If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, there is a short introduction here. All of the previous posts can be found archived here. There is a flickr group for sharing right here. Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day! No need to finish anything or even like it. If you've done some art journaling this week and you've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the end of this post. Thanks!
Today I want to share some daily pages from August and September. I love working on my pages over time in little increments. (In fact, I believe I've shared bits and pieces of all of these pages on the blog, before they were finished. You see, I work in little bits and spurts and lots of layers over time.) I feel like the pages are so much richer because of that approach.
You'll also notice that not every day is represented. I try my best to art journal every single day, but I don't always make it and that's okay. Art journaling every day is a goal, but I am neither "good" nor "bad" based on whether or not I get to it. I encourage everyone to try art journaling every day. Even if you only manage it half the days, you've art journaled 182 times in a year! That's amazing!
I cut around this beauty's face to give my page a shaped edge. Lately I'm a big fan of non-square pages.
I've been auditioning black pens in my art journal. I use them over acrylic paint and then run over the top with water to see what happens.
She was painted with PanPastels. I love the soft look!
This is the back side of her face. I tried to make the shape make a little bit of sense by creating the flower.
See all that yummy texture? It's packing tape I used to clean my Gelli Plate! Looks cool, right?!
More pen auditions.
I love doing a dark page every now and then in my journal.
This is kind of a cool technique. I'll have to write a formal tutorial up at some point, but basically: I cut out some stars with my ScanNCut and put them under some aluminum tape. I painted over the tape with black paint. Once the paint dried, I sanded over the top and you can see that the dimension of the paper stars caught the sandpaper and so they were revealed!
Here is this week's linky list:
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I like how soft the lady’s colors are and the shape adds a nice change to the art journal.
I like how soft the lady’s colors are and the shape adds a nice change to the art journal.
I like how soft the lady’s colors are and the shape adds a nice change to the art journal.
I like how soft the lady’s colors are and the shape adds a nice change to the art journal.
I like how soft the lady’s colors are and the shape adds a nice change to the art journal.
Love the lady AND the flower on the back! Hey … will you do a post on which pen you find to be the best? I have the worst luck, even my Scarlet Lime pens stopped working for me … it lasted literally four or five pages … I heard from someone that if you use craft paints they are brutal for pens, is that true? I always thought it didn’t matter. Curious minds want to know! As always, thanks for sharing … and love the comment ‘it’s my goal to art journal every day, but I’m neither good or bad based on whether I do it or not’ AMEN! thanks for that reminder:)
Love the lady AND the flower on the back! Hey … will you do a post on which pen you find to be the best? I have the worst luck, even my Scarlet Lime pens stopped working for me … it lasted literally four or five pages … I heard from someone that if you use craft paints they are brutal for pens, is that true? I always thought it didn’t matter. Curious minds want to know! As always, thanks for sharing … and love the comment ‘it’s my goal to art journal every day, but I’m neither good or bad based on whether I do it or not’ AMEN! thanks for that reminder:)
Love the lady AND the flower on the back! Hey … will you do a post on which pen you find to be the best? I have the worst luck, even my Scarlet Lime pens stopped working for me … it lasted literally four or five pages … I heard from someone that if you use craft paints they are brutal for pens, is that true? I always thought it didn’t matter. Curious minds want to know! As always, thanks for sharing … and love the comment ‘it’s my goal to art journal every day, but I’m neither good or bad based on whether I do it or not’ AMEN! thanks for that reminder:)
Love the lady AND the flower on the back! Hey … will you do a post on which pen you find to be the best? I have the worst luck, even my Scarlet Lime pens stopped working for me … it lasted literally four or five pages … I heard from someone that if you use craft paints they are brutal for pens, is that true? I always thought it didn’t matter. Curious minds want to know! As always, thanks for sharing … and love the comment ‘it’s my goal to art journal every day, but I’m neither good or bad based on whether I do it or not’ AMEN! thanks for that reminder:)
Love the lady AND the flower on the back! Hey … will you do a post on which pen you find to be the best? I have the worst luck, even my Scarlet Lime pens stopped working for me … it lasted literally four or five pages … I heard from someone that if you use craft paints they are brutal for pens, is that true? I always thought it didn’t matter. Curious minds want to know! As always, thanks for sharing … and love the comment ‘it’s my goal to art journal every day, but I’m neither good or bad based on whether I do it or not’ AMEN! thanks for that reminder:)
thanks for sharing your pages! they are fabulous. scan n cut tutorial? yes, please!:)
thanks for sharing your pages! they are fabulous. scan n cut tutorial? yes, please!:)
thanks for sharing your pages! they are fabulous. scan n cut tutorial? yes, please!:)
thanks for sharing your pages! they are fabulous. scan n cut tutorial? yes, please!:)
thanks for sharing your pages! they are fabulous. scan n cut tutorial? yes, please!:)
that pan pastel portrait is just gorgeous!
