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Jan. 18: Art Journal (Style Challenge)

Li Li Wee

Li Li Wee

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Hi, everyone!! It's me Li Li. Welcome to Day 18. (I might be early posting this due to the time difference)

Today's challenge would be Art Journaling. Let me share with you a bit of my Art Journalling experience. I never in my wildest dream though art journaling would be a style that I would be doing when I started digital scrapping in 2011. I tapped into the style in 2013 and found out that it's a really cool style where I could express myself, my thoughts and feelings. I know quite a number of my online digital scrapper friends who are afraid to explore this style. Maybe it's because they feel, it's a place where they have to express their deepest darkest secret!! NO !! NO!! Art journaling is like keeping a diary or a journal. A place where you journal what's true for you. Some times we have good day and sometimes we have roller coaster rides.

So I want you to imagine that you are keeping an art journal and you start journaling your thoughts or your experience. In today's art journaling challenge , here are the art journaling digital supplies that I want you to add to your page :
1. PAINTS, SPLATTERS, GESSO (YOU CAN USE REPLACE IT WITH WHITE PAINTS ), AND STAMPS ( ALL OF THESE ARE REQUIRED)
2. STITCHES
3. DOODLES
4. ELEMENTS
5. A FACE OR FACES from a photo OR IT CAN BE AN ELEMENT (EG : A BRUSH OF A FACE) as you can see from the page below, my main element has a face of a child which I used to blend it on the background.
6. Title or a Quote or actual journaling that will explain the face on your page. It can be the why you put it there, or how it makes you think/feel when you see it, or can be more of an expression that comes to mind because of the face. Again you can make a face out of elements, use a photo, an element, but the face needs to be the subject of the art journaling page.

If it is not clear on the page, please explain it to me in your credits, so I can understand. I enjoy the beauty of bringing the expression out with art journaling, I hope you will too.

Through out the process, just imagine as if this is a real life Art Journalling page that you are creating. (PLEASE DON'T OVERTHINK OR GET WORRIED ABOUT THIS). I know there are no rules to art journalling, however I want to encourage you to create a more painterly page.You can check out my page.


Your page must be a new page in order to count for the Month of Challenges. Please post your page in your page thread you created in this forum. You should have one post per completed challenge page. If you complete all 31 challenges, your thread should contain 31 posts. Please do not comment in the participants’ page threads so we can keep them clean. You should also post your page here in this thread, and people can comment here if they wish. Pages should contain at least 75% current Lilypad product (currently for sale in the store from either permanent designers or guest designers.

PM me if you need any clarification. I will be glad to assist :) .
HAVE FUN!!

DUE TO TIME DIFFERENCE AS I LIVE IN ASIA, I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO REPLY TO YOUR QUESTIONS IMMEDIATELY. I WILL DEFINATELY GET BACK TO YOU ON IT ONCE I GET UP IN THE MORNING :) . PLEASE BEAR WITH ME!!
 
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i have really been getting into art journaling digitally i tried it the old fashioned way and about 200$ in art supplies and many frustrated hours later, found i just have to much tidy ocd in my head. lol but i love that paints are already premade and messy!

i added a bunch of things i want to bring about and work on in myself this year
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destiney1 said:
i have really been getting into art journaling digitally i tried it the old fashioned way and about 200$ in art supplies and many frustrated hours later, found i just have to much tidy ocd in my head. lol but i love that paints are already premade and messy!

i added a bunch of things i want to bring about and work on in myself this year
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WOW!! YOU ARE THE FIRST!! LOL!! I do real life art journalling too!! lots of $ being spent on paints etc too... Art Journaling keeps me sane..
 
Shari said:
I don't have an artistic bone in my body so trying this digitally is going to be enough of a stretch for me but I'm not going to stress about it. I look forward to the challenge.
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:) LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE ARTISTIC SIDE OF YOU!! I'm pretty sure you have it... :)
 
I'm excited to give this a go, LiLi! The hardest challenges for me..always make me create my most favorite layouts! Love your page - especially the length, and how it is "scene-like!"
 
Shari said:
I don't have an artistic bone in my body so trying this digitally is going to be enough of a stretch for me but I'm not going to stress about it. I look forward to the challenge.
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You can totally do it, and even if you aren't totally thrilled and/or continue with it, it will feel good to stretch that muscle! :)
 
Shari said:
I don't have an artistic bone in my body so trying this digitally is going to be enough of a stretch for me but I'm not going to stress about it. I look forward to the challenge.
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You are here scrapping that means art is part of what you do, just embrace it! Let it FREE!
 
I've never done the art journal thing. Is there somewhere that we can find more examples of art journaling. I just feel a bit lost with this one.
 
Eyeore said:
I knew we would have one of these, my least favourite, but I will try my very best!
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Really? I never knew it was your least favourite.. I always adored all your pages.. I am sure this would be no exception too..
 
@Celeste I love how your page turned out! I really do love the art journaling. I just have never really tried one because my pages are more for my kids and their photo. I'm eager to give it a show.
 
I have always liked the art journal pages that I see and when I do a digital page to add to my journal I tend to this just with any images unless I have gone crazy with extractions and creating fantasy signs to go with my journaling. This should be a fun page when I get to it.
 
Shari said:
I don't have an artistic bone in my body so trying this digitally is going to be enough of a stretch for me but I'm not going to stress about it. I look forward to the challenge.
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The great part of art journaling you use premade stuff and messy paint and the whole idea is to express yourself, not to make a gorgeous picture. Remind me of that in an hour or so
 
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