Art Journaling

Art journaling is a fantastic way to explore, let loose, breathe and relax into your creating process. If you are anything like me, I hold my art creations close to my heart. They become precious and an extension of my identity. Art journaling has been a creating tool of release that allows me the freedom to be okay with creating something just for me. No worries, no strings, no fears or judgment.

 

Let’s Paint it Over

Join along as we explore creating art in a 5x7 mixed media art journal, using magazine images, acrylic paints, stencils… and just about anything we can throw at it.

Have you been struggling this year with getting back into a creating pattern? I have felt stuck. I sit looking at my supplies and walk out. One night, I was thinking back on my creative journey, and I realized how much I loved painting over magazine images. And thus… Let’s Paint it Over came to be.

There is no special supplies need, you can create in any size book or medium you want. Use the paints and art tools you have on hand, and you can add whatever brings you joy!

Would you like a safe space to share what you are creating in your Paint it Over art journal? Everyone is invited, and you do not have to share anything if you just want to join and see what everyone else is creating.

Check out our private Let’s Paint it Over Facebook Group

2023 Paint It Over Sessions

 

Session week five (Dec 18th 2023)...Reminder:You are enough! It’s okay if we didn’t create as much this year.

 

Session week four (Nov 2rd 2023) …Reminder: It’s okay to have non-creative months. Don’t force it.

Session week three (Aug 9th 2023) …Reminder: Adding shapes to you work bring movement.

Session week two (Aug 1st 2023) …Reminder: Be bold, go large to make a statement.

Session week one (July 10th 2023) …Reminder: To help with this creative blocks, use items/tools/supplies you enjoy to create.

 

2022 Paint It Over Sessions

 

Session week 24 (Oct. 19th 2022) …Reminder: If your past creating felt ugly, don’t give up, we never know what might come of our next creating adventure.

Session week 25 (Nov 18th 2022) …Reminder: Walk away!

Session week 22 (Aug. 30 2022) …Reminder: Having a limited amount of time to create could mean you create your best work.

Session week 23 (Oct. 5 2022) …Reminder: Don’t be afraid to allow your art journaling to voice your sadness.

Session week twenty (Aug. 15th 2022)… Reminder: Let your true self shine through in your artwork as you create for you.

Session week twenty-one (Aug. 22nd 2022) … Reminder: Try to create even if you have less than 15 minutes.

 

Session week eighteen (July 25th 2022): … Reminder: Don’t let your head voice stop you from doing something you love.

Session week nineteen (Aug. 8th 2022) …Reminder: You don’t have to buy expensive supplies to create.

Session week sixteen (July 7th 2022) : …Reminder: It’s okay to feel lazy, no reason to punish ourselves. Just create when you’re ready.

Session week seventeen (July 16th 2022): …Reminder: You can use craft items in your art… guess what…it’s still art!

Session week fourteen (May 9th 2022): … Reminder: Try those tools and supplies in your stash you forgot about.

Session week fifteen (June 25 2022): … Reminder: It takes time to be confident at creating. Play more.

Session week twelve (April 10th, 2022): … Reminder: Using your art journal to explore and try something new. Nobody’s watching.

Session week thirteen (April 18th 2022) …Reminder: It’s okay to not feel motivated and to not create.

 
 

Session week 11 (April 4th 2022) Part one.

Session week 11 (April 4th 2022) Part two … Reminder: Don’t let past creative experiences stop you from moving forward in your creating journey. Enjoy each moment.

 

Session week 10 (March 28th 2022) … Reminder: When you got the creative blues, seek inspiration from your fellow artists.

 

Session week 8: (Mar 14th 2022) … Reminder: Be kind to yourself, the world is judging, we don’t need the pressure of self judgement.

Session week 9 (Mar 21st 2022) …Reminder: It is okay to love what you’ve created.

 

Session week 7: (Mar 7th 2022) … Reminder: Let your story inspire the direction your art goes.

 

Session week 5: (Feb 21st 2022) … Reminder: It’s okay to not like everything we create.

Session week 6: (Feb 28th 2022) … Reminder: Don’t let the over-thinking stop us from picking up our brush and playing.

Session week 3: (Feb 7th 2022) …Reminder: Trying to stop worrying about what others will think.

Session week 4: (Feb 14th 2022) …Reminder: Let your journaling spark your motivation.

Session week 2: (Feb 1st 2022) … Reminder: Having fun and being silly while creating can inspire.

Session week 1 (Jan 24th 2022) … Reminder: It’s okay not to feel like creating. We are not bad artists because we don’t create.

 

More Journaling Videos:

One Emotion ~ One Page

The One Emotion ~ One Page Series was an adventure of creating one journal page at a time based on an emotion provided by our Facebook creative artist community. Join in the adventure, create an art journal page using the following emotions. There is no time restraints. Create when you want.

Art Videos
One Emotion One Page Project: Emotion - Catharsis

This art Journal page was created with collage, acrylic, modeling paste and stenciling. The female portrait was drawn with vine charcoal, acrylic, and Golden fluid acrylic-Sepia.

I found the word catharsis with a Greek meaning to clean or purge. Over the last year, I have found myself caught up in the hate of this world. Kindness was lost on me. Not that I was better than others but that I just didn't want to be bothered.

I'm not against change, but I was confused why things were happening in this world and in the country I live in. Changes that I completely disagreed with. I had to consciously tell myself...try to practice the golden rule.

That golden rule use to be easy for me. Something soured me to its power, and I stood behind my brick wall of indifference. Partly afraid to comment for fear of retaliation and partly because I couldn't see what difference my opinion would make.

I have been slowly purging the hate from my heart. If I practice kindness and do not let hate get a foot hold, kindness will become infectious. A good cleansing that needs to start with me.

 

One Emotion One Page Project: Emotion - Goofy

This art Journal page includes collage, acrylic, stenciling, red pencil, and gesso.

What isn't funnier than a long legged giraffe in her little red wagon? Meet Harriet. She really got tired of crossing the planes in the dry heat, and she could already see the varicose veins starting; to think she was only 10. She kept to herself most days while all the other ladies fancied the strutting mates on their daily walk to the watering hole.

One day, she saw a red flash in the bush about a mile from the human lodge that her family lived near. Later that evening she checked it out, it was a child's wagon with really big wheels in the back. It was cumbersome for Harriet, but she was able to get her spindly legs tucked in and off she rolled.

With neck stretched high, Harriet breezed by the herd and made it first to the watering hole. From that day on Harriet and her red wagon were inseparable. She was gloriously happy and lived to be 30.

One Emotion One Page Project: Emotion - Jubilant

One Emotion One Page Project: This mixed media journal page was created with ephemera, acrylic, stenciling, Distressed Stains-Ranger, gesso, Washi tape, ink, red pencil and Stabilo-All pencil.

Jubilant, can't say I use that word much. I remember being close once, it was during Mardi Gras. Of course, I will have to confess, it was most likely the belly jello shots.