Fantasy sketchbook page: fairy

Another fairy: acrylics, colored pencils, collage

New Art Journal or sketchbook?

I started my new journal: a Moleskine sketchbook large...

After these pages I decided to dedicate this book to small fantasy-paintings, and I'll continue to fill it with faeries, mermaids and other magical things :)
I'll have to start (or make) a new big book for more free Art-Journalling: collage, paint, experiments...

Mixed Media paintings

I tried to make little paintings on canvas. they are only 10cm x 10 cm... (3.94 inch x 3.94 inch)

Girl with a "green hart"

For my son: "Heely boy"

They are a combination of: Acrylic paint, pattern papers, collage from magazines,

stickers, drawings, markers, ...

I'm still learning what works and what not. Sometimes the paper or paints behave not like I expected :(

More Art Journal pages

I still have some room in the mini-journal.

This page is finished (I think )

Background: Neocolor II

Face and hands: marker on layout-paper

Clothes and flowers: collage

Text and details: markers (Dark Bark Copic)

And I still have to work some more on these pages:

Background= collage (text from magazines) covered with Acrilics and gesso.

Tree: painted in gesso, details with markers...

now wath to do next ?....

Background: coloured the paper with markers, stamps and gesso on top.

Collage-butterflies 

Background: gesso and watercolors + glitter glue.

Face: collage, hair: gesso and yellow gouage+ glitters

Details: markers

Background: left page: neocolor II, right: red acrilics and collage

A bit of gold-acrilic on the bottom.

Big butterfly: brown paper

Text and border in markers...

I always work on a few pages at the same time. Adding things here and there. The only problem is I sometimes forget that a page is not dry... 

Art journaling

Hello,

I decided to write my blog in English, it 'll be an excellent exercise for me, and I know a lot more people will be able to read it.
It's september again, and this means vacation is over....for a teacher. But I did a lot of creative work this summer: I discovered "Art journalling", and it's so much fun.
I like that it's about enjoying the creative process, that you can do whatever you want in the journal.
It's not about the final result, it's about the fun of art... you can keep it for yourself... or put it online ;)...

About the journal:

It's a Derwent - journal. (17 x 12 cm;   4,72 in. x 6,69 in.) 

The pages are very clear white, with rounded corners and thick enough for all the collaging and painting.

There are pockets in the front and back, but I didn't use them. I liked the small format for my first Art-Journal. 

It's almost full...

Some of the pages:

I really tried a lot of techniques... 

The first pages: background: neocolor II, punched stars, collage.

Playing with acrylic paints, faces: cp and markers.

Collage covered with gesso and neocolorII, finished with markers.

collage covered with gesso, stamps and collage

Inspired by "Teesha Moore": neocolorII background, collage border, details: gelpens

Tried to use less colors...

Collage and random paint-blobs...

All in neocolorII

Inspired by "Teesha Moore"

First time with some text added, it's about a heavy storm that killed some people during a pop-festival in Belgium.

Acrylics and collage

I love to make these, so I guesse you'll be seeing more of them on this blog soon...

Iris deel 3

 

Meer kleurlaagjes toegevoegd.

Iris deel2

Als de "grisaille" goed droog is kan je de kleur toevoegen.

Ik maak transparante mengsels en probeer die zo dun mogelijk op te brengen.

Eerst de achtergrond:

Zo ziet mijn palet er hierna uit:

Het is eigenlijk verbazend hoe weinig verf je in dit stadium nodig hebt om toch effect te krijgen.

Iris deel 1: grisaille

Ik ben bezig aan een olieverfschilderij van een iris.

Het is de grisaille-techniek. De bloem is nu helemaal in grijswaarden geschilderd. Daarvoor gebruikte ik enkele mengsels van : wit, gebrande omber en lampzwart, verdund met medium.

Als het droog is kan ik daar dunne laagjes kleur over zetten...