Wanderlust 2025

I am well into Wanderlust 2025, the year-long mixed media art journaling course which I have been doing since 2021.  This year, they have changed the format to 12 week blocks.  I have decide to choose my highlights to share, rather than each and every week, so here they are. Above was a lovely watercolour week, creating a sunset.  I really enjoyed using the big flat brushes to try to get a smooth gradation of colours.

This one took a while as we had to go through our stash finding all the collage pieces to add to the circles.  I love the happy colour-filled result though.

The final few weeks of this first section was all about books.  We had to make a journal ready to fill with whatever we wanted.  I wanted to have my journal in a pocket on the page, so made a smaller and thinner one.  As Kate Crane was the teacher for this lesson, I made my journal using my Kate Crane designed stamps and stencils and using some of the skills I have got from her other lessons and courses.

The left page was revisiting a previous Wanderlust lesson of hers. The page on the right was a repeated stamp of hers with dots of colour.

Her stamps and stencils also feature on these pages.

The mandala design on the left was inspired from one of her courses, while on the right is a gel print using her stencils and then one of her stamps.

The penultimate week of this first block was making an accordion journal and then doing some contour sketches.  I really enjoyed doing both of these and the journal I made above is again small enough to sit in a pocket inside my main journal.

The final week was making an altered book journal, which I have done, but it won't fit into the main journal, so I created a page about books instead.  I found some great quotes and again, this is a happy page.