Art Journaling
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NaNoJouMo: Days 5 thru 8
Day 5 – Second Hand News by Fleetwood Mac
The scanner does not like neon or metallic colors. The eyes and shirt on the guy in the middle are neon yellow and the propellers on his hat are a metallic silver.
Day 6 – Don’t Carry it All by The Decemberists
Day 7 – Through the Dark by Alexi Murdoch
I wanted sad eyes crying with mascara running. However her eyes look angry. I still like how it came out though.
Day 8 – Another is Waiting by The Avett Brothers
I really like how my rose came out. I thought I was going to have trouble drawing it but it came out really well.
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NaNoJouMo: Days 1 thru 4
I decided to participate in NaNoJouMo again this year. NaNoJouMo is hosted by Dawn D. Sokel. Everyday for the entire month of November Dawn posts a prompt for us to work on. The prompts this year are songs.
I am behind on posting so I will be posting two posts per day until I am caught up. Then I will post one or two per week.
The background was one I created last year for a NaNoJouMo prompt but it was too busy for what I wanted to so it was never used. I really wanted to use it for this prompt. The first idea I had wasn’t going to work because of the background so I decided to keep it simple. The female sihlouette is one I created last year. Before using it I scanned it and saved it so I could use it whenever I wanted.
Day 2 – American Woman by Lenny Kravitz
I really like how this one turned out. I got the idea from just reading the title. Once I finished drawing it I decided to look at the lyrics and see if there was anything I could use.
Day 4 – How Far this Road Goes by Gareth Dunlop
I messed the sky really bad and was ready to just start over but then somehow I was able to fix it enough that I was ok with it.
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The Documented Life Project: Week 43 & 44
Week 43 – Sketch what you see right now.
I didn’t have anything in front of me that was for Halloween so I chose to draw the bucket of dice I had on my desk at the time. Everything is in Halloween colors except for the dice.
Week 44 – Incorporate real or drawn leaves.
Since this week was Halloween I decided to draw a jack o’lantern with a couple of leaves. For the eyes I used some foam eyes.
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The Documented Life Project: Week 41 & 42
For all October prompts I decided to try to keep them as Halloweenish as possible. Where it wouldn’t be possible I would only use Halloween colors.
Week 41 – Polka Dots
Rather than doing just ordinary polka dots I decided to use various sized googly eyes. I like how it turned out.
Week 42 – Stars
I didn’t want to use perfect shaped stars so I just cut each star individually and without drawing them first. In some of the stars I wrote some things I did during the week.
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Round Robin Journaling: Stickers & Scavenger Hunt Sneak Peek
Sticker Prompt – Fill a page with stickers.
I love stickers and am constantly buying new ones so instead of just creating one page for the prompt I created several. To create the background I used Koi watercolors and then pressed a paper towel on the pages so that it would leave behind its pattern. The circles were created using a paint tube cap dipped in acrylic paint. The smaller circles were created using punchinella as a stencil and a stamp and the lines were created using cardboard like a stamp. For each page I tried using stickers that worked together like a theme or a story. My favorite of the sticker pages is the minion one which is probably why instead of a sneak peek picture I took a picture of the entire page.
Scavenger Hunt Prompt – Find the following items, button, fortune from a cookie, a logo, something yellow and a robot.
I did this prompt like an aged treasure map. The background was created using acrylic paint and the drawings were created using acrylic paint markers and Sharpies. The items were find in various locations such as craft stores and restaurants.
