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!
I opted right outta that fb mess, horrible. The “lectures” so far have been too talky for me too. I think I’m out.
Karen Brown’s yearly destash is on, I might jump in to that again instead.
Y’all are making me glad I didn’t even attempt the FB group .
I enjoyed the color mixing more than I thought I would. I still think there’s a fair chance I’ll get bored with it and switch to a prefab purple, but we’ll see.
Yeah, I haven’t even attempted the FB group for exactly the same reason. But I’d love to share some collage fun here with you guys!!
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(Linda -In the year 2025, I am happy to be alive! :us:)
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I am really just trying to learn more techniques and “real” lessons, like paint mixing. I do think I learn more from our mini lessons here but since it was free, I thought I would give it a go. Thank goodness I can fast forward the videos. My attention span is so short these days!
It’s funny, I have so many different paint colors but I almost always end up mixing my colors. The tube colors are usually either slightly different than what I want or I’m too lazy to get them out when I already have the basics on my palette. I almost never use a color straight from the tube. I think learning how to mix colors to get the desired result is a great skill.
But I’m never going to stop buying all the pretty colors because seeing them makes me happy
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(Linda -In the year 2025, I am happy to be alive! :us:)
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I tend to do the same thing…I love all the colors but now, I pretty much buy a few basics in larger sizes and just mix them. I don’t do fine art painting, so the colors aren’t critical for me. I tend to go for the same colors over and over so those are the ones I use.
The limited palette exercises are fun for me as I like seeing how many variations I can make. I must like the repetitive nature of these types of lessons.
As a kid, I used to draw the same figure on the backs of my papers but put different clothes on them…a nurse, a teacher, etc. Once I didn’t have enough time to dress the figure and had to turn in my paper with a naked figure…my parents were called in to make sure I was “OK”…my dad was miffed with the teacher because he knew I loved to draw just like him!
Does she have you do value scales and mixing complementary colors at all? Those are also great exercises if you want to learn about color mixing. Creating your own 12 section color wheel is also really useful.
I think there may be some value stuff later in the class. She has us working specifically with a two-primary limited palette, so I’m guessing no on the complimentary colors.
I need to get better pictures in the light/when they’re properly dry, but here are my crayon resists. I swear they aren’t actually brown. I had a couple of fails, but I knew those were risky surfaces.
Annoyingly, one of the best ones was the extra full piece of paper I frantically scribbled a bunch of junk on just to use up what was left on the palette .
I went ahead and knocked out – uh, lovingly crafted – the scraping papers too. These have some metallic silver that doesn’t really show up in the photo. I mostly used a pointy-toothed cake decorating tool for the scraping.
For fun, and because I like seeing other’s palettes, here’s what my current palette looks like. A lot of the colors are actually somewhat similar to yours.
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