Good Morning Everyone!! Lynne here, and today for my design team post I want to do something a little bit different. I want to share with you a
page from my private art journal and give you a tiny peek into my art
brain and to describe a little bit about how my creative process works. But
before I share my page with you I want to share the two guidelines I
have made
for myself that have made my Art Journaling so much easier and a
wonderful journey at the same time! First I am allowed to use only what
is on the counter
in front of me (otherwise I become paralyzed with too much choice!) and
Second I have to DO whatever my first thought is... No
Thinking... otherwise I over think. I worry waaaay
too much about what is "right" or what looks good or what the rules
are.... so I made a rule for myself that in my Art Journal ... No Rules
Apply and no thinking! And this applies to what I write as well... I
put my pen down and write whatever comes into my head... No Matter
What. Follwing these two rules have taken all the pressure off me when I sit down to "do art" and I love
seeing the end result of what comes
out of my heart and soul when I am not paying attention!
I
started the bones of this page a while ago using a stencil and pushing some
modeling paste through it and letting it harden - and there it sat until I was surrounded by scraps from
the last layout I created for my design team post. I also had in front of me - all my dylusion
sprays including my new White Linen opaque spray and a cup full of gel
pens from my doodling journal. I sprayed the page with pink and blue dylusions inks and then added
a few spritzes of water to soften the colors, letting it run where ever
it would. Mostly it ran into the cracks of the stencil pattern which
was just fine with me!
Next
I glued down all the leftover bits from my last scrapbooking layout without thinking
too much about where I wanted them... if it felt right I glued it down.
The word scraps "Beautiful Daydreams" and "Bouqet" are actually the title strips that I cut off the SKW patterned papers I
used... Cool huh! I drew in the word CREATE, and colored it in blue
gel pen, but it was too bold for my taste so I faded it back by doodling
patterns in white gel pen all over the letters... the end result looked
so good I just had to accent it using my liquid glass.
At this point the
top of the page started looking a little empty so I stamped some more
words in pink ink but again these words seemed too bold for me so I
sprayed
the entire page with my new white linen dylusions ink and blotted off
the excess - it worked like a charm - fading back the too bold words to
just where I wanted them.
And
finally I just HAD to use this house I had created from Susan's Le
Mason stamp, stamping it on three different patterns of paper, cutting
it out and
reassembling it in colored paper - but if I glued down the house Where
would I put my journaling?
and then the AH-HA! moment occurred... I would make it a hidden journal
box... behind my house...BRILLIANT! And I LOVED it... using some duct
tape for strength covered over with some washi tape for decoration this
"Journal Flap" will stand up to all the flipping I can give it!
And
just when I thought I was done my brain said "Spatter! You want some
white Spatter!" To get this wonderful solid white splatter I used some
watered-down gesso...
it really, really works. And as aways (for me) the final touches with
my stickles and a black pen finished off this soft and pretty page.
Well
I hope you enjoyed this little trip into my "Art Brain"... and maybe
you want to try adopting my little rules to help you take some pressure
off yourself and allow you
to follow your own artistic instincts and start your own Art Journal!
Just DO IT!
Cheers!
Scrapbook Lynne Mizera
PS: If you are curious about what I wrote on this journal page, come visit my
Blog post where I shared it with all my followers...smile
