10 Ideas for your Art Journal
I do a lot of things in my Art Journal… I paint, collage, draw, collect, save, experiment, try out new materials, document, write… Today I’m sharing a few ideas of what I do in my Art Journal! Most of...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek: Lurking monster with sharp teeth
[...] if youre still lurking on the web, then its time to stop. Were all eagerly waiting for your friendly voice of support. You dont have to say anything fancy, but if youre getting something...
View ArticleLife is a Creative Project
Life is a huge (always ongoing) creative project. iHanna Depending on my mood, this iHanna-quote that I wrote as big as I could in my Art Journal, rings either positive or negative… What’s your take on...
View ArticleArt Journal Collage
Art Journal Collage, hello my dear! I love filling a whole spread with bits of this and that. Just randomly adding things from my desk, or like I did this time, with the content of a particular...
View ArticleArt Journaling: I’m keeping the Butterflies
Sometimes when I bind a journal I use recycled pages that are so pretty that I don’t really want to add much to them. From my explore nature altered book I tore out a page with these graphical...
View ArticleTrying out Martha Stewart Craft Paints
As the very curious person I am I really had to try a few of the new acrylic paints I saw in my local craft store recently. But to be honest with you, the biggest reason I couldn’t resist buying these...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek: Winged things
Why do people say grow some balls? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding. Betty White Winged things are flying in. They never seem to be...
View ArticleDiamond Stitch Art Journal
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn Trying something new to me, called the diamond x stitch. It is a bookbinding stitching...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek: Starburst
I believe that we learn new things by doing. If you want to learn how to be more creative, you’ve got to start doing something. It is really great to be allowed (in the form of classes, prompts or...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek: Wing it Baby
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. Carl Jung Wing it is means to do something with no preparation. That is...
View ArticleEndpapers, Frogs and a Pocket
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccolo Machiavelli I went back to my diamond stitched journal to add end-papers. The endpapers are the pages that consist of a...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek | Unapologetic
Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They...
View ArticleArt Journal Close-ups
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden In almost all of the art journal peeks that I share here you’ll see close-up photos. Sure, I like to include...
View ArticleBook of Patterns
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it’s in the arts, sciences, or business. Teresa Amabile...
View ArticleHello Acrylics, Hello painted grid
Hello Acrylics, welcome out to play. I wish we could have a rendez vous every day you and me, but alas, it’s not happening. Actually it’s happening way too seldom these days. I know where you are and...
View ArticleArting in the Art Journal
When you work in book format, like an Art Journal, or any notebook, each page is a creation on its own. You can tear it out and frame it if you want to, but the point of it is not to display it. The...
View ArticleArt Journal Peek: Find your Passion
When you find your passion, keep at it! That’s what I wrote on that little label in my Art Journal. I believe in it. And it sounds easy, but it’s not. Especially if you’re anything like me, and are...
View ArticleThe Hamster on my Head
You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? George Bernard Shaw Let’s draw selfies! Much more fun and original than taking them with your cell phone!...
View ArticleCollecting Christmas Papers
Right now my desk is filled with paper projects. It’s the end of the year feelings, where I go through boxes of stuff and decide on what I want to work on, finish, or leave behind. It’s a way of...
View ArticleCelebrating Lifelong Learning
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi Celebrating Lifelong Learning. A page in my spiral bound Art Journal from 2005! I think life is a long learning...
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