I pre-orderd this book because I don’t always want to see how artists make their journal pages…I just want to see their pages sometimes. It’s like I can peer between the covers of THEIR journals and get inspired by the fact that there seem to be infinite possibilities for pages to make.
Even if I can’t draw.
I have no ambition to get any of my pages into a book someday. I just play. And playing makes me happy.
That is SO enough for me – but this is a very good book.
I’m still working on the Journal 52 prompts for 2015 and while I’m not completely “caught up” I have kept going, which is really the point, right? This is from Week 1: Pathways. I had fun with watercolor paint on this. My favorite part is the texture from the gesso that makes the bark of the tree. I’d like to say that I planned that, but NOPE!
This is from Week 12: Inspiration Board. I could wax poetic about my love for coffee (and I will make MANY more pages about my love for the bean…) but this was just fun to make. I actually worked on this while having coffee in a local coffee shop (OOOH!). This was colored with watercolor pains and I used pieces of an old calendar and candy wrappers on it. Makes me want a fresh cup!
Week 7: Valentines. While I can feel conflicted about the subject, that never stops me from getting my “mushy” on. Hearts are just fun shapes to work with. And have no doubt, I am wildly, completely, overwhelmingly in love with someone…I’m just too cool for Hallmark sentiment. Looking forward to making more pages this weekend.
I’ve been carrying this little art journal around for quite a while now (more than 2 years?) It fits in my purse w/o fuss and has kept me from “going postal” in more than one of those meetings that should have just been emails…
There are many pages “in progress” and some blanks just waiting to save lives…
There are pages of stamped art..
And a whole lot of stencil lurve…
Oh! My little one! There may come a day when you are “finished” but until then, your covers will get beat up at the bottom of my purse.
Which is why I decorate art journal covers LAST, if at all.
PS – Is it weird that once I post pictures of my journal pages, I get ideas about how to “finish” them?
Yes, I am doing this now too. Perhaps more than last year, perhaps not.
Week 9…Artistic Restraint
Black, white & red. Watercolor, acrylic, scrapbook paper, and sakura gel pens.
Week 11…Just Write.
Cheap Artist Loft butterfly stencils, Folkart stencil cream paints & a Hampton art dye marker to KEEP WRITING!
As long as it’s fun, I’ll keep doing it. I have enough pressure in my life….
Aside from coloring another postcard (not finished yet…be patient!) I spent some serious time organizing my craft room. I also pored over my copy of “Where Women Create Book Of Organization”, which has given me some fresh ideas about improving my “flow” through supply placement and art tool storage. More on that later…
Here is another page in progress. ..
And this one too…
It’s about my BEST FRIEND. Yesterday was her birthday. She’s 23…I swear!
I’ll take some photos of my smallest, most portable journal soon. Don’t know why I’ve been neglecting the poor little thing…
So, I thought that my marker for a “finished” art journal page was when I put a date on it. And while that sounds nice and definitive, now I’m not sure if it’s true.
Like this…
Am I done with this page? Dunno, but I sure don’t know what else to do with it.
And this spread…
Is it art jornaling if there is no text at all? I mean, a journal is a journal when it’s just words…
Am I overthinking things again?
Is this page done?
For right now…yes.
Ed. Now that I’ve looked at these pages on this blog, I see where I can go with the 2 page spread (with the faces) and the third page (nest and eggs). Isn’t it funny that I can aswer my own question if I give myself a little time?
I have gotten a bit nutty with the postcard coloring lately, but I have had some fun and that IS the point, really. Here is the owl I’m sending to Laura…
I’ve colored a few (but not all) of them.
Some are so finely printed, I’ll need super fine point colors to make it work. Cuz ya gotta have goals…
I’m not a professional blogger, or an Artist, or a Lawyer.
I’m a Librarian, Y’all!
I AM, however, trying to figure out how to make this little endeavor all spiffy and add the badge-y links to my favorite blogs on the side of my page like other folks do.
Horatio and Emily 