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Yaay ! today is the day I share with you my second episode of *Scraps of Life*.

In this vlog, I have one or two guests. Please, scroll down to find links of what I mentionned.

Enjoy:

Some notes about what I talked about in this episode:

* The book of Anne-Marie Jobin (in French), Le Journal Créatif.
* My amazingly talented friend Melissa, aka YellowMelle. Here is her Etsy shop and her YouTube channel.
* My KindredSister Micki Wilde’s last online class is so fun and different, go check it out: An Hermit’s Compendium (of imaginary creatures).
* Some of my favorite bookbinding books: Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms, Adventures in Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media BooksAdventures in Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media BooksAdventures in bookbinding: handcrafting mixed media books

3M hanging strips

Here is the finish painting I talk about in the last portion of the video:

She turned out good eventually, I am happy I stuck with her instead of giving her a total facelift (she is made of plenty of layers however).

She is looking for a new home to fill with her magick 😉 Soon in the shop, but you can contact me if you are interested.M h

I am so so happy to introduce you to what makes what seems to me to be a 180° turn. Abstract. No Nixie. No Sprixie. Yes, you have read right.

See, I have been willing to go more abstract for the past year. Because it is something I love looking at from other artists. But me, doing it, was another story. I used to be one of these people thinking «How can a square with a dot in the middle sell for millions of dollars ?» but until you know the artist’s process, who are we to judge. Right ?

I hate wasting my supplies, so I usually use what I call «the end of my palette». When I have leftovers paint on my painting palette at the end of a session in the Studio, I will use it to start (or continue) a page in my Art Journal. But this time I decided «why not actually start a background on a wood panel instead, and see where it leads me», so I played around and loved it too much as it to actually wait for a Nixie or a Sprixie to appear.

As usual, they are meant to be touched, they all have a fantastic texture. And not only the colors tell a story, but each stroke as well.

There will be more to come during this month of July 🙂

I hope you’ll enjoy watching me create one of them:

«Colorful Chaos» is in the shop right here.

«Gentle» is in the shop right here.

«Hidden» is in the shop right here.

«Shine On» is in the shop right here.

«Underneath it all» is in the shop right here.

Happy Monday !

I am finally sharing with you what I have been wanting to do for months (if not years now): a vlog.

It is not perfect, but I am not perfect. Yes I have an accent. Oh yes, I am a dork :p

I hope you’ll enjoy, and please don’t be shy and tell me what you’d like to see in the next edition, and if you have any question you’d like me to answer, leave a comment below to let me know.

Have fun !:

When I’ll finally dare making a video tour of my Teal Studio, you will see how much «old» paintings I have around. Waiting to be reworked.

This is how this painting started. I started by rolling some white acrylic paint over with my brayer, but leaving some of the color showing through here and there. It brings such a good feeling of freedom. Starting anew.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about where I want to go. With my career as an artist. With my family life. With my body image. Which lead me to this realization: I can get there only by sticking to a CREATIVE DAILY PRACTICE. And with something that feels huge to me: SURRENDER.

This painting was totally me being in the flow and going with what was there, and making it work (any of you who tried to paint over this amazing Midnight color of Dylusions spray knows this is a biatch and so damn hard to do anything on top. Love it, still, but learning along the way. Thanks Samie Kira for the tip ;)).

She was in her boat, and her cloud was actually a wave when I began painting it, but then it became a cloud and then another one appeared, and another one. They are subtle and I like that. 
You can’t see, but the Moon is filled with nice silver fine glitter.

This Nixie is looking for a new loving home: go to my shop for more infos.

This is a quick video this week. Sharing how easy it can be to make a spread in your art journal without any crazy supplies.

As I say in the video, I use my art journal as a mirror of who I am at a precise moment (the one I stop everything, step in the Studio, open the journal and do something in it).

You know I love me some new supplies to play. So when Lindy Stamp Gang released their new kind of sprays, I could let it pass. They are in the Flat Fabio line, meaning there is no shimmer in it. However, they are more opaque, so more opaque. I really love experimenting with them and I’m already impatient for new colors in this kind of sprays.

Here is the video, I hope you’ll enjoy watching my process:

Here is the supplies I used in this video (the journal is one I made myself years ago):

Bonjour Butter	Château Rose	Alcohol Ink-Stream	Heating Tool	Stabilo All pencil Black	Golden Fluid Acrylic
Blick Matte Acrylics	Aztec 6×6	Archival Ink-CORNFLOWER	Foam Blending Tool	Mini Rain stencil	C’est la vie Cerise

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