When I do art journal pages, my main purpose is to write. I love doing art to create a page to write on, but I don’t create a piece of art in my journal. I create a page that allows me to write because writing is the way I document my life. I write about [...]
Paint
Heavy Bodied Acrylics – these are paints in a tube and they are creamy and cover well. They are quite expensive but occassionally I’ll splurge and buy a tube. The brand I can get here that’s least expensive is called Amsterdam.
Liquid Acrylics – Golden has a lot of colors but they are expensive and they [...]
One of my readers left a comment saying she has trouble finding pens that will write on backgrounds done with acrylic paint in her journal. I have heard this question often, so I’ll answer it here.
My favorite pens for journal writing are the UniBall 207 by Signo. I have never had any trouble with them [...]
I spoke yesterday about the style of journal pages I create. I received some responses asking how deep writing and art can be combined on a page. The answer depends on what you want your page to look like. If you want it to be a work of art suitable for framing, maybe it isn’t [...]
I added a page to my site with a gallery of a lot of my art journaling pages. I had hoped to write captions on each one explaining what I used to create the page. Well, after writing captions on over 100 images, the service I was using didn’t work on the page. So I [...]
I mentioned earlier in the month that I am participating in the National Nonstop Journaling Month. The goal was to do something, either write or create art of some kind, in my journal every day. I have gone crazy and been doing so much journaling. It has been a great month! This challenge got me [...]
Create a poster promoting you on your journal page. I found a rock concert ad in a local paper that inspired the style of this page. Create boxes and fill them with colors and designs that represent who you are. They don’t have to be great drawings or even [...]
I am so honored that Karen at Square Peg People asked me to do a guest post on her blog. She’s doing a summer long “Body Part Wednesday” party. Today she featured my thoughts on journaling to work through issues with your body. Check it out here and join the party by posting your comments [...]
This course was my first journaling course and it has been enjoyed by hundreds of people over the past four years. This course is great for a beginner to art journaling. If you’ve been journaling a while but need some inspiration or creativity sparks, this is a course for you, too.
The [...]
I have just updated all the classes on a page, with new descriptions, and new starting dates. All my classes will be offered at various dates in July, so take this opportunity to have some summer fun. You’ll learn some things and meet some other artists in the online class groups.
Schedule of Classes:
Happy Feet begins [...]
