Mini Art Journal Day 20

Hello there my crafty friends!  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the next page of my Art Marks Challenge art journal.  The Art Marks Challenge from Rae Missigman and Sandi Keene is technically over, but I was delayed, so I'm sharing my journal pages a bit after the fact.

Day 20 - Learn

 

I'm also entering my page into the following challenge:

Creative Fingers Challenge #263

For some Art Marks Challenge history, you can click here.  And Rae's Instagram account here shows what she made 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 different materials, including scrap or underpaper, so some pages will 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!

This challenge has been very interesting, because it makes you think, which can be different for an art journal.  Depending on why you keep an art journal, your deepest thoughts can make it onto a page.  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.

For this one, Learn seemed easy, but it wasn't exactly.   However, I think everyone knows the phrase you never stop learning.  I took my cue from that and incorporated learning into my at journal page.

My background is a gelli print, and I spy at least three different Dylusions stencils peeking out: in the border on the left, the arrows on the right from a shimmery spray, and there's also an alphabet stencil with Liquitex titanium white. 

 

The girl with a book is a digital image from Oddball Art, and I colored her with a combination of colored pencils and Tombow markers.  Then I used my Balzer Designs stamp set that includes stamps for every day of the week with the Archival black ink.

 

I added some stamped stars with the same black ink, along with other small stamps with Distress Ink in Ripe Persimmon and Cracked Pistachio, and traced both the arrow from the stencil and the stamped images with a Sharpie pen.  I also added details with my Uni Posca water-based white paint marker.

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my art journal page.  Bye for now!