Celebrate Me • Art Journaling • Week #6 Shoes

ART JOURNALING • WEEK #6 SHOES

INSPIRATION:

Shoes

INTROSPECTION:

questions

Q. When did I get my first high heels?

Q. What is my worst shoe experience?

Q. What size do I wear?

Q. What types of shoes do I own?

Q. What are my favorite pair of shoes?

IMAGINATION:

application

A. collage photos of your shoes

A. design a pair of shoes

A. make a shoe print path

A. draw the anatomy of a shoe

A. collect shoe brand typography

Image by A Little Color Everyday

Image by Happy Shack Designs by Kelly Warren

Image by Kelly's Art Journaling

Image by Nofretiri

Image by Rebecca Anthony

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Celebrate Me • Art Journaling • Week #3 My Voice

Art Journaling • Week #3 My Voice

INSPIRATION:

My Voice

INTROSPECTION:

Questions

Q. How do I describe my voice? How would I never describe my voice as?

Q. How do others describe my voice? 

Q. Was there ever a time that I couldn't use my voice?

Q. What can or can't my voice do?

Q. What remedies have you used to soothe your voice?

IMAGE MAKING:

Applications

A. Put your lip prints on the page and write words coming out of them.

A. Stamp one word/phrase 3 - 4 times without re-inking, so that it fades like an echo.

A. Record your voice talking on your smart phone, use watercolor to make the background, painting how you feel listening to your own voice

A. Use curved lines, starting in one corner, make wave lengths and add text on each line

A. Make left side background darker & the right side lighter, the image fades off like a soft voice

Here are a few art journal pages of others. 

They aren't about voices, per se, but can be influential in your image making.

 A Paper Bear

 HandmadeByJessica

SomethingTwoCrowAbout

 T'rinaLockary

Victoria LeFeure

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Celebrate Me • Art Journaling • Week #2 Hands

Celebrate Me • Art Journaling • Week #2 Hands

INSPIRATION:

My Hands

INTROSPECTION:

Q. What do my hands look like?

Q. What do my hands do?

Q. What are the most significant things my hands have done?

Q. What is the most difficult things my hands have done?

Q. What would I miss doing if I didn't have my hands?

IMAGES:

• Ink pad my hand and press and print

• Trace my hands

• Draw my hand

• Paste magazine photos of hands

• Glue in a glove and doodle on it


Here are a few art journal pages of others. It might be help get you excited.

Kelly King

Familycraft.about.com

NickieBlog

Donna Dugone-Anami

Craftside.typepad.com

Amy Grennell

On Friday morning, everyone can upload a photo of their

celebrate me • art journal page on Shannon's Studio Facebook page.

Celebrate Me • Art Journaling • Week #1 My Name • Begin Now!

Celebrate Me! Art Journaling • Week #1 My Name

This weekend was about getting your BOOK • BOX • BELONGINGS. (If not, read this post.)

Since this is the first day, I'll let you know how we'll proceed. You won't have to go this alone.

Every Monday will be Q & A, as in QUESTIONS & APPLICATIONS Monday. Questions for introspection and application ideas to help with image making. There will also be a word, phrase, or quote meant to inspire the whole thought process. Use any or all of the ideas.

INSPIRATION:

a single focus word (or maybe a phrase)

INTROSPECTION:

questions to explore your thoughts and life

IMAGE MAKING:

applications to experiment with

There's a few ways to go about this.

1) Do the images first and think about the inspiration word. Then record your most important thoughts around or on top of the images.

2) Or, write your thoughts and let images come to your mind and recreate you mental images after you've recorded your ideas.

3) Or, a combination of back and forth with words and images. Images and words.

Anyway works.

One last thought. Don't stress yourself over the image making. This might be the most uncomfortable process. If at first you're nervous, look at other's art journals for inspiration. Mimic their layout. Use their color palette. Incorporate their use of text. It will get easier and you'll become more uniquely expressive as time goes on. Don't worry. Start somewhere. Just begin.

OUR FIRST ENTRY

INSPIRATION:

MY NAME

INTROSPECTION:

Q. Who inspired my name most?

Q. What other name were my parents considering?

Q. Have I always liked my name?

Q. Does my name have any significant meaning?

Q. Do I have any memories related to my name?

IMAGE MAKING:

A. Create a background of markers and ink stamp your name over the top

A. Put the title "Celebrate Me" along with your name and text

A. Take a photo of yourself, glue it into your book & repeatedly write your name over the top of it

A. Do an ink character self portrait and use watercolors or pastels to add color & add your name

A. Print name in a font you love, put your page over the top of it, use a light table and trace

For the next few weeks, I'll add other people's images to get your imagination going as well. This will hopefully give you ideas and ease you into making your own images.

REMEMBER, this is about you, for you, to celebrate you.

Candice Windham

JK Bees

Cafepress Primitive

BlueBazaar.com

Whimspirations

Ohhhhhhhh! I almost forgot.

On Friday morning, everyone can upload a photo of their celebrate me • art journal page on Shannon's Studio Facebook page. You can't not share with us.

It's not a critique of your expressions, it's a celebration of each of us. Let go. Do it. Friday.

Theme for this Week - Nicknames

I was gone for the day and just got home a little while ago then spent some time with the family around the fire pit roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. Glad to take the time to do that but I am behind today on the mini monday. Though I know what I am going to do and I am excited to do it. I will probably post it tomorrow morning some time instead of tonight so look for it then. Sorry, about being late today. This weeks theme is NICKNAMES.

Think about it Thursday - Rejection

Blue         oil          2004               approx   20" x  20"

For Think about it Thursday of course I have been thinking about rejection. It's something artist's definitely have to come to terms with in their profession. But I think almost everyone experience's rejection at some point in their lives. So, my question is how do you get over or move on from rejection in your life? What do you think? What do you do? 

Monday

I am back at it today and will post my painting later. This weeks theme - REJECTION.