July 05th – Laugh, Love, Live

I have always wondered what people wrote in their art journal – and after all the mucking about with medium, how do they find space to write..

Well I found out today – free flow writing can be a thing of beauty.

This was a fun page to create…  I went with acrylic paint today and some templates for my flowers.

Green is my all time favourite colour – Hunter Green to be specific, however I am slowly falling in love with blue. I am in the process of hunting down all the shades I have.

July 03 – First hurdle passed

After reading a bunch of blogs and other blogger’s attempt at this art journal adventure – I am seeing that first pages are a little bit of a journey for most people – it’s a little bit of what to do (start with) as well as that feeling of first page jitter – breaking in a new books.

I have it  and it’s not nice

So following some sage advice from more experience and old hand at this art thing – I jumps the first page and pressed on.

and hellooooo – I am in…

My first completed page – simply but very please.

July 2 – Just putting the stash together

Looking for my and find my essentials to take part in my Art Challenges wasn’t all that hard as they were right there on my desk . It really is surprising how much loot we as crafters accurate around us.

Other than the inks, glue, my sketch book and my chalks my best find in my rummage are my calligraphy pens.  I bought these in Living ( an arm of Asda) about a year ago and never really used them – but they are perfect to used over chalk or acrylic – loving the finds so far..

 

I’m off to get creative – I hope.

 

Some focus to my July

This July I am determined to make more of a mess on my desk than I normally would by getting involved in two projects that i have recently found.

 

 

Firstly I am starting the this July a daily art journal – I have been thinking of getting a more structured angle on my doodling and bits and pieces of paper that  I muck up  than I have at the moment and I think this just might help.

With some essential that I have lying around my desk I am already to explore..

I am going slowly though –probably will start of with some chalks as i have some EK Success chalklets hanging around my desk for the longest while – it‘s time I used them up.

Find the Start off Post HERE

The July Link HERE

 

 

 

 

I have also decided to take part in Traci Bunker 30 day Art challenge… it not really a challenge of such but more like earmarking the crafty things I get up in my day..

From the little things to the big things…

I find I like this format alot, as creativity comes in all form- from simply stacking my threads to projects that I am constantly changing and making a mess of.

From Traci’s website

Here are my rules:

• I’ll make art every day for 30 days and post what I have done.
• I don’t have to finish what ever I’m working on that day, I just have to work on something.
• I have to work for 30 minutes, but can work longer if time permits.
• It doesn’t matter what I do for the art making, as long as I work on art.
• I won’t feel guilty for taking the time to work on art and I won’t have to justify why I’m doing it.
• I don’t have to go into detail in my post about how I did anything or what tools, materials I used (unless I want to).

See Traci explanation HERE