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.
I’ve had a bit of a creative funk recently – I had little direction to work in and consequently, things have been a little quiet in the Studio. That changed this week with my application for a large local Christmas Fayre being successful. I know, I know, it’s only April and I’ve started on Christmas prep – but that’s how competitive getting a table was since the invites came out in March.
So, the laser cutter has been blazing away with a couple of new designs. The first uses a disc designed to be a wooden earring. At 5cm diameter, it seems to be a little large for that, but I thought it would complement my other wooden tree decorations. A quick bit of design and hanging an amethyst coloured heart bead created this:
The trickiest part is hanging the heart. This was originally planned to be a star, but I didn’t have any suitable beads to hand – I think the heart works just as well.
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.
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.
Continue reading I’ve noticed recently that on drawing lines, such as writing or outlining, I’ve had a noticeable (though very minor) intention tremor. Now, this may be medication side effects, but I decided it was more likely to be lack of practice and a resultant deterioration in fine motor control. Noticing it in the first place may be due to my perfectionism as well! As a result, I’ve started drawing mandalas using my fountain pen, both for their repetitiveness/meditative process and for retraining my fine motor muscles. Here are the results so far, in date order. I’m pleased to report that after just six to seven hours of drawing over eight days, the tremor has all but gone.
Continue reading 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.
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’.
Where has the time gone – I’ve just noted that it’s been a month since I last posted. As normal, if I’m not posting, it’s because I’ve been busy on projects that take a little longer to bring to fruition and shared. This time, I’ve been working on another set of praying hands for church and a new quilt cover for our sofa (since we’d worn out the first one).
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:
Continue reading 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!
