I'm not sure if it's because I've got a lot going on, or my brain has exponentially aged, or it's due to the over indulgence of sugar, but these last few weeks I've felt really, really tired and my thinking has been extremely groggy.
So much so that I'm too tired even to Coddiwomple my way through Day 36 of The 100 Day Project. I have a hankering to paint, having been so heavily focused on the cluster book recently but that's about it for inspiration.
I need to be told what to do.
This video came up in my feed 12 Tips For Starting Art Journal Pages Using Acrylic Paint so I'm just going to blindly follow those tips. I don't know the artist so have no idea what to expect which, I suppose, is a coddiwomple after all. 😂
(Post note - I got a bit bored with it around Tips 5/6 and the sun was shining so I ended things there and went for a walk instead)
First I took 3 of the ex life drawing A3 sheets. I chose ones that still had plenty of white space on them, divided them each into 4 spaces and then took it from there. This gave me easily manageable areas to work with and one for each tip.
There's not much of interest to show here so this is a picture of just the first sheet to give you an idea of what I was working with.
Tip No. 1 - Throw pretty and beautiful out of the window.
This is pretty easy for me since I usually just mess around with stuff any way.
Here I randomly added gesso and then yellow ochre acyrlic paint using a rounded pallette knife. Then I bashed it with a chop stick to make it more messy.
Tip No. 2 - Pick A Limited Colour Palette
For this one I choose lime green, royal blue, bright blue and bright yellow paints. I followed the curve of the paint that was already on the paper and ended up with this. Looks like something my kids used to bring home from nursery school. 😂
Tip No. 3 - Use A Tool That Will Lay Down Paint Quickly
Since I'd already used a palette knife I went for a store card for this one. The magenta was calling to me but I squirted too much out of the tube and ended up having to use it up by making marks on 6 other sheets.
I'm looking forward to using these at some point.
Tip No. 4 - Mix The Colours on The Page
Another one I often do. But just for fun I decided to see what would happen if I mixed yellow ochre, cadmium red and a bit of white. Not colours I would normally use.
I think I over mixed this one a bit but hey, ho. Onwards and upwards.
Now we're on to the second sheet . . .
Tip No. 5 - Don't Clean The Tools.
Well it's far too late for that. I've already put my palette knife into water.
I don't want to end up with a white section on my paper so I'm going to use the one that has the most paint already on it and just write out the words in the tip.
I used oil pastel for this which resists paint so it might make an interesting effect when I come back to this in the future. I just chose the pastels that were broken so I didn't have to think about colours.
Tip No. 6 - Press Your Pages Together
It's too late for this one too. My pages are already dry. I'll have to keep it on the back burner and maybe do it with the upcoming pages . . . or maybe not.
At this point I decided I'd had enough.
I may or may not come back and finish the tips. Probably won't.
I may or may not develop these pages further. Probably will, as that's what I most like about this process. I never know where things will end up when starting out.
To finish, here are the first 4 responses as they look on the complete sheet.
A masterpiece it ain't! 😂
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I'm sorry you've been feeling tired. I know that's no fun.
Maybe she should have said "read all the tips first !" ha ha....
Don't clean the tools ! Rub the papers together! I had to laugh the way you told it.
It looks like your magenta paint was giving my black spilled black ink some competition !
Maybe they ain't master pieces yet.... but they AIN'T finished either !
Journals.... I haven't focused on the journal thing yet. Somehow as I went along I didn't get why do one, but now, after starting to play with the different papers and wanting... and NEEDING to know how they react when wet and with each other.... and with paint!.... then I'm beginning to think maybe I should do one as a practice journal. We'll see if that happens, but I think it will.
I don't really get the journal thing either, to be honest. I started 2 at different times but haven't used either of them for years. I feel I might as well be practising on paper, which I can potentially use for other projects rather than having it in a book.
The only way I can imagine using one now is it I wanted to write a blog post that told a story in a visual. So, if I wanted to journal I suppose. 😂
I do still use the journal to clean of brushes and use up paint sometimes but mostly I do that on papers. The journal tends to get buried under paper and I forget about it.
I also tried the altered book thing where you record pockets and stuff that you've used in a junk journal, for future reference. But I'm always moving on so I never went back to check what I did before so that one is even more useless than the journals. At least the journals have a couple of nice spreads that I enjoy looking at from time to time.
Ok ! At least I don't feel so alone about not understanding the journal thing then. Since I'm so new to the game, I figured I needed practice and I wondered if I accidently made something amazing in it, I could either tear it out and mount it or use parts of the pages later in real pieces. That was all going through my mind as I wondered about them and wondered if I should start one since I need so much practice and research.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on them.
This is why I'm not keen on using them. This morning I was working in an altered book (like a journal I suppose except you have book pages rather than blank paper as backgrounds) and I glued down some of the failed tissue wrapping paper onto a page where I'd cleaned off my paintbrush that contained magenta paint. I really loved the way it looked and immediately thought - "what a waste". Due to what's on the other side it's too thick to tear out and use elsewhere so Ihad to tell myself "plenty more where that came from".
Which is true, sort of, but there will never be that exact combination again. Hence I'd rather work on individual pieces of paper/card. 😁
I understand what you are saying.
Perhaps you could replicate it as best as possible and get a similar effect, although admittedly not identical.
Nah. I've already moved on. The comment was for illustrative purposes only. 😂 It's not like I'm short of stuff withwhich to create. 😁
LOL.... ok !
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