happiness is...

paint covered hands!

i spent the whole day spilling. it felt so good, to be warmed by that spark again. i just soaked it in, all day. i felt busy and accomplished today, and then dinner time comes and i look up from my art desk and realize... i haven't washed a dish in a whole day!

and so, it begins.

i started off with a layer of white acrylics and some stamped images. since i do not have a brayer, i'm using an old credit card to scrape and pull the paint around.

i love adding layers upon layers of paint, collage, and stamping.

on top of that went some pink acrylics. 

i love adding layers upon layers of paint, collage, and stamping.

i took my watercolor crayons to the background. 

i REALLY love this and i was seriously considering stopping there. i didn't...

some more white acrylics and some more stamping! 

i absolutely adored this spread at this point. i so should have stopped right there. i didn't...

 

well... this was supposed to be a very small amount of light blue craft acrylics. it turned into a mess! i liked the page as it was right before this little... we'll call it an explosion, but this is a great lesson in making the best out of mistakes and a beautiful photo op!

i heart paint covered hands

  so, to fix it i pushed and pulled some more white acrylics around the page.

yes, her little star got all ruined with the water i applied to wipe the blue layer down. i substituted.

 

a little drip drip drip and i'm happy with this spread again. 

i'm really in a good place here. *EVERY* mistake is fixable in art journaling.

yeah, i think she is pretty much done. i think she has come together really well. i have some words for the page. i'll work that out later tonight.

i'm excited to move onto my next spread, i've already got the inspirational spark.

 

the post-dated-post

today flew by. i didn't make much progress at all and i forgot to post, so forgive the post-dated-post.

added more stamped stars and circles, this time in permaink. i didn't let my images done in water soluble ink really dry before gesso-ing so i lost most of them. these wont be going anywhere.

i decided, go big or go home, or whatever.

layer of blue acrylic.

now THAT, is what i was looking for.

let the blue dry... some. sprayed it with a water bottle and wiped some away.

my art journaling is really about exploration right now. exploration of my insides, exploration of techniques, exploration of cause and effect.

so, though i liked what was going on i slapped some white paint down on top of it, topped with some stenciling in red.

yeah, i dunno. this came out of left field.

wipe down = successfully grungified.

i really feel like this spread has gone full on fourth of july. *sigh* what did i really expect in using red, white, and blue...

i'm really going to have to decide if this spread is done and usable for something independence day related or if i am going to have to keep going with it and take it somewhere else.

so, i reached a stopping point on it but i wasn't done.

 look, purple acrylics in random places.

purple makes me very happy.

and it was time to add something else to this one...

watercolor crayons ftw!

i like it.

something about it just makes me happy.

oh, and... gesso.

yep. done.