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

On Friday morning, upload a photo of your celebrate me • art journal page on

 Shannon's Studio Facebook page

Art Journaling Tip- 5 Step Lettering

Since our art journaling inspiration is our names, we will be putting names to pages this week and I know that can be a little intimidating.

Some of us are perfectionists. And when it comes to penmanship it's no different, maybe even intensified. I've worked with women who refuse, yes refuse, to attempt hand lettering. They hate their writing and they can't get past it. I don't always agree with them but that frustration hinders the creative spirit.

When it comes to lettering, I'm in both camps, but it depends on the day. If you're one who's stopped by the idea of your own writing not being enough then I have a tip for you.

This will help with letter loathing. It's a light box done a couple of different ways.

1) Design what you want to say, in the font you want to say it, in the size you want.

2) Print it off on a thin (lower number pound) paper. It will let more light through.

3) Place the journal page that you are going to draw on over the top of your printed page.

4) Hold it up to a window (left photo) or over a light box (right photo).

5) Trace.

All of a sudden lettering isn't so labored.

Good luck on the image-making and introspection into what your hands mean to you.

See you Friday.