I've been working on another little journal as a spin-off from one of the lessons from the art journal course. It's something I work on every now and again.
The cover is a 'ghost print' from a gel plate printing session.
This page started as a pastel watercolour background which was decorated with drawn flowers. The rest of the background was painted with dark blue acrylic paint.
On the right hand page I cut some flaps and added a stamped image.
This page started as a gel print, which was stencilled over, adding paint pen marks and gold squiggles.
On these pages, there is a collage and a page with a pocket.
I like how most of your comments are how each picture was something and now is something else - the beauty of altered art, it moves on and becomes something new :) x
ReplyDeleteThanks, kjsutcliffe. It is often good to start with something to get rid of the blank page, but I do enjoy seeing how the pages develop with the different ideas and layers.
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Ellie
Gosh your art journal turned out stunning Ellie .. & yes so great that you have kind of re-purposed other pages & turned them into something else. I love this concept. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Julie. I still have a few pages to finish (or at least, work on - an art journal is never really finished!). I have such a lot of bits and pieces from other projects, gel plate prints, 'using up paint' pages etc. that is it good to be able to use them as a starting point, even if a lot of them end up getting covered up!
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Ellie
Oh yes, I can see how that last design would be meditative, I'm always doodling when I'm on the phone and I find it so calming to draw lines inside shapes. I really like the flowers as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jo. Repetitive lines are one of my favourite things to draw when I am 'slow drawing'. The flowers worked out really well, so that was a bonus. Sometimes, the end result can be very different from what's in your head (but that can be exciting too!)
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Ellie
I'm always amazing at the many ideas and techniques you use. Well done.
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Thanks, Amalia. Most of these ideas were inspired by someone else but I try to make them more 'my own'. I still have some more pages to fill so need to keep going!
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Ellie
LOVE the last one, the black and white-ish circles. Very interesting. You are always so creative.
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Thanks, Sandy. I enjoy drawing repetitive lines as I find it quite meditative.
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Ellie