Art Journal pages: just for fun

These pages have no special meaning. I just had some fun painting and glueing ;)

Art journal page: Familie

About three gifts you give to your children: Life, Love and Understanding.
The third one is so important if you have children with problems...

The background: Neocolors II and white acrylic paint.

Collage: text about family from a magazine

Faces: gesso and neocolors....

Details: paint markers

Art journal page: Vlinder/butterlfy

What can I say? I like flowers and butterflies...
The background is done with soft-pastels this time. Covered with spray-varnish before adding the collage elements.

Some steps:

Art journal page: on the move

This page was made with a lot of layers: paper/paint/napkins collage/gesso.....

Some of the previous steps:

Art journal page: positive people

I created this page after meeting some nice people...

Neocolors in blue and green.

Paper napkins in "ribbons"

Acrylic wash,

Collage covered with gesso

and markers

Knitting a mini-sweater

This little bunny was a little cold.

So I made him a nice warm sweater and matching hat.

My daughter's very happy ;) 

Needle felting/Naaldvilten

This is my latest creation: a wool ball with a funny face.

Needle felting/Naaldvilten 1ste werkjes

This is a new craft that I wanted to try...so I picked up some wool and needles in the art store.
I first made a little bird, and a cow....

I know... I need to practice...

But it's a lot of fun creating cute animals from wool.

I found some great tutorials and demo's on the net, just listing a few of them:

http://www.livingfelt.com/

http://www.needlefeltingsupplies.com/

Amazing what people can create, I love the "dolls".

http://miniatures.about.com/od/miniatureprojects/ig/Miniature-Needle-Felt-Raccoon/

http://stephalicious.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/felting-info-links-and-examples/

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=51271.0

http://www.lauraleeburch.com/blog/2011/01/needle-felted-dogcat-tutorial/

I'm back with some new pages in my journal

Ok, this was a long time without posting...
This is what happened :
My son (age 11) has autism, Tourette and ADHD, he had a lot of problems in school lately. So I started home-schooling him today! I had to (temporally) stop my job to do this.
The next pages are a little about my feelings about this...

I used a lot of Neocolor II on these pages. 

The details are markers.

Latest pages in my journal

Hello,
It has been a busy week for my family, so time for art was a bit short.
But I managed to do these two pages:

Elfjes

I painted the background with light-green acrylic wash. 

Then a very watery green, with alcohol-drops.

I made a template for the "trees" with paper.

Then I stamped darker green acrylic with a sponge.

Collaged some tulips and pattern paper for the girl.

Universe 

I've read this quote somewhere online and really loved it...

it fits right next to this dreamy-blue girl.

This page is made with acrylic paint and details with markers.

New Art-Journal page: Drawing is fun

This page is just about having fun drawing...

The hair is collage shaded with markers.

The face is colored with Neocolor II.

Clothing: fluid acrylics

Art Journal page: Gratitude

This is a page with lighter colors then I normally use, and no acrylic paint or black outline :)
It was fun to make and I like how it turned out, maybe I'll do another one like this next time...

Here's how I made this:

Pencil drawing on the watercolor-pages of my journal.

(and that's my new Moleskine-pencil "2B")

A layer of gesso... 

This protects the drawing.

Decided to try pencils to color in the skin tone.

Background with Inktense pencils...

I just love these pencils.

You don't need to apply a lot to create rich color.

Colors used: Deep blue, bright blue, Iris blue...

(difficult to see this on the photo's, I know)

Rubbed the background with tissue-paper to create some structure.

And I used Deep blue for the eyes.

Collage dress. (a nice pattern found in a magazine)

And Inktense pencil (willow) for the hair.

More Inktense pencil for the darker tone. (sepia ink)

Also used to shade the dress.

To finish the page I used markers (Copic) and more collage... 

(image at the top of this post)