Mixed Media & Art Journaling with Love
First Mixed Media blog in Romania
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…
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Today I went back to faces. I took advantage of the extra time I had when my baby was asleep, and painted this face. I’m still using “fast” art supplies – those that can be used anywhere, anytime, and are…
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It wasn’t my intention to paint poppies when I started this page, but then I figured out they look like poppies so I decided to leave them just be. Instead of coloring them all red, I preferred to use tones…
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I have already started a series with these charcoal faces that keep appearing in my art journals. I cannot help but loving this mix between charcoal pencil and acrylic paints more and more. It created a beautiful layer on the…
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YOU have to silence your mind in order to listen to your intuition. As I told you before, I love the freedom a junk journal offers: you don’t have to worry about ruining the paper or the journal, because…
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Happy New Year dear creative soul! The reason why I haven’t post here lately is simply because I wanted to take a break and stay away from computer during the holiday season as much as I could. I did some pages…
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It’s been a wonderful year, and another one even more wonderful lies ahead. I’m more than happy and grateful for an amazing 2015, and can’t wait for the beautiful 2016 to start! It’s going to be a very special year…
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I drew this right next to the male face, with the intend to color her as I did with him, but I loved how the charcoal blended with gesso and decided to only add some background and leave the face…
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Sometimes I love to work on loose sheets of paper, like Mixed Media Canson block, the 200 grm (120 lbs) in A5 format 14,8x 21 cm (5.8”x8.3”). This type of paper works pretty good when adding water, and it’s perfect…
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So after having my junk journal base done, I’m now going to fill it in with all kind of embellishments and alter the journal. Remember, this journal will be in an ever changing state because I can add, stick, remove…
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While there is still warm outside, grab your painting travel kit and get outside to kiss the sun. As I was saying yesterday, it will make a great difference later on, when the days won’t be that pretty anymore. Cat…
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It’s said that November it’s a sad, depressive month, but it doesn’t have to be like so if you don’t want it too. If you’ve been an outside person during the summer and autumn, then chances are to enjoy this…
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One of these days, when the sun seemed to warm the earth even more beautiful than he does in the spring, I went for a walk in the park. I took with me my art journal made from wrapping paper…
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Don’t know what to journal about? You know that’s just a pathetic excuse for not doing nothing, right? 15 minutes of art journaling won’t take too much of your time. No matter how busy you are, you need to make room…
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A new face from the 29 faces September challenge is a toddler’s face this time. As you can see, part of the writing is still showing underneath the painting, giving it a very interesting feel. This is one of the…
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