Art journal page for the Prompt in the FB group Art Journaling Prompts. This is week 14 and the prompt is DREAM.
Below is a video of me putting this page together. I used some inks and stamp sets from Close To My Heart in this piece. The word DREAM was stamped with Handwritten Print Alphabet stamp set. The feathers were from the set FEATHERS, The inks that I used were Black Archival Ink, Sapphire, and Saffron.
I have been working on this project for 2 days. In addition to scrapbooking and making cards, I love to play in my art journals. It took 2 days because of all of the drying time between layers and household obligations.
Here is a pic of my page. When I decided to do this page, I wanted to use CTMH new Stamp of the Month for April 2016. The set is called Life in Pictures. Instead of doing a scrapbook layout or a card, I wanted to do something different. So I went for an art journal page.
What I did
I started by putting down a nice coat of Gesso to condition the page. The journal I am using is actually just a sketch book. With that said, the paper is not real thick to hold up to multi media art.
Then I put down some color using Close To My Heart's Watercolor paints. I used some blues, purple and a green which is not real noticeable.
Next, I took it outside and sprayed it with an acrylic sealant to prevent the watercolors from running when I used Modge Podge. I also sprayed my photo.
I used a piece of plastic canvas used in needle point work as a stencil and used Tatterd Angels Gold Glimmer mist to mist a mild pattern on the background to add texture.
Matted the picture and glued it down on my page.
I took a couple stencils (the bricks and the butterfly) and applied 3D modeling paste to get a raised look.
I used some Tim Holtz Distress Inks to color the bricks and touched them up with ShinHan Twin Touch Markers. The butterfly was colored using a couple of our inks like water color painting... Cotton Candy and Gypsy.
Good morning everyone!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee now that the clocks have moved an hour ahead and loosing an hour sleep... YAWN!!
What have I been up to??? Playing with gelli printing on my homemade gelli plate and an acrylic cutting mat. I recorded a video of my very first experience in this art form. I have seen so many artists using this form of printing in art journaling. I decided I wanted to give it a try.
After the video is a picture of a card that I made using this technique but with inks instead of paints. The inks and stamp sets are from Close To My Heart.
Here is my homemade gelli plate
After recording this, I decided to try using inks while off camera. Here is a print that I came up with. The inks didn't work as well because they were fast drying. You need slower drying ink like pigment ink. I ended up having to touch up the background and the stamped plants. I added the sentiment afterwards.
Products that I used were the Close To My Heart Inks
Ok, right now you are scratching your head asking "What on earth is Journaling by 5's?" Quite simply, you create a 20 page art journal in 5 sessions. Each session is timed at 15 minutes. There are 10 prompts. For each session, you have 15 minutes to complete the prompts for that session on all 20 pages. You have about 45 seconds to spend on each page.
It was not as easy as it looked as I watched one YouTube video after another. It forces your left brain to relax and let the right brain work. You don't have time to plan anything. You just do it. This exercise is to just get something down on paper. However, after you go through all 5 sessions, you can have free play, not timed.. this lets you go and spruce things up, add things, fix things, etc.
Here is how it goes
5 sessions
10 prompts
15 minutes
20 pages
This is the Facebook group I joined https://www.facebook.com/groups/journalingby5s/?fref=nf
Here is a video of my first session. I did speed some of it up, the creating part.
Thanks for watching and look for the next session.
I am home right now. I had a mishap at work this morning. I was heading in to the building and slipped on some ice. I twisted my back and my left knee... ouch. I had to fill out an accident report at work.. then head to my chiropractor. He got my back straightened out pretty good but still hurts a little. My knee is another story. I may have to go see my orthopedic surgeon who did my other knee surgeries. But anyhow, my chiropractor told me to go home and ice it plus not go to work tomorrow. I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow afternoon.
With that said... I organized my paints. I put the final touch on an art journal page I did last week. I added a stamped sentiment.
Not sure how happy I am with it. Definitely not my best page. But, I used my Close To My Heart Watercolor paint set using our watercolor paint brushes and painted a wash type background and then doodled or zentangled over it. I added a little saying "Laugh as much as you breathe" from the CTMH Wavy Blooms stamp set in Cranberry ink. The drawing was done with sharpies and Sukura Micron Pens.
