Facing Addiction

  ad·dic·tion/əˈdikSHən/ Noun::   The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.  The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming.   They say the...

Sharing Patterns Chlink and Da’Rough

  A few weeks back I shared with you a SteamPunk journal page I had accomplished and in it was one of my patterns from 2010.  A friend from Flickr mentioned she liked it and I promised to share the how-to for it soon.  Well today I’m finally getting around...

Look to the Clouds – Art Journal Prompt

  Aaaaahhhhhh….. time for some relaxing lineweaving in our art-journals.  Did you ever play that game where you lay on the nice cool grass on a summer day and look up at the sky?  Then while letting your eyes take in the shape of the clouds you ask yourself...

Steam Punk Frenzy

  A few weeks back I signed up for an art-swap that was based on a steam punk theme.  This is of course a theme that’s not my usual style.  It threw me into a world of metals and hard edges, which is totally different for someone like myself who’s...

Introducing The Dotle Drawing Method

  If you’ve been following my blog for long you’re probably already familiar with several repeat pattern art drawing methods such as the Zentangle method of drawing, Pattern Stacks, ZenDangling, etc. Well here’s a new one for you.  This one was...

Stretching Outside Your Creative Comfort Zone

  As I mentioned in my last blog post, I am working on a small ATC swap project with a “Steam Punk” theme to it.  Now if you’ve been following my blog for a while you probably recognize this as something a bit different for me.  So very correct...

Art from the Heart

  Does your art reflect where you are in life, in your creative explorations, what’s going on in your world?  Mine almost always does.  When I was younger and in art classes at school that was not always the case.  Back then when I approached the lessons I...

ZenDoodle Pattern and Template GiveAway!

  Dearest Friends,  I am so tickled to tell you that all your visits to the Rainbow Elephant blog has added up to over 100,000 hits now!  How cool is that?!  When I told my hubby of the news he brought home an over-sized cookie to celebrate.  I so wish that I...

Springy Thingies – Journal Prompt… Plus

  Spring is in the air where I live.  The crocus poked their little heads up this past week and so I suspect we’ll only see a couple more snows this season and soon all the new things of spring will wake up again.  I always look forward to hearing the first...

Adding Stippling to Zendoodles

  Over in our forums/gallery at LineWeaving.Com Miss HElena has been going a dot-crazy lately with some wonderfully stippled project pages.  Which has prompted this blog posting.  Although it’s not a daily thing for me, I’ve done a fair bit of...