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.

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.

Week 35 – Draw, sketch, paint, doodle a face or cut and alter one from a book or magazine. 

When I saw the prompt for this week I immediately knew I wanted to draw half of a woman’s face and have her hair be colorful and take up both pages.  It didn’t quite come out as I had pictured it in my head and her face is a bit odd but I like it regardless.  The face was created using Faber-Castell Pitt Brush Artist Pens. After coloring her face in I used a barely damp cloth to smooth out her skin color and soften the lines of her nose and mouth.  For her hair I used gelatos and Faber-Castell Pitt Brush Artist Pens and for the writing I used Uniball Signo White Gell Pen.

Week 33 – Use “under paper”

I don’t normally use paper underneath my art. I have this plastic from a poster frame on my desk.  It basically collects the excess paint.  If its water soluble I will clean it up when I am done so that if I accidentally drip water it won’t reactivate and ruin whatever I am working on. If its something more permanent or harder to remove I will try to clean it up as soon as possible if not then I just leave it there.  So for this prompt I thought I would have to purposely use paper under any projects I worked on for the week but I remembered there was one I had used during a project I had used distress ink on.  I liked the pattern it created so I decided to use it.  Since during this week it was Waffles birthday I decided to use a picture of him.  When I glued the picture it reacted with the ink and changed colors in a few places.  For the background I used latex paint and an acrylic paint pen for the borders around the picture of Waffles and the under paper.

Week 34 – Fill the page with numbers relating to your week.

When I did the background I didn’t care for it.  I took a day to decide if I would keep it or if I would gesso over it and start again.  I decided to keep it and once everything was done I liked it. I used latex paint for the background. I created the black spray patterns with india ink. For the writing I used acrylic paint markers, Faber-Castell brush pen and Uniball Signo white gel pen.

I have been slacking with posting my Documented Life pages.  I have been working on several projects so posting has gone by the wayside.  Below are three weeks worth of pages.  The last one will be posted when I am done with this week’s prompt.  I also have a post on the zine I created for the 24 Hour Zine-a-thon that will go up in the next week.

Week 30 – Smash Book Style

Smash books have never interested me so I have never done one before. Hopefully this is somewhat smash book style.

Week 31 – Add a pocket and fill it with items from the week

I kept it simple this week. Most of the items for this week are from the Ingress Helios Anomaly as well as a sketch that I didn’t use for the zine I created during the 24 Hour Zine-a-thon.  I will not be linking the website for the zine-a-thon because it was hacked a while ago and has malware and unfortunately the owner of the site has not corrected this yet.  The owner doesn’t seem to be active on twitter or facebook either so I have decided not to bother mailing my zine to them.

Week 32 – Fortune from a fortune cookie

Decided to keep it simple.  I really like how it came out.