Hello my friends! I'm so glad you could join me today!
I'm sharing another page in my mini art journal for the Art Marks Challenge from Rae Missigman and Sandi Keene.
Day 19 - Balance
I'm also entering my page into these challenges:
For some Art Marks Challenge history, you can click here. And Rae's Instagram account here shows what's she's making for each prompt. For those who haven't seen my previous posts yet, I'm working in a mini art journal I made out of envelopes, but you can use many different things, including scrap or underpaper, so some pages already had stuff on them. A hole punch and some baker's twine later and a mini art journal for the challenge ready for art!
I've mostly posted individual pages, and I do plan to post them all. This challenge has been very interesting thus far, because it makes you think. Not that I mind thinking. Sometimes a good brain dump on your art journal page is just what you need. Whether it's actual writing that you incorporate, writing and your art covers it up, or the art itself represents the brain dump.
Life always seems to be a question of balance. Balancing time, money, quality time spent with family and friends, your job, maybe getting back into shape or it could be as simply as remembering to laugh. However you find balance, it's worth the search. The added texture for my page is the star. I use a lot of baby wipes in my art. One of those essential supplies, in my opinion. Among other uses, I clean my gelli plate and clear off my stamps when I am stamping paint. Many time the colors don't bleed as much, even if they're not supposed to mix. And sometimes a single color gets fades and such which look terrific when a shape is cut out after the wipe is dried. The big star for this page is from just such a case.
My background is another gelli print on deli paper. You can see one layer is red paint through The Crafter's Workshop Chevron stencil as well as aqua green through another stencil from The Crafter's Workshop called XOXO.
I also used a Dylusions stencil with some ultramarine paint and did a lot of doodling with my Uni Posca white paint marker. I also used some die-cuts from my stash and used some little stamps sets from my stash as well. A great place I get my paint is Dick Blick. There's several brands to choose from, as well as a huge number of colors and types of paint (like heavy body and free flow).
Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my art journal page. Bye for now!
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