is a glimpse at one of the pieces that I worked on for Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge for October. You'll have to stop back on the 28th or 29th of this month to see more of this. 

Hop over to Stamping Ground and check out a few other desks.

As always, thanks for stopping by, leave a little love in the comments section.