Art Journal - A Little Bit of Me

An art journal page I've spent today working on

Oooooh, Kate. That's fabulous. I love all your inking and stuff. Great page.

Pretty, would of guessed it was yours lol.

Lovely colours, Kate. Looks like a lot of work went into that - and typical Kate, as Di said!

Lynda

There are some words that just excite me and 'Art Journal' made me want to look NOW, or sooner.
It's fun and funky and lots of fun, do show us the rest when you've done it, if it's for public viewing ( I mean not too personal to you).
Love it.

Very nice Kate - lovely colours.

It's made me want to do another page in mine. I've not touched it for eons now.

I got inspired again after seeing an Art Journal challenge (which I missed lol) and then seeing some of the work done for it! This one is gorgeous and I love her tutorial!!!

http://danasinspirations.blogspot.com/2011/09/tiddly-inks-art-journal-page.html

I've just read through my journal thread again and I'm definitely ready to get back to it. Got new techniques I can use now, lol. Thanks for the push Kate.
I'll go take a look at that link too.

Great page Kt. I am planning an Art Journal through the winter. Haven't really felt like it this past 18 months although I have gessoed and painted the pages but then so much sadness was going on I decided to put it to one side. Onwards, as Lorraine says!!

its very YOU kate ..have fun filling it in .

What is "gesso"? I have a couple pages which I want to re-start as dont like them, will that help cover what i've done before?

I really want to get into art journalling but feel very limited in what I can do...

yes gesso will cover it and then you will be able to paint or ink it aLL OVER AGAIN AND IT CAN ALSO BE MADE LUMPY TO GET TEXTURE IF YOU LIKE oops sorry caps lock p-ressed

This is Lovely KT I too would have known it was yours. Have fun doing the rest of it.
Also well done for inspiring others to go do some of theirs.

You all keep saying you'd know it was mine, of course you would! I put my initials in the middle of it

you can get gesso in the works for £5.99 I think but it's a bigger tub that I'd want, so I never bother, not sure if that's a good price or not.

This is gorgeous KT. i love it. IO keep promising myself that i will get more done, i keep buying and going to craft group on a thursday, but i buy more and watch more lol

I never bother with gesso: I use the acrylic primer that Wilkinson's make - think it's three-quarters of a litre and not too pricey. Having said that, I'm now pinching some of the white Wilko paint we used in the hall/stairs/landing: it's the top of their range and has plenty of acrylic in it. Think it was £12.99 or £13.99 for the 2.5 litre can.

Lynda

Love your page Kate. Sue and I are both playing around with our art journals at the moment and having lots of fun. I recently bought the Art Journalling double DVd by Kate Crane what a fantastic buy. Its full of inspiration and your journalling ups a level too
Look forward to seeing more of your pages.