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Adding Color to my Art Journal

Adding Color to My Art Journal

For someone who loves color, my most recent art journal spreads have been very neutral. I decided to remedy that and purchased some Pitt Artists Pens in fun colors.

Step 1: glue in images of mirrors

For this journal spread, I started by glueing in some phots of mirrors I found in a magazine.

Step 2: doodle

Then I added lots of doodles.

Step 3: add color

And then the fun part: adding color. I chose orange to contrast with the blue in the photos and added yellow to create an analogous palette.

Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Art Journal, Color, Doodles, Mixed Media, Step-by-Step

Birds Art Journal Spread

Birds Art Journal Spread

I got some free magazines for filling out an online survey. One of them was Birds and Blooms. All the great photos of birds inspired me to create an art journal spread.

Glued bird shapes

I cut out an assortment of birds, flipped them over, and glued them in my art journal.

Adding a top and bottom border

Then I used my sepia brush pen to create a curvy top and bottom border.

Adding doodles

Next, I use a white pen to add some doodled lines on the border.

Embellishing the doodles

I added some lines to the doodles to make them stand out a little more.

Adding dotted lines around birds

Then I drew dotted lines around all the bird shapes.

Finished Birds Art Journal Spread

To finish the spread, I added white dotted lines to the border areas. I also made the sepia dots larger.

Supplies used in this journal spread (These are affiliate links. This means that if you click on the link and buy certain items, I will receive a small commission (at no extra cost to you) to help keep the lights on in the studio.)

  • Moleskine Sketchbook, Large
  • Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen – Sepia, Super Fine Nib
  • Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen – Sepia, Brush Nib
  • Elmer’s Extra Strength Glue Stick
  • White Sakura Gelly Roll pen
  • Scissors

Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Art Journal, Collage, Doodles, Mixed Media, Step-by-Step

Introducing My Art Cards

A number of years ago I decided I needed a quick and easy way to add creativity to my days. I came up with making a daily art card. Using 3 X 5 index cards I worked on them for about 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes before I went to bed. I called it bookmarking my day with my passion.

Sometimes I doodles with markers.

On other days I made collages with magazine pages.

I doodles over collages made with my own hand painted papers.

I even doodled on one some of my own photographs.

Follow me on Instagram where I’ll be posting one of my art cards on my stories every Saturday.

Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Collage, Doodles, Mixed Media

Mixed Media Play #52

Mixed Media Play #52

Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Collage, Doodles, Mixed Media, Painting

Mixed Media Play #51

Mixed Media Play #51

Filed Under: Create Tagged With: Collage, Mixed Media, Painting

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