Art Journaling
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The Documented Life: Week 40
Week 40 – Paint or color with three colors you never use.
I use all the colors so I decided to use colors that I don’t use often. The colors I chose were brown, peach, green and their variations. The background was supposed to be a greenish gray color but for some reason came out more like a bluish grey. Even though it wasn’t what I was going for I liked the color so I went with it.
This guy was very excited to get a bike. However for some reason the bike came unassembled and without instructions. He did his best to put it together but certain parts were not placed in their correct locations. In his excitement to ride the back he also failed to tighten the bolts and screws properly. As soon as he had completed it he went for a ride. He was so excited to be riding his new bike that he was oblivious to the fact that parts were falling off.
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The Documented Life: Weeks 38 & 39
Week 38 – Draw, paint, doodle, sketch a feather onto your page. Don’t draw, paint, doodle or sketch? Incorporate a real feather onto your page!
For this one I decided to do something different. I decided to actually create a mini dream catcher. I created the circle part with a soft clay. It took 3 attempts to finally get it to work because they kept breaking when trying to run the thread through. I didn’t have a needle that would work so I had to use something else to put the thread through the holes. With the first two attempts it made the holes much larger and broke the circle. With the third attempt it went much better though it did slightly break but I was able to fix it. The dream catcher was created with book binding thread since it was the thickest I had, glass beads, painted with acrylic paint and sealed with matte varnish. I attached the dream catcher to the planner page but I might remove it and display it somewhere.
Week 39 – Add splatters and drips.
After painting the background with latex paint I used india ink to create the splatters and drips.
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The Documented Life: Week 37
Week 37 – Use a white pen prominently.
I kept it simple. The background was created using acrylic paint with a rubber brayer. I then used a Uniball Signo white gel pen to write the words that dealt with this week. For the border I used the Uniball gel pen and the Faber-Castell Big Brush Pitt pen. I had started writing a message in morse code for the border but messed it up. I still kept using dashes and dots though for the border but its just gibberish.
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The Documented Life: Week 36
Week 36 – Black & White
I decided that the spread for this week would be entirely black & white even the pictures. First I gessoed the pages and then painted them black with acrylic paint. I dipped a finger in the gesso then sloppily ran it along the edges of the pages. I created the flowers on label paper using a Sharpie and a Sakura Identi-pen and then placed buttons in the middle of each flower. I also used smaller buttons to create little flying bugs. I converted the pictures to black & white and then did all the writing with a Uniball Signo White Gel Pen. The stems and the photo border were created using a Faber-Castell Pitt Big Brush White Pen.
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Round Robin Journaling 2014
In July I started working on a Round Robin Journal with Ruth of Twelve Squared Creations. We originally had planned for at least someone else to join us but they were unable to due to their busy schedule. Technically its not a true round robin since there are only two of us. Had there been more participants the journal would have gone to one person and once they finished with the prompts it would be mailed to the next person and so on until it eventually returned to the owner who would then have a collection of works from all participants of the group. If things go well this time I will most likely create another sometime next year and hopefully with more participants so that it is a true round robin.
We each came up with several prompts for the journals then chose 10 of those prompts to do and started working on them in August. Our deadline is to finish the journals by the end of November. Though it is flexible since we are both busy. Our journals will be 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches and will be bound using the arc system by staples. We both have the arc punch so we can easily add our pages and create our own covers. There really aren’t any rules except to be creative when doing them and to only give sneak peeks of the prompts instead of showing everything. This way when we get our journals we can be surprised.
Every once in a while I will post sneak peeks of the prompts. Most likely two prompts at a time.
Below are the prompts we decided to work on.
1– Things you love
2– Things you hate/pet peeves
3– A brief look into your bucket list
4– Create some Graffiti
5– Create a doodle and hide these 5 things within the doodle.
- Cat
- Mouse
- Worm
- Dice
- Key
6– Fill a page with stickers. (Any sticker can be used even stickers from fruits & veggies!)
7- Blackout Poetry
8- Favorite painting from your Favorite artist. Have the other create an inspired painting, drawing etc based on it.
- Melissa’s Favorite Artist is Vincent Van Gogh. Favorite Painting Starry Night.
- Ruth’s Favorite Artist is Joseph Stella. Favorite painting Brooklyn Bridge – Night View.
9- If you could meet 3 people living or dead who would they be?
10- Scavenger Hunt
- Button
- Robot
- Something Yellow
- Fortune from a Cookie
- A Logo
Also the following:
- Back Cover
- Pet Rock