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Season of Adventure-my Arizona Art Journal
Season of Adventure-my Arizona Art Journal
Once again it is Get Messy Thursday! As we did not have a prompt set this week, and I have had a light sensitive headache all day and did not get finished what I wanted to share today. I thought I would share one of my travel art journals today. I currently have 4 travel inspired altered book art journals: Arizona, Chicago, Columbus and Dallas. All inspired by trips or places I frequently…
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The Feeling of a Place and Time-Get Messy, Season of Adventure-wk 1
The Feeling of a Place and Time-Get Messy, Season of Adventure-wk 1
I am joining with my fellow Get Messyians In the Season of Adventure. (more about Get Messy Art Journal challenge herehttp://getmessyartjournal.cayleegrey.com/about/) as I was taking care of my Grandmother, and with out wifi for most of the season of Brave I was not able to participate in it as much as I wanted to. But after my incredibly hard April/May I really need to return to more Art in my…
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The Imaginoreaum-a video studio tour
To help kick off my blog and celebrate the return of regular posts here to my blog. 😊 I have done a video tour of my art studio. So you can see where all the creative madness takes place. I also wanted to share how I squirrel away all my tools and art fodder in my little basement studio.
Here are 2 panoramas I took of my studio to give you an overview.
Panorama from the front corner. On the left…
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Get Messy Prompt-Love and Lessons Learned
Get Messy Prompt-Love and Lessons learned
For my first spread in my new little (it measures 6 1/2 inches by 6 1/2 inches) get messy art journal I decided to do challenge 2-love and lessons learned. I decided to do it about my relationship with my adopted sister, and what happened to it after she suffered memory loss. This was a really intense spread to do but I am really glad I did it.
Below is what the spread originally looked like.…
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Get Messy an Art Journal Challange
So I heard about the Get Messy Art Journal Challenge from one of my great Instagram Art Journal friends and had to check it out. I am so glad I did! :D you should check it out here: http://getmessyartjournal.cayleegrey.com/about/ I decided to join the group, both the prompts and tutorials have been great so far!
For my first warm up I used the free printable I got from them. I used it for the…
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Using everything I have learned for you!
Using everything I have learned for you!
Sorry I have been MIA recently. Have so many projects in the work. One of them is taking everything I have learned about altered book art journals, and using it to make awesome journals for other people.
Check them out in my Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheImaginoreaum
And you can see flip through videos of all my offerings on my new YouTube channel:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdoM…
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Super Easy Stencil Tutorial
Super Easy Stencil Tutorial
Hi everyone,
Sorry it has been ao long since I have posted but it has been a busy summer for me. For most of June I was taking care of my Grrandma after her sugary and she has no internet. So that put me way behind on everything. To kick things back off I thought I would share a super easy way to make a stencil.
For this project all you need is:
1. A craft knife/ or swivel knife [I have thisswive…
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#art#art is an the process#art journal#art journaling#artistic process#DIY#easy#Hand cut stencil#how to#make#mixed media#stencil#tutorial
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Pattern Play
Art Journal Page-11/29/2013
My Art journal is about experimenting, practicing, improving and diversifying my skills as an artist; but mostly it is the place I play. Some days I want to collage, some days I want to paint and other days I just want to draw patterns. The day I was working on this spread I wanted to create, but dragging out all my art mess out seemed like too much work. So I just…
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Swatches Art journal page-10/31/2013
Swatches Art journal page-10/31/2013
I have done a little of everything in my art journal now. I was getting to know what would and media and materials would and would not work successfully with the paper in my encyclopedia. It has become clear from my experimenting so far that, acrylic paint, pens and markers. Work the best and would be my primary artistic tools from here on. Which is exciting for me because until now I have used a…
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Art is the Filter
Art is the Filter
Art journal page from October 28-30th 2013
One of the objectives that I have set for myself doing this altered book art journal. Is to use what is existing on the original encyclopedia page to my advantage. To take what is there and amplify it, or use it as a jumping off point for my art work. I don’t want to just cover up what is there, I want to use it as a vital,component of my final work of…
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Enter the Dark Forest
Enter the Dark Forest
Where do I start my pages? Sometimes I start with a color, or an Idea of what I want to draw. or I start with a collage image, or a page in my encyclopedia that inspires me. For this page I started with a collage image:
