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365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 29

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Paint Like a Little Child
I can’t believe it is only day 29! Only 337 to go (leap year).

Wanted to experiment using weird things to stamp acrylic paint on the page. I used packing peanuts, a door wedge, the lid of a cocoa tin and some kid’s alphabet stamps. Covered the page in a big mess and had to clean it up somehow so made a watery wash of yellow-green and sloshed it all over and let it dry. Added more paint doodles, marker doodles, correction pen doodles, words and Neocolor lls. Much fun was had and I don’t care what it looks like!

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 28

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In the Garden

It’s going to take two years of posting at this rate. Ah well… it doesn’t matter in the least.

Today I prepared the page with clear gesso mixed with a little Golden Acrylics Titan Buff, which provided a nice semi-transparent surface. Sprayed a little diluted magenta ink then quickly sketched some poppies with Inktense pencils. Added text based on the highlight of the day, which was the discovery of a slow worm in the garden. Then I sprayed some water to get some interesting drip effects – didn’t quite come off.

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 25 & 26

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Textures and Tangles

Apologies for not posting for a couple of days. Creativity continues regardless.

I carried on with with my dryer sheet collages, this time using a brighter color combination. Here are some close-ups.

I love the chalky, scrunched up textures of torn paper, kitchen paper, tissue, netting, etc. The paint is diluted acrylic (Pip Seymour Fine Acrylics).

It’s Mother’s Day, or, more correctly Mothering Sunday here in the UK so I made a Zentangled card for mine.

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 21 & 22

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I’m forever drawing bubbles…

Spent the weekend drawing colored Zentangles, like so:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken an age to upload this – wifi is terrible this weekend. Again this was drawn with a Sakura Pigma Micron pen and color was added with Derwent Inktense and Studio crayons.

I’ve been working in The Book this evening but have had to wait hours for an acrylic glaze to dry. Using a hairdryer had no effect whatsoever. The page isn’t finished yet for that reason but I will post a progress pic so you can see that creating has been done. I printed one of ‘my girls’ and made use of the sticky acrylic to adhere her. Made her a t-shirt from a small piece of fabric paper. Added some more fabric paper border I intend to add some text tomorrow. If it’s dry.

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 20

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Birds of a feather… should fly free

This is a scan and print of a Zentangle I drew last night. It has lost some of its intensity in the process. Pasted it into the book and journaled all over the page. I was annoyed with myself over some recent decisions regarding my son’s education and, while writing, was listening to another excellent talk by Sir Ken Robinson at TedTalks, ‘Bring on the Learning Revolution.” Well worth watching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve just done a few colored Zentangles – so far I’ve avoided color as, up until now I have been a bit of a purist and thought they should only be black and white pen drawings with a little added graphite shading.  However, I might have changed my mind. Here is the original straight from my sketchbook.

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 18

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Zentangle

Zentangle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not my usual style of Zentangle, it must be said. This one was done quickly with markers instead of pen and pencil. There was a sense of freeing up as I laid down the lines, like a kid scribbling. Forgot to post it on Saturday when I did it. I like to use Zentangles to divide up areas of text in my journals. Like the one below.

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 14

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An Abstract View

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Paint! New Markers! A chance to play with dabs and daubs. My new acrylic paints are Pip Seymour Fine Acrylics and they are lush. I was looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous and very expensive Golden Fluid acrylics and came across these. They come in 250ml tubs and I am really impressed. Haven’t tried all the colours yet but the ones I have are creamy yet transparent. They are vibrant and ever-so-slightly glossy when dry. Me likey very much. It seems they’re only available in the UK and I got mine from Paint & Art . They may well be happy to ship to the US.

This teeny abstract was created with a layer of magenta, some swirls of cadmium yellow with a touch of white for opaqueness. Some Neocolor pastels, and doodles made with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen Big Brush which are available in the US. They are wonderful for quite detailed work as they have a very pointy tip. However, if you angle them slightly then you can make all sorts of cool marks.

I wish my camera could pick up the deep, vibrant colors on this page. Perhaps I’ll try to take a photo in daylight or squish the book into my scanner tomorrow.

 

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day 12

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Clear Gesso

Some arrived in the mail, so had a little play with it. You might think that clear gesso has no purpose… I mean, gesso, clear?… So I printed yesterday’s girl onto watercolor paper and Mod Podged her into The Book on top of the plain old white gesso mixed with acrylic paint. Squished on some more collage, pen scribbles and Neocolor IIs. Now you once you have added crayon, you can’t usually write or paint over it.  This is where the clear gesso comes in. I mixed some with a little cerulean blue acrylic ink and applied it to the whole page. I thought I had effectively obliterated everything but after a short time on the radiator, all the detail underneath reappeared. Magically, I could write right over the previous layers, wax crayon and all. Cue more markers, crayons, Neocolor 1s and pastels.

This is not art; it is experimentation.

 

 

 

365 A Daily Creativity Journal – Day Ten

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Doodle Anything

Missed a couple of days – lack of sleep and inspiration at zero level.

Took my pre-made fabric paper and use it as a background. Then I simply doodled. Painted a face with acrylic paint and made a mess with more paint, markers, oil pastel and metallic markers. I worked quickly and didn’t pre-plan anything. Have been watching and reading material by Traci Bautista and have her Doodles Unleashed on order, so with her style in mind, I tried to be free and easy about this page.

 

 

Make an Art Journal from Scratch

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Take some paper, fold it, sew it, splash some watercolor on it, collage it, crayon it, ‘zendoodle’ a border,  add some thoughts or a pithy quote or two. There. You have your art journal. Okay, okay, you wanted more than that, otherwise you wouldn’t be here.

I made a Squidoo lens (page) all about creating an art journal from scratch. It includes Teesha Moore’s useful video which shows you how to make the black journal from a singe piece of 22×30″ watercolor paper. There are links to other art journal pages too, including a step-by-step ‘Create a Journal Page’.

If I was asked to give one word of advice of how to go about beginning an art journal (yes, I know I haven’t been asked but I’m going to give it any way), it would be ‘experiment’. Don’t worry about how it’s going to look when finished. It’s about giving yourself permission to be free. It’s not an art class; it’s a playground.

HOW TO MAKE AN ART JOURNAL