On my Art Journal Journey I travel toward Autumn Colors
When the season changes I often notice that the colors in my art journal changes with them, often without a conscious decision on my part. And even though I don’t celebrate Halloween I’ve come to think of October as a very orange month. Does that happen to you too? That you notice the change in your artwork after it has happened?
For these art journal pages today, I think you can definitely notice what season they were created during, even without knowing the month.
With the Pumpkin Patch page I did an obvious fall inspired choice of picking a magazine images pumpkins. It was an entire page of a stall where pumpkins in different sizes and forms are sold. I just glued it into my current Art Journal (that is an altered book), and then started to paint around it and included a piece of wrapping paper that was close by.
Which season is your favorite? Perhaps you enjoy Witch season, when we get to live in candle light that can warm our little hearts. It’s getting dark outside but inside the cozy vibe is ON, am I right?
I glued in the magazine photo then lit my own tea candles in the window next to my desk:
Then I went to town with a tube of glitter that was “just sitting next to me” again. Maybe that is my secret to anything creative. Use what’s next to you on the desk – and let coincidence play…
For this to work best: you don’t need to clean your desk much either. Of course the scrap inbox helps, and the absent mind.
Glitter doesn’t show up very well on overhead photos, but trust me, it’s there. I glittered all the pumpkins after I painted around them and doodled in black dots on some of them a lá Yayoi Kusama. Love!
Detail photos of glitter and all those yummy autumnal tones:
Sharing these close up photos of my art journal reminds me that it’s been way too long since I regularly shared art journal peeks and details from my spreads with you guys. Except for last month when it was a mood for a day. So let’s just continue with another page, also inspired by autumn and a random magazine page from the stash. This one was a big page illustration of a moody black forest, with purple flowers and green details.
I glued the magazine page to the right page and had no idea what I wanted to do, so I just started to paint and out came this big purple flower inspired by the illustration! I love the spikes of it, the edginess, the kind of to the point harshness of it. Almost like it was a thistle, although it’s not.
Then it looked like two different images sitting next to each other, so to incorporate the magazine illustrations (which was fine to begin with) I covered it with more polka dots that I let spill out to the left.
I really like how my purple flower came out, and I want to paint many more like him:
To round us of with an even three (LOL) here’s a page I created in September, long before it felt like fall would ever arrive this year. But it’s a bit spooky, too, actually. Or what do you think?
Which of these three spreads do you like best, and why?
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Art Journal Journey
I am sharing this blog post in the link up of Art Journal Journey, a monthly blog challenge with a theme where the “participants are art-journalers, altered book artists, rubber stamp addicts, and mixed media artists from all over the world.” Art Journal Journey (AJJ) also has months with “anything goes” so if you keep an art journal keep an eye out to join up. The theme this month of October was Autumn Colours and Inspiration and this is my very first entry with the AJJ group.
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I really love the pumpkin patch spread with all the glitter and polka dots, but they are all very inspiring to me to pick up my own art journaling habit again that I’ve neglected for the past few years. I’m enjoying the fact that you are blogging again and look forward to more posts from you!
Thanks Tina, I hope you dig out a journal and create at least one page this week. It feels great to be blogging again!
I love all of your pages, Hanna! The pumpkin patch one really inspires me with all the wonderful glitter! I love how you add polka dots, squares, and all the colorful little markings to your pages.
Thank you Michelle! Isn’t glitter fun? When I was a kid there were no such products as far as I can remember, so I’m taking advantage of how common it is now and always keep some kind of glitter bottle at hand just to delight my inner child. :-)
Oh I am so glad you joined us Hanna. You have some great journal pages, and I love those bold fresh colors. And you can’t go wrong with pumpkins in the fall or sneaking in little witches either. Very cool. These are perfect for Alison’s challenge. Thanks for joining in. hugs-Erika
Thanks Erika, I joined in late but have been thinking about it for a while. I am a HUGE fan of art journaling so this was fun and perfect for me to join. :-)
Your page layout is awesome! I love how you’ve incorporated the pumpkin photo into your design! The colors are happy and fantastic! Glad you were able to find the challenge and have some fun playing along!
Thanks Vicki! A challenge about art journaling and I’m in. I hope I can join again soon. It was fun.
Thanks so much for joining in with my challenge at Art Journal Journey Hanna. I love your pumpkin patch pages, and the glitter you added. I love your other pages too, especially the third and final one. I always have bits and pieces nearby, including boxes of scraps :-)
Happy November!
Alison xx
Thanks Alison, for your kind words and for taking a look at my way too many detail photos. 😬 I am a girl that enjoys excesses! Both of glitter and blogging.
Love your work! I am kind of new to this but I did make a travelers notebook inspired by you. Question- I want to make an art journal. How do you use one?
Do you make pages and use it to write in?
Thanks!
Thank you so much! I’m so glad I inspired you to craft and make a notebook! To art journal you can just take any notebook and start filling it with the things you like doing: paint, collage, doodles, text – in what ever way you like. The most important thing I think, is to get started! There are no rules and the pages will not look like mine when you start out, but if you enjoy the process you will keep going and learn techniqes here and there that you will want to try!
All that said, if you for example want to start your art journal in a second-hand text book check out my tutorial How to alter a book – maybe that will help you get started. I hope so.