Art Journaling

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    NaNoJouMo & Art Every Day Month Day 17

    Today’s prompt is “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby” by Counting Crows.

    For this prompt I decided to take lines from the song and create a page from it.  I did two pages.  When I heard the song these two images immediately came to me.  I really like how the first one with the film strip came out.

    To participate in NaNoJouMo visit Dawn DeVries Sokol’s website.  To view other participants art journal pages visit the NaNoJouMo Facebook Group and the NaNoJouMo Flickr Group.

     

    "Dreams are like.."
    “Dreams are like..”
    Created 11/17/2013Created using Distress Inks, Sharpie Paint Marker, Sakura Micron Pens and index card on mixed media paper.

     

    "When I see you.."
    “When I see you..”
    Created 11/17/2013Created using Koi Watercolors, Sharpie Paint Markers, Distress Inks and acrylic paint on mixed media paper.

     

    Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

    I decided to do a little doodling today. I kept it simple. I couldn’t get this to scan properly.

    To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.

    "Always Dream"
    “Always Dream”
    Created 11/17/2013Created using acrylic paint, acrylic paint marker and gesso.

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    NaNoJouMo & Art Every Day Month Day 16

    Today’s prompt is “Me” by Paula Cole.

    Finally a song I have heard of before and actually really like.  Its one of my favorite Paula Cole songs. I used to listen to the cd “This Fire” all the time while in high school and college.  I had a lot of ideas come to mind when I saw the prompt this morning.  One of the ideas was to only focus on the title “Me” and do a page on words that describe me. However I remembered doing something similar in photographic form; as you can see below.

    "Me"
    Photo taken 11/23/2011

    I then decided to work on the background and just go from there. Unfortunately it took 7 backgrounds before I made one I liked for this prompt. It of course was a simple one.  The page didn’t turn out quite like I wanted.  The india ink ran more than I would have liked and due to that I decided to not add too much more to the background. My monster also didn’t come out the way I had sketched it.  But it all still works. Behind the blue watercolor layer are words and sayings I wrote with different colored Sharpies.

    I may come back tomorrow or sometime this week and create another page on this prompt as I have some other ideas I’d like to do.

    To participate in NaNoJouMo visit Dawn DeVries Sokol’s website.  To view other participants art journal pages visit the NaNoJouMo Facebook Group and the NaNoJouMo Flickr Group.

     

    "Worst Enemy"
    “Worst Enemy”
    Created 11/16/2013
    Created using Koi Fluid Watercolors, India Ink, acrylic paint, Distress Inks, Sharpies, gesso, index card (the monster) and white gel pen on mixed media paper.

     

    Here are the first three of the other six backgrounds I created.  I decided not to post them all as it would have been too many images. Of these I like the last one best.  The other two I am not so sure about yet.  If I can’t come up with anything to do on them I may gesso over them and start again.

    Created using Dylusion Spray Inks.
    Created using Dylusion Spray Inks.

     

    Created using Dylusion Spray Inks.
    Created using Dylusion Spray Inks.

     

    Created using Koi Fluid Watercolors, India Ink and Distress Inks.
    Created using Koi Fluid Watercolors, India Ink and Distress Inks.

     

    Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

    I had planned to try to be more artsy today but I was tired and went with simple instead.

    To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.

    "I am"
    “I am”
    Created 11/16/2013
    Created using acrylic paints, acrylic paint markers, white gel pen and Distress Inks.
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    NaNoJouMo & Art Every Day Month Day 15

    Today’s prompt is “Come Home” by One Republic.

    When I searched for the lyrics to the song I saw that many people said the song had to do with military officers.  So I decided to go with that.  I tried doing a camo background.  Then I used one of the lines from the song and then wrote some of my own words.  I tried to make it look like it was a letter to a solider. I thought about adding dog tags but couldn’t find the blank ones I have.

    To participate in NaNoJouMo visit Dawn DeVries Sokol’s website.  To view other participants art journal pages visit the NaNoJouMo Facebook Group and the NaNoJouMo Flickr Group.

    "Come Home"
    “Come Home”
    Created 11/15/2013

    Created using acrylic paint and white gel pen on mixed media paper.

     

    Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

    To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.

    "Be Unique"
    “Be Unique”
    Created 11/15/2013

    Created using acrylic paint, acrylic paint marker and white gel pen.

     

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    NaNoJouMo & Art Every Day Month Day 14

    Today’s prompt is “Nobody Told Me” by Vintage Trouble.

    I feel like the page is missing something but I couldn’t figure out what.  So I decided to just let it be.  I can always come back to it later.

    To participate in NaNoJouMo visit Dawn DeVries Sokol’s website.  To view other participants art journal pages visit the NaNoJouMo Facebook Group and the NaNoJouMo Flickr Group.

     

    "Nobody told me"
    “Nobody told me”
    Created 11/14/2013

    Created using acrylic paints, acrylic paint markers, white gel pen and Distress Inks on mixed media paper.

     

    Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

    To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.

    "Friendship"
    “Friendship”
    Created 11/14/2013

    Created using acrylic paint, Sakura Micron Pens and white gel pen.

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    NaNoJouMo & Art Every Day Month Day 13

    Yesterday’s prompt was “Why I Am” by Dave Matthews Band.

    I’ve been sick the past few days and yesterday I was unable to work on the prompt.  Today I felt a little better and decided to try and work on yesterday’s and today’s prompts.  I didn’t get this song.  I couldn’t even get something from the words to journal about.

    To participate in NaNoJouMo visit Dawn DeVries Sokol’s website.  To view other participants art journal pages visit the NaNoJouMo Facebook Group and the NaNoJouMo Flickr Group.

    "Why I am"
    “Why I am”
    Created 11/14/2013

    Created using acrylic paints and acrylic paint markers on mixed media paper.

     

    Created this originally for the prompt but then decided not to use it. Whil I was working on it I accidently dropped it and some of it smeared. It also messed up the previous days page.
    Created this originally for the prompt but then decided not to use it. Whil I was working on it I accidently dropped it and some of it smeared. It also messed up the previous days page.

     

    Below is my entry for Art Every Day Month.

    To participate in Art Every Day Month or to view other participants entries visit Leah’s blog, Creative Every Day.

    "Reason to Smile"
    “Reason to Smile”
    Created 11/14/2013

    Created using acrylic paint, Sakura Micron Pens and white gel pen.