Mixed Media & Art Journaling with Love
First Mixed Media blog in Romania
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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Although I like drawing faces, my journal pages are sometimes just filed with random drawings of flowers, leaves or simply circles, like the one today. I was struggling with the desire to draw a face, when I decided to…
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Just like The 29 Faces Challenge and The Flower Art Project, I want to start a new 30-days art project called “The Quoted Pages”. And as the name suggests, those art journal pages are going to include an inspirational quote…
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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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Sketching buildings has never been my best skill. I never took classes on drawing and perspective always seemed so complicated to me. But that doesn’t mean I cannot sketch just for the sick of it in my art journal: it…
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Welcome, dear soul! It’s already February and we are starting a new month with much excitement and lots of creative ideas for my art journals. There is no chance of getting bored when it comes to art journals, because every…
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Once in a while I really feel I want to use just a pencil and my paper stump to draw a face. So this is how I’ve started drawing this face. It doesn’t have a real correspondent and I took…
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I should sketch buildings more often, but I guess it’s hard to capture them on location if the weather is not that friendly. But we can always work after a photo we took on vacation and capture the beauty of the…
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I began to love charcoal. Its smooth feeling on the paper and the marks that it lefts on the surface are fantastic. And because I can smudge it with water while adding some color makes it look even better. Am…
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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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Sometimes this is all I want to create: a random pencil sketch from my own imagination… Cateodată, asta e tot ce vreau să creez: o schiță la întâmplare din propria imaginație…
I haven’t got the chance to see the sea and probably I won’t this year. But even so, I wanted to sketch and light wash some sea shells lying in hot sand.
You don’t need to sketch something complicated. I sketched this one last year on my way home from the seaside, in the same sketchbook I did with the flowers here. Nu trebuie sa schitati ceva complicat. Am schitat aceasta pagina…
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Next time when you go out for a coffee, make sure to take your sketchbook with you. You never know what you are about to sketch! 😉 Daca viitoare cand iesi la o cafea, asigura-te ca iei cu tine si…
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Going back to faces today. And because I don’t feel like painting mixed media, I’ll stick with watercolors. First thing first, a pencil sketch. You can use a watercolor, colored or graphite pencil. I’m using a purple watercolor pencil for…
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