Kick-Start Your Art Journal (22)
Mon, March 14, 2011 at 11:00AM 
Pick one or try them all. Take the first step. Go.
Tricks to get in gear and get messy in your art journal.
Use the prompts as written or embellish as you wish.
<the weather is here, wish you were beautiful> The base of the page is a postcard. A postcard you grabbed at the last hotel visit, from a flea market, a hello from Key West, a coupon from your favorite car repair shop. Glue/staple the postcard to the center of the page. Watercolor or doodle around the postcard, creating some flow between the stuff on the postcard and the page. Continue a sentence, doodle some ivy going off and on the postcard. Paint the rest of the page colors from the postcard. If the postcard has ocean waters, use aquas, for example.
<blue> The color for your page is blue. Museum quality Oval Room Blue to city Pitch Blue to spring Blue Ground. Paint a background with thick heavy body acrylics using your fingers to create wild texture. Write about the blues in your life. What rooms in your house are painted blue? Blue nail polish? Topaz earrings? For blue inspiration, see No Frills Prompt #15: Blues.
<circularity> For this page, work with either watercolors OR thinned acrylic paint. Thin watercolors with water, of course. Thin acrylics with water or fluid matte medium. Draw 21 of circles all over your page, in different sizes, with lots of overlaps. You can even have three circles overlap or one inside another. Number the circles in pencil. Paint all of the circles with numbers 1, 7, 11, 20 in one color. Paint circles 2, 5, 8, 9, 18 in a second color. Paint circles 3, 6, 13, 19 in a third color. Paint circles 12, 16 in a fourth color. Paint circles 4, 15, 17 in the fifth color. Paint circles 10, 14, 21 in a sixth color. The colors overlap, mixing new colors! Journal in black marker on a few of the larger circles.
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Reader Comments (5)
Thank you for sharing these art journaling prompts!
Very inspiring... makes me want to play with paints and get messy ;]
I just did the 21 circle prompt and added it to my flickr account.... --> http://flic.kr/p/9r3Wyc
It was wonderful! I loved seeing the colors come together. Thank you for sparking me! I'm going to try the blue acrylics one next...
Here is my interpretation for blue!
http://thesoundingsea.blogspot.com/2011/06/blue-prompt.html
These are really great. I spend hours scouring the net sometimes for stuff like this. great site :) I might blog about you.
Thanks for the prompts, I appreciate it.