I am working on another page in my Dylusions Art Journal (love this journal) using Gesso and Pebeo Paints.  Just finished adding the collage elements and rubons, it is ready for more texture and of course the ever important journaling.  Here are some views of my work in progress.

Cruising to the Caribbean – Collage elements

and here are some more close up shots

I will post updated photos when it is completed.

This was a page I did a couple of months ago in my Moleskine Journal

Butterfly Page

I used Silks for the background and Perfect Pearls over Black Gesso on the wings of the butterfly

This is a page from my A2Z of Me Art Journal (a small watercolor moleskine journal)

The letter for this page is L

The word I chose is Life.  I have 4 parts to this spread  Here is the page with the right flap closed, which is what you see when you open the book.

I added the extra page using Washi Tape

Art Journal Page flap closed

Here is the page with the right flap open which is where the majority of journaling will go.

Art journal page flap open

Close up of some of my journaling, which will eventually be filled with words of how I want to Live my Life

Close up of journaling

Close up of the closed flap.

Close up of Closed Flap

I used Goauche to color the pages, I love the matte finish on the pages.  I stenciled with Distress Paint from Tim Holtz using a stencil from Hero Arts.  Image is an old Lynn Perella paper I had stamped with a Butterfly and the Pennant border is the left overs from a Basic Grey layout.

I used some Dyan Reaveley stamps for the leaves which I then colored in with my Derwent Inktense pencils (love them) and the stenciled writing is painted in with Black Gesso.  I love painting in my letters with the Gesso as I love the matte finish it leaves.

If you are stuck for ideas with your Art Journal consider doing an A2Z Journal, I picked words that are personal to me.  You could also pick random words from a dictionary and journal about those.  or journal with a friend and pick a word for each other.  That could be a lot of fun!

Hope you enjoyed the peek into my Journal

till next time, Michelle

As I said before, I love to Art Journal and I have a number of books I am working in at the same time, doesn’t everybody?

Art Journals being worked in

Here is one of the pages I did last year.  Still not complete as I feel the need to write more, but sometimes I never feel a page is finished till it feels finished and then even then I may go back later and add something more. Does that make sense?

Art Journal Believe in your Dreams

This page was colored with Tim Holtz Distress Stains and when dry, covered with Ice Radiant Rain spray.  This is my favorite spray, the glimmer is just so great. I used a couple of Stampotique images, the leaves are Dyan Reaveleys and the Circles are Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s stamps from Impression Obsession.

Kill Negativity Close Up

A close up of a dog shooting a negativity plant!  The bleed through from other pages kind of looks a little bloody!

Believe Close up 2

This is a close up of the circle stamps from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.

I used them as flowers and then I journaled up the stems

Stampotique Stamps Close Up

A close up of the very cool Stampotique Girl.

Love this stamp.  I stamped her directly on the page, but I stamped her face onto white paper which I cut out and colored.

Hope you enjoyed looking at one of my Journal pages.

Till next time, Michelle

In the last post I mentioned that we also have another Art Journaling class, the A2Z of me.  This class is done in a small watercolor Moleskine Journal.  We started with the letter I.

Here is the page I completed:

The background was done with Gelatos and Gesso. Archival Ink was used for stamping and a Signo Uniball black pen was used to journal.

Each month we randomly pick a letter but skip blank pages so when we have finished the alphabet it will be in order.

I love this class, we do a quick background technique and then spend time cutting out imagery, stamping, chatting and hopefully writing.  We each pick a word that corresponds with the letter and it is fun seeing what everyone else does to complete their page.  I always try to pick a word that is personal to me rather than generic.  In June we had the letter “V” but when I sat down to do the journaling  I could not remember the word I had picked so I was unable to complete my page.

I thought I would start to show some of the images of the Art Journaling classes that we have at the store.  We actually have two classes going on every month.

Adventures in Art Journaling, this class was the one we started with.  We work in a Moleskine notebook.  Love this book.  Just the right size and I love that the paper is thin.  We can always add gesso if we need to.

The other class that we have is the A2Z of Me.  Each month we pick a letter of the alphabet randomly, do a background and then add imagery and write about the word we chose to go with that letter.  We are also working in a Moleskine journal but this is a small watercolor book.  We skip pages in the book and then go back and complete them when that letter comes up, this way when we are done, the book will be “alphabetically correct”

This photo is from the very first Adventures in Art Journaling class back in February 2012.

We used Dylusions sprays, stencils, and stamps along with Ranger’s Archival Inks.

This was the morning class

and we had so many sign ups I repeated the class in the afternoon.  This page I finished off with book paper, Faber Castel pitt pens, Ranger’s  black gesso,  rub-ons and stamps.

I

We have been having so much creative fun in these classes that I have been asked to host a third class, so as soon as I figure out what journal and what theme we are probably going to add it.