It's January 2- A 2025 Arty Look Back

     Hi everyone. Happy Friday. I hope your week has been warmer than it's been here in New Hampshire. Brrr.😨

     Last year I had a lot of fun playtime making art, and so today I thought I would share some of my favorite art pieces I made in 2025. I'll be linking  up to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break, Nicole's Friday Face Off, and also, as  it is January 2, Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's Second on the Second. Second on the Second is a time to post a previous post again

   First off, here are some art journal pages. There's lots of faces scattered here and there throughout.

In the above photo, I love the use of color, and in this next photo, I love the splatter and simplicity of stamped images on a page.

In these next 2 pieces, I made  successful scenes.

And I really love how the collaged scene , that you can see through the window,  came out in the photo below.

In the butterflies above, I love how I made this  page mostly just by cutting up tissue paper. And below, I like the freehand background and how it works with the details of my images.

In this next page, I like the lightened background and then the splatter to make it look uncovered in spots. Plus I like the mostly monochromatic look of the daisies and then on the butterfly page below the daisies.

I used lots of sticker to make a fun Harry Potter scene.

I like  how I layered the images in this next piece.

Next, I used the 2 long sides as my focus edges, instead of the top and bottom.

For Mia's September background challenge at Art Journal Journey, I had fun making some more detailed backgrounds.

I can't forget Halloween fun.

And I think the season I am most inspired by is autumn.

These next 2 just  came together nicely.

And I bought some of these graphite watercolors this past fall. I love the look of them.

 More backgrounds, this time a little more simple.

And I also love making winter holiday pages too, even snowy pages.

And I hope  you aren't sick of my re-look yet 😉 as  I made  several tags this past year including an envelope journal to hold many of those tags.

 

   I have lots of ideas of things I want to try out in my art this year, including some face drawing for Nicole's challenge. 😏

     Thank you everyone for your support by stopping by my blog last year. It was much appreciated. ❤ I  hope that you get to do a lot of whatever makes you happy in 2026.

     Have a great first weekend for the new year.