These are two pages I made while “taking” the online Strathmore Visual Journaling Course. Pam Carriker led us through the process of using photocopies of some of our old collages, cutting them up and adding layers of gesso and paint prints. The top one uses portions of old collages and the bottom page does not. With the bottom page, I started by painting circular shapes with watercolor paints. I did some writing with white pens and smears of chalk pastels. … Read more…
Another challenge I recently discovered is Michelle Ward’s street team crusade. There is a new technique every month and then you post your results. This month the challenge is “It’s a Wrap”. You are supposed to incorporate wrapping paper, tags or cards into your artwork. This is some Christmas wrapping paper, combined with my own drawing and painting. Overall, for an experiment I am fine with how they turned out. I would like to have been able to glue down … Read more…
“highly prized” drawings for the Sketchbook Challenge
This last one will have text added to it later probably.
watercolor sketchbook page
I’m following along with the Strathmore Visual Journaling Workshops and here a few of the pages I created so far. The first workshop is about taking copies of your previous artwork and cutting them up and reusing them on your journal pages. There are blank spaces left because I think she will be talking about writing and doodling next.
I’m following the Sketchbook Challenge blog, as well as a couple online Strathmore Journaling Workshops. The theme of January for the Sketchbook Challenge is “Highly Prized”. What is most prized to you? To me, I started drawing scenes from around my home, which is the most prized thing in my life. Just sitting on the couch, petting my dog, watching my baby girl play on the floor is the most enjoyable part of my day. … Read more…
When I taught middle school art, one of the sketchbook assignments I had the kids complete was a page of doodling. They looked very much these. Bohemian Shadows blog gives a nice tutorial for this type of doodling. There are also books and workshops with the name “Zentangles” (not by Bohemian Shadows).. they coined the name which is basically just a glorified name for doodling. Anyways…. I think this year I will print out some examples for my elementary students … Read more…
