Showing posts with label Journal Posts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journal Posts. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Covering a Blah Journal Page
I simple way to cover a journal page that's going the ugly route: a warm coloured glaze and a painted heart. This is how you get "omg layers" by accident.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Art Journal Page 9/30/13
Well, it happened. Summer ended. A few weeks ago I know I was getting impatient with the heat and being all "when will this ever eeeennnnndddd?" As soon as my friend's wedding was over, the rain fell. And fell, and fell. Before the wedding it was a cool 20C. After the wedding, it dropped to 10C.
Here I am, still painting butterflies in some artistic form of denial.
Hello, Desk. We meet again.
There is supposed to be some kind of windstorm happening (I am skeptical), and so the blueberries and the calamondin are huddled together inside where it's not gusty. The calamondin improved so much this year - I've never seen so many leaves on it! It's hard to believe that it was once the size of the shorter blueberry.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
Journal Post 9/9/13
Blank pages can be frightening; Lots of people are afraid to use up nice
papers or start their first page in a brand new book. What if you ruin
it? What if the first page is so disappointing that it causes you to
cringe whenver you open the book? What if what if what if...
But blank pages can also be a fresh blanket of untouched white snow. Or an undisturbed body
of water that is so smooth and reflective that it looks like glass. Our
first reaction is to destroy it - to stamp a network of footprints
through the snow. To throw stones.
But papers and canvases! These are the things that cripple us with indecision!
Sometimes it pains me to use a gentle hand and a light palette in my journals only to later destroy the whole thing with dark, inky words...
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
Back to Watercolours
Here is a post in which I am likely to break a few hearts. You see, I really wanted to try out one of my more recent journals with the multi-hued papers... and I meant to grab the blue herringbone journal as it was less popular than this one but I guess my heart just slipped, Sorry! I blame the migraine.
Yes. That will do.
I love the way this paper soaks up the watercolour. Now I can use sprays and stencils again, yay!
Friday, August 16, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Bonus Journal Page - Morpho
As predicted, I'm really missing my usual watercolour journals right about now. The coloured mists are gathering dust off in the corner and it is making me sad. But I've got probably two months left of this scrappy journal to go so let's pick up the speed!
Today, I recorded a bonus journal video for my newsletter folk who will receive it on Wednesday. If you're not on the list, you can sign up in violet off to the sidebar ----->
Otherwise, feel free to just enjoy the photos! The watercolour/acrylic butterfly sticks out from the page... what was I thinking??? As if I needed to make this journal thicker!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
From the Journal Post
I'm running out of regular gel medium! The white flake medium is interesting I guess, but I'm not sure what kind of things I should be doing with it! What is it meant to be for?
In the meantime, look at these cool stencils (ahem... "masks") that came in the mail today!
Monday, July 15, 2013
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