I really spend a LOT of my time playing around with different techniques in my art journal. Would there be any interest in having an art journal thread hear in the mixed media forum? I'll start it off by posting my most recent works and anyone else can PLEASE feel free to share their works here also.
I just came across this topic/suggestion you posted! I like the idea of a journal/sketchbook thread...like maybe sketches or ideas that were not developed into finished or "full size" artwork? thanks for sharing you journal pages. It looks like they include alot of creative experimenting and personal memories. But if the separate Journal thread doesnt happen...definitely keep sharing in the Mixed Media thread perhaps?
This is great. I'd love to see this thread continue.
After it sat idle for so long, I assumed I was the only one interested. I would love to see others post here as well.
That window is wax paper and let's you see through to the curtains on the next page shown below.
I'm new here -this is my first post. I just want to say I love your sketch journal! I love the creative abandon and wild imagery. :)
Well, Dragonlady, I'm very glad to see you here! I'm glad you like them and thank you very much. Do you work in a journal as well? I would love to just see this thread take off with dozens of people posting their journal entries.
Incidentally, I posted the videos that I made while painting these in the video section of Artist Daily: http://videos.artistdaily.com/user/G686JX0GCG9ZD9XT/videos/
Now that the holidays are over, I really hope others begin posting their journal entries. It gets lonely in here.
I also uploaded a video of this:
http://videos.artistdaily.com/video/Art-Journal-Happy-New-Year
Thanks for the welcome! I'm still lost at this site, so forgive me if I don't post too often.
I've just recently really become interested in sketchbook journals. I usually have a handful of sketchbooks, but nothing like a real "journal". I tried to start one last new year's, but only kept it up for a few days. I discovered that if I started drawing I tended to make more of a mess than anything else, and if I started writing I wrote pages but failed to draw anything.
A couple of months ago I started making cheapie sketchbooks from drawing paper, and filling them up. They're just a few pages each, so I don't get so bogged down. And I have refused to establish any "rules" for them, so I just draw what comes to mind at the moment; sometimes right on top of what was there before.
Here is the front cover of the one I'm still currently working on. I've done a bit more work on the front, and am still damaging the next page. :) When I'm done I plan to add color, but want to finish the drawings and photograph it first, as I'm adept at wrecking my work completely as soon as I grab a brush. ;)
Now see, that's very nice! I have the problem that whenever I just want to try some new technique, it turns into a major production. I end up feeling like my every entry needs to be a finished piece. But that's the beauty of an art journal is that it's the process not the product. It's where we can practice or express or whatever we feel like that day.
Great job and I hope to see more!
Dragon lady, really enjoyed looking at your front page and like the saying about cool stuff. We do like our art supplies. Intimating and accusing when we don't use them. The $$$$ I have spent on my cool supplies challenge me to do something with them that even looks like art. Looking at your drawings shows you know what t do with your cool supplies.
Blade, your videos are instructive and fun. I love hearing your daughter's comments. Thanks for posting your finished journal pages. Your intro on the videos always gives me a chuckle.
I have the problem that whenever I just want to try some new technique, it turns into a major production. I end up feeling like my every entry needs to be a finished piece.
Yes; I floundered my first attempts for the same reason. I was only really able to think in terms of finished paintings, not in finished pages. I couldn't wrap my head around the spontaneity of it. If I did one drawing that was good, and then one that I was utterly ashamed of, I felt like I'd ruined the whole page. That was what led to the cheapie homemade journals. They're "mistake proof" in the sense that if I mess something up, I can just do something else right on top. I can glue on a magazine image that I like, or just use markers or whatever. Or, just leave it, turn the page and go on. And it's not a "journal" in the sense that I have to write down what I'm doing or how my day turned out. My life isn't very exciting, and the prospect of describing what I ate for lunch or how many loads of laundry I did just makes me cringe. :)
Sharon, I've also spent the quite the fortune on art supplies. So I know what you mean about feeling like they're accusing you if you're not using them. In fact, I've been working on the draft of a blog post about the way we all seem to feel we need every item under the sun. I'll post a link when I've finished writing it. In the meantime, just remind them they work for you. And it wouldn't hurt any if they'd get busy while you're sleeping. ;)
I use the CHEAPEST art supplies I can find. Most of the time, I use rose-art watercolors, kimberly pencils, and elmer's acrylic poster paints. However, that is because I'm trying to encourage people to not let cost, specific ability or embarrassment stop them from bringing art into their lives.
It doesn't stop me from drooling over the arches hot pressed 300#, the prismacolors, rembrandt or windsor-newton oils...
I have my share of cheap-o stuff, too. Mostly because I've been on the poorer side most of my life, and just can't bring myself to "paint like a millionaire" if I know the result won't be anything to write home about.
But, it does have it's drawbacks. I have three paintings that I'm really proud of that are done with cheap paint on bad paper. :( One of the things I fight with is consistency, and I sometimes make trash out of several sheets of good paper, then switch to the bad...then nail it. And have a nice painting that isn't going to last. I do photograph them, but...well, I do want to start doing better. I want a few framable pieces that I know aren't going to fade before my very eyes, or turn yellow or simply disintegrate.
So, I do have good stuff. But, I've been working on training myself to buy one good item instead of several cheap ones. I'm a "more is more" kinda person, and a packrat, too. I have stuff lying around that I've owned longer than I've been married, and I'm trying to break myself of that. I blame my parents, who were born during the depression and can't bring themselves to throw anything away. I'm not as bad as they are -I don't have storage bills from keeping newspapers and egg cartons, but I do buy stuff on impulse, and then keep it long after I'm solidly convinced that it doesn't meet my needs.
That said.... Buying a dozen cheap sketchbooks and using them up has to be better than buying a single nice one that stays pristine 'till my heirs give it to Goodwill.
I hit everything with acrylic sealer when I'm done. So far, I've not had much of a problem with colorfastness. Of course, being "The Artistic Biker" there's a certain amount of "grunge" effect that I appreciate and is sort of expected. ;)
I was spray painting this week.
And I again uploaded a video about it: http://videos.artistdaily.com/video/Art-Journal-Peace
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