Here is my first journaling card background from Kate Crane’s Journal Soup class at 21 Secrets.
Lots of media on this card: spray ink, acrylic paint, oil pastels, dye ink. This card measures about 4.5″ x 6.5″ and was a piece of left over watercolor paper.
I’ll be using a dip pen and calligraphy ink to journal on this since there is oil pastel in some areas.
Keep it simple!
Below is my piece from Cathy Bluteau’s class “Doodling Our Way”, one of the on line classes taught in 21 Secrets. This was pure fun – no rules, just collage, doodle and color in. Not sure it is all the way done, every time I look at it, I want to add more.
copyright 2013 Marci Glenn
Keep it simple!
Tonight I was playing with an idea. I wanted to journal my last week, but I wanted to hide the journaling after I had written it. I could have done this in one of my art journals, but I saw this unopened 11″ x 14″ canvas and thought “Why not?”. The canvas was already primed so I pulled out my black india ink and my dip pen and wrote in a circular motion all around the canvas. (I have blurred out the writing, but you can still get the idea).
I let the canvas dry for a bit and then covered it with a light coat of gesso. As it turned out, the india ink had not completely dried yet and was bleeding into the gesso. Hmm, now what? I finished coating it with gesso and then grabbed a paper towel and started rubbing the paper towel in a circular motion, top to bottom, in strips. This is what was created.
Shades of grey in wave forms. You would not know that there was ever any journaling underneath, but I know that the writing I did tonight was soothing and put an exclamation point at the end of a very difficult week. I’m going to let this dry overnight and see where I want to go with it tomorrow.
Keep it simple!
This coming Monday, March 18, Paulette Insall will be teaching a class in acrylic painting at her studio in Portland, Oregon. If you are not familiar with Paulette, take a look at her blog, Poetic Splashes of Joyful Light. Her class, One Word Tree has two spots left. Come join us for a few hours of fun, food and inspiration. Hope to see you there!
I saw this quote posted on FB and knew I had to use it in a spread so I spent a few hours playing in the art studio and came up with this interpretation.
I call these donut flowers, big circles with layers of acrylic color.
Keep it simple!
