Today I bring to you an art journal page that was very much inspired by my friends, and Finnabair herself talking about art journaling. For some reason these past few weeks art journaling has really peaked my interest.
I’ve never really tried it until maybe around 6 months ago, but truly, since I tarted learning more about it and also having a little go every now and then myself, I find that it’s really growing on me.
There’s something very very liberating and freeing about just sitting down with a blank page and feeling that freedom to create whatever you want. Truly experiment. try different techniques, colours, anything you can imagine. Because at the end of the day, it is just that. A piece of paper. If your experiment does not go as planned and you don’t feel like sharing it with the world, you absolutely don’t have to. You haven’t wasted some very special substrate that you so wanted to make pretty, it’s just a piece of paper. And that in itself is freeing.
So I hope this little project will inspire you to pick up a piece of paper, and have some fun. Art means a lot of different things to different people. But art is always the answer.
Lots of love,
Iveta xxx
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Today I have tiny bit different project to show to you: an intuitive mood board, or whatever you’d call a page you let your mind wander and create a simple page with colours you feel right just there and then…
You probably already do these kind of mood boards. They are not only satisfyingly quick and light, but also therapeutic projects to create when you don’t have time or energy to create anything big, complex, or challenging but want to do something anyway.
This is just my way of doing those mood boards, as there is as many ways as they are makers. Isn’t it great; because they are yours and yours only, you just can’t go wrong with them!
I have an art journal, my Book of Whispers for mood boards and I use a whole journal spread for one mood board: one page for colour swatches, another for the actual collage. I let the colours talk and create only very light, unembellished collages, naked even, because I like them as they are, evocative, intuitive mood boards. I don’t want the collages to be very heavy, just textured backgrounds to give the paints more flexibility to do their magic. The swatches are also very useful as I can check my notes and my mood boards and consult them later and see which colours go well together or have a particular effect I liked. I also go back to my intuitive mood boards often and think which kind of effect they have in me: what kind of emotions the colours on me today, and what the finished page brings into my mind. It’s surprising, how different feelings and thoughts a simple page can generate! Art is amazing thing.
For this Lavender Field mood board, I first primed the pages with white Heavy Gesso, and then created a light collage using ordinary facial tissue paper, vintage book page scraps, tea bag material and some fabric to create textured background. I clued everything to the page using Soft Matte Gel.
Next, I added another layer using Iris Tapestry stencil and Modeling Paste, but left the pattern light, kind of unfinished. I picked calming, soft tones of lavender and played with Impastos Lavender, Aubergine, Snow White, and added a hint of Pitch Black and Dark Chocolate to give it more depth. Then I added a bit of Crimson and Prussian Blue Liquid Acrylics. There wasn’t any particular technique I used, just confident, large brush strokes with splashing, and some baby wipes…
For the final touches I splashed a bit of golden sunshine in form of Metallique Ancient Coin and Gold Metallic Flakes, and that was it.
It was fun, to play with the colours, and think about what kind of feelings and effects they arise in me!
Here’s a video of the process:
I wish you happy coloured moments,
Emilia
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Recently I bought some Re-Design moulds that were in my wish list for some time and after I made some castings, the idea for my project presented itself.
So, it`s time for ATC`s. These small jems full of texture, layers and so fun to create.
And since I wanted to use the anchor and rudder, they turned out to have a bit of sea nature. At least two of them.
I`m going to miss the sea this year, since I wasn’t able to go to the beach as much as I wanted to this summer. Hopefully next summer.
On the other two ATC`s though, I was able to give some color by picking up some of the most saturated colors of liquid acrylics: Violet, Crimson, Magenta and Emerald.
Two of my favorite colors of Jewel pastes completed the look and finally some dry brushed white gesso.
I have to admit I`m starting to like more and more this Plaster paste.
Take a look at the close up photos with it. It created texture even outside of the base and I like it so, so much…
I hope you`ll like my little treasures too.
Be inspired!
Hugs, Martina.
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