Category: art
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I’m Doing Documented Life 2016
I totally failed in my attempt to do the Documented Life Project last year. In my quest in being brave and opening up an Etsy shop, I was busy with keeping stock in the shop while working a full time job, which left little time for play. This year I’m making time for things that…
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Art Journal – Week 9
The prompt for week 9 in the Documented Life Project was High 5 Layers. At least 5 layers. So I layered: safety envelopes glued in gelli printing in white, turquoise, and yellow ocher underpaper cut outs in orangy-red grunged with black stabilo pencil and walnut distress stain added book pages and a library card black…
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Art Journal – Week 8
The prompt for the week in the Documented Life Project was to repeat an element in your journal. I had no idea what to do, so I decided to go simple and repeat brush strokes. I painted the pages with black gesso, then began with dark gray paint and got lighter as I went toward…
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Art Journal (DLP) – Week 7
This week was about covering up stuff you have already laid down on the page. I decided to gelli print my pages. I started off with red and orange, then gelli printed a turquoise with a stencil. I then started to lay down different colors for the border, then decided to cover it with black…
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Art Journal – Week 5 (Documented Life Project 2015)
Underpaper!!! I love the Documented Life Project challenge this week. Underpaper looks better than than what I try to do on PURPOSE! So to incorporate it into a journal spread just made my day. I decided to spread around some beige and blue watered down acrylic to give a little background to the underpaper I…