Workshop 1 Recycled Journal Pages * Created by Strathmore Artist Papers

This is a great workshop which will keep me journalling even if it is not happening every day!
Highly recommended!
The idea of reusing old art work is appealing as sometimes I am a bit slow to conjure things out of thin air. My first go at the beginning of the background of the page was dull and murky so I had a second go, using some art nouveau style imagery I created for an atcsforall.com swap. Resized, flipped and overlaid with floral elements from the cards, now I can add to the page with oil pastel, charcoal and graphite pencil overlaid with gesso...

Murky first attempt

I prefer this one - it is much brighter and livelier

Some new backgrounds for the ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY project

2 layers of acrylic paint with a "sandwich filling" of crackle glaze

Peeling paper technique from instructions in the brilliant book "Collage Discovery Workshop" by Claudine Hellmuth

Some journal pages

These are pages I have done in the past using gel medium mixed with PVA glue and water as the glue  with acrylic washes - all inspired by the Art Trader Magazine course

Swinburne's poem A Ballad of Death with rubber stamping, and "Liquid Applique" to give the 3D tree branches

This was a project for the Art ]ournals course with Art Trader magazine on my own art and artistic influences

This was a memorial page for my father who died in 1963; he brought the watch back for me from  Australia. Long broken , I dismantled it and added it to the page with gel medium along with copies of old photographs  

online workshop - Art Journals: Creative Exploration

I took part in this online workshop
Art Journals: Creative Exploration
Presented by: Dana Driscoll & Sal Scheibe  on http://www.arttradermag.com - I would really recommend this.

I was lucky enough to meet Dana Driscoll, one of the tutors, in the US in 2009 when she generously showed me how to make covers

ART JOURNAL EVERY DAY

Lisa Vollrath's site* is always interesting and she has given a link there to this great project for any one who is interested in art journalling
"Julie Balzer has started a journal every day challenge blog, and so far, 250 people have signed up. She suggests you start with 30 days, and see how it goes:
 http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/balzer_designs/2010/12/art-journal-every-day.html "
So... what a brilliant idea!! Because I have been starting and stopping art journalling for the past 2 years and I think that this will give me just the motivation I need to do it regularly.

*http://www.lisavollrath.com

http://www.tentwostudios.com