Under the influence of Traci Bunker’s The Art Journal Workshop, I created this background spread using watercolor paints, baby wipes, and bubble wrap:
Under the influence of wine, I created a little cork stamp, which I added to the spread, along with some collaged pictures and journaling:
This page shows the three cork stamps I’ve made this week. My little swirl was beginner’s luck; the other two aren’t that great!
This page has lots of tangling, thanks to the inspiration of McNeill’s Zentangle 2:
And check out how the mail can bring inspiration. I got my latest Boden catalog, with this awesome cover:
Here’s the spread altogether:
More mail inspiration: I used a one inch square punch and a Ballard home decorating catalog and created these mosaics. Talk about meditative! It was an extremely restful exercise.
A little Zentangle bird doodle:
And, finally, when I thought I was going to blow it and not work in my journal last night, I posed this question, from Anastasiya Goers:
Thank you for checking out my art journal progress!
7 comments:
Even though your page is not done, (if any of our great art is ever really done:) you got a lot done this week! I love Traci's finished pages too! tfs!
Gosh I love it all. the Zentangles, the journal pages...seeing your inspiration point. You got a lot done and I'm still struggling with the zentangles myself. :P Thank you so much for sharing yourself here, I'm using you as inspiration to go do something of my own - last 2 days all work and no play! And 2 toddlers! Sheesh woman what is your secret?
What a wonderful week of journalling, I especially love the Zen birdie and the Boden inspired red page. It's awesome you find time to do this daily, ah I would love that! one day, one day... Thanks for dropping by my blog :)
Hi andria, thanks for coming by my blog (the faux washi tape post). do have a look at Julie K's post, there's a link in the first para of my post to her blog. she used some materials that are different, fabric tape, medical tape and a whole selection of pens to achieve her faux washi tape, it's where i first got the idea. your zentangles are wonderful, i've only just come across zentangles so have to give it a try soon. it is lovely to meet new art journallers and share ideas, so i will be back. all the best ainelivia aka Carol Ann
Holy amazing!! This is great stuff. I just love process photos and so, ipso facto, I love this. And you are rocking the zentangles. I have just barely started doing them. I am so darnit slow with my arty stuff. But this isn't about me, probably.
I took workshop from traci bunkers and was very happy. In any case, your pages look great, really. I think one thing I'm usually afraid of is adding too much to my pages, and then when I see how great other pages look with lots of grunge and detail and happy, I learn a bit more about continuing.
Am I still talking? Anyway, I wanted to say that, when I do the letter stamps, I had the same problem with the edges. Sometimes I don't care, and when I do care, this is what I do. It's a little bit of a pain, but I don't know what else. I know I'm using letters, so I get little bits of masking tape ready and after I apply ink to the stamp, I just stick a tiny bit of tape onto the edges that got ink on them. Because no matter how much I try to keep them from hitting the paper, I don't succeed.
I can't keep talking. It's 630am.
Thanks for your encouragement! Nae, your comments made me smile; thank you. Carol Ann, I will definitely check out Julie K's post. Thanks for the tip about masking tape on letter stamps, Parabolic Muse. Sounds terribly time-consuming, but it might be worth it; those ink edges really bug me!
Love all your doodling... great artwork :]
Thank you for sharing.
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