Visual Art Journaling - Watercoloring Images

The top two pages were created using a Penny Black flower stamp and coloring on it with distress markers, then misting it with water prior to stamping.  The 2 page spread was created using a brass Dreamweaver cherry blossom stencil and tracing inside it with distress markers.  I used just a paint brush with water to bring in the color from the outlines.  Then I stamped the Altenew Orikami birds and butterfly with Antique Linen distress ink and used Twinkling H2O's to do no line watercoloring. The star in the photo is some confetti that was left from our end of session gallery showing! I just noticed it was on the page still!
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The first two pages here were created by stenciling an entire A2 size card stock panel with distress inks.  I cut off a portion to create two journal entries.  I used the Penny Black hot air balloons and a sentiment from Winnie & Walter with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  The line art flowers are from Rubbernecker and the sentiment is from TJ Designs.  The third page is a mixed media piece.  I stamped the Hero Art feathers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and water colored the large one with Koi water colors.  I then used distress ink to stencil the background.

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Visual Art Journal Days 2 and 3

On day two we did the emboss resist technique with a water colored background.   Here I used Twinkling H2O's again.  The embossed feathers are from Hero Arts.

Below are pages from day 3:

This is a freehand leaf painted with distress markers and a paint brush.  I was illustrating that journaling can be done in different ways - not just writing straight across the page.  Here I journaled along the edge of the leaf.

 L'dor v'dor - Hebrew for "from generation to generation".
I used Color Burst water color pigment powder and placed some powders in a palette and mixed in a little water - a little powder goes a long way!  I painted the colors onto this Penny Black iris with a brush, spritzed with more water and stamped.  I then spritzed again and stamped and did that a few times - generation stamping.




Generation 1

Generation 2 and 3

 Generation 4

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Visual Art Journaling with Watercoloring

The last two weeks I have been a "visiting artist" at an overnight camp in Santa Rosa, Ca.  I was teaching Visual Art Journaling (using water coloring techniques) and card making.  So for the next few posts I will share my journal pages here.  This is the first time I have done journaling of any kind. I had a blast playing with the teens and sharing my toys.

I started the class off with doing backgrounds and we did wet on wet color washes with Twinking H2O's:

We also created backgrounds using colored water color pencils and a wet brush.

I used Distress markers on this Penny Black iris and stamped it over the dried background.

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