Playing In My Art Journal

This past few days has seen me playing in my art journal to get shading mastered in preparation for a rather large canvas project that I will be under taking.  It will be a piece for our front living room and I am praying it turns out how I envisage it.  Below are the images of what I have been playing with in my journal.  The white flower has the grey shading and details as if light is coming from above...still not entirely happy with it but hey its art from my perspective right.

I have also been playing around with another of Catherine Scanlon's Art Journal pages...it took a couple of attempts as I was using Golden Fluid Acrylic Paints on this one and after being miserable with it first go around I listened to some suggestions from friends on Facebook and went back in with some Pan Pastels (my favourite medium by far) and I actually like the end result.

Other then that life is plodding right along...family are good and Bek is taking her drivers test this week...that scares me that she is so grown up now...and a Junior in the fall...OMGOSH!!

Anyway..back to the studio I go!