Trish's Artistic Adventures

The prompt for week 34 for Journal52 was Alphabetical. I started out adhering a river of thick letters to my page and covered the whole pa...

Week 33 for Journal52 was about Gratitude. I am very thankful for many things in my life. I first covered the page with some hearts that ...

The prompt for week 32 for Journal52 was Favourite Foods. I love the Fall when it is harvest time and all the fresh vegetables are so deli...

This week's prompt in Journal52 was Friendship. I did the background on this two page spread on the gelli plate and I made the circles...

The prompt for week 30 was Positive Words. I made a tag to go into a pocket in my Happiness File Folder Journal. I sectioned off the tag a...

The prompt for week 28 of Journal52 was Technology. I started by collaging the whole page with a map page from an atlas. Then I did some p...

This is a two page spread that I did at a workshop with Ania Dabrowska aka Finnabair. The workshop was at The Art House Studio in Cambridg...

I had a lot of fun making this scene for week 26 in Journal52. The prompt was "Under the Sea". I used a page in a tall journal t...

The prompt for week 25 in Journal52 was "Nature". I did a collage for this page. The background paper was recycled from paper th...

The prompt for week 24 in Journal52 was "Courage". It made me remember my own struggle years ago. I used some spackle scraped th...

For this page I took my inspiration from a journal page done by Kasia Krzyminska.  I gessoed the page and then added dimension by scraping...

The prompt for week 22 was Travel. We were to do a page that showed one of the ways we like to travel. I looked in my paper stash and I fo...

The theme for week 21 was to draw a mandala. I really like this shiny, colourful mandala that I had done 3 years ago and posted it on this...

The theme for this week in Journal52 was Book Inspired. I drew the owl on a separate piece of paper and coloured it and cut it out. The b...

Photography was the theme for Journal52, week 19. I chose a picture of myself holding a mask to my face. I cut just myself from the photo ...

The theme for week 18 of Journal52 was Creative Hands. I decided to use the lyrics from the Beatles' song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand...

In what ways do you refresh yourself? This was the prompt for week 17 for Journal52. I first gessoed my page and then added acrylic paint...

This page, for the prompt "Party Animals", was done with my grade two class to demonstrate the crayon resist technique. The scen...

I stenciled gesso onto the background of this page and then added paint, stamping and splatters. I drew and painted two watercolour painti...

I started this page by covering it with Tim Holtz patterned tissue paper. I put a light coating of gesso on it and then stenciled the back...