Art Journaling Experiments :)

Well, I have been doing lots of scrapbook pages (none shown here today though)- but what I really wanted to post was my art journal pages. I took up Art Journaling this year as my "new" craft- which is really just an extension of my scrapbooking and creative desires- only now I find out that it has a name :)

I've done a couple of different kinds of pages since then- mostly just to see what my "style" is- I don't think I've found it yet- but I'll keep looking!

Here is one I tried- cutting out cool pictures, outlining them with paint marker (my new favorite crafting tool), and adding glitter! I started this page with a couple different colors of acrylic paint- then made the clouds with more paint- before the paint dried, I added 2 different colors of glitter (everything is better with glitter). Then I added the cut out picture, the words, stamps, and rhinestones. For a very first page in art journaling ever, I thought it turned out rather nice :)

This was page 2 of this journal- Very different style and techniques on this page- I used my inking tool with lots of Tim Holtz colors (man I love that guy's stuff!) and blended them with a watercolor brush. I then added stamps and drew my own brain and neuron- yes I drew those- I was very impressed with my abilities there- although since being in psychology, it was not the first brain I had to draw :) This page I toyed with different ways of writing and spent more of the page in reflective writing- I am not sure about how I feel about this page- it seems less "punchy" than my first page...

Here is a detail shot of the brain and neuron....I thought it was pretty good :)

More art journaling goodness to come!