Create, Explore, Inspire
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.
For this journal spread, I started by glueing in some phots of mirrors I found in a magazine.
Then I added lots of doodles.
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.
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.
I cut out an assortment of birds, flipped them over, and glued them in my art journal.
Then I used my sepia brush pen to create a curvy top and bottom border.
Next, I use a white pen to add some doodled lines on the border.
I added some lines to the doodles to make them stand out a little more.
Then I drew dotted lines around all the bird shapes.
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.)
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.
