A Garden Walk Art Journal Page

The latest prompt from Try It On Tuesday is In the Garden.  I thought this art journal page would fit the prompt.

Music Feeds the Soul: An Art Journal Page

I was really challenged by the colour combination for this art journal page, following the prompts for April over on Mission Inspiration.  The colours chosen were Royal Purple, Postbox Red and Grass Green (not a combination I would have gone for myself), so I hope you like my finished page.  The prompt title was 'Music feed the Soul' and the five prompt words for this month were Music / Dance / song / Melody / Soul.

Abstract Journal Page

I am slowly catching up with past prompts over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More.  November was Art Movements and week 4 was Abstract: Creating backgrounds using a squeegee.  Here is my art journal response.

Art Journal Page: My Word for 2018

Having successfully completed every prompt for 2017, I decided to continue the journey with Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More in 2018.  The name of the group has changed to allow additional types of project, but I have decided to continue creating an art journal page each week.  The monthly prompt for January is 'Words' and I chose the word 'dare'.  Last year's word for me was 'Create' which I certainly have done, but this year I want to be a little more adventurous and daring in my work and try new techniques as well as grasping creative opportunities which come my way.

Remember

I am a week behind with the prompts on Art Journal Prompts.  This page was created for week 46 and the prompt was Remembrance.  As we recently commemorated the centenary of the end of the battle of Passchendale, I decided to base my page around the Great War as it was known at the time.

Stencil Fun

This piece was created for the first Explore Your Creativity challenge on Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art.  The challenge was to use stencilling and texture paste with the colour blue.  As it involves so much stencilling, I am also entering it into the current challenge on the That's Crafty Challenge Blog (Stencil It!) as well as the Country View Challenge for November (Stencils).

A Stencilled Tag Experiment

There are several challenges that I've noticed recently which include stencilling as a technique.  I therefore decided to work on a tag to practise layering different stencilled designs, and shall enter the resulting piece in the November Country View Challenge: Stencils. All the stencils that I used are the mini layering stencils by Tim Holtz.

Autumn: The Year's Last, Loveliest Smile: A Journal Page

This page was created for week 44 of Art Journal Prompts.  The prompt was Autumn/Fall and I decided to use my latest bargain buy from Craft Clearance (thanks Nina for the tip); the large pack of Tim Holtz Grunge board (Swirls/AlphasTH92491) which were less than £10 for 26 sheets of grunge board.

Blackout a Colourful Background

This page was created for Challenge 40 on Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art.  The prompt was fire and the colours to be used were red, orange and black.  I decided to create a colourful background in reds and oranges and then use black around masked off areas.  I was inspired by the following quote image, so thanks to the unknown artist.

My version

The original inspiration.

Art Journal Prompts 42: Leaves

Having left it until the last minute to work with last week's art journal prompt, I thought I'd get straight down to week 42: Leaves.  I decided to use a stencil and stamp from Claritystamp which came in the July 2017 New Design Stamp Club and Stencil Club packs.

Live Like Tomorrow Doesn't Exist

This page was created for week 41 of Art Journal Prompts: Use Q Tips/Cotton Buds.  The gorgeous, grungy stamps from Visible Image went beautifully with this prompt.

Journal Page: Water, Orange, Purple, Blue?

The prompt for challenge 38 on Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art was Water using the colours orange, purple and blue.  I was a little flummoxed at first, then I found the quote and the rest came quickly.

Pretty in Pink

As I recently acquired the newest set of Dylusions paints including two new shades of pink, I decided to work with all the shades of pink in these paints on a #8 manilla tag.

Art Journal Prompts Week 34: Friends

I had been saving this quirky character from a British Gas leaflet for the right occasion and this seemed to be it.  This page was created for week 34 of Art Journal Prompts: Friends.

Frida Kahlo Inspired: Purple, Orange, Dark Pink

I confess that I had to google Frida Kahlo when the prompt for Junk Journals Junkies and Mindful Art Challenge 30 was announced.  The three colours allowed are Purple, Orange and Dark Pink.  I really can't paint faces, so I decided to work with a sugar skull representation of Frida.  My inspiration for the background came from a photograph by Nickolas Muray taken in 1938 (Frida Kahlo On White Bench).

Mission Inspiration: July 2017

I am still busy catching up with the monthly missions from Mission Inspiration.  This page was created in response to the July prompts (my 4th page in 4 days), so I have nearly caught up.  Once again, I happened to drop upon the perfect image in a Sunday supplement magazine which fitted the colour scheme and one of the word prompts.  As usual, there were 8 steps, 3 suggested colours and 5 prompt words.

Art Journal Prompts Week 31: Credit Card and Fingers Only

I love getting messy fingers and quite often use them to apply paint rather than a brush, so when I saw this week's prompt from Nina Ribena on art journal prompts I knew it would be fun.  My hands aren't completely clean yet, but I had a blast.

As the Chit Chat stickers state, I decided to stay simple, trust my crazy ideas, hold tight and pretend I had a plan, be courageous and go wherever my heart took me.  I therefore chose 5 colours of Dylusions paint (Black Marble, White Linen, Polished Jade, After Midnight and Crushed Grape), cut a piece of Mixed Media card (19.5cm x 18.5cm) to fit my 8"x8" kraft art journal, cut up an old library card, grabbed my old season ticket card and made a start.

Black Marble, After Midnight and Crushed Grape to start (in that order), added randomly in both directions and dried.

Polished Jade added with a narrower piece of card and White Linen lines using the sides of the card.

After Midnight scraped over with a very narrow piece of card and lines of Polished Jade.

Some larger areas of White Linen scraped on and overlaid in places with Polished Jade.  As you can see the White Linen became rather translucent as it dried.

Fingers used around the edges to add a White Linen border and some Black Marble lines.

I decided to go all around the edges again with a thicker layer of Reeves White Titanium paint as well as adding further white lines in the same paint.  I also turned the page 180 degrees before adding the Chit Chat stickers that I had chosen as they matched my thought process while completing this page.

3D Fun: Milk Carton Box

For once I decided to go 3D and try out a die I've had for a while and never used.  I also needed a small gift box and thought I'd kill two birds with one stone if you'll pardon the expression.  I'm not sure that it's entirely finished yet, as I may add some panels with stamping to two of the sides.  I also have to decide on the way to hold it shut (the decorative paper clip is purely temporary).

Journal52 #8 Stillness

I admit I did a google search for quotes which included the word stillness when I saw the prompt for week 8 from Journal52.  As soon as I found this Eckhart Tolle quote however, I knew exactly what I was going to do on my page.

 

From Master Board to Card

I decided that having made a master board, I should use it to create a card.  It didn't take very long and I have plenty of background pieces left over for another card and some tags.