Which measures about 4″ square, as soon as I saw it I could see in my minds eye the black and white forest growing up, moody and mysterious, around it on the page. Starting from…
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#altered book#art#art is an the process#art journal#art journaling#artist#artistic process#brush pens#collage#copy on to tracing paper#drawing#encyclopedia#mixed media#visual journal#watercolor
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Vintage Camera Pages
For my next page I was looking through the encyclopedia for an inspiring page and saw this:
 Which just looked like it needed to be turned into a strip of film:
 
Now I obviously have a film camera themed Spread. So I dug into my collection of old National Geographic Magazines (from the 50′s and 60′s) and collected vintage camera adds. I combined these with some pics from the manuals from…
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#35mm film#altered book#art#art is an the process#art journal#art journaling#artist#artistic process#camera#collage#encyclopedia#film camera#mixed media#vintage camera#visual journal
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Art Can be a Winding Road
Art Can be a Winding Road
One of the things I particularly like about doing this art journal is that I get to try a lot of new different techniques; and since it has the built in size constraint you can finish a page or 2 page spread quite quickly. Because of my art classes I am used to working 9×12 or larger so the size (the encyclopedia’s page is 10″ tall by 7″ wide. ) is a challenge. Also working with what is already…
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#altered book#art#art is in the process#art journal#artist#artistic process#drawing#encyclopedia#from my photograph#illustration#paint#painting#shadow#sketch#tree#watercolor
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Playing Paper Dolls…More Fashion Illustrations
After having so much fun with my first fashion illustration page, I was totally hooked on “making Paper Dolls”. So I went looking for an interesting geometric chart to serve as the background for my next “paper doll”, and I found this great chart:
I loved the colors and the “pixel-y” feel of it, and I thought it would be so cool if the colors showed through the girls dress, etc! So I found a fashion illustration the right shape and size. Another one of the vintage fashion illustrations from: Practical Fashion Sketches By, Charlotte H. Young. I knew with just a normal printed image I was not going to get the translucence I wanted, so I took it downstairs to our copier/printer and copied it onto a piece of tracing paper, which worked much better than I thought it would. This is the first time I used this techniques of copying onto tracing paper, and I instantly fell in love with it. It is now one of my favorite techniques which I use every other page in my art journal. I love the depth and texture that it instantly creates! Here is what it looked like printed on the tracing paper:
Here is the raw printed image, while I was checking placement. The way the color shows through is just what I wanted:
Here is how it looked after I glued it down:
After I glued her down I went over all of the lines with my black brush pen and added the red “kick pleats” on her skirt. I also added the red to her flower as well as modified her hair slightly. In the original illustration she was wearing a hat which I eliminated.
I am really happy with how the color blocking from the chart comes through the fashion illustration. Detail of her face:
I was working on this on page on one of the days this winter I was stuck in my room in the semidarkness with a stupid light sensitive headache. So as art therapy I decided to do another page alone the same lines, tracing paper on interesting color chart background. Sadly I forgot to take a photo of what the page looked like before I started. :( For the left hand page I chose an illustration from: Drawing Smart Fashions By Charlotte H. Young (1948):
I actually chose the same image that was used on the cover:
I positioned her on the page so it looked like she was sitting on the blue bar of the chart. I also used my trusty brush pen and bolded out all the lines, as well as drew in the purple and green details on her dress. I drew in her features with a grey brush pen instead of using the black so it would have a softer look.
Since the left page was more detailed and on the frilly side, for the opposing page I wanted to use a fashion illustration that was larger scale, but also simpler and more graphic. I really did not find what I was looking for in my vintage fashion illustration books, so I started looking through my collection of Vogue Magazines, where I found this ad:
The simple graphic nature of the silhouette definitely had the drama I was looking for, and the scale of the figure on the right fit my page. I put a piece of tracing paper over the page and traced the outline of the figure. I knew I wanted her to be placed farther in on my page than she is in this ad, so she would need her other arm. Once I had my figure traced I just flipped the tracing paper over, lined up her (now backwards) left traced shoulder with her right shoulder in the image and traced her arm again. And voila, she has both arms! Here is the finished girl on the page with the original source image:
When I put just the outline on the page I felt it was a bit to simple, so I gave her a simple face and some hair, along with the black color blocking on the right side of her dress.
