An Art Journal from scratch

The concept of art journaling can get lost during a session where

you want to teach a lot of techniques.

I hope that this wasn't the case during this session.

 

 

I started off by explaining how to set up your working station with

the baby wipes and the paper towels, the bakers paper and the craft sheet to mix your paint.

  This way it is much easier to work.

After putting down the gesso on the pages, I showed the girls a technique and then

they had a chance experiment and try it on their own.

 

 

We did two more techniques and then it was time for the front cover.

Take time to arrange the petals and it will look stunning.

Remember to doodle and make random marks on your petals.

 

 

 

 

 

All the doodling and mark making must still be done on these pages.

Then if you want to, you can also journal, or write down a quote.

Journal around the petals, down the stem of the plant.

Any where you feel like.

If you know a few techniques, try them until they work for you.

and remember it is about the process.

 

 



Art Journaling Workshop...

for your soul.

 

This could be the cover of your Journal.

 I completed mine and I love the colours!

I say could be, your colours could be different.

the shape of the leaves could be different.

 

 

The theme of my Journal is GROW.

Something that happens when you live life.

 

(at the moment my body is going East and West.

Nothing is going North, the rest is going South!)

 

Here is what you will do to create the Journal:

 

learn new techniques for your pages

add extra space to the journal

create a canvas cover

stitch and bind the journal

create pages with me and then apply the technique on your own

write or doodle on the page

 



 

 

The Workshop is 30 April 2016

09:00 to 15:00

The Grey Ladder Studio

Moreletapark Pretoria

R450 pp

 

Please bring:

Paper towel

Water pen

Baby wipes

Black Stabilo All

Black permanent marker

White marker/ gel pen

 

Book your space:

Cell: 083 6315 619

The Grey Ladder Studio will be hosting a Weekend Event consisting of three Workshops.

Crepe paper wreath
Funky painted canvas tote
 Constructing an Art journal

These are three different crafts and you will be learning new techniques during each workshop.

The event starts on Saturday morning at 09:00 and ends
Sunday at 13:00

On the Food menu:
Coffee, tea, muffins and rusks.
Cupcakes, juice, lunch, snacks, and a sun downer.
Farewell cake and tea.

On the Craft menu:
Creating a crepe paper wreath.
Painting a blank canvas tote or a paintbrush roll.
Constructing a ten page art journal with front and back cover.

Lucinda from Luna Artistry will be hosting the three hour crepe paper wreath workshop. You will receive all the materials to complete the project.

I will host the next workshop, the funky painted tote or the painted paintbrush roll. Here you have a choice between the two, the same materials and techniques will be used for both. The tote will hold all your craft supplies for a workshop and the paintbrush roll will hold all your
pens and brushes for an art journal workshop.

The last workshop for the weekend will be all about how to construct your own art journal. Creating backgrounds, layering your pages and creating a cover for the journal. You will also be writing, stamping and stenciling in your journal! It is a lot, but we cover all the basics.

For this workshop I need you to bring a few supplies:
Kitchen paper towel
Baby wipes
Small water spray bottle
Old credit or gift card
Stabilo All black pencil
Permanent pen black and white
Water paint brush

The cost for this weekend event is R1740.00
If you need to stay overnight there are a few comfortable guest houses close by, I will email you all the info on request.

Save the date, grab a friend and book your space.
e-mail: wohlitz@mweb.co.za

Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions you have about our weekend event.



In a very happy place.

Using my Distress ink, Distress markers and Distress stains, 

puts me in a happy place and on Saturday it worked for my friends too!

Everyone created two pages. One of which I gave them a sample

and the other one they had to create on their own.

 Lizette.

Ann.

 Lizl.

 Benice.

Daleen.

Not all of the pages are completed, but we all had fun 

and were in a happy place for three hours.

Materials we used:

Water colour paper

Gesso 

Palette knife

Distress ink

Distress stains

Distress markers

Craft sheet

Stamps 

Scissors

Archival ink

Water pen

Black permanent pen

White marker

Aquarelle pencils

Stencils

Make up sponges

Wet wipes

Kitchen paper roll

Take out your stuff and create!
It puts you in a happy place.

Have a happy day!

My niece came over last week for a visit.

She is nine 8½ months pregnant, in fact the baby is due tomorrow!

It is a little boy and we are all very excited!

She was feeling frustrated and hot so to take her mind off things 

we started to create a page.

We worked together as she has never done this technique.

This is my page.

We started off with Distress stains to create the blue background.

Then a bit of stenciling and

a bit of stamping.

We stained a separate piece of paper 

to use for stamping the words and images we wanted to use

as color accents. 

This is her page.

 We used the Distress markers and a water pen for extra

color on the page.

We ended off with a bit of doodling and scribbling

 with black and white pens.

I think they both came out blooming good!

This way Honey....

This is what today was like...

I wrote down what bothered me and then I 

covered the whole page with gesso.

As you can see, I am feeling a bit blue...

so I had to paint the page blue.

Direction is also a problem today, so 

 lots of arrows, some hand painted, some stenciled.

Then I wrote, 

Watter kant toe Bokkie!

Which way Honey!

Now all my "not for public consumption" thoughts

on this side of the page are covered up. 

