Art Journaling Workshop

I’ve just spent a fab day being taught all things art journal by Anneliese Bates, certified Ranger educator, designer and mixed media artist, and real nice with it 😉 The session covered backgrounds, layering, decoupage, doodling, writing, and what to write. Copious ideas and inspiration with all the materials required. I would recommend any future workshops – great inspiration and value for money. As to my work today – well pics of that may arise as the pages get ‘finished’.

More information on Anneliese’s workshops at her new website www.creativejourneyworkshops.co.uk

Art Journaling – napkin decoupage

I’m discovering art journaling, and so far am just doing the backgrounds. Today I tried ‘napkin decoupage’ – taking the printed layer off a two or three ply napkin and then using a matte gel multi-medium sticking it to the page. So here’s the result! The rose image is from a napkin (Cath Kidston,John Lewis) and the rest is acrylic paint applied with a baby wipe into my Moleskine sketch book – I gesso’d the page first. The large burgundy area next to the rose image resulted from the page delaminating under gesso and heat and the top layer of the page peeling off leaving a much more absorbent core exposed. Adds to the distressed look.