Well hello! The craziness that the summer started with has been continuting. So much to catch you up on. No matter how crazy life is for me, I do seem to consistently play in one form or another in my art journal (or lately anyway). So I thought sharing some of my recent pages would make a good get-back-to-blogging entry.
I was cleaning of a brayer that had paint on it as a background technique on this page and the next you'll see. Love how the colors created so many instant layers.
Also loved this happy accident created by mark making on the page before it...the back of the page I was doodling on had a swath of orange on it and acted as transfer paper leaving some orange on the page behind it.
Yesterday I created this page and instagrammed it before I ended up painting over it completely a few times. Here's where it ended up:
I always tell my students that I am not attached to results in my journals, and they are not vessels of finished work, but a means to express myself and explore. Maybe seeing this transformation makes it easier to understand what I mean...
I'm telling you, my art journal helps keep me sane when life is doing it's best to put me in the looney bin! I AM developing an ecourse on art journaling, and have a couple live teaching engagements coming up to announce too, for those of you that are interested. I do hear you and appreciate the interest! But hey, I'd be the first to tell you, you don't need to take a class, if you have an interest at all, start playing, you might find it as comforting as I do!
