Wow I didn't realize how far behind I am until I just now was going to post photos from my Art Journal. I never posted the ones from the first journal. So guess I will start there.
Ok after my painting class I did with the Witch I went straight home and got out my newly bought Journal. I bought it to do a Traveling Journal.
What is a Traveling Journal you might ask?
That is where you sign up with several other crafty persons/ people.
Each of you having your own Journal and a theme for it.
You write up the rules you want them to follow in your Art Journal. Such as
Theme--Mine I named The Great Out Doors
What you don't want in the journal
such as anything gory, devilish, or spiders. That is what I put in mine. LOL
Your name and how you want them to do there name.
I asked they sign there name and state with month and date in bottom
right corner of the page they did there art on.
I also asked that they do a left and right page then skip 2 or 3 pages when doing so from the last persons pages.
I asked they try to keep it as flat as possible to make the shipping a bit lower.
For example no embellishments that stick up like buttons or flowers etc.
Ok here is what I did in steps.
If you click on the photos you can see larger images. I started by painting the pages in shades of blue. Starting at the top with light blue mixed with white. Then I used the light blue by itself. and last I used a medium blue. after painting them I took my flat medium brush and dipped one side in my light blue mixture and one in my light blue. I ran the brush in between where the two met to make it blend in. Then did the same with the next line and shades.
Next I took a green that reminds me of green grass. I painted the bottom half with that. Then came the time taker. grin.
After this I took I think 4 shades of green. I took a tiny detail brush and one little swiped line at a time I put grass. All over in one color then change colors and do the same. When all done I went back to the first color and added a few more strokes of that.
Next I used a stencil to add my sun. I chose 4 shade I could envision in my mind of the sun.
I used a first a medium yellowish orange.
Then using a darker Yellowish orange I added the face.
Then pull the stencil away and use a medium shade of yellowish orange on the rays.
I did this using lighter and lighter colors so that my tips were the lightest.
Then I looked up on the internet at clouds.
This is what I found and used to give me an idea of what cloud colors looked like. Of course mine do NOT look like this. LOL. But I knew I should start with the grey to give mine the layered look.
And last the puffy white. dabbing it on to give it texture.
Next added a sticker I found of a house.
Then added my tree and path.
Found out the path was suppose to be narrower close to the house.
This was my first entry in mine. But I was so excited with it I did two more.
Hills on one page then added a tree.
This one I did a hurried version of grass and was not as please with my sky as the first one.
Then took a book and stenciled the flowers on the pages.
Cut them out and added them to the Journal pages.
Then I stenciled some and drew some of the leaves on.
Next I added one more flower and a cloud.
I added flowers and fairies but forgot to take photos so when I get it back I will add those.
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