This is the cover of my journal for the Season of ART 101. It is not actually the cover of the journal itself but more of a cover page in the journal.
Prompt 1 for the week was playing with watercolors. Just being a kid, getting out the paints and exploring with them. So this was my first entry using inexpensive Artists Loft Watercolors from Michaels.
This time I got a little more loose with my paints and loved the effect. This quote is so perfect for me to remember and really helps me to loosen up in my art and not worry about the outcome. This was done on hot pressed 140lb. water color paper that I tore down to fit in my journal. I then stapled it on the journal page which had been gessoed.
One of the bonus prompts this week was to use security envelopes and make a "self portrait" using the inside of the security envelope. One of the advantages to not paying bills on line or doing on line banking is we get tons of these security envelopes weekly. I raided the trash can in our office and struck gold!!!!! Not exactly sure she is a self portrait of me but I do love her super hero pose!!! She seems way more confident than I am.
I also really loved that the envelope itself said to recycle as if it knew that an artist's mind would find a good use for it!!!!
Next up was a tutorial by the amazing Vanessa on using gouache to make faces. I have some inexpensive gouache but really had never used them before. I was so happy to learn the technique and play with them. This was a really fun and silly practice and I loved how it turned out!!!! Everyone who did this tutorial and posted their faces had some great work.
This was a journal entry into my daily art journal. The one and only Pam Garrison was the guest artist this week and she is one of my all time favorite art journalist. I discovered her probably 13 years ago when I first learned about art journaling. She was talking this week about how she likes to journal with writing in her art journals and then cover the words with art so only she knows they are there and what the words said. I do this too!!!! I have journaled almost all of my life but was always worried what would happen if my journals were to ever be read by anyone other than me. Now it is no longer a concern because I can just cover it all up. One of my sons has been going through some testing for a heart condition we discovered he has and it has been a tough time for me as a mom. I have found my art journaling has been the only way I can truly express what I am feeling, my fears, my concerns, my guilt that I may have passed a genetic condition on to him. I came home from an appointment we had this week with a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and jounaled my thoughts then covered them up in true Pam Garrison fashion, with flowers. I was crying when I started this entry but I was smiling at the end and feeling more hopeful.
These last two were from a tutorial that my new Ukrainian friend Sasha taught on creating beautiful backgrounds with watercolors. This was very relaxing to do and I made two but only have journaled over the one.
Trusting in the unknown right now seems to be something I am being forced to do. So, I'm going with it, trusting in the process and trusting in the unknown.
Today I will go back and journal over this background.
I feel so very lucky to have found the Get Messy Art Journaling community!!!!! I was even more lucky to have won a year long membership to it which I feel certain I will continue with after this first year is over. I have met so many wonderful international artists as well as some who even live here in Virginia. The artist community is truly a community of love and acceptance. I have never seen competition among artists or negativity, only inspiration and a constant cheering on to continue to create and believe that where you are in your art is always good enough.
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