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I follow Samantha Kira Harding (aka Journal Girl) on instagram. (She has been an Adventures in Arting podcast guest — episode 7 — in the past.) Recently she has been posting some beautiful floral drawings with text. I think they’re amazing and beautiful and I immediately wanted to make one of my own.
Here is one of hers:
And here is the page I created inspired by her style:
Creating artwork inspired by someone else’s style is always an interesting adventure. I think there’s a great deal of learning to be had. So, what did I learn from this exercise? Hmmmmm…a few things:
- I think Samie uses Copic markers. To keep things in a similar vein, I used Permapaque markers on top of a gessoed surface, plus a white Sharpie. I suspected, and it was confirmed that working on a gesso-ed surface allowed me to smear the markers around a bit so that I could blend the colors more than the Permapaques usually let you. It also mimics (a bit) the blending that Copics do.
- I wasn’t sure what I was going to do traveling with my art journal. But it turns out that this spread was an absolutely perfect art journaling project for travel. No paint and easy to stop and go.
- I usually create words separately from patterns. I enjoyed creating the pattern behind the words instead. Along the way I learned that you have to be really careful about making the words stand out when you do that. Notice the multiple layers of shadowing and outlining on the text.
- I definitely brought myself to the project. I think that’s an important part of being inspired. You need to take what excites you and fill in the rest with yourself! There are certain flower and leaf shapes that I always return to when I doodle.
We’re all inspired by the things and people around us. And that is wonderful and exciting and necessary! I do think it’s important to pass on the credit when you’re consciously inspired by someone else’s work, though. What have you created lately inspired by someone else’s art?
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Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
Love Journal Girl’s work! This was really interesting to see. Your page spread was very uplifting and a great reminder. Thanks for including the points you learned through the process. These insights are really helpful. I just can’t get enough of this spread. It’s joyous.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
I just started following Samantha on Insta after seeing your post there and the way she adds words right in with the floral design is inspiring. I love your version and how you really come through. So true that we are all inspired by those around us. I love this idea to take one style and try it out with your own voice showing through. Thank you for your inspiration and for introducing another artist for us to get inspiration from as well.
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
Beautiful! I love the way the text is over the bold and colorful flowers. Blessings!
So bright and bold!
So bright and bold!
So bright and bold!
So bright and bold!
So bright and bold!
So bright and bold!
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
Stunning journal page. Love what you learned. Especially great quote – so true! Too many are feeding the wrong one these days.
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I love this – doodle flowers all the time (left over from my life as a flower child in 60’s?) but you give such great helpful tips and suggestions – I follow you but don’t always let you know thank you so vermu h and you are amazingly talented – I so appreciate all I am learning from you
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
I follow Sami on IG and have been enjoying her doodles with a message. Your interpretation is great and I love that quote.
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Gorgeous piece and I have always loved the two wolves story…so powerful and true!! Great way to express a spiritual journey. You are a very talented inspiration! Thanks for hosting!
Hugs Giggles
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
Love Kira’s art journaling too, and yours Julie! Thanks for sharing them, and doing the Art Journal Friday still.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
We ARE all inspired by people around us! I took a class from you in San Jose in early January, and I remember telling you that I had submitted to Art Journaling magazine but hadn’t heard anything yet. Well, a few weeks later, I did, and some of my pages made it into the Spring issue! Per your post today, the whole journal, and hence the article, was about how “copying” another artist’s style is a great way to learn and explore and eventually find your own style. We can never really ” copy”, it’s just our interpretation. Ironically, one of the pages that they chose for publication was part of the Julie inspired spread! I posted it on IG. (#valerieteele). I loved your class and that day you gave me the best piece of advice: I asked you, “how do I loosen up? My work is so ‘tight'”. And you said, “don’t be afraid to suck.” I think about that all the time and it reminds me to just jump in and DO IT and abandon fear. It’s helped me so much! So much so, that I have another piece coming out in the Autumn issue of Art Journaling! You rock, Julie! Love your blog and Sammie’s too.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
So fun to see Sammie’s work and then your which is inspired from it. Love the ideas of markers over gesso.
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!
I am admiring Roxanne Coble’s art lately (“by bun” http://bybun.com/ and I notice that some of her ‘stripes’ show up on my pages over the last weeks. Inspiration is such a beautiful thing!