Fantasy sketchbook, latest pages

Was not posting much I know, but I've been painting a lot...

Working in my journal again...

A quick page with gesso, collage, markers and stamps.

Art Journal page: Last day of 2011

I hope you all have a wonderful time ....

Some in-progress pictures:

pencil drawing

(no gesso on the paper this time)

waterproof marker

Base colors with Neocolor II

- this is a fun coloring-book step :) -

Just water and a bit of white gesso added.

Shading with colored pencils (Derwent coloursoft).

Browns and pinks for the face, pink and red for the lips,

in the hair I used purples, blue and white...

Made clouds with a sponge and white gouage,

the details are markers and silver 3D-paint.

Art Journal page: Can you feel the love tonight

I've had this song in my head while creating this page.
Materials used:
- pencil for the drawing, and black marker (waterproof)
- white gesso
- Background: neocolors for the first layer, napkins collage (hearts), stamps with markers, acrylics (red, pink and gold), collage elements from magazines
- face: beige acrylic, black pencil for shading, black marker, (gold acrylic for the eyes)
- hair: black acrylic, white acrylic for the details

Art Journal pages: just for fun

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

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)

2 new Art Journal pages

"Yellow"

The first one started with bright yellow all over the page (fluid acrylics).

 Then some napkins-collage sunflowers and butterflies. 

The face was done by painting over a magazine-image.

"Pink"

For this page I started with gesso and Neocolor II, 

napkins collage for the hearts. 

The girl was drawn with Copic markers on layout paper.

More Neocolors on the bottom of the page, 

the details and hair are done with markers.

Art journal page: Work work

Hello,

I have so much work lately, and so little time for the fun stuff... Here's my page about this:

Some colors to start. (Inktense pencils)

Collage. I liked the expression on her face ;)

Fluid Acrylics.

More collage and some text. Colored the dress with markers.

Details with markers, paper napkins collage, more acrylic paint.

The finished page with details in paint-markers.

Can you guess my job?

Mini Art Journal finished

It was fun to make. I decorated the cover with paint-markers.
The small size made it easy to finish a page, but it's time to continue working in my larger book now.

Art Journal page: Who will save me?

When I started this, I had no idea what the finished page would look like. It changed all the time. That happens a lot when I'm Art-Journaling.

I made some photo's along the way...

Started with a layer of gesso, 

and a drawing with Inktense pencils.

 A second layer of Inktense pencils.

I wanted to add collage flowers... 

but now it looked like an underwater scene...

So I added some bubbles with acrylic paint and bubble wrap...

At this point I wanted to glue something.... 

so added pieces of paper napkins, with flower-pattern, all over the page...

It looked a bit full so I toned the top part down with a mix of acrylics: white, blue and green.

Now it looked a bit mysterious... a mermaid could be living there.

So I drew a picture of a mermaid on layout paper (with Copic markers). 

And made the tail with pattern paper.

More markers to draw the hair, and to color the tail...

I wonder what she could be holding?

I added a net with gel pen. 

And details in the hair with black marker.

More details on the net with a fine blue marker. 

Shadow under the mermaid with Inktense pencil.

Art journal page:(Mermaid) Who will save me?

Ready to add some text...