that pan pastel portrait is just gorgeous!
that pan pastel portrait is just gorgeous!
that pan pastel portrait is just gorgeous!
that pan pastel portrait is just gorgeous!
I agree with the others – the Pan Pastel portrait is lovely! I always love looking in your journals. Thanks for sharing them.
I agree with the others – the Pan Pastel portrait is lovely! I always love looking in your journals. Thanks for sharing them.
I agree with the others – the Pan Pastel portrait is lovely! I always love looking in your journals. Thanks for sharing them.
I agree with the others – the Pan Pastel portrait is lovely! I always love looking in your journals. Thanks for sharing them.
I agree with the others – the Pan Pastel portrait is lovely! I always love looking in your journals. Thanks for sharing them.
Glad you were able to art journal so much this year! Your girl looks great!
Glad you were able to art journal so much this year! Your girl looks great!
Glad you were able to art journal so much this year! Your girl looks great!
Glad you were able to art journal so much this year! Your girl looks great!
Glad you were able to art journal so much this year! Your girl looks great!
Julie your journal is just amazing. I totally love it. The pastel woman is magnificent!! Did you use pan pastel or a mixture? Just curious. Your creativity ceases to amaze me! The face cut out, the Gelli tape,the scan n cut everything… Amazing. I don’t comment every day but felt I should send some love your way today. Thanks for being a never ending source of ideas and inspiration! Have a great weekend!
Julie your journal is just amazing. I totally love it. The pastel woman is magnificent!! Did you use pan pastel or a mixture? Just curious. Your creativity ceases to amaze me! The face cut out, the Gelli tape,the scan n cut everything… Amazing. I don’t comment every day but felt I should send some love your way today. Thanks for being a never ending source of ideas and inspiration! Have a great weekend!
Julie your journal is just amazing. I totally love it. The pastel woman is magnificent!! Did you use pan pastel or a mixture? Just curious. Your creativity ceases to amaze me! The face cut out, the Gelli tape,the scan n cut everything… Amazing. I don’t comment every day but felt I should send some love your way today. Thanks for being a never ending source of ideas and inspiration! Have a great weekend!
Julie your journal is just amazing. I totally love it. The pastel woman is magnificent!! Did you use pan pastel or a mixture? Just curious. Your creativity ceases to amaze me! The face cut out, the Gelli tape,the scan n cut everything… Amazing. I don’t comment every day but felt I should send some love your way today. Thanks for being a never ending source of ideas and inspiration! Have a great weekend!
Julie your journal is just amazing. I totally love it. The pastel woman is magnificent!! Did you use pan pastel or a mixture? Just curious. Your creativity ceases to amaze me! The face cut out, the Gelli tape,the scan n cut everything… Amazing. I don’t comment every day but felt I should send some love your way today. Thanks for being a never ending source of ideas and inspiration! Have a great weekend!
