Another quick post with face 4 for the 29 Faces in 30 days challenge.
I sketched her with aquarel pencils on a collaged and gessoed background in my art journal. The background is mostly an article from a newspaper, about stress and what it does to you.
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Just a quick post with face #3 for the 29 faces in 30 days, september 2013 challenge.
I first drew the face on some bookpages and then cut her out.
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I killed it….
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Since I love drawing and painting faces, I thought, I’d join the 29 Faces in 30 days challenge for september 2013.
With the end of the month drawing near, I figured today (or yesterday, as I am posting this today) I would finally make the Tim Tag for august, or should I say booklet as I prefer to make books. Don’t get me wrong, I like tags as well, I just don’t know what to do with them once they are created. Now books I can use and that’s why I prefer to make those.
Hence the title, Tim and Dotty =). Here are some close up shots of Tim and Dotty.
Wednesday again Time for yet another WOYWW and I have finally found my way back into my art journal. Since I now made a new realy cool one and I won’t allow myself to work in that one until I, at least, finish working in this art journal.
I have way to many things going on at once and I do feel it is distracting… too much to try out.
I realy need to stay on top of things and make myself more organized. So I bought an agenda a while back, as I showed you last week.
I’ve been good an I have been using it, but all I seem to do is make lists. Which is good, don’t get me wrong, but I also nee to do some sort of time management thingy.
That’s why I started looking at chronodex and spiraldex as a system.
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The theme for Art Journal Journey this month is “Square/Quadrat”.
I did not have a plan in mind when I started working on this. I didn’t even work in my art journal. As I had some trouble getting back to normal life after my vacation.
I did take some progress pics while I was working on this and some detail shots… so be warned, this is a picture heavy post =).
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A while back I made a little booklet as a test for a swap. The booklet was bound with the Secret Belgian binding method an I promised to make a tutorial for this binding method.
There are several fabulous written tutorials for this type of binding online, so I won’t do that. Instead I made a video tutorial, showing you how to bind your book with the Secret Belgian Binding. I haven’t found any other You-Tube videos with this type of binding, so I can’t link it to any other videos for reference.
I hope you will find this video tutorial helpful.
I had to break the video up into 3 parts, because it would’ve become to long otherwise. I did think about cutting parts out, but I guess this works as well.
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I wasn’t going to write a post today, because there’s not much going on realy. I’ve been taking a break from crafting and blogreading etc. Trying to prepare myself for going back to work next month. Trying to get into the right mindset.
I have been doing some painting, but somehow not in my art journal. Just on some old 12″-12″ scrapbook papers that I didn’t like.
On my desk you can see one of those art journal paintings. I do consider them art journal pages, because I do journal on them. That is, I dump the contents of my brain into my arm and out through my fingers onto the paper. I don’t stop to think and just let it all out. The same way I write in my day book.
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Yesterday and today I have actualy realy been goofing around, doing everything and anything and nothing at all. I think because I’m sortoff postponing making the booklet for my next swap for the Hinges group at Milliande’s art community for women. We’re supposed to make a book with the secret belgian binding.
When I looked it up I was enchanted by it. the binding looks very appealing and intriguing. But I cannot, for the life of me, find any video’s of it anywhere. Just some tutorials with photo’s….in some foreign language. I lie, some are in english =).
I started a prototype booklet with the binding. Smaller than I want the real thing to be, no theme and not as elaborate.
I kinda like how it turned out and learned quite a bit making it.
Then I thought I would do a video of the making of the book for the swap… and so the stalling began. All kinds of questions popped into my head.
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Falcon Travelers 