Textured Paint – Vacation Style

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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 the paper. It takes a while for this to dry – so I just left in the sun to speed up the process.

I colored the page with watercolors. The colors of the water were my inspiration.

I had plans for this paper but I am so in love with it that it will just be for now. Maybe later I’ll use it for the collage I thought it was destined for or maybe not…

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Ocean Inspiration

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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 been such a water/ocean theme lately…

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Using the Words on a Page

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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 boxes.

Now I started reading the words. The ones that fit together for me at this moment got an arrow or two.

To finish it off I drew big letters with watercolor pencils. After they dried, I outlined with a black pen.

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