Hey friends, today's video is a little different from the usual. It's longer and unedited. Sort of stream-of-conscious but possibly not up to James Joyce's standards. Here is the finished page. Looking at it, I'm wondering if it's finished. The thought process is finished but there are a couple of areas that are bothering me.
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These are all pages in my Dina Wakely art journal. Black, white and burlap
A watercolored background with a story from my childhood. That's one of Tim Holtz found relatives.
Playing with watercolor and brushes. If you are going to abuse the Dina journal, gesso first.
I've been working a lot with my watercolors lately. Sketching and painting.
I'll probably noodle with this a little more before I say "finished."
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Flipping through some hand-me-down stamps, I came upon this cloud stamp and it spoke to me. The weather here has been dismal: rain, snow, warm one day and cold the next. Ugh. It doesn't feel like spring. I did a little catch-up journal flip at the end of the video. I always think that being in a bad mood is perfectly ok. Feeling overwhelmed is only natural.
I just go with it and take a little time to treat myself well. More often than not, that's all we really need.
I pulled out some embossing powders from WOW and went to town with this page. I'd previously dunk my little journal into a puddle of Distress Oxide inks and the muted tones went perfectly.
You can see some of those Heart Throb WOW EP powder speckles. I like the way they look. To get this look, dampen your page with a spritz of water and then sprinkle a pink of EP on top. Heat the page from the back to emboss. It may take a little longer.
I highly recommend the Wagner Heat Gun. It's the best on the market and when you pre-heat it (30+seconds) before using, it embosses super fast so your paper won't warp. I've had mine for at least 20 years and it's still going strong.
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I recently purchased a Joggles Disc Bound journal because it's such a smart idea and I wanted to share it with you. I've been using the disc binding system for organizing classes, color swatches and making sketchbooks for some years and love the flexibility.
My latest Joggles Haul
First the haul. I picked up a few more Oxide inks. Joggles has the best prices on them and I'm slowly collecting and filling in holes in my palette. There were a few more bits and bobs such as Dina Wakely journal clips, Jane Davenport stickers and yet another package of Tim Holtz paper clippings. Links are below.
Joggles Disc Bound journal is a very handy idea. I want to start a new YouTube series for art journaling with stamps and other cardmaking techniques, This is a type of art journaling that will be more planned. I can pull out the pages to work on them, I can die cut, ink smoosh, etc.
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I've affectionately labeled this journal "The Dina" and it's an interesting book. I love the textural elements: the burlap, the canvas, the threads sticking out are such fun. I'm used to a watercolor paper based journal and this one is definitely Mixed Media.
It's a different way to work for me. More the way I USED to work. But you folks know that I'm going back to revisit techniques, thoughts and processes so that I can go forward.
This is one of the craft paper pages. I really do like them loads. I threw everything at this page, then calmed things down with a layer of printed tissue paper. You can see the layers here ....
I wanted to leave some of the craft paper but it didn't turn out that way. Next time.
I used some of Tim Holtz's Idea-ology doodads and other things that have been hanging out in the studio for ages. It was a free for all. And that is fun, right? Let me know if you have Dina's journal and if so, what are you doing with it? I'm going to do a flip through if enough of you are interested.
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(Just a little colored pencil shading on one of the stamps.)
Hey gang! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We had Open Studio and there was a lot of art, laughter and love going around. Super fun and we all wind up learning. I love my Peeps :) On Sunday I went to my friend Melissa's opening. Her work is Gorgeous. Lush. Patterned.
I did some catch up journal in my little book yesterday. Guinea Hen with a little note to self: "Take care of yourself."
Lightbulbs! I didn't know where this was going. I embossed with gold powder than used my colored pencils to shade a little. That's what most of today's video is. Just a little bit about colored pencil shading.
My book is getting stuffed! By the time I'm done, it won't close at all.
It will always be open, like an invitation.
I purchased Tim Holtz Tag Press a few months ago. It's really fun. Just a little extra sumpin'. I'm putting a lot of interactive stuff into this journal. I love when things pop out, peek out, lift. I should do a pop up page!
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It's been lovely journaling again.
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Hey Gang, Here is another video and post with my mini daily journal.
"Daily" is a generous adjective but who cares, really? I'm cool with "a lot." This page (and several following pages) were washed with watercolor. I have fallen into the habit of having my journal out to accept bits and pieces of whatever other project is going on. I had teeny scraps of the Shizen paper from the Hero Arts Card Kit and glued them down.
Next came the Poppy dies (aren't they great?). Thanks Amy :).
Pan Pastels (or regular old cheap pastels) are great for adding shadows. I use a brush for this as the spongey applicators drive me crazy. How do you clean them between colors?
A rummage through odds and ends in my collage box ...
A bit of a doodle.
And a couple more pages as reminders to enjoy myself.
I'm curious. Do you work in your art journal with a plan in mind?
Just to clarify, I don't have tea parties with my kitty. I do sometimes have a cuppa and he's nearby. I can't really account for some of the things I say while recording.
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Poppy Die from Savvy Stamps: From Impress: http://bit.ly/2nKd0Mf From Frantic Stamper http://bit.ly/2E40jqr You can just use any flower die or free hand cut flowers. Put some holes in the centers with an awl.
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I'm back with my mini journal today. I like the way these pages are evolving. No preplanning for the most part.
Sometimes I'll stamp or scribble ahead of myself in my journal. Just a little bit of this or that and it gives me a jumping off point on a later page. I don't know that there is any less time involved working smaller. But that's not the point.
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I've been sinking into a schedule of watercoloring, art journaling, cards. There are days when I can't stand to be away from my watercolors for a another minute. Even f it's only 10 minutes, I have to see the colors spreading and mingling together. It's like an addiction. Today, as soon as this post is written, I'll be recording a swatch video and talking about what I've been up to.
