2011 mini art journal pages

Some of these I have posted camera phone pics of as I did them but I am putting better quality scans of all of the art journal pages up so bare with me.

Life is Beautiful – Collage and Gell pen

Be the Star – Collage and Gell pen

Collaged cover of my 2011 mini art journal

Fake it til you make it – Collage and Gell pen

Front inside pages, calendar and colored pencil on sketchbook

Jan 3rd – Collage and Gell pen

Looks so sad – Collage and Gell pen

NYE 2010 – Printed image and gelpen over colored pencil

My Universe – Collage and Gell pen

Mini Zentangle – micro sharpies

Art Journal Zentagles

I finally got all my finished Art Journal pages scanned and cleaned up and so I will be posting them here

These are the Zentangles I like to do.

Zentangle in micro sharpie on sketchpaper

Zentangle in micro sharpie on cardstock

Zentagle in gelpen on black cardstock

Zentangle in metalic gel pen on printed sheet music mounted on cardstock

Zentangle in metalic pencil on printed letter about Alex mounted on altered map paper

Zentangle on printed paper with key pattern mounted on cardstock

Zentagle done in micro pentel pen and metalic gelly roll pens to celebrate getting under 300 Lbs, sketchpaper on cardstock

Zentangle in micro shrapie on sketchpaper in my mini 2011 journal

Zentangle in micro sharpie and metalic gelly roll pen on sketchpaper for the WLS hand bound book I am doing

Art Journal Every Day… Days 6 and 7

Yesterday was Goth coffee and i did some very basic pages while visiting with friends and this morning I spent a couple hours taking apart a LUCKY and a huge VANITY FAIR magazine and sorting the pictures into my filing box (a large hanging file box with about 20 files, I need more hanging files to sort better)

Here are yesterdays art journal mini pages, I plan on doing my weekly 8×8 in journal page this weekend, with some collage stuff

Zentangle 2011-#1

Jan 6th Universe

Jan 6th Trip to the ER

Day 5 of Art Journal Every Day – Lots done

We had craft night tonight at a local coffee shop and I had 3 hours to journal and visit with friends.

Part of what I did was cut out a couple dozen silver velum butterflies that say Believe in different fonts all over them, the velum takes a great tint when you use gel pens and smear it on it, I am putting on on each page of my new 2011 mini journal since Believe is my word for the year.

Believe butterflies

I then finished two single pages of the 4×6 journal

and started the background for a two page spread, using colors outside of my comfort zone

Finally I helped set up a very basic Art Journal kit for a friend just to get him going

Art Journal Every Day Jan 1-4

I am working in my mini 4x6in spiral bound journal for at least 10 minutes a day everyday and still trying to get one page done in my 8x8in loose leaf journal each week (still need to scan those pages I have done)

I am not use to working so small or in a spiral notebook so it is taking a bit of learning to free myself up, also I am having to learn what I can and can’t do with this paper, it does not like watercolor directly on the pages but I can do it separately and glue a background in, which is what I think will be happening most with this book.

Here is the pages I have done in the 2011 mini art journal from Jan 1 to Jan 4

Jan 1, picture from NYE Jan 31st 2010

Half finished page from Jan 2 2011

Page done on Jan 3 and Jan 4

New mini Journal for 2011

I just bought an 80 sheet (160 page)  4×6 in hard bound wirebound journal, and I am gluing pages together for more strength right now and then I will start decorating the covers, outside and inside

Cover of mini journal