Art Journal Page: Black and White

Posted on 25th June 2019 by perfectly4med

July’s theme for my art journaling session (spaces are available) is ‘black and white’. This is my example art journal page… I photocopied a magazine page and used it for an image transfer on the left side with an inked vignette effect using blended archival ink. The text is stamped in white picket fence distress ink using with the ‘colour’ cut from the original magazine page. There’s not much contrast between the coloured word and the black – I’m still not sure what to do about that as I’m not keen on outlining it and distracting from the colour itself.

Used in this layout

Daler Rowney A5 Graduate Sketchbook

DecoArt Americana Decou-page Photo Transfer Medium
Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Picket Fence

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Cling Foam Stamps: Block Upper & Block Lower

Bible Journaling: five more illustrations

Posted on 18th June 2019 by perfectly4med

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted some Bible journaling. May was not a good month for inspiration, and I’ve also been working on a quilt that I will be teaching later in the year which needed finishing. More on the quilt to follow once I have written the pattern!

Back to Bible journaling… all today’s verses are from the letters end of the New Testament. I’m working through a list of verses that I have noted in Biblical order – you’ll be able to tell how close I am to the end of that list!

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Laser cut: A7 notebooks

Posted on 8th May 2019 by perfectly4med

These are A7 kraft covered notebooks with laser-etched designs using my own mandalas. It took a little experimentation to get the right settings dialled in, so the gold covered one is a bit of a botch. I engraved it with too low a setting, so there was a small etch, but no colour. I painted it with gold acrylic, dried it and then tried all sorts of techniques to colour the etched areas only. There was scraped acrylic paint (messy and didn’t stay put), antiquing cream (the same) and finally, I went back to a golden oldie which I haven’t used in a long while – tar/bitumen. This settled nicely in the grooves (though not entirely uniformly) and polished off the top surfaces. I like the aged look.

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More Bible Journaling

Posted on 29th April 2019 by perfectly4med

In between creating Christmas lanterns (post to follow), I have had some time to do some more Bible journaling. In readiness for next month’s Bible journaling session, I’ve been looking at using colour palettes. I’ve used design-seeds.com as my source – there are oodles of prepared palettes to choose from along with the inspiration photos.

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Bible Journaling: five more examples

Posted on 26th March 2019 by perfectly4med

Here are five more Bible journaling illustrations, complete with a free downloadable outline. I’ve been getting in some practice with watercolour pencils as my next Bible journaling session will be featuring them. Another version of watercolour is using studio safe solvents to move around the wax carrier for the Polychromos pencils, giving much the same effect (though waterproof of course). The solvent is less likely to swell the paper fibres compared to water and is my preferred technique, though the effect is less translucent than watercolour.

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Art Journal Page: Bleeding Tissue

Posted on 19th March 2019 by perfectly4med

I’m on a roll this week – two things shared and it’s only Tuesday. My next art journaling session will feature ‘bleeding tissue paper’. For the uninitiated, this isn’t the type of tissue paper you’d use for gift wrapping as when it gets wet, it bleeds colour. The final result is similar to using watercolours. It tends to be a bit random, so those that like precise will be struggling! Oh, and what was in my head didn’t reach the page – I meant to write a ‘splash’ of colour. I couldn’t work out a way of changing it, so it is what it is.

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Bible Journaling: more examples

Posted on 27th February 2019 by perfectly4med

I’ve been creating some new Bible journaling this week. I’ve also been trying out some different art materials – more info after the gallery.

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Art Journal Page: #PASC0219

Posted on 20th February 2019 by perfectly4med

It’s time to share my submission to the February Pick-A-Stick Challenge #PASC0219. I’m working in my very first art journal started in 2011. There are lots of spreads where I was playing with backgrounds and which had never been ‘finished’.

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Art Journal Page: #PASC0119

Posted on 18th January 2019 by perfectly4med

For the unfamiliar, PASC stands for Pick-A-Stick Challenge. It has been a long while since I last participated in the challenge, and the format has changed slightly. The team now randomly draw words which it is left to us to interpret artistically. The only stipulation is that the order of the steps is followed. Everything else is artistic licence, and anything can happen before, during and after the steps to complete the page. There’s also a shorter ATC (Artist Trading Card) option. Here’s my January 2019 layout:

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Bible Journaling: Book ends

Posted on 16th January 2019 by perfectly4med

Here are a couple of Bible journaling examples where the extra space at the end of a book can be used for larger illustrations. I felt that both needed a bolder background than I would normally consider as there was a lot of white space that made the text look particularly lonely!

used in these layouts

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