Post questions, comments, and share your mixed media art, paper crafts, art journaling spreads, etc.
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!
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Please don’t feel like you have to go out and buy any of it. One thing I love about art journaling is that you can use whatever you happen to have.
But here are some things that are useful:
Gesso
Heavy gesso/texture paste/modeling paste – you can make your own texture paste.These can be used interchangeably
acrylic paint - Liquitex Basics is a decent mid-range brand
Stabilo ALL pencils . Write on just about any surface
White and black gel pens . Signo Uni-Ball pens are generally good
Staz-On black ink pad
Mixed Media or water color paper – 100-140 lb. But really you can use most anything.
Heat tool - you can also use a hair dryer but a heat tool will dry your pages without also blowing everything around on the table. I recently upgraded and it’s so much nicer!
We are combining the Paper/Mixed Media and Art Journaling craftalongs since there is a lot of overlap. Share all things paper!
I added a few new sections to the 1st post. Let me know if you have ideas for any other sections. I also made a menu at the top with clickable links to each section since the 1st post is getting kind of long.
Last night, New Year’s Eve, I painted another page from our zoom time on Saturday and today, January 1st, I finished so I think it belongs in this year’s craftalong.
It might not look like it now, when it’s finished, but I still don’t really get how to use water paints properly. Without the line work, each spot looks like a hot mess, unless that’s how naked paint looks. I’m so used to precision in my doodles that maybe anything messy looks wrong now
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They look great!
I learned in Fodder School as well as some of the Alisa Burke classes that what I thought were “blobs” and messy paint can turn into beautiful things with a bit of line work! I love the randomness of how watercolors work…but it does take getting used to!
Good start! I signed up for the leftovers class too but after doing about 19 hours of the Artsy Meetup Marathon I took a break from my art supplies the rest of the day. Hoping to catch up tomorrow or Tuesday.
I am seriously considering this class from Willa Wanders. It’s a little more than I typically spend on a class, but I might call it an early bday present…
I’ve been watching her IG stories on this one and going back and forth on registering. It would be more fun if you’re doing it too so I’ll probably sign up if you do.
I actually really liked all of the classes this year. There were a couple I didn’t do, one if the teachers made a pocket, Kristin Peterson maybe? I also didn’t do Kristen Radden --Layered Landscapes (A Collage Project) since I didn’t have any magazines with landscapes in them. I needed to carve and print my stamp for #carvedecember so I used the time during those sessions, if I didn’t need to do the stamp I would have done them.
I did Kiala’s intro lesson on a sheet of 12x18” watercolor paper which I used for my covers for Liz Constable– Matryoshka Books. Catherine Rains – Gratitude Collage Grid Was fun but I wish I would have used pencil instead of pen for the journaling because it distracts too much from the collages. I only saw part of Kellee Wynne‘a grid journaling lesson before I needed to get some sleep, so I’ll catch that on the replay. I think DeeDee was out with the flu so I’m not sure who covered her slot. I plan to catch up on the ones I missed while I was sleeping once they’re posted.
Overall I really enjoyed all of the lessons even though there was a lot more journaling than I usually incorporate into my art. It actually made me think I want to incorporate more for 2023.
I only managed 10 hours. I really liked the little scrappy books but I can’t remember who did the class. you glued lots of paper scraps onto muslin (I used cheesecloth) and made a little book out of it. I did do the pockets and liked the junky look and they will go nicely in some of my junk journals. I wasn’t crazy about the collaged landscapes. But people did seem to really like them. I really liked my page I did early on with Tiffany.
