Art journaling again and Art by Candlelight

Yes, it's been a while, but I got back into my art journal again last night. I struggled at first, but then just started to relax and play. Time to finally sit down and play with my rubber stamps I won from The Rubber Café designed by Jamie Dougherty.

Art journal spread using modelling paste, gesso, paint, spray stencils, stamps, fibres, and more.

I love that feeling. And I adore the results as well. What are your weekend creativity plans?

I'm celebrating Earth Hour again tonight, and challenged my friends to Art by Candlelight over at Facebook. If you want to participate, just spend one hour at 8:30 p.m. tonight local time, and create something, but without any lights on. Keep to candlelight, and show your support for our planet's well-being. Come back later and post what you created on Flickr if you'd like to share.

Have fun this weekend!

Art by Candlelight Encaustic Collage

If you've checked out my blog in the last week, you'll know that I started a new tradition - Art by Candlelight. The premise was to celebrate Earth Hour at 8:30 p.m. local time, by creating art by candlelight. My husband is a great supporter of my art hobby, and went to find tapers for me so that I had enough light to work with. 

I set up an event in Facebook and had other arting friends going along. Some may even being finishing up their art as I type this. It was fun to see people getting excited about this, because there wasn't a lot of publicity this year locally about Earth Hour. So I set up my dining room table, and started to work on my collage.

I've been taking the Act Natural course by Julie Prichard, and it's been wonderful. I love the grungy (yes Liz, I said grungy again) style of the pieces she created designing the course. I couldn't wait to dive in. So I watched Lesson 1 again, and then started to gather my media. I had printed several vintage papers found on Graphics Fairy's website for free download. And I got out my acrylic glazing liquid and titan buff heavy body Golden paints, along with my soft gel matte medium. And I pulled out a 12X12 wrapped canvas and got to work. 

Once I had completed the collage, I realized that I wanted to seal it somehow, and well, here I had all this hot wax around me from the candles. So I sealed it up in a sort of encaustic style.

How did you celebrate Earth Hour? Did you celebrate Art by Candlelight too? Link me up to your artwork. I'd love to see what we all created during our 'dark' hour.

Celebrate Earth Hour with me - Art by Candlelight

Hi everyone. As you may know, Saturday is a day to celebrate our connection to the earth and a time to show our support for conservation of energy. Earth Hour is the largest environmental event in history. Be a part of it and show your support.

Celebrate Earth Hour with me, this Saturday, March 31st at 8:30 p.m. local time for you, and art by candlelight. Many of us would agree that 2012 has been an unprecedented year for global warming, and we are definitely feeling its affects. Send your message to local governments to push for change when it comes to climate control. How?

Art by Candlelight is my first annual art event to encourage you to celebrate Earth Hour doing something you love, in a completely different way. Turn off your lights at 8:30 p.m. and pick up your brushes, your papers, your media and paints and Art by Candlelight.

Spend the hour creating something meaningful to you about Earth Hour, whether it is what you see in the dark, what you love about nature, how you make efforts to conserve the earth, or your feelings on climate change. Art about whatever you like. Just come back to share your work at this Flickr group.

To find out more about Earth Hour, check out their website. Sign up to show your support, or donate to help make a positive change when it comes to climate change and our world. I hope you will join me. If you plan to, please comment here and be sure to post your art work so that we can all enjoy it!

Hope to see your art work there next week!