Draw Happy: Beautiful

Last post for the night/morning. This is the third exercise from Draw Happy and starts off with a charge to gesso your art journal pages and use it as part of the design.

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And this is what happened when I primed my paper with gesso.

Draw Happy: Getting in the Draw Happy Mood

For this exercise Jane instructed us to think of what made us happy before we even picked up a pen. I thought about it for a bit and while listening to the Juno soundtrack, this is what I came up with.

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This first image is after thinking about what made me happy.
Apparently at that moment it was my beau's eyes, the apology orchid and some waves.
Go figure. What I did like a lot is the wonder and glory of gesso to cover a failed sketch attempt.
The drawings were done with pen and oil pastel. I really like how the waves turned out.

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Draw Happy: Drawing Tools

This is my posting for Exercise #2 that deals with different drawing tools. It was quite insightful, and learned lots.

Draw Happy: Doodles

So, I've been taking part in 21 Secrets Art Journaling Playground. It's been great so far. I've done one class: Drawing Happy by Janet Davenport. Here are my posts for the first assignment:

Hi,
Thanks for the lovely workshop. It really helped get the creative juices flowing.
Here's some stuff in response to the request for doodles. I found a nice page from my lab book that I doodled all over while I was waiting for something. I decided