This is what the other side of the page looks like.

 Now  I have to go and paint....

Keep well.

Gesso your pages

Hi Everyone

For Saturday's class you need to bring all your 

art journaling supplies and a few pages covered with gesso. 

This is more or less what you will be creating.

Spraying with inks to create a background. 

See you Saturday.

Paint, stencil and scribble.

I am having fun with a few new techniques and these are the results.

As always, first a layer of gesso. Let it dry.

Then I used my water mister to wet the paper.

The next step is to put paint directly onto the paper and then spread

the paint. Big strokes and don't overwork the paint.

If the paint is too dry, spray some more water to let it flow.

When the paint is dry, do some stenciling and stamping.

For the next page I took a different approach.

I first painted the background and then did some stamping and stenciling.

Because I painted over the pink and orange the colours changed a bit.

For the black grunginess I used my Stabilo All pencil.

On these two pages I more or less followed the same 

order. Gesso, news paper print tissue paper, painted circles, stenciling,

low lights, high lights, stamping and doodling.

Last of all the white circles with my bottle cap.

Here I did not do the white paint bottle cap thing, 

but I did the black paint splattering thing.

I like all of these pages, because I enjoyed myself

experimenting with the different techniques!

Keep on experimenting!

Soo much fun!

If you want to do something ,

you want to do it!

 So I gathered my art supplies and put myself through an 

online tutorial. With my i-pad next to me

and a cup of coffee I got started.

In between I got up, paused the video and dried 

the paint with my hairdryer.

I cannot remember when last I had so much fun!

What really helped me a lot was the baby wipes and the paper

towels. These are two very handy tools.

Today I feel a little bit of a tiredness creeping up on me.

It is Friday, and a lot of things are happening at the moment.

My niece is moving, she is eight months pregnant.

My mother in law is going back after a visit.

I am helping to organize our 40th Grade 12 reunion.

It is caterers, decorations, gifts, drinks, finances and more.

I have a class tomorrow and I need to get the studio 

cleaned up for the class, but it will be wonderful to see

everyone again!

Looking forward to create more of these pages...!

Have a good weekend.

  

"Say" the things you want to.

Here I started my way of journaling about 

things I cannot really talk about.

I wrote what I wanted to say, on a 

blank piece of paper with a permanent pen.

Then when I was ready, I started to concentrate on the process.  

I covered it with gesso and then with paint.

Then I did some stenciling, stamping and doodling.

I also painted a smaller piece of paper with red paint and later 

stamped the heart on the paper. I cut the heart out and

glued it down onto my page.

If you look closely, You will see the word ok underneath 

the blue paint. A bit of shadow around the heart and the 

black scribbles around the circles.

At some stage I might will go back and do some more

on this page. 

But two important things happened,

I said what I wanted to say, and I enjoyed the process.

I will always know what it was that I wanted to get out of my system.

The people that look a this page will only see the final product.

Enjoy the day!

Art Journaling Tools

These tools on your table will make your life easier when

 you are ready to sit down and journal.

Water spray bottle

Baby wipes

Paper towels

Water bucket

Paint brushes

Make up sponge

Craft sheet

Brayer

Gesso

Hairdryer / heat gun 

Water pen

Acrylic paint

Aquarelle  pencils

Stabilo All Pencil

Perma Ball pen black

Signo Uniball white

Stencils

Stamps

Archival inks

I usually start painting and then I remember 

I need a wet cloth and a water bucket.

So now I try to start by filling up the water bucket

and wetting a cloth.  

A golden mess!

As I was busy teaching this technique on Saturday

one of the girls wanted some gold paint. 

So I took out the paint and start shaking the bottle.

When I released the cap the whole top came off and 

a huge amount of the paint splattered onto the page...

I tried to blot off most of the paint but the damage was done!

Ok, now for the word damage...

It really isn't damage, you need to work with it.

It is like life, you plan one thing and then 

life happens and you have to make things work.

So now I am left with this.

 It is still sitting on my table, but I will make it work.!!

Does it make sense?

Does it have to?

Anyway this is a reminder for the Art Journal Class on Saturday.

10:00 - 13:00

Please bring your mixed media pad and Micron pens.

I think I need a bit of yellow on this page... maybe not.

Music in my Journal

I started on this journal a few weeks back

and decided to use the pages for snippets from the

lyrics of my favorite songs...

.... and then to do freehand writing on these pages!

It takes a bit more planning, but I wanted to do it.

So at the moment the plan is to continue with 

this technique for this specific journal.

Mainly because I love working with

the Distress inks and stencils.

(but the plan may change...)

As you can see, the binding of the book will

come much later. The back of  all of these pages are still blank

and I will have to work carefully when I colour them.

On this page I used a chipboard element that I coloured

with my Gelatos and water pen.

I did some stamping with a grey ink and

then I did some stenciling using my Distress inks.

For the lettering on the bottom, I used a bit of Distress stain to 

 colour the texture paste, to match the rest of the page.

  

There are three journals in progress at the moment.

This one is called Music in my Journal.

Then there is an art workbook for colours and techniques

and then a new journal filled with quotes on a specific topic.

The next art journal class will be all about 

acrylic paints.

Remember there are no rules, have fun and create!