Kick-Start Your Art Journal (Part 2)
Tue, February 10, 2009 at 09:53PM
You don't have to follow any rules. You don't have to show anyone your journal pages, or you can show the world. Be careful not to get bogged down with what to do with a page. This is the second part in our series on kick-starting your art journal pages! For the first set of ideas, see Kick-Start Your Art Journal Part 1
<Limited Palette> Try working with just one color, in various shades or textures. Or two colors. Or just neutrals. Or transparent colors. Get inspiration at Color Series: Inspired by Orange. Check out Prompt: Palette for ideas.
<Recycle Scraps> Pull out a pile of small scrap cardstock left from other projects. At Using Scrap Cardstock: Art Journaling learn about building a page from scraps from other projects.
<Words as Art> Build a page around words as in Deep Blue/Move Up.
<Quote> Write or attach a quote to the page first, let the quote guide your color and images, or design your page and then find a quote that expresses the feeling as in Altered Book: Millefleur Colors and add the quote last. Quote as muse or quote as part of the page. In Focus on the Quote, I built a page for a specific quote.
Check out the entire series of prompts to Kick-Start Your Art Journal!
Reader Comments (1)
Thanks for the great ideas on Kick-Starting Art Journals. I'll be sharing some of these with my students (giving you and your site full credit, of course. :-D)