SMall ART = SMARTies

There is something to be said for practice.  Remember music or dance lessons?  The more you practiced...the better you performed.  Well, I am applying this strategy to my art.  I want to work on improving some of my art at the same time I like to keep my hands busy watching TV or talking on the phone.

So I took a piece of drawing paper (Strathmore, 80 lb) and drew a whole lot of shapes on it.  Some geometric, others more "organic."  And then I set out with my pencil to just start sketching. This is a little different from my doodle art, I wanted to create SMall ART pieces that I could use in my card and scrapbook art.  I had been buying the pre-made, pre-decorated sets that matched paper packs, but I had this brainstorm and thought, why not make them myself.  

So I did.!

the largest one is approx 2 x 2-1/2.  I then glue stick these onto cardstock and trim... Voila' now I have some embellishments I can add to cards, handmade books, on the next post I will try to include some pics of places I used these little gems!

Note: these are drawn with pencil, redrawn with Micron Waterproof 01 pen, colored with Faber Castel colored pencils, sealed with Liquitex Gloss medium then cut, pasted, and re-cut.