Mixed Media & Art Journaling with Love
First Mixed Media blog in Romania
Most often than not, our busy lives prevent us from looking around at the little things that bring us joy. Being in a continuous state of disatisfaction and disappointment is what keeps us blindfolded from not seeing what’s right in front of our eyes: life ain’t that bad. Things are not that dramatic as they …
Today I stumbled upon a card illustrating blooming poppies. I said to myself that those would make a fine collage in my journal. I cut a few blooming poppies and a few poppy bods to match them together, and glue them down on the page, leaving some space for lettering. I misaligned the word “blossoming” …
Almost April? Already? I can’t believe how fast March went by! And because I love my Japanese wall calendar, for this page I got inspired from the March calendar illustration, some beautiful blooming red Japanese Quince flowers. Aproape aprilie? Deja? Nu-mi vine sa cred cat de repede a trecut luna martie! Si pentru ca iubesc calendarul …
This flower is called Diphylleia Grayi and it’s better known as the skeleton flower. These flowers are normally white, but they turn transparent if rain hit their petals. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? So I thought it would be nice to paint them in my art journal. Aceasta floare se numeste Diphylleia Grayi si este mai bine cunoscuta …
For today I went back into childhood when all seemed so easy and perfect and I created this simple page with abstract round flowers. I drew then directly with a black roll pen and then I started to add color using Faber Castell gelatos. For the bottom background I even used the metalic Faber Castell …
As you already know by know, March is going to be all about flowers. I don’t particularly want to draw realistic flowers, but I chose flowers because they are a nice subject, easy to complete in an art journal depending on what style you choose to use, and are fast, especially when you don’t have …
To me, watercolor paintings seem pretty hard hard to complete, especially because I don’t care for the rules, but still I am working with watercolors which are transparent and need extra care when it comes to layering color. But I’m working in an art journal, so I’m not worrying too much. Pentru mine, pictatul in …