All about crayons and using them as a resist. It's short it's fast. Watch it.
Imagine that you are browsing eBay and you find art that looks very similar to yours that you did when younger. You click on it and when the screen finished loading you recognize it as definitely yours. You read the listing and realize that a former room mate is selling off your art. The art isn't finished, not all of it.
You recognize that the art is from a journal that you couldn't find when you moved out. You realize that the room mate took your journal.
Think about it and write about what you would do, how would you approach it? What steps would you take to fix the issue? How would you feel- betrayed, mad, sad?
Here's a Hump Day prompt for ya:
What have you been doing outside of your home? It could be outside, going to a favorite place, eating out etc. But how are you getting out? What are you doing? Who are you seeing? Where are you going?
Write about it.
Draw about it.
Add color.
Think about it.
Blog it.
The recent reunion of New Kids on the Block has been heating up the news websites. Since I live under a rock I just found out about this today. It made me think, because I could care less about NKOTB, I actually disliked them as a teen, and I was probably one of the few teen girls that didn't like them. But it made me wonder what band would I stay up for tickets all night ,wait in long lines and make repeated calls to Ticket master? What band did I first listen to as a teen that completely blew my mind, what album did I listen to over and over? What tapes did I splice together because I broke them?
For me there is only one band that I would go that distance, only one band that blew my mind like that. NKOTB it ain't. But what is your band, Journal it.
(For the record for me its The Pixies. Wave of Mutilation was a formative CD for me. I played it over and over, put songs from it on all mix tapes I ever made, I listened to it when I was happy, sad and in teen angst mode. Even today, when I listen to that CD I love it.)
The prompt is open ended and deals only with the material, subject and content are up to you, but the material is dictated.
The next material that I want to write about is actually a combination of materials but it's a very cool combination that will give you a ghosting effect. The 2 materials are plain old Sharpie brand markers and plain old white gesso. I use Liquitex brand gesso but I think this would work with any brand.
Start out by writing up a journal entry in sharpie. You can use any color, I've done this techniques successfully with black and red but I'd love to see results that use other colors. After giving the sharpie some time to dry fully, go over your lines of text with gesso. A nice even thiin layer. There should be no need to thin it with water but if you aren't getting an even layer you can loosen it with some water. You should barely be able to see the writing under the gesso while it 's wet. The key to this technique is a thin even layer.
Now wait for it to dry. If you are impatient like me you can hit it with some heat and dry it out, but you don't have to.
When you come back to it you should see a faint purplish bleed through of your writing. I find that mine is barely legible but it can clearly be read. From here you can decide if you want to write on top of the gessoed words or draw or collage. As you layer over the gessoed writing you'll find it becomes more faint and more ghostly. It makes a great background for more writing, drawing or collage.
Prompt # 13 Combine 2 materials: Sharpie and Gesso.
The prompt is open ended and deals only with the material, subject and content are up to you, but the material is dictated.
Another great item that no art journaler should be without is gesso. It’s an easy to use product that can be used to seal a page before creating art on it, so that your paints go further but it can also be used mixed with acrylic paint to give it a flat sheen and to make it more opaque. It can be put on heavily to create great textural effects.
Prompt #10 Seal a page with gesso them journal on it.
Prompt #11 Mix gesso with Acrylic paints.
Prompt #12 Use gesso to create a lot of texture on a page.
Leave a comment with a link to your blog with pictures of what you've done!