I've got a bucket full of sumac flowers that could be turned into dye and some Passionfruit tea (the heartburn that stuff gave me, oy). My brain is whirring. That seems to be reflected in this journal page.
I used a lot of different media on this spread. I go through the book and put smears of whatever media I'm using here and there. Like a trail of birdseed.
Those stickers from I-Don't-Know-Where have been hanging around for a while. They got spritzed with color at some point. I have no problem trimming away the words to fit my needs.
Do you write in your journals? Some pages just call out for some text, no matter how cryptic. It doesn't always make sense to me. And it's just now while writing this and looking at it that the text is ringing true. Intuitive art journaling works that way.
It's not easy to let yourself go.
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Art Journaling is one of the things I've not done enough of lately. If you are new to art journaling, this may all be a bit bewildering so I made another video for you. It's linked below. This little journal is so much fun. So many of you have commented that you are doing the same. Tag me on FB if you post anything. I'm not on social media that much these days. Except YouTube and here. But if you tag me I'll get it.
I got myself into a bit of a pickle with this page by gluing in the letters down and then covering them up with tissue. LOL. You'll see in the video. It's good to work yourself out of a corner. It stretches your Figure It Out muscle. So to speak. I've had those alphabet dies from Altenew on my wishlist for a long time and am glad I splurged. Does anyone have recommendations for other letter/number dies? I was look at Tim Holtz.
I wound up using paint and bits and pieces that were within my reach for this page. I keep a little basket on my desk and throwing scraps and such into that.
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Went a bit mad with the sequins here. That's not exactly a "tasteful" amount but isn't it enormous fun!
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Joggles.com for Gelatos (and the groovy tissue they use to wrap orderes in) Here are Gelatos at Scrapbook.com I used Altenew's Bold Alphabet Dies here at Scrapbook.com Here are letter stickers at Scrapbook. I like the larger ones because I can trim them down here and there. They have the Nuvo mouses there too. Those are pretty fun to use.
A few months ago, I went through a bunch of books I've made over the years that sit blank on my shelves. Beautiful little books! Unused, unloved. So I decided that this year, I will begin to fill them. The first I chose to work in is about 3" square. Made years ago with a teacher who is quite a wonderful binder. And I can't remember her name.
I was a decent binder at the time but this teacher had us using curved needles. No good for me. I had a terrible time and as a result the binding, while beautiful, is loose. But the paper is quite nice and is taking media well. Always good to know what kind of tools you haven't an affinity for.
I'm filling it in clumps of pages at a time. Not One A Day because that would surely bring failure raining down on my head. But I'd like to come out with roughly 365 pages done at the end of the year. And I do feel up to that. Excited.
I'm filling this journal in clumps of pages at a time. Not One A Day because that would surely bring failure raining down on my head. But I'd like to come out with roughly 365 pages done at the end of the year. And I do feel up to that. Excited even to see this small journal filled to bursting with color and words.
Most days I'm in the studio and working on this or that. And so, this should be a terrible struggle, Just a new habit for this year of Reduce, Renew and Recycle. Here is the spine of the book.
Tell me: Have any of you done a Page A Day art journal? How does it go? When I asked on Facebook, there was someone who said she is still working on her 2012. Oh that did make me chuckle!
Sometimes the blank journal page is hard to confront. That's why I sometimes start my pages with a word spill. It puts me in touch with my head and heart. Word spilling is something writers use to get started. Whatever is in your head comes out of your pen (or watercolor pencil in this case).
There is a wonderful book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I read it years ago and went through most of the exercises. I was suffering from artistic block after art school. Yup. Here is a video that wasn't included in the earlier post on the Faber Castell blog.
For this page, I wrote with a rainbow of Art GRIP Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils. I often turn my journal upside down. Arrange your watercolor pencils in rainbow order and got that pencil moving as quickly as possible so that your brain doesn't have time to edit. Forget about spelling and punctuation and write real sloppy.
I worked through the rainbow of pencils for these two pages. I only completed one of the pages though. After writing, use a wet paintbrush to blend out the color. Some of the lines may still be visible but that's OK. There is nobody that will work that hard to read upside down, sloppy, watery words. Your writing may have informed you but now it's just a background pattern.
Don't forget to turn your book right side up before proceeding!
I began to add more color to the page by just scribbling around with another watercolor pencil. It's best to use analogous colors (colors that are next to each other on the color wheel) when your colors are still wet so that you don't get mud. For instance, don't go over a wet green or blue area with orange!
You can dip your watercolor pencil into water or wet an area on the page to make a juicy line or area, such as the rectangular box above. I still wasn't sure where I was going with this page. I let one idea lead to another. Working in a flow is something that you may need to practice.
Flowers hold a great deal of meaning for me and these are easy to re-create. They are asterisks with more lines through them. Since the light blue background was dry, I used red to start drawing the flowers and then added yellow. The wet watercolor pencil sat right on top of the dry blue without creating a mud puddle. I added some silve pen for the stamen center of the flower. I added more detail to my rectangle with a Medium size black Pitt pen.
The last detail I added was stamping. I used a Stampers Big Brush marker to color the stamp and add a bit of pattern to the background.
After you've colored your stamp, be sure to "huff" on it with warm breath to moisten before you stamp. When you've finished stamping, wipe off your stamps with a wet rag just as you would for any ink. Don't worry if your stamps are stained. That means they are well loved.
Pull out that journal and scribble away!
NOTE: I used a 140# watercolor paper journal for this page.
This post was originally posted on the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft blog.
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