Last week, I finally cracked open my art journal after neglecting it for months.
I'm not sure if I could really consider these pages art journal pages in that I've not really journaled in them. But all the pages involved art supplies and words in one way or another so maybe I'm safe...
This book is a 5.25"x8.25" Moleskine, so not terribly big. I had painted background colors on a bunch of pages so I was a step ahead there.
I hadn't intended for this to be a two page spread when I started, but once I finished I rather liked the way the two pages looked together. The right page has ripped text from a children's book along with an image cut from the cover (?) of Better Homes & Gardens magazine. I used a cool glittery walnut ink spray that my mom brought back for me from Art & Soul to add some irridescence. I also used watercolor crayons to try to build up some layers of interest on the page. The left page is really simple. It's just a charcoal pencil line and a painted heart with text from a magazine. I smudged the line on purpose and like how the walnut ink oversprayed onto the yellow page.
So, I'm in the midst of painting our deck. I'm thrilled, as you can tell. I waited too late in the year and it's really not warm enough at this point but I started the first coat and I have to finish before the first frost. Hopefully I'll be more motivated in the spring for the 2nd coat...
I used acrylic paint, a Pitt pen and words cut out of old books and magazines. The paintbrush is cut from BH&G and the painting girl is cut from a vintage children's dictionary ~Little Golden book. My favorite part about making this page was using an old broken tip dental pick to make dots with the white paint. It could be my new favorite tool.
Finally, an ode to fall. And baking.
The inspiration for this page was an ad in Lowe's Creative Ideas magazine featuring a page full of apples. I spent a while cutting out the letters for the pie crisp muffins words, but I find that task oddly relaxing. Looking through my stash of old children's books, I found a poem about apples and was able to cut those words out whole. See, it pays off to have way too much stuff--you never know what you might need for a project☺.
