My latest art journal entry was a joy to make and came together quite quickly. I am learning to create without judgement, and I am having a great time journaling. I started doing art journals during Covid lockdown and it helped me get through the worst of it.
Now that I have been doing it for several months I am going to keep at it for my regular artistic practice.
I painted the background with Distress Paints. I love the colours and how they are reactive to water, but also when they dry they are permanent. They are amongst my favourite paints. I layered up the background. I used an old text rubber stamps and Tim Holtz stencils in the background to add interest and texture.
The flowers were then drawn in, and painted with gesso. After that dried I coloured them with Distress Crayons by smearing them with my fingers and blending the colours with more gesso. It added a nice subtle dream like quality to the colour of the crayons. Distress Crayons are creamy like lipstick, and also water reactive. I love them.
I outlined the flowers in highlighted them in acrylic paint pens. I also drew the spiral border with them.
Last I printed out a quote on the computer, coloured with with Distress Crayons and adhered it to the page with Modge Podge. “Love is like wildflowers, it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This was a very relaxing make and it was very therapeutic.