Welcome to my art blog. Join me in exploring art through drawing, painting, art journaling and mixed media; Using different tools, supplies and techniques; And finding inspiration.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and is having a good week. I enjoyed spending time with family over the Christmas weekend and I am having a great week as I'm on vacation this week. This week I have a video showing how I created Boho beads for my handmade Etsy journals. Here is a picture of some of the beads I created for my journals.
And here is the video showing how I created my Boho beads.
I really love the look the Boho beads give to my handmade journals and I had a lot of fun making them. You can visit my Etsy shop at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360if interested in any of my handmade journals. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. If you have any questions, please leave a comment, I would love to hear from you. I hope everyone has a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have a mixed media cover that I created on a notebook. I wanted to make a gift for a friend at work for Christmas and since she takes notes a lot, I though it would be a good idea to do a mixed media cover on a notebook. I used a composition notebook and glued beads and buttons to the cover. I then covered everything with white gesso. I used spray inks to add color to the cover and then highlighted the texture with copper metallic paint. I then added washing tape to the cover and a tag. I then did the back cover to match the front by adding gesso to the back cover, then ink sprays and then metallic paint. Here are pictures of the mixed media cover I made.
And here is the video showing how I created this notebook cover.
I really like the way this turned out and hope that my friend likes it. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week is going well. This week I have an art journal page I created using watercolor paints, Posca pens, washi tape and ephemera from my stash. I really like the art journal pages I see other artist do where they add wavy lines and then write between the lines, so I decided to try it myself. I used watercolor paint to add color to the page, then I added some washi tape and affixed a picture from my stash. I then found a quote in my stash that I liked and though went with the page well. I added the wavy lines to my journal page and wrote the quote on the page with a Posca pen. Here is a picture of the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
It was a lot harder to do the wavy lines and the quote than I ever thought. I struggled with figuring out how many lines I would need and of course I ran out of space and had to squeeze the last bit into the space at the bottom. But I really like the way this page turned out. Have you ever tried this before? Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Hope you have a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a great week. My week has been going well. I've been very busy at work this week and looking forward to some time off during the Christmas/New Year holiday. This week I have an art journal page that I created using watercolor paint and acrylic paint, some foam stars and letters and a picture and a couple of quotes from my stash. I applied watercolor paint to my page and then used alcohol and salt to add texture to the page. I then affixed the picture and foam stars and letters to the page. I used acrylic paint to add silver to the stars and the letters. I then added the quotes and used the silver paint to outline them. Here are pictures of the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
As always I really like the way this page turned out and I like the quotes and message of this journal page. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. I hope you have a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating.
