This craftalong is for anyone who wants to art journal. All skill levels can participate.
We will host art journaling zoom meetups where we will play a video and journal along with it. It’s a lot of fun and you don’t usually need to have to have all the supplies listed in the video. Also, anyone can feel free to host a video session! find a video, post a time, and send the meeting link out!
We will also share tips and techniques and share our work.
If you want to see the videos we’ve done without scrolling through the whole thread, check out the list of links at the bottom of this post.
When: Sunday, January 10, 2pm Eastern Time Where: zoom link that will be shared in private message to the people who vote “I am there” in the poll below.
Supplies Needed:
She promotes this as low budget art journaling (which is awesome)
background paper
paper scraps in black and white (she adds color with paint but feel free to use any color scraps)
adhesive (gel medium, modpodge, glue, etc)
acrylic paints and brushes
stamps and ink pad
markers, gel pens, paint pens
Lynx
(In a world where you can be anything, be kind.)
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Ooh, white space is hard! My art teacher friend teaches her kiddos to never leave any white, but I think most of that is for them to work longer and not claim “I’m done!” whilst leaving most of the background white.
Maybe when the kiddos aren’t taking up our data with remote learning meetings, I’ll be able to join in a few of these. They always look fun and your projects turn out so great!
Yeah I never remember talking about white space in art class. even the high school art class I took. it’s really hard to go against what you learned early on.
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Very beautiful!
I can add white easy enough…it is leaving white I have trouble with! Even in my house, I want to cover every wall with stuff…and every flat surface…tried to be a minimalist but it is just not my nature…drives my younger sister insane, but she does not have to live here! lol
Oops. I made an edit to the poll (typo) and it wiped out all the votes. So I think @aimr@JoyfulClover@photojenn@Kwality570 are the ones who RSVP’d yes - so can you please go vote again and I will quit messing around.
I took a lot of design and art classes in college since I was a Graphic Design major and learned all about white space and negative space, but let me tell you, it seems so difficult to think about when art journaling. I think just adding a simple space for your eye to rest is good. For example, your page you posted above is busy and there’s no “white space” per se, but the words and the darker areas seem to be the focus. The multicolored background, although highly detailed, is more of a passive space for your eyes to rest between the focus items. I think it’s well balanced and counts. I don’t think white space has to be “white.”
I don’t think white space has to be “white.”