Wind

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Wind
Originally uploaded by *ambies*

Love this page! I want to know if the leaves were used as a mask and then the resulting space drawn into. I love the colors, and the painterly effect of the paints. very nice!

be free

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I've had a lot of stuff going on in my head. I've been making a lot of drawings,
none of which I've been that happy with. I've been dabbling with paint, my
cricut machine but I've been avoiding those larger paintings I wrote about
awhile back…

Facebook alternates between being the bane of my existence and a tool of
happiness. I had an interaction with a friend of mine where the end result was
me contemplating sending her a message that simply said, "What is it you
are so afraid of?"* So I turn around and I ask myself with these larger
paintings that I really WANT to create, "What is it that I'm so afraid
of?" "What is holding me back?" 

At first as I think of these questions I have no answer, but the more I think
about it the more real it becomes. Working in a journal comes easy. It's (for
most) private, secretive, and as I call it, closeted. How many of you work
privately in your art journal? How many of you don't tell your friends or
family you art journal? Would they not understand? Would they call you crazy,
stupid or tell you that you’re wasting your time?**

Welcome to my world circa 1996.

The closet is a safe environment, warm womb like and it's easy to make art in a
journal, no one ever has to see it. The art journal can be a closet.  For some people the closet is the only place
they can create, and that’s okay at some point your going to want to open those
doors and share with people what it is you create. Not all of us have friends
and family that are supportive of art, or who would even try to understand. You
can’t let that hold you back from your urge to create. We all need to follow
that creative urge to where it takes us no matter the course.

So I ask you to look at what it is that you’re afraid of in
your journal, what holds you back. Journal it, Write it down. Acknowledging
those constraints will eventually allow you to loosen them and allow you to be
free. 

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Video: Sketchbook Drawings

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This kid's work is a little different from what i usually post. Its more of a straight sketchbook than art journal, but I like his use of line and 2 colors on a tan background. There is nothing wrong with working something SIMPLE. Black and white on tan. Its kinda genius.

Technique Tuesday: feelin like crapola

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feelin like crapola

Originally uploaded by lessherger

I decided to  start a new feature on my blog. Every Tuesday I'll take an
Art Journal image of mine and dissect the techniques I used to create
it. Welcome to the new Technique Tuesday!

A few weeks ago I was hellishly ill with the flu (I think) and was out of commission for 2 days. I was sick enough that I didn't art journal! So when I started to feel better I was working on raw paper again. Again the paper is Stonehenge 140lb. I started this page by creating the border. Using a waterbrush I outlined the page in water. The edge was still moist when I used my brush pen to scribble the border. I held the pen at the very end and allowed myself to work very loose. Because the page was moist the ink feathered and spread out. Because I had not gesso'd the page the spread was very controlled. On the right page I again wet the page so that the ink would spread more. I then sketched out the left page with a pilot G2 gel pen. With my waterbrush in hand I added watercolor as I finished an area of the sketch. I used my watercolors to add color to the facing page, allowed that to dry and then wrote in the same gel pen I'd used to sketch the previous page.

This was a very simple but effective page to create. I particularly love the spread of the ink onto the moist raw paper and the conjunction of the watercolor and ink.

You can see the full sized image and get a lot of detail by clicking on
the thumbnail above and clicking the "see all sizes" button above the
image that comes up.