RobenMArie on youtube creates a journal page that is super cool, lots of layers, colors an djournaling and uses my most hated image:the butterfly without being hooky or cheesy. And she’s using a cool spray on ink that I need to find out more about… Anyway watch this great video.
I love this unique take on a travel journal. I particularly love Andreajoseph24's work on flickr. Its fantastic.
I first discovered this flickr artist through moleskinerie and fell in love with her work immediately. She doesn't upload as often as she once did but it's well worth the wait her stuff is great, with just a hint of creepiness.
This image was created by putting downa layer of gesso, pasting in some collage and then acrylic paint over the top of that. The paint was textured to create the circular pattern. I then cut an image out of a catalog I manipulated the arms a bit to give her a zombie like look. I glued her down and applied a layer of thinned gesso. Over the top of that I addded colored pencils in zombie shades. I stamped on the workds and hand wrote then stuff on the bottom. with a sharpie which I spritzed with alcohol to soften and blur. I Then watered down some red paint and used a liner brush to pain in some blood and spatter it across the page.
I really enjoyed making this page. Partially becuase I hate fashion images and catalogs but also I got to splatter paint across a page a la Dexter.
Thisis an interesting concept. Gut art journaling. I’m assuming it has to do with some sort of automatic painting and drawing. Scribbles and getting that out on paper. These journal is very interesting and cool. Follow the link in the images notes on youtube to go to the GUT Journal’s instructor for more info and neat images.
I enjoy the use of letters, color and images. This could be a fun way to art journal in layers.
I pretty much love everything that this guy puts on paper. this is great stuff.
I’m into a big fan of using mass media images in my art BUT I see some possibility in this particular technique. In this video she takes an image from what looks like a fashion mag, glues it into her journal, gessos over the top of it and then colors it by hand. Because the features are muted and dulled it would be very easy to turn that image into a zombie or dirty it up pretty fast. I’ll try it out and see what I get. Zombies. Yeah. I love zombies. Killer fashion zombies. So cool!
Oh wait where am I’m going to find fashion magazines? We don’t have any in the house.
I’ve been digging the coffee lately. Mainly decaf in the evenings and caffeinated in the AM. It’s bcome something of a ritual in the evening to make my decaf.
1.5 cups of filtered water into the microwave for 2.38 minutes
1 scoop of fine ground coffee into my AeroPress
1 scoop of sugar into the cup
Take temp of water as it exits the microwave, 175 degrees is perfect.
Pour water into press, to the 1 mark
Stir
Press
Add water
Add milk
Then I sit down and watch TV, work on journals or make books.
Tonight I’ll be sitting down and considering what I’m going to make out of all the luscious paper I tore down last night. Small chunky journals with recycled covers? Leather? Paper? Simple? Complex? Fun? Funky?
