Guest post on Art Equals Happy

I have an exciting announcement; my first guest post is over on Kim's wonderful blog Art Equals Happy. It's all about Natty Malik's wonderful online course called In The Sun so make sure you check it out

Rhiannon xxx

In The Sun - new pages

It is about time I shared some more of my In The Sun journal pages with you all. I haven't been able to do any this week sadly - I have been so busy! The links for the prompts are below each page. If you haven't already you should check out the flickr group too. There are so many amazing pages being created :)

06 // Ideal Vacation Spot

I have never been to Greece. My parents met in Cyprus many years ago so we have been back there twice but never quite made it over to Greece. It looks absolutely beautiful - in fact I would be happy to go anywhere in the Mediterranean

08 // Summer Date Ideas

My partner's job means that he doesn't have set hours. Some days he will work from 10am to 6pm but the next day he might work from 8am to 12am. This makes it really hard to have "date nights" organised in advance. So what we tend to do is go out for breakfasts on Sundays (his only day off) and spend time that way. Once a month we try to go out and see a movie, depending what is on.

20 //  Lazy Days [this was really freaky. I did this page about a week before Natty put up the prompt]
13 // Summer Wishlist

09 // In the summer winter time, I feel....

I get sad in winter, that's the honest truth. The lack of daylight, the rain, the icy winds and the overwhelming desire to hibernate until it gets warmer, makes me feel sad. So I try little things each day to lift my mood. My favourite one's are wearing bright coloured stockings and scarves. It brings a bit of fun into my otherwise black wardrobe.

I have got an incredibly exciting Friday Featured Artist this week so make sure you don't miss out!

Rhiannon xxx

Art on the go

The last two weekends, my friends and I have done 'art days'. It's been so much fun art journaling together. All three of us are taking part in Natty Maliks In The Sun e-course so we thought, why not have an 'In The Sun' art day. The first weekend we got very sidetracked and ended up playing Little Big Planet 2 on PlayStation instead. But the Saturday just gone, we were determined to actually do some work and we did! Here are a few fun photos from those two dates with my girlies.

First Weekend

The lovely Alyssa and Louise

Me and Louise waiting for our burgers [NOMNOM]

Lyssa and Me

Zeus giving Louise lots of kisses while she is trying to be productive

Zeus then moved on to get smooches from Alyssa

LOLLIES!! [and paint]

Second Weekend

The arty day started with painting our nails: a must!

Deciding that 3pm was a fantastic time to grab a coffee, we popped down to the local Siera Cafe

Then it got cold.... Alyssa's warm new scarf, my beanie and cuddly jumper. I love snugggling up

Rhiannon xxx

In the sun - free e-course

I have wanted to write this post for a week now but I wanted to be able to have some pages done to show off too hehe.

Remember the lovely Natty Malik? She was my first Friday Feature Artist [check out her interview with me here]. During the little interview, she shared with us that she is starting a free online course [how lucky are we?]. It's called In The Sun and its designed to welcome a season of warm weather for those lucky people in the northern hemisphere. Down here in New Zealand though, we are just coming into winter so I am adapting mine for the winter season which most of the time I don't appreciate. I'm using this project to focus on how to enjoy winter - even with all it's rain and icy winds.

My goal for this project is to experiment and not worry about the result too much. I want to try new things and learn new techniques. So far I only really like my 'alter ego' page. Focusing on getting things perfect is one of the areas I have to work on. I tend to stick to what I know because I know it works, but then everything ends up looking the same. Time to break out of my shell!

So far Natty has done 4 prompts and 1 technique. I had to play catch up on the weekend, so here are my first couple pages. The link for each prompt is underneath.

Prompt 1: An Introduction

Prompt 2: Self Portrait Collage
Prompt 3: Gel Medium & Tissue

Prompt 4: I want my [summer] winter to be filled with

Prompt 5: My alter ego

To check out more work from Natty's In The Sun students, check out her flickr group.

Rhiannon xxx