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Spontaneous Art Journaling Work

I've started doing a small daily practice of creating an art journal spread in a 9"x6" Nature Sketch sketchbook.

How I've started:
The first layer is gesso on the 2-page spread, selection of 2 colors and applying droplets of those colors to the pages spontaneously, spreading the colors with fingers, adding some white paint with my finders, then embellishing with pens, grease pencils, markers, etc..  In some cases, words or phrases that spontaneously came up during the process have been added in different ways.  For preservation purposes, I'm using tracing paper to separate the pages and including a list of the words and phrases used because they are hard to see/recognize when looking at the pages, and I want to be able to recall what they are.

Theses photos are of the 5 projects completed this past week (earliest to latest).  The first two followed guidelines by Rae Missigman in her Cloth Paper Scissors magazine article (May/June 2018 issue).  The latter ones are more free form and spontaneous while being my own take-off on the process.






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