Artful Soul: Art quotes

Monday, January 26, 2015

Art quotes

Did I mention that I was participating in the Documented Life Project?

I've completed the first three weeks but I'm stumped on this weeks prompt. Not really stumped just not sure which direction I want to go with it. Sooo many options. The prompt is Words with friends... Where to begin? I shall ponder this a bit then dive in later today.

First I'd like to share my first three and the process of making one of the pages.

Week one

Art Challenge: Book pages

Journal prompt:be your own goal keeper

I started my first page by arranging book print. I happened to find fairytale pages and it just fell on to my page that way. Generally I don't do messy and random so this was a bit of a challenge for me

Next I added some color by applying paint with an old debit card

I just kept layering and layering on this page. I loved the title "Castles in the air"

Someone had sent me that page in a Happy Mail swap which made me decide that all of the things people have sent me in these swaps would be good to use in this journal on the various projects throughout the year. That was my goal in the first place; to create a journal using the happy mail, perfect!

I still had a blank page left on the other side so I decided to literally create my own castle! So I painted book pages and cut it out.

I continued adding color until I was satisfied. This was the result

Week 2

Art challenge: Gesso

Journal prompt: the beginning is always today,

My page? Pretty simple but I like it

Week 3

Art challenge: Color Wheel

Journal prompt: I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

I started with a basic color wheel. I've made a ton of those teaching Color Theory through the years so it was hard to look beyond. I wound up Doodling and adding Art quotes. It's actually a really fun page!