Hey there!!! My new year's resolution is to post more often! It's been a crazy couple of years, but I'm done with my degree, I'm healthy again, and it's time to rededicate myself to pursuing my true passion... MAKING ART AND STUFF!!! So here is a sample of a couple of facing pages from a journal I made using 90# cold press Arches watercolor paper. These are a couple of my favorite pages so far...
The color was put down using Golden liquid Acrylic paints with some Super Loaded Matte Medium added to it, which helps keep the paint from getting sticky, and leaves a great surface on which to write. The word JOY was written with acrylic ink and a folded pen, and the white letters were written with a gel pen. There's some metallic marks on the page which doesn't scan in well at all, and the little spotted areas were made with a rubber type of shelf lining that leaves that sort of impression. Pretty nifty, huh?!?
Not all my journal pages are this well put together, if you know what I mean, but I sure would like them to be! And truthfully, I could do more to "dress" this up, but I'm not going to mess with it any further...
So Happy New Year, friends! I hope you have set some gentle resolutions for yourself, the kind you can keep with JOY in your heart and the kind that will help you learn new techniques and grow as an artist.
Kathy
So happy to see you posting again. I love your work really like the colors on these pages. Still using the last of the bits & pieces you sent me
Posted by: Judy | January 03, 2012 at 07:37 PM
Happy New year to you too, so glad you're healthy and ready to have an artful year with all of us! :)
Posted by: iHanna | January 04, 2012 at 05:54 PM
Love the colours in your layout! just gorgeous!
Posted by: Michelle | January 09, 2012 at 10:48 PM
Love the colors you've used and the texture is D-lish! :) LOVE!
Posted by: Jane Farr | January 19, 2012 at 01:47 PM