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Do you have the courage to try black gesso in your art journal? |
Today, I’m going to give you a peek of my art journaling process. I’m going to use black gesso as the first layer and the entire time I am meditating on a mantra about commitment to my goals. you can watch the video of my art journal from start to finish.
The opposite of success is not failure
The opposite of success is not failure. The opposite of success is giving up, and I do not give up during this entire process. You’ll see, if a layer doesn’t work, I just keep layering on top, and layering, and layering, and layering, until I like the way it turns out. So, I’m sharing this with you, because I do know that it’s going to work out really well in the end, and I wanted to share with you my entire process including the ugly parts
Ugly ducklings sometimes grow into beautiful swans (even with our art)
All the previous work is still there. It still forms different layers, peeking through the new layers.The whole point of doing an art journal is you get to experiment without worrying about creating a finished product that’s for sale.
I am 100% committed to becoming the artist I need to be… I believe I can
Here is the final art journal two page spread. The mantra I’ve been repeating throughout this entire art journal process, is “I am 100% committed to becoming the artist I need to be… I believe I can.”
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| 1. Golden Fluid Acrylics – Vat Orange, Teal, Yellow Oxide 2. Letraset Neon Markers 3. Liquitex Black Gesso 4. Liquitex White Gesso More essential supplies not in graphic |
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You can also download this FREE ART JOURNAL ebook for loads of prompts and techniques to keep you happy and busy!
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Hi Miriam, Thanks for these tips. Enjoyed seeing your art journal process.
I throughly enjoyed watching your black gesso art journaling
making a wonderful experimental mess and arriving at an acceptable result . It very much reminded me of the years I did art therapy with mentally subnormal adolescents This was the space I lead them into to achieve the finished work. Thank you so much for taking me back in essence
Thank you for sharing. I downloaded your free art journal ebook yesterday and love it. I haven’t do a journal before , but I’m looking forward to try it. You have inspired me !
The plastic stickers you keep calling stickers are Stencils.
great question @Tracy Weiss – I learned how to do this in a day long workshop with Julie Fei-Fan Balzar. Although I have no plan to teach this process at the moment, I know that she has an online classhttp://balzerdesigns.com/Classroom/register/make-your-own-junque-journal-2/
Thanks for sharing. Do you have a blog explaining how you make your own journal out of these things?
@Kimberly Thanks so much for stopping by and saying hi! always great to get feedback and glad you found it inspirational
@Lynn glad you enjoyed it!
hi @Tracy Weiss – I created my own journal using calendars and art papers as well as some of my old prints.
Are you using a magazine as the pages for your art journal?
Amazing. Loved seeing the process. I am always happy when I get to the "ugly phase" as I know the end is some what in sight!
Wow! This is beautiful.
I watched your Rub Ons videos via 21 Secrets yesterday, which brought me here. I have no transparencies here at home, but a whole box in my classroom. So I haven't done the transfer part…yet, but your journal demo was so inspiring, I had to visit and check out more. I can't get enough! I'm enjoying all your tips and tricks. Thank you for sharing!!!