Here is the full finished spread:
I like the flow that the different scale of the two figures creates. Because the larger scale figure is simpler but the other has more detail, I think it helps to give them equal “visual weight”. I decided not to put anything else on the page, except for the swirly line down the side of the left page. I felt with the three colors and text in the chart it was already a lot going on and I did not want to make it too busy. I wanted the focus to be on the ladies on the pages and anything more would just fight for attention. Sometimes the key to a successful piece is knowing when to stop. ;)
#art artist artjournal artisintheprocess artisticprocess fashionillustration book alteredbook mixedmedia encyclopedia collage vintagefashioni#style#fashion#tansparency
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Vintage Fashion Illustration Page
For my next page I wanted to do some collage since I have not done that yet. I wanted to use some of the beautiful fashion illustrations from some of the late 40's-early 50's art books that I bought this summer. For this page I used an illustration from Practical Fashion Sketching by, Charlotte H. Young. (Published in 1948)
So I wanted a fairly simple all text background. (I am not just going thru the encyclopedia in order I am looking for pages that fit what I want to do) So I started with this:
Then I traced the upper part of the dress and drew on a more voluminous skirt. Which looked like this:
And laid that over this wonderful thermal sat photo to see where the pattern of colors looked the coolest:
My Westie Waffle helped me chose what picture to use for the skirt. It makes your art better when you have an art Dog to help you ;)
At first I was going to cover her whole dress with the photo but once I saw it with just the skirt I knew that would be over kill and would lose the elegance of it. I also drew in the shadow of the folds of the skirt and the black belt as well as gave the bodice a bolder black outline. Here is how it turned out:
It is so cool I would love to wear that dress!!
For the facing page to her I wanted to do something also fashiony so I chose one of the other illustrations from the same book on slightly smaller scale so they would not fight visually. The left hand page also had 2 grey boxes on the bottom half of the page. In keeping with my goal of wanting to use what was already on the page to my advantage, I thought it would be cool if I found an illustration of a lady sitting so she could be sitting on one of the boxes:
I also wanted to give the facing page a more colorful background to balance the colorful skirt of the facing page. so I did some scribbleyness with some markers:
I also did this illustrations top out of the same sat photo as the skirt, as well as bolded out most of the lines on my photocopy. But once I did her top I did not like the background it was to messy and busy for the subdued elegance that I felt this page needed.
So borrowing from my Archivest ELK, that most markers are alcohol soluble. I had been impressed so far with the heartiness of the paper in this book so I thought what the hey it is worth a try. I dipped a cotton swab in rubbing alcohol and swirled it over the page. And Dude once again this paper impresses me the markers not only started to come off but also to blend into the lovely subtle back ground I wanted! Awesome!!!
The paper did curl when it was damp from the alcohol (note the paper clips holding it flat) but when It dried it flattened right out. Here is what the 2 pages looked like together:
I had way more fun than should be allowed with this page. I mean making cool dresses for paper ladies it was just totally like playing paper dolls.
#Art journal copy copy on to tracing paper E is for experiment fashion illustration illustration paper dolls tracing paper transparency vinta#fashion#paper dolls#art journal#visual journal#sketch book
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Swirling Watercolors
Detail of the Swirling watercolor page spread.
I tried watercolor pencils (1 of my fav art media) on this page. So I chose a simple text only spread to work on.
Left Page
Right Page
The full finished spread
The paper in this book is unlike anything that I have worked on before. It is slightly glossy yet still has quite good absorption of wet media. So I am still exploring how it works with various media. Over all this slightly glossy paper is really not textured enough for the watercolor pencils to "grip". So I really had to scribble hard to even get the color on the page, which is not very satisfactory. However when I brushed out the wc pencils it did blend well with out a lot of cockling. After my experience with this page I decided that watercolor pencils, and pencils are not going to be media that I will be use for the rest of this art journal. I will be working primarily with markers, brush pens, and paint, combined with collage.
#e is for experiment E art journal art artist artjournal artisticprocess artisintheprocesswatercolor painting paint rainbow watercolor pencil#visual journal#alteredbooks
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E is for Experiment
For my art journal I decided to use an altered book to do my art journaling in. I have had a set of late 1970’s, leather bound, World Book Encyclopedias sitting around in my art studio for years. I could just never bear to throw them out or move them on because they were just to full of artistic potentiality. Thanks to the internet and 30 years of progress they are totally obsolete, but they were beautifully but simply bound in real leather and full of lovely glossy paper and fabulous illustrations and charts. Now I had finally found the perfect use for them: becoming art journals. So for my first venture into art journalling I chose volume E for my great experiment.
Since the paper in the encyclopedia is very different than what I am used to working on I did a test page at the back with some gesso, paint and pens. But then I started on the title page. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the page before I stated, but here is the picture of the page in the beginning stages.
For first page in the encyclopedia I started with a stencil with various sized circles and in pencil filled the page with circles. Then I started filling in the circles with markers and paint.
I chose to use a limited pallet of greens, blues, purples and crimson, (all the colors are on the cool side). I think I am done with color now and just want to outline all the circle with black and/or grey to give it a more graphic pop. The paper in this encyclopedia is slightly glossy and really soaks up wet media well so both gesso and paint create a nice surface to work on with out a lot of cockling.
Finished “circle experiment” page.
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