Yes, this works much better. Lovely use of light/dark space and xolors.
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$100 later & I’m all set up with papers & paint (& beads & blank card sets & hoops, haha).
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I love your empty space!!
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Today was re-do day for me I guess, lol. I also redid the right hand spread of my black and white page. I had already painted over it once before, but still wasn’t happy with it. I think I’ve made peace.
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I finally got around to the swiping one. The black side is with cereal box cardboard, and the pink/blue/green is with corrugated.
I also took a shot at the paint out shapes exercise over my lots of color page, but you can’t really tell. I used that crap gesso as white paint, and it just smeared the markers/highlighters I’d used in the original 
. It’s kind of effective, I guess. I haven’t taken a picture yet because I may still try again with actual paint.
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That looks great Abbee, the mark making in black and white is intense contrast. I like it a lot.
Meg, we haven’t seen the swiping one yet, we’ll have to catch up a bit more this week.
The girl and I painted side-by-side, hers are the 3 on the right and the note book spread that looks like peacock feathers and a choppy rainbow, the rest are mine. We used acrylic and water colour applied in willy-nilly combinations.
She’s put more thought and care into hers and you can see her distinctive style emerging. Because I’ve done so many masterboards, mine are a hot mess. I know they will be layered over until the base is fairly indistinguishable so I just slapped that colour on there.
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Great swipes @megwell! I love that you didn’t fill the space so your swipes are clearly distinguished.
Yay @Magpie!!! LOVE that you are doing this with your girl. I tried to get my son to do a journal with me but he’s only peripherally interested lol. Sometimes I get a daughter or two involved but they do their own thing at this age. Not a bad thing! Can’t wait to see more from you both.
I did one color today (at least 2 days behind). Starting to worry that they are all looking the same now. 
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Thanks for saying that, because historically, my critique in art classes has been that I didn’t fill enough of the space 
. But the upside is that I don’t have to fight myself like a lot of people do to leave white space.
Tonight I tried the outlining brushstrokes thing on the black swipey page. I actually really enjoyed the process and like the result, though I may need to address the bottom third…
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Wow! I love how this looks! I’d hang that on the wall!
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I love it…it has a very good feel about it…urban and chaotic…you should frame that one for sure!
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What they said! Sooo coool!
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That looks very purposeful & really neat.
I confess I’m not so motivated to actually do a lot of the lessons, many of them are elements already used in masterboard making & I keep just wanting to do that instead! I’ll have to force myself to focus on her instructions a bit more.
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Aw, thanks, everyone! Maybe I will cut it out of the journal and hang it up.
There are several of them I haven’t felt like doing either, at least not in real time. But I’m filing them away mentally as options for later. They’ve given me some ideas for working with existing masterboards, too.
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I’m playing catch up (just in time for the new one to come out in a few minutes and be behind again, lol). And I agree. A few of these I forced myself to do, for sure.
Rip + redefine:
After filling space:
Cut + tile:
And more filling space:
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I took another crack at painting out shapes, this time with actual paint. It was better but still smeary in places, and I called it quits after half the spread. It just felt like it would be a waste of paint. Maybe I’ll try the other side with black paint at some point.
Anyway, the left side is gesso + paint and the right is just the gesso.
In other news, I’m pretty sure green magic marker can be seen from space.
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I really, really like the last two. The “Florida orange” one looks so great with the added lines.
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I was thinking how I could use a piece of black or white paper to cut shapes out of to lay over the colorful page rather than using paint. Not that I don’t appreciate the technique, it’s just that I only have wee little tubes of paint!
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A lot of the lessons feel like we have done them along the way naturally in our other pieces…but, for me, isolating each technique makes me appreciate them and file them away in my scattered brain…I also like the idea of just doing something with no end goal…I tend to be very goal-oriented and so that has been freeing…
I was going to “finish” some of the lessons, and decided to let them go…I can use them later for other projects, so I filed them in a folder…
I am inundated now with work stuff until about April 10th or so…but I am still trying to sneak in a few lessons or so in the wee hours of the morning…
Love seeing your work, everybody…makes me look forward to the lessons and sort of guess which ones I remember from here!
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The Spread That Lived 4: I Fought a Pumpkin, & I Liked It
This is the “use weird stuff to apply your paint” exercise. My weird stuff was some fluffy padding/batting, a piece of an old ribbed tank, one of those prongy butterfly hair clips, a plastic bread bag tab, and a rolling ball on the end of a novelty promo pen.
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wow…that looks like it was loads of fun to do!!! I love orange…lol…yeah, pumpkins, too…It is like a puzzle to figure out where you used what tool…
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