journal junk

ArtJournalling on Canvas!! Great link for you!

I found this GREAT art journalling video by Lisa Michelle Cohen on youtube this morning and wanted to share! The artist goes through her process of doing an art journal entry on canvas. She offers loads of tips and inexpensive/ingenious ideas of using supplies you have around the house as well as her supply resources. She goes over lots of different media uses (which I love) so watch the whole video. It's really great!!! I learned alot and was very inspired.
~lia

journaljunk.sept5

I love using recycled materials and scraps in my journals and other collage work. The background behind the girl here is from our free hotel room coasters that I picked up/saved on a recent trip.  The background papers are from a discarded wallpaper book from the hardware store. The word "home" is from a magazine. I believe I got the image from the altered abbey. Anyhow...just wanted to share the elements I used on a random page. I usually keep a shoebox or ziploc baggie to put "stuff" in that I want to use in my journal. Then I grab through it randomly when journalling. It's nice to have things that I like available.
You don't have to buy lots of "stuff" to make your pages...experiment with what you already have...raid your junk mail or just work out of your favorite magazine. Cut out words and images that appeal to you. It's fun to just relax and see what happens. I love art journalling because sometimes I can say what I want to with images and colors and not alot of words. The process is very relaxing and the result is often colorful and fun to look at.  Before you know it, you have a book filled with images and color and thoughts and words. Then you can flip through it and see new things all over again.
Happy Journalling!

Welcome to the journal junk blog

This blog is an extension of the flickr journal group called, journal junk. To visit the group, go to www.flickr.com/groups/journaljunk.

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gluebook.magazine collage, sources

gluebook.magazine collage, originally uploaded by artjunkgrl.

Q: What magazines do you use?

A: Ok, magazines, let's see, whatever is lying around, I'm a total magazine-a-holic, but I would have to say if I could only collage with one, it would be Vogue! Vogue is so awesome, so are a few catalogs that come in the mail...my fave is nordstrom.
My process is that I will cut images and pages I like and put aside, then I randomly cut and paste another time. I love working in my gluebook. so relaxing, and it's fun to see what happens when you just work fast and glue stuff.