Friday, 29 May 2015

Art journaling

I got my art journal out again this week, after quite a while. An A4 Moleskine watercolour journal with nice thick paper, which takes acrylics and mixed media very well. I like art journals, they are perfect places to just play, experiment, slap some paint on the page and see what happens. It doesn't have to be perfect, you don't even have to finish it. There is no pressure to create something 'presentable'. You don't have to show it to anyone, but can keep it all to yourself, if you want to.


I like to use the pages to let my imagination run free. To paint more intuitively, with just a vague idea to start with, and then see what happens. One such idea is 'home'. Where is my 'true' home? Where will I live one day? Will I ever find that place? Does it exist at all? For this page, I glued some pieces of a map on the paper first and then painted over it. It's not finished yet, and maybe I'll never finish it, but just leave it as it is and move on to the next figment of my imagination. We'll see.

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13 comments:

  1. Valerie-Jael29 May 2015 at 08:38

    Beautiful journal page. Love the colours, and the light. I have lots of half finished pages, sometimes I go back and work on them again, sometimes not, that's the lovely part of it. Have a great weekend, hugs, Valerie

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  2. Rosie Kaplan29 May 2015 at 09:36

    Very atmospheric.

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  3. Laila29 May 2015 at 11:33

    I really like it the way it is, and it's so suitable for your thoughts. "Will I ever find it..." and then your kind of dizzy house in the background. Absolutely love it!

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  4. PaintingWrite29 May 2015 at 11:57

    I love this and I'm very glad you didn't keep it to yourself! Rosie is right it is beautifully atmospheric and finished or not I think it is lovely as it is.

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  5. My name is Erika.29 May 2015 at 16:24

    This knocks my socks off. It may be an art journal page but you could frame this, and I find it calling me. Glad you posted this and didn't just close the journal and stash it back on a shelf or some place like that

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  6. GlorV129 May 2015 at 16:41

    I really love this and agree about the atmospheric look about it. I think it's perfect the way it is and I love how you think which right now is what I needed to hear and thank you for that. Well done.

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  7. Tracey FK29 May 2015 at 23:11

    i think it looks amazing as it is... great colours and textures... xx

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  8. Tammy N29 May 2015 at 23:19

    Such beautiful colors and textures!

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  9. Giggles30 May 2015 at 04:18

    Wonderful process and lovely home....looks like a dream comes into fruition!

    Hugs Giggles

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  10. Ayala Art30 May 2015 at 09:30

    I like your page, very abstracted and still has some emotion. It took me a while to like working on a journal but I totally love it now, book after book!

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  11. dena ann31 May 2015 at 05:51

    I love the markmaking here. Wonderful work.

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  12. Blogoratti31 May 2015 at 11:11

    Intense and lovely.

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  13. Beth Niquette1 June 2015 at 04:06

    I love your intuitive painting. I've just heard of this type of work and I find it fascinating.

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