So here are the pics that I mentioned in my last post about slow journaling, the style I learned from Daisy Yellow's page.

The image above I drew the lines right to the edge of the page. This was done in ball point space pen.

For this one I drew a box about 1/4 inch from the edge and then drew m lines in. I could add a thick black border or fill the edge in with my pen… Or something else. This was done in Sharpie pen, fine point.

You'll have to excuse the TMI in this one. I had a DR's appointment and documented it here. I stared with a acrylic on gesso background, drew a border in and then the lines. I used a thick Martha Stewart pen for the writing.

For this one I started with another acrylic back ground. This time I drew random squares and rectangles all over it and filled those in with the lines, which I then wrote on with my Martha Stewart marker. This deals with a work issue so some of it is obscured. After I wrote I went back over it with my white jelly roll pen and added some highlights and stuff. 

With this page I glued down some elements and wrote on top of those but in the open area to the top right I drew in some lines and wrote on those with white jelly roll and my black martha stewart pen.

Anyway, with these pages you can see how diverse and interesting this technique can be. You can use it for an entire page, parts of a page or as a design element on a page. You can mix it up on a page too. Good stuff.

I enjoyed this video, I hope you do too.

I don't usually like a lot of shit (I use shit in a loving way) hanging off my journal. One or two things is enough for me, that and tabs, god I love me some tabs. I should do a video on how to make tabs for your art journals… (ideas)

Anyway. Check out this journal with super cool uneven pages, shit (like I wrote above, shit in a loving way.) hanging off of it from all sides and little tabs for flipping through it with ease. It's good stuff.

Rhomany introduced me to Daisy Yellow's concept of "Slow Journaling." I've been reading the daisy yellow blog off and on for some time but had missed the slow journaling post. If you've not read it yet, check it out. IT's a great idea, especially if you are like me and have seriously crappy handwriting or a background is just not speaking to you.

The concept is that you write very slowing, really thinking out each work and letter and it fills the lines.And the lines are lines you create. Basically you doodle lines on a page, make them thick and thin, wavering, spirals, circles etc… Make them how you like them, but make them. Then get out a pen and fill them, slowly. You can make whatever kind of letter appeals to you, outlines, shadows, in black ink, in pencil, in paint, whatever. Just write.

I'll get some pics up on here of the pages that I've done. You can vary the technique to whatever materials you have on hand. I've done these pages with a ballpoint (space pen), with a martha stewart permanent marker, paint pen, and sharpie pen. Each style of pen gives a different result. It feels different in the hand and on the paper. Also you can really vary the LOOK and feel of a page by varying the lines. I did a few experiments. I had one page where I wanted to fill the page fully with ink, so I did, flooded it right to the edge of the page. I had another I boxed the page off, giving myself a border. On yet another page, I glued some papers down and worked around that. THE final experiment was to take a background, draw squares and rectangles on it and then added the lines inside the shapes. the floating squares on a background was my favorite spread of pages so far.

Warning. This is a very slow and careful technique. A page where you might spend 5 minutes scribbling down a similar sentiment in plain writing might take 25 to 45 minutes with this technique. It's not something you can rush, but it's a technique to try.

I'll get some pictures of this up in my flickr account ASAP. Once you see it, you'll want to try it.

I love resist techniques. They always leave you ready for a surprise. I love that this video shows that you can use colors other than the standard old colors. Lots of fun!

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I'm not usually into pastel colors but these are pretty saturated. the texture in the colors is nice.

This guy likes to paint nudes of women and abstracts then write poetry in his journals. Just goes to show that EVERYTHING goes in your art journal.

Another good vimeo find. A sketchbook flip.

sketchbook flip #2 from Luiza Holub on Vimeo.

unusual art journal on youtube. Not so cheery and happy. I like that.

I'm running a sale in my artfire shop for the next 30 days. Use coupon code NEWYEAR at check out for 50% off your order. Head to my artfire shop to see what I've got listed and get some good stuff cheap. Feel free to comment here if you have a question about a particular journal and if it would be good for your style of journaling. I'll get you back and answer ASAP.