Julie,
I just subscribed to Craft Daily and have been over dosing on your videos!!! LOVE! You are such a fantastic teacher and you make every step easy. I love your bubbly personality and fun teaching style. thank you for sharing your artful joy!
Julie,
I just subscribed to Craft Daily and have been over dosing on your videos!!! LOVE! You are such a fantastic teacher and you make every step easy. I love your bubbly personality and fun teaching style. thank you for sharing your artful joy!
Julie,
I just subscribed to Craft Daily and have been over dosing on your videos!!! LOVE! You are such a fantastic teacher and you make every step easy. I love your bubbly personality and fun teaching style. thank you for sharing your artful joy!
Julie,
I just subscribed to Craft Daily and have been over dosing on your videos!!! LOVE! You are such a fantastic teacher and you make every step easy. I love your bubbly personality and fun teaching style. thank you for sharing your artful joy!
Julie,
I just subscribed to Craft Daily and have been over dosing on your videos!!! LOVE! You are such a fantastic teacher and you make every step easy. I love your bubbly personality and fun teaching style. thank you for sharing your artful joy!
I love your pages and especially love your quote about making mistakes. Beautiful! I share Laurie Hunt’s sentiments exactly! <3
I love your pages and especially love your quote about making mistakes. Beautiful! I share Laurie Hunt’s sentiments exactly! <3
I love your pages and especially love your quote about making mistakes. Beautiful! I share Laurie Hunt’s sentiments exactly! <3
I love your pages and especially love your quote about making mistakes. Beautiful! I share Laurie Hunt’s sentiments exactly! <3
I love your pages and especially love your quote about making mistakes. Beautiful! I share Laurie Hunt’s sentiments exactly! <3
I always look at your pictures before I read your post and was chuckling to myself that you had listed pen names on your journal pages – what a great idea to test your pens there – The Scarlet Lime pen held up really well! Wish it came in other size nibs – frankly, I am grateful I have any at all since they are out of production now!
Laurie Hunt stole my comment! LOL –
I also loved the little film strip flowers.
I always look at your pictures before I read your post and was chuckling to myself that you had listed pen names on your journal pages – what a great idea to test your pens there – The Scarlet Lime pen held up really well! Wish it came in other size nibs – frankly, I am grateful I have any at all since they are out of production now!
Laurie Hunt stole my comment! LOL –
I also loved the little film strip flowers.
I always look at your pictures before I read your post and was chuckling to myself that you had listed pen names on your journal pages – what a great idea to test your pens there – The Scarlet Lime pen held up really well! Wish it came in other size nibs – frankly, I am grateful I have any at all since they are out of production now!
Laurie Hunt stole my comment! LOL –
I also loved the little film strip flowers.
I always look at your pictures before I read your post and was chuckling to myself that you had listed pen names on your journal pages – what a great idea to test your pens there – The Scarlet Lime pen held up really well! Wish it came in other size nibs – frankly, I am grateful I have any at all since they are out of production now!
Laurie Hunt stole my comment! LOL –
I also loved the little film strip flowers.
I always look at your pictures before I read your post and was chuckling to myself that you had listed pen names on your journal pages – what a great idea to test your pens there – The Scarlet Lime pen held up really well! Wish it came in other size nibs – frankly, I am grateful I have any at all since they are out of production now!
Laurie Hunt stole my comment! LOL –
I also loved the little film strip flowers.
So enamored of your lettering, and the black & white pages are so striking! Thank you for sharing–I always leave here inspired.
So enamored of your lettering, and the black & white pages are so striking! Thank you for sharing–I always leave here inspired.
So enamored of your lettering, and the black & white pages are so striking! Thank you for sharing–I always leave here inspired.
So enamored of your lettering, and the black & white pages are so striking! Thank you for sharing–I always leave here inspired.
So enamored of your lettering, and the black & white pages are so striking! Thank you for sharing–I always leave here inspired.