Jenelle Designs

Layers of Life with Dina Wakley

I've followed Dina Wakley's  work for quite sometime and am a big fan - remember her work on the cover of Somerset Studio's Journaling/Autumn 2009. I fell in love with her use of silhouettes. So fun to take a class with her at the wonderful Studio Crescendoh!

Not only did I get to hang out with dear friends like Lynn Hardin (above left), but Dina seriously "Brought It" --she opened her technique coffers and shared a bazillion cool new ways to journal.

In addition, she taught us how to draw faces.

Some of my work - still in progress, but we each left a with a  journal to fill.

Group photo by Dina's son--and what a fun group it was!! 

Thank You Pam Carriker

Homage to Pam Carriker Coptic Journal

While I started keeping a daily dairy in fourth grade ( important stuff like --played tetherball after school, have a crush on Jeff Current and like Marcia best on The Brady Brunch) -- I didn't start art journaling seriously until 2010. 

First art journal page from Shades of Grey

 I read Pam Carriker's Shades of Grey article in Somerset Studio and was mesmerized.

I immediately ordered the Shades of Grey Pitt pens from Dick Blick and took my first online course. I was hooked. A few months later I learned how to make coptic journals and the addiction intensified. I recently made a Homage to Pam Carriker Coptic Journal and put all the journal pages that I created from her classes. The above picture is my first art journal page from Shades of Grey. I'm very grateful that Pam has been so generous sharing her talent and techniques. 

30 Days 'O Blogging Day Two

From my Moleskin journal this morning

When I signed up for Jenny Doh's The Keys to Publishing and Building Creative Momentum class,  the phrase Creative Momentum leaped out at me. It got me thinking --where else in my creative life can I build velocity? Authentic blogging from the heart immediately came to mind. I committed to 30 Days 'O Blogging. Then, of course,  fear set in.

You see, I want you to like me. I want you to think my art is incredible and profoundly affects the planet--and as long as I come from that paradigm, I'm being inauthentic. It's also a very safe place --trying to do the right art to please you, writing to impress you ---as long as I indulge those sort of thoughts,  I am not living my truth as an artist.

The Artist's Way says "the need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all". So, I am tossing all my "wanna be's" out the window. I'm sharing from the heart - good stuff and bad stuff. My art. My process. I hope you'll like it, and if its not your cup 'o tea--that's okay too.

I have no idea where this journey will take me - makes me wonder what your journey looks like. If you decide to share it (or are sharing it) please let me know:)

Thanks for stopping by.

ox-
Jenelle

30 Days 'O Blogging

30 Days 'O Blogging

or How I Plan to Increase My Creative Velocity

I call them 30 Day Jaunts. 
30 days of doing something daily: 

creates breakthroughs 
creates velocity
creates accountability


I do art everyday, I write everyday 
and I now I want to have a breakthrough with blogging.
I love writing blogposts, but only make the time to do so sporadically. 


Daily blogging will give me an opportunity to explore different ways of sharing my art and my process.


 Daily blogging will force me to increase the speed at which I create and post.


Daily blogging will hold me accountable. 


30 Days 'O Blogging 
Starts Now.