Combining Art and Scrapbooking - Layout Share

This year, once again, I have added doing some art to my goals list (I did this last year and only lasted a month before the motivation wore off and we were back at school and work). I also want to challenge myself to try different types of art and use different materials that I haven't before. Often what you draw or paint just gets tucked away and never looked at again, so I thought this year I might try and make what I draw or paint more meaningful and add it in some way to my scrapbook pages which then go in the Project Life album for the year.  So far, so good. I have managed to do two pieces. Combining them on a scrapbook page is a bit of a challenge though, but I do enjoy a challenge!

This first page includes an oil-pastel drawing of myself - a self portrait. I sprayed it with fixative before adding it to the page, and ended up trimming off some of the edges and loosing a bit of the background (LOL the wine bottles in the barrel behind me) to fit it on the page.  Looking at the picture I think I failed to capture the fact that I was smiling, and also I think I made my face too narrow at the bottom, but overall I am happy with the results.

This next page includes a watercolour painting of the Japanese Gardens which we visited with Mel and Kate on the way to Dubbo last week. I have never actually done a watercolour painting before, so I was pleased with the results, considering I am not a very good painter, and normally resort to drawing rather than painting.

Off to create some more art....
Laters Di :-)