Friday, August 29, 2008

Art Journal Notebook





I just started working on a new art journal and this week Inspire me Thursday is about altered notebooks. Thought I would post my beginnings....

Purchased at Michaels, the heavy weight paper pages measure 7” x 10” and are unlined. Originally the notebook contained a total of 125 or so pages. I glued 2 or 3 pages at a time, so now there are 58 pages. I painted the pages that I had glued together. Because I am rather impatient it took me 1 & 1/2 days to get the pages glued and painted. Just couldn't stop once I started that part. I love the way acrylic drys quickly in Arizona's dry environment.

Next....using my digital images, I printed on: lace paper, tyvec, matte paper, canvas, ribbed drawing paper, lutradur, a substrate made from gel media- cheesecloth and golden’s digital ground, and finally a transfer created with gel media and golden’s digital ground. I also used pages from a dictionary, dyed burlap, wire, hemp etc for collage. I tore some images, cut others and started creating some collage and writing. I still have 22 pages that consist of paint only waiting to be collaged before journaling on them.

For the cover I used heavy weight upholstery fabric. For the front and back outside cover I cut strips and pieces of the fabric, and then pieced them together with large stitches. Next some small circular gathered pieces were added. I anchored all the pieces with embroidery thread. Then I glued the front and back outside pieces to the cover with gel media. I added a strip of crocheted cotton yarn to the left front. For the inside covers, I found a piece of fabric that waspieced long ago with digital fabric. I used gel media to attach the scrap piece to the inside back cover and added smaller pieces of the upholstery fabric to fill in some spaces.

So here is a view of some of my almost finished notebook.

10 comments:

  1. this is fabulous, really like it.

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  2. Your journal is sooo inspiring! I may actually sit down today and give it a try. Thank you for the inspiration!

    Are the pictures of these journal pages all from one book?

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  3. Wow! You said you just started it? You have done so much already. It is an inspiration to look at. I really have to start using the one I bought that is collecting dust.

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  4. wow, i'm really impressed! wonderful colors....absolutely beautiful. just stopping by

    :)
    Candy

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  5. wow, you have been one busy lady and the results are fabulous.

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  6. Looks great! I love all the color.

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  7. What an impressive array of pages!

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  8. wow, you are off to quite a start! i love the colors and the abstractness of each page (actually a work of art already!). I do hope you will continue post more pics as I would love to see how this journal progresses.

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  9. Wonderful altered notebook! You've made a fabulous object!

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