Who needs a deadline! Who needs the stress of having to finish right now! I sure don’t! But I used to think I was required to finish in one session. Shockingly, that led to creativity crushing stress.
I decided that stress was not what I wanted so just rewrote the rules and gave myself permission to work in stages, days or even months apart. Here’s an art journal page that has been in progress for a very long time.
This page has had lots and lots of layers…I would come back to it a week after week and add little bits but in the end, most of it was covered up. That’s the beauty of art journaling, I can just add another layer until I like it.
I cut out one of my Gelli printed faces from the September Colorful Gelli Print Party. You can see the video showing how easy this was to do here. I have a wonderful stack of prints that I can use whenever the time is right.
A touch of script thanks to my Rembrandt’s Words stencil.
I like layers so I added more to the script with a scribbly layer of white.
Art journaling is all about getting in touch with what I’m feeling so I grabbed a white pencil and scribbled out my thoughts.
The face was just one layer and I love layers so I added some fine line sketching and scribbling with the new Derwent paint pens. I found them to be very opaque – I’ll keep using them before I decide if these are as great as I hope they are. Of course, I’ll share here what I learn!
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Sharing with my friends at Art Journal Journey, Paint Party Friday, Creative Every Day, and Art Journal Every Day.
Thanks for joining us at Art Journal Journey with your bright and colourful Picasso lady. She’s great! Valerie
Thanks for this exciting video of Gelli-PlatePainting in process!
I am enthusiastic by your Picasso Face and want to try it out also. I love the expressive colors. Ulrike
This looks awesome Carolyn * I love this colorful expressive portrait and you gave a lot of personality by scribbling the text and the scriptstencil…and this background was beautiful on it’s own – for that the face is white makes a perfect effect .
fantastic!
♥♥♥ful thanks for sharing with us at Art Journal Journey!
Great page. And tons of layers. What’s not to love?
Dearest Carolyn… this is fabulous. I so love the imperfect perfection. 😉 The layers. The colours. The messy-ness. Just watched your video on 21 SECRETS. So great to hear your voice! Thank you for spreading such joy. xx
Thanks for sharing about the Picasso head site. I just made one. i love your journal page. So much fun, so much color!
love that you tried to emulate Picasso – keep stretching and reaching
Love that portrait, so spontaneous, it’s just great!
I’ve been following along with some others at AJJ and I’m loving the Masters challenge they have. This is a great interpretation of Picasso’s art. The many layers make it more intense. Really stress free, too.
Love the stencil and would be great to win and use, shared on facebook.