WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JOURNAL

Last weekend I took a journal making class with Ingrid Dijkers.  She is a mixed media artist and owner of Running Rabbit Studio. She teaches classes around the US and has been featured in "Art Journal" and "Sommerset Studio" magazines.  Check out Ingrid at www.Ingrid Dijkers.com

We made journals out of vintage press board file folders. The class was a lot of fun and I love the journal I made. Here is a journal page I started on my stream on Tuesday. It was inspired by one of Ingrid's journal pages.

So, what I would like you to do is post on my blog and tell me if you like to make your own journal or if you work in a store bought journal. If you make your journal what do you use for the cover? And what type of binding do you do and with what?  If you buy your journal what is your favorite brand and size.Post a picture of something you have done in your favorite art journal.

I will do a drawing from everyone who replies on my stream Tuesday July 16th. The winner of the drawing will win one of the vintage file folder journals I learned to make in Ingrid's class.

There will be no stream on July 9th.

I look forward to hearing from everyone and I am especially looking forward to see your journal pages!!!

INK AND WATERCOLOR

I am taking the Wanderlust 2019 Class.  It is a year long class and I just finished Week 10.  The theme for March is rivers.

Today I made ink and watercolor collage papers on various different types of paper. I used rice paper, 100% cotton water color paper, Bee tracing paper and medical paper. I used sumi inks, acrylic inks and alcohol inks. Here is a picture of my finished page.

WATER COLOR SWATCHES

When a get a new set of water color paints I like to swatch them on a big sheet of paper or in my journal just to get a feel for what they look like.  Here are the Vintage Pastels from Prima done in my art journal.

I have done this on single sheets of paper and cut them up and used them as art cards with dangles  or stamps.

This time I decided to do a journal page with the dangles. I love how this turned out.  The water color paints are Prima Decadent Pies.

MY VERSION OF ART CARDS

Here are some art cards I did on stream yesterday.

I like to make art cards from from card stock that I use for my left over paint, ink or whatever when I'm working on an art project. I ended up saving the pieces of cardstock because I liked how they looked. 

One day I decided I needed to do something with all these pieces of colorful paper.  This is were my theory that you can turn anything into art. I took the papers and started adding stamps, washi tape, more paint. I cut them up into different sizes because I did not want to end up with a bunch of ATC size cards 2 1/2 x 3 1/2. I rounded the edges. Inked them and voila Art Cards.

I use the art cards for gift tags, send them out with happy mail.  You could use them for anything. Stick them in a book as a bookmark. Put them in someones lunch. Just give them out to make someone smile.

So use your imagination and turn all those colorful pieces of leftover stuff into art!!!

December Stencil Girl Club

This month I used a technique from “Fast and Fun Watercoling” by Gina Lee Kim with my December Stencil Girl Stencil Club stencils.  I used watercolor paint, wax oil pastels and Elmer’s glue.

END OF THE YEAR RECAP 2018

Not much art got done the last couple of month of 2018.  Some sketching, a couple of art journal pages and a bit of water colors r experimenting.

Her are some pictures of what did get done.

I am hoping for some BIG things in 2019.

Happy New Year to all my art friends!!!

My Most Recent Art Journal Page

Recently I signed up for the Art Foamies monthly box. I recieved my first box for November and it was filled with fun Thanksgiving Stamps, stencils, Pebeo Fabric paint, a paint brush and an apron.

So far I played with the stamps and stencils with acrylic paint on an art journal page with some leftovers on it.  When i was finished I filled in the white space with PanPastels.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!!!