I took inspiration for my second journal page from my journal itself which is an old book I rescued from my mum's recycling bin.
To get started I broke the page up using scraps of paper and gesso, I then defined some areas I wanted to add interest to. Then began to fill those areas with doodles, (I used a Papermate ball point pen as my fine liners have vanished). I then used inks to add colour (thankfully the biro didn't bleed)
I then added colour to the remaining area's hated how it looked so used white acrylic paint to give myself a fresh canvas in those areas. While waiting for it to dry I made a book embellishment (it does open and has doodles inside) and a poetry pocket (that's not expensive craft paper it's a bit of napkin glued to a piece of card and inked)
Making the embellishments took a bit longer than I anticipated leaving me just 10 minutes of my two hours to finish the page. I scrapped my plan to antique the rest of the page to match the book and pocket. quickly making a simple flower embellishment then using the last few minutes to add some doodles and writing.
Overall I'm quite pleased with how this page turned out. The 2-hour time limit is challenging but I think that will become less of an issue as I get used to it.
Very pretty!
Thank you Rebecca.
Original work. I will follow you I hope, mutually
Thank you, It is a mutual follow good luck with your drawing quest.
Pretty work, I like the pockets.
I like the pockets to, I put a tag in and wrote one of chilled out pixies favourite poetry quotes in there. (i think it's a good way to include more personal bits that I may not want the world to see)
It's looking excellent. I like this two hour time limit thing!
me to, it's a challenge but it's stopping a lot of humming and ahhing over every mark. Although i'm going to spend a little time tonight breaking up and prepping a bunch of pages as that can take a good 10 minutes fiddling plus drying time. I may spend a day making embellishments to.
Lots to be done, it's going to look amazing when complete. Amazing already!
This is very you.
I can't wait to come visit so I can see it in real life.
I should have a quite a few bits for you to browse through when you do. And no you can't take it home with you :P
That's not fair I want it!
(throws massive temper tantrum) lol