Over at Twinkle Twinkle there is a celebration of color, The Summer of Color. This week’s color is orange. There are links to so many great pieces of orange art there! This really pushed me because this is a color I have not used much in many months. I didn’t have any orange paint with [...]
Art Journaling
The art journal pages I worked on while on vacation are souvenirs. Why? Because I added some of the beach to my pages. I started with a glob of white paint and mixed in sand. A few squirts of water – but not much because the paint is the glue that holds the sand to [...]
Inspiration is often everywhere – especially when I am on a beach! The sounds of the waves, the wind, the myriad shades of blue & green.This is just a gesso’d page with watercolors, gelatos, and a black pen. Below is a photo taken from my comfy beach chair – now you know why there has [...]
I started reading the page I was about to paint in my journal. Certain words jumped out at me so I boxed them in with a black marker. I didn’t think about it just went with my instincts. I used white paint around the word boxes. Once it was dry I watercolored the words in [...]
Do you ever feel like creating but just don’t know where to start? I did today! When I flipped through my art journal this page grabbed my attention. This page was pure joy because I had no idea where it was going – I just kept adding to it. Before I knew it my [...]
When school ended I asked my youngest for all of her school papers. She was very nervous – what would a parent want to do with all that work? Art. She had lots of papers, so I am set for quite a while. I thought all the different inks, papers, and handwriting would make a [...]
Home Depot is filled with treasures! While strolling through the aisles I found Easy Joint Tape. It looks just like punchinella only it is made from paper. Oh, how many times I have been using my Mylar punchinella and loved how the paints and inks looked on it. Now I have disposable punchinella – less [...]
You can see some of my finished journals in the last 2 posts. Start with a hardback book. Just a quick cut with an exacto knife and all the pages are out. I save the pages and use them to create new pages for the journals and other art. It’s like a giant stack of [...]
Part of the fun of this type of journal is having pages with different sizes, weights, and shapes. I cut a tag from notebook paper for this page. I stenciled on it with Tattered Angels Chalkboard ink. I wanted color, but it still needed to be light enough someone could easily write on it. A [...]
“Mom, would you make a journal for my trip to Mexico?” Gee, let me think, YES! It was a rush job to get her journal and ones for our other friends on the trip, but I got it done! I’ll put together a tutorial on the mechanics later in the week. The journals all begin [...]
