I love playing in my art journal. It is no secret that it is my safe space. This is where I experiment. This is the place I go to when everything else feels too much, or not enough.
The fabulous Sarah Trumpp decided to dedicate 100 days to her stencil designs, creating one new every day for 100 days. She invited whoever wanted to join on their own challenge and called it #100daysofshenanigans (I invite you to follow the hashtag on Instagram to see what we are up to. It’s a very diverse group, so cool).
I wanted to go back to my art journal. I tend to avoid it when my feelings are not in a good place; afraid of what would come up out of me to the page… Stupid, isn’t it?
Enjoy the video:
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Why do you use an art journal ? what made you decide to jump in ?
Hey guys ! Welcome in this second video about creating your own art journal. In this one, I share with you how I decorated my canvas cover, both the outside and the inside.
I love the Strumpet Stencils for their diversity and quirkiness. They fit me perfectly 😉
Enjoy the video:
I love painting with my fingers, it gives me more control when blending my colors together. I kept my use of the stencils pretty easy because I wanted a simple cover.
I only have two signatures in this journal, and you can watch me create those pages on the first video. You can see my sewing is totally wonky: it is what happens when your hands give up on you. But I decided it was giving my journal some more personality 😉
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Some pictures:
Hello beautiful people !
I am back with a new fun video for Strumpet Stencils. You may know that our cool team is starting a collaborative project of traveling art journals. We each create one and send it to someone that will create on it before sending to someone else etc. I can not wait to see what my amazing teammates will create in mine <3
I created a 2-part project where I share with you both the pages then the cover. A variety of papers and sizes were used for my journal and went for a canvas cover.
For my pages, I used my Gelli plate but not only. I really hope you’ll enjoy watching my process (and if you do, feel free to let me know by commenting and sharing it with your friends)
Here is the video:
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What is your favorite way to break up the blank page syndrome ?
Hello beautiful Beans !
I am on the Wonderstrumpet blog again today with a new creative project.
I hope you will enjoy watching me create an art journal page from start to finish. It will probably won’t make sense to you but as you know, art journaling is a very subjective practice. I thought it would be good to share with you a page done for me without overthinking it (“will it make sense to my audience ?” is a question I usually ask myself over and over).
Sarah’s stencils are full of amazing symbols that can be used in so many different ways and interpretations.
Here is the video:
Supplies
In the past few months (okay… maybe couple years), I have been less present in my Studio. I explained why in this blogpost, if you are curious. But making art has always been something I have needed…
In our previous home, I used to be in my Teal Studio every Saturday and Sunday morning, pretty early. I am a morning person and love this time alone. It was my own Church. My moment to dive into my creative self to do whatever I was feeling like doing, because I could.
But since we moved across the country in the summer of 2016, doing it feels like an indulgence. Something rare that I cherish when it does happen.
I am in Mindy Lacefield‘s newest classes, and this morning I painted along one of her lesson from Blurred Edges. It feels like coming back to my roots: texture, gesso, ink sprays, scribbles, mess.
I have met Mindy twice so far but know in my bones that she is a Soul that my own recognized. I love her deeply.
Letting a face emerge from the chaos.
Every single painting and art journaling page goes through an ugly stage. All of them. And this is because I learned not to get too attached but to love the process that I know it is only temporary.
Chaos is necessary, this is where clarity comes from. Where the stories linger before emerging to the surface.
A few more pictures from this morning art journaling session:
