So, I recently finished an art journal! I love/hate finishing journals, I love that feeling of success and completion, but then I miss the journal, I miss that familiarity, the paper I've gotten so used to, the pages I've gotten accustomed to flipping by. I've made journals out of books, composition notebooks, I've done watercolor in sketchbooks with thin paper that doesn't absorb right, I've used a variety of mixed media journals,some handmade watercolor journals. I love the Strathmore mixed media paper but somehow my most loved journals are the difficult ones, the ones I have to adjust to, to step away from my beloved watercolor (with tons of layering and wash after wash after wash) ...they stretch my skills and abilities and teach me new ways of using things I already love. Aannyway! to celebrate my finished journal I looked through my previously completed journals, and the half filled ones I go back to from time to time. I have a journal with half started image transfers, and several with filled gessoed pages waiting on some acrylic or oil pastel or whatever mixed media I decide to do. I took some pictures to share some pages from each journal with you guys!
This one is soo old, showcasing my love for neon gelly roll pens.
Watercolor and collage
This was a fun image transfer project, I love my image transfer journal so much! sweet freedom.
This is mixed media in my image transfer book.
All my books
There you go! what do you do with your old journals? I am thinking I need my own artsy bookshelf to showcase them on.
