Welcome! I’m Carolyn Dube – This colorful journey is all about the freedom of play!
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.
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 purple page for The Summer of Color challenge at Twinkle Twinkle was finished!
I started with textured circles.
Then I used watercolor pencils to make the circles.
I ended with black pen circles and words.
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 great first layer. Her homework and any paper within reach was fair game. I started stitching the pages together. Guerrilla stitching. Nothing careful, nothing orderly. Just sewing.
After making a giant random page of her handwriting, homework, and worksheets I went for my stencils. Pan Pastels are new to me so I didn’t know what to expect. Creamy goodness. Vibrant colors. Here is one of the quilted papers.
You can see how I used this in a journal page here.