Tag: crusade

Try to restrain yourself

Trying to restrain yourself is hard if you ask me. I’m a maximalist, not a minimalist. I like clutter (but not the dust that lives between everything). I like lots…

Categories Notebooks

Music I listen to

I’m thinking that I should create some kind of visual reminder to hang on the wall that will remind me to listen to music, or maybe put Spotify in autoplay…

Categories Art journaling

I believe I am an Artist

Maybe it should’ve said I believe in my heart that I am an artist or I am an artist at heart (even if the world doesn’t know)… What ever! I…

Categories Art journaling/Creativity & Life

Colour swatches and poetic words

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. Federico Garc�a Lorca Colour swatches belongs in your journal. This months crusade is about colours and naming them. It’s a…

Categories Art journaling/Creativity & Life

The Forensic Report Mini book

I have been thinking about self portraits and how to document me and my life the last month or so. I guess it’s because my 35th birthday is coming up…

Categories Art journaling/Bookbinding/Creativity & Life

Testing the Pitt Brush Pens

For Christmas I got a lot of nice black pens that I’ve been drawing with in the margins of my diary. I also bought myself/got a Manga Set of gray…

Categories Creative habits/Draw & doodle

Hang your Own Artwork on the Wall

The walls that surround me are always filling with things from my drawing board. They are similar to my mind and my work desk; full of many different ideas, colours…

Categories Home Comforts

Paint with a Plastic Card

The card I use when I scrape paint is a my old student card, but it is hardly visible behind all that paint. I’ve been using it for a few…

Categories Art journaling/Mixed Media Experiments

Found typography from the newspaper

The prompt: Use “found typography” as background in your art journal. Cut out text headlines from a newspaper or magazine and glue it on a page to create a background…

Categories Art journaling

Art Journal Strip Ease

I love painting decorative papers. I use them in my art journal and collage work, and today I’m going to show you one way that you can use painted papers…

Categories Art journaling

Grid of Pretty Papers

Continuing with grids, this time more of a Paper Sampler, as suggested for the June crusade. I have only used papers I’m really drawn to right now, so this sampler…

Categories Art journaling

In change there is power

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There…

Categories Art journaling/Creativity & Life