Bee Yourself Journal Page

Another lettering art page I did recently, I love using this quote:

 

Love See’s No Colour Or Gender Journal Page

Here is a lettering style journal page I did recently, I really enjoyed making this, I am addicted to playing around with word art and adding colour using my pro-marker pens:

Below is the bleed through of the marker pens on the back of the journal pages – pens such as pro-markers or copics tend to bleed through the back of the page like this. I always work with scrap paper on the reverse to prevent the colour from transferring onto the next page in my book.

I will probably use this bleed through page as the basis of a doodle Tangling style page using my fine liner Sharpie pens to draw with which dont bleed through at all

What are your favourite pens to use?

Art Is Breathing Journal Page

I was playing around with the notion what art actualy means to me personally, I couldn’t find the words I was looking for to describe something that feels so natural and important to me.

Art is something I now know I cannot live without, it is my saving grace, my sanity in a maddening world.

This is my page I did in response to my inner questioning; Art is as natural as Breathing – I couldn’t stop making or thinking about art anymore than I can stop breathing.

The background colours where done using Neo-colours to create a multicolour wash, lettering was coloured in white to make it pop:

How about you? What does art mean to you?

Favourite Colours Journal Page

I dont normally  buy magazines unless they are art or craft related ones, the other day while at the local shop I spotted a glossy type magazine on special offer so decided to pick it up to see if I could use it on my journal pages somehow.

Whilst flicking through the magazine I came across an advert that I liked and decided to use it as inspiration for a journal page:

Using the above picture as a starting point, I placed it before me and scribbled across my journal page to re-create the jewels on the page, next I adapted the wording and changed it to suit my page and added colour to it using Neo-colours for the backgrounds and Daler Rowney Pearlescent Acrylic Inks for the jewels and lettering.

Here is my finished page, it was hard to take a good picture of it because the jewels are all shiny and pearly:

I really enjoyed making this page, it was fun to do and it makes me now look at magazines in a different light! I will be looking through them more often in future looking for starting points to make journal pages with!

How about you? Have you ever used magazines to inspire you in this way?

Why I Art Journal Page

After giving my Inner Critic a page to air out his views, the next prompt in Journal Bliss book was to turn over the page and write out your response to what your Inner Critic had to say to you.

This is the page I did in response, I started out the page  by writing out the words ‘Why I Art’  along the top, and then I started doodling with my pencil and did an angelic looking cartoon, at first I couldnt understand why I was doodling an angel type cartoon but decided to go with it and trust the process and added colour to the angel on the page using Pro-markers

Next I doodled various circles around the angel, to me they reminded my of a kinda angelic aura, they look at bit bare so I decided to divide the circles up into sub-sections and added a rainbow of colours to them using Neo-Colours and Inktense pencils. I then added a swirly border around the outer circle and coloured it with watercolours.

I was then left with a big white blank space at the bottom of the page and was unsure what to do at first. So I stared at the page, asked myself why did I draw an angel in response to the question ‘Why I Art’ and the words ‘peace’ hit me, I create and art because it brings me peace!

So I lettered those words onto the page and coloured them using Inktense pencil and a bluey-green wash to the entire page to finish it off.

You can see the page below:

Why do YOU art?

My Inner Critic Journal Page

Ive been playing around with some of the journaling prompts in a new book I got cheap called  Journal Bliss, the first prompt in the book mentions visualising your inner critic and giving them a body which you draw in your journal and let them have their say on the page.

I really liked this idea and proceeded to draw out my inner Grot who is also my inner critic, I decided to draw my ugly alien like  inner Grot in a box because thats what I like to do with my critic; shut it up in the box so I dont have to listen to the self doubt.

Doubts – we all have them, even the most accomplished and confident artists; which I am not, doubt themselves on a creative level.

Doing this page was kinda cathartic and allowed me to unleash any residual feelings of lack of confidence which have been holding me back and stopping me from allowing myself to trust my inner muse.

Here is the page I did below for the Journal Bliss ‘Inner Critic’ page prompt:

If you had to draw your inner critic on a journal page what would your critic look like and what would it say to you?