NATURE JOURNAL Using Colors of the World Crayola Crayons in my Nature Journal? Yes! Beach Treasures!

 

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NATURE JOURNAL Treasure! A Masked Mystery Soved!

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NATURE JOURNAL Ring in the Summer Solstice with Rock Music

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NATURE JOURNAL Create a Story with Images from Your Day...

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NATURE JOURNALING Happy Earth Day! From the Ethereal to the Sedimentary to the Minuscule...

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NATURE JOURNAL Every Rock has a Story to Tell! Listen Carefully!

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NATURE JOURNAL The Search for Kyanite, Looking for Blueberry Buds, Painting a Landscapito

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NATURE JOURNAL A View out the Night Kitchen, Early Spring Forest Floor, Parasitic Plants and Animals

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Nature Journal How big is a boulder? How small is a pebble? And a spring frost...

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First Full Day of Spring! Violas, Nuthatches, and a Bobcat Memory

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils "Dip the Tip" Watercolor Pencil Fun (August 2019)

More play with the "Dip the tip of the watercolor pencil into water and go directly onto the sketchbook page with it" method.

Lots of pigment and texture!

36 set of Derwent Watercolour Pencils and a Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#PlaysWithPencils Space Rocks! Version 3 (tan background)

Derwent Metallic Pencils in a Strathmore Toned Tan Sketch Paper Journal.

When not tilted toward the light source, the page looks a little blah.

On these rocks I decided to do some mark making with my Lamy fountain pen.

#PlaysWithPencils Space Rocks! ver. 1 and 2 (black backgrounds)

Space Rocks colored with Derwent Metallic Pencils. The left hand version is drawn on black gesso in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal. The right hand version is drawn in a sketchbook with black paper.

The heavy texture in the Jane Davenport comes across even when the page has been gessoed.

Move paper around in the light to catch the metallic glow.

Walking through the Stone Forest.. the Jasper Elm Tree

Walking through the Stone Forest I came upon this tree...

Ulmus lapidis jaspidis (Jasper Elm Tree)

QOR Watercolors in Strathmore 400 Series Wirebound Watercolor Art Journal.

On a background of random stamping.

Black Sharpie Ultra-fine Marker with a few touches of GellyRoll Metallic Pen.

"Staring at a Rock" One of the 7 Types of Ordinary Happiness by Leunig: River Rocks

River rock designs done with Lamy Safari Pen and Noodlers Bulletproof black ink on smooth Bristol paper.

Side view with water swirls.

View from above with water swirls.

View from above with grey watercolor water swirls.

Tall river rocks with swirls below.

Side view rocks with watercolor and white water.

Art Journal Process: Crystal Geode Tunnel Pages

Creating "Tunnel Pages" in my journal:

I started with tearing a rough rock shape into the page. Then traced around the hole. When I tore the second hole, I made sure to leave a border showing. Lastly, I traced the second hole onto the third page.

I drew the outside of the geode around the first hole and used Daniel Smith Watercolors to paint it in. Primatek colors granulate nicely and look super on rocks. The geode is a green color called Jadeite Genuine.

On the second page, I used Acrylic Matte Medium to glue down pieces of real mica to represent the finer crystal inner layer of the geode. 

On the third page, I painted the amethyst crystals with watercolors and added just a touch of Stickles for sparkle!

I finished off the geode with a miner Gnome inspired by the book Watercolor Fairies (see link below). I used Ranger Distress Markers to color him in.

The face on the Celtic Tree is peeking through the tunnel page.

Art Supplies to play with:

Heartstones, River Rocks, and Purple Pebbles

Take joy in painting a rock! Watercolor pencils and acrylic glazing medium in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media.

Watch the video to see my process using watercolor pencils and acrylic glazing medium.

I have a habit of picking up stones and putting them in my pocket.

Wise Old Possum Woman says a rock with a white band that completely encircles it is called a Wishing Stone. If you find one you can make a wish, but for the wish to come true you must then throw the rock into a lake. Two white bands means two wishes!

The center concretion "Fairy Stone" comes from Canada. It was formed thousands of years ago from sand and clay in a large glacier lake. 

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Playing with earth on Earth Day...

First Sunday in April at Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center.

Layers of mud, yes, real mud, sand resin, acrylic paint, and just a touch of glitter paint.

"Petroglyphs" were carved with the handle of a paint brush. And, yes, this IS in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Sketchbook. 

#DannyGregoryQuotes #3DaysinParsippany #ParsippanyPastelMountains

500 million years ago

a chain of volcanic islands

formed of polychromatic basaltic rocks

crashed into the Jersey Shore

creating the famous Parsippany Pastel Mountains

that grew to tremendous heights

in the western portion of the township

but were eventually worn down

by the shimmering and glimmering

 Rockaway River

 that flows into a basin

created by the Wisconsin Glacier

around 21,000 BC and looks like 

an old crone picking blueberries 

currently called Lake Hiawatha

in an area called 

parsipanong 

a word from a Lenape Native American sub-tribe

 meaning “the place where the river winds 

through the valley of the polka-dotted sky”

 in an area where the strawberry boulders

are quite common above which

 the oddly shaped stone formations

 that are the remains of the Pastel Mountains

can still be seen today.

For more fun in Parsippany:

 #TheTreeCity

#WhereTheLadyGotHerGaga