Journaling the "spirit" of art

Ajae says it's all about the spirit of art and that I have that 'down". I want that to be true! I make MOST of my art in my journals. It's just how I work. But I rarely journal about my day or my life. I usually just draw or paint whatever comes to mind. But THIS day was "petit/portrait" day on The Schedule AND it was our first journaling MeetUp AND Kelly was having a flare-up (a small one, thank goodness). So I journaled about it.

And I printed some stuff about FMS and stuck it on there, along with the pic from the MeetUp.

Then, because I can't seem to stop stamping this image, I stamped my tree onto this page that I found on my table and added it to the facing page because it's fun!

Then, paint!

And here is a shrinky dink in action!

I'm having trouble shading faces in this journal, that's why Kelly is still so pale! You know I love Fabriano Artistico paper, but it's horrible with Prismacolors. Maybe I should copic marker her?!? It's a pretty big area, but today is copic marker/cartoon day on The Schedule...