My Etsy store...

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My new Etsy store Lionheart Art is being showcased for the next 24 hours.

I'd love it if you would take the time to visit it - especially if you would share the page on facebook or 'like' it or 'favourite' any of my items....

Thank you so much!!! 

xxx

'If nothing changed.....

...there'd be no use for butterflies'

'Every Day is a Day to Celebrate'

'Sweet Little Songbird'

'Happiness'

Ready to hang

collage/ mixed media work on mdf

Recent collage and mixed media work....

This one uses a magazine clipping of a Kelly Rae Roberts painting.  I LOVE her work:

This one is still wet when I took the picture...I'm so impatient:

Altering old furniture!!

From this:

To this:

And now I LOVE it just sooooo much :)

I paid $20 for it at Goodwill :)   

'Girlfriends'

12 x 12

On MDF ready to hang

Creating a canvas - my process.

Deciding on the elements/ design/ colours:

Prepping the background ready for painting:

The painted background:

Deciding where to place the girls...making sure their body parts all fit:

Almost finished - deciding what last few bits need to be done/ added before I mod podge the canvas:

Close up of the girls:

Close up of the 'truth teller':

Recent artwork....

From canvases, to decoupage on papier mache, to altering old mirrors and photographs...I've been having a  lot of fun with my art lately :)

I still hope and plan to take this further in the future...and am enjoying developing my skills through taking classes and practicing.....

Art journal pages...

A few of my art journal pages from the last year...

Altered composition books/ art journals

These are a few of the composition books I have altered in journals and art journals.  Some tie closed.  

I am closed for Restoration...

I am currently taking part in the AMAZING 6 week 'Soul Restoration 1' class over at Brave Girls and I can't recommend this class enough!!  It is FABULOUS!!  It is the most difficult, heart wrenching, emotional, deep, rewarding, inspiring class I have ever taken.  I have laughed, cried...been filled with anger and love....met some of the most supportive and wonderful people...but most of all I have spent every single free minute creating!!!  I can't wait to take SR 2 in June.  They are running this current class again in April - if you have the time and money then please, please consider taking this class - it is the most worthwhile thing I have spent time and money on in a VERY long time!!

Here are a few pictures of artwork I have created for my coursework...

New creative endeavours....

I wanted to start a new blog showing some of my latest art creations...and first steps into this new field.  I am really enjoying working on canvas and expressing myself through mixed media, collage...and getting my hands messy :)