Journaling – Melanie Testa

iJournaling, is it a thing?

Inspired Journaling

Make no mistake, I love keeping a journal. I have years worth of journals, some with spines broken, some half filled, some with every page painted. I keep no specific rules about my journals, if I don’t like a drawing or spread, I feel no compunction to keeping it for posterity or the ability toContinue reading “Inspired Journaling”

And the winner is?

Congratulations Kristin, please email me as soon as you are able. And to all who took the time to comment, post links to your Facebook page, thank you. I invite those of you who have interest my my approach to keeping an artist’s journal to please sign up for my class. This is aContinue reading “And the winner is?”

Flashcard Friday-A Wash.

Creating a wash, or in the case of this flashcard in particular, a wash gradation in two colors, is both easy and fun. The challenge is to prepare your work surface with everything you need so that when it comes time to paint your wash, you can quickly grab whatever you need. I like toContinue reading “Flashcard Friday-A Wash.”

Positively Flash Card Friday

Here is another contribution to Flash Card Friday. Last week we talked about Negative Space, this week we talk about Positive Space. Positive space is object itself. Positive space is the person, place or thing that you are drawing. In the last post, I painted the negative space around the chair, in this one, I paintedContinue reading “Positively Flash Card Friday”

Embracing Ambiguity.

Two weeks ago, David and I went to Kripalu, a yoga retreat center that we visit regularly. Of course I packed up my travel kit, journal and special treats and I took the time to find a flower to two to draw and paint. While drawing the orange flower I was bit by a nastyContinue reading “Embracing Ambiguity.”

Whirlwinds

This should be Flash Card Friday, but it is not. I called a fun day. I went to my monthly appointment, my Man accompanied, very helpful-the lad. A memory of the day, not fully explained: X-ray box, perforated paper, square head man face, front top quadrant of the page-drawn by David. Me: Flipped, vertebrae, ribs,Continue reading “Whirlwinds”

Flash Card Friday: Negative Space

It is once again Flash Card Friday, where I discuss techniques used in Dreaming From the Journal Page. I don’t know why, but for years I had a very hard time remembering what negative space was. I had a mental block. Then one day my pal Angela looked at a stamp I had carvedContinue reading “Flash Card Friday: Negative Space”

Please don’t feed the hipsters.

Once a week my Man and I walk up to our favorite coffee joint and help open it. And now, as the weather improves, I have begun to walk afterward. I love walking. I walk fast enough that you might call it running, I can’t slow it down. But when I bring my camera, thatContinue reading “Please don’t feed the hipsters.”

Numinous thoughts.

Kass Hall and I speak to one another through Facebook, she is also a (4 time) cancer survivor and she has written a book, soon to be published about Zentangles, called Zentangle Untangled. Kass recently wrote a review of Dreaming from the Journal Page on her blog. Then she went and wrote this post. AndContinue reading “Numinous thoughts.”