Friday, September 28, 2012

Journal Play With Scraps

  It's Friday and that means I'll be getting tons of inspiration over at Art Journal Everyday and Paint Party Friday! You don't have to have something to link up - it's a treat just to visit the other artists links. You never know what you might discover or what will inspire you next.

  I am really enjoying my new 8 1/2" x 11" art journal. Why I was afraid of the larger format I'll never know. You can see my very first page in this book here.

 On the day I worked on this week's page I decided I wanted to play more with an abstract theme in mind. Jane Davies is such an inspiration to me in this regard and she so generously shares tips and techniques on her blog Collage Journeys. Unfortunately I couldn't find the specific post I had seen a few months ago that made me take note to try something similar.


  I do remember that Jane started her project by making a scribble collage then cutting it into squares and rectangles. I chose to cut pieces from my scrap papers lying on my desk.


  There were no marks or scribbles on my scrap pieces so I layed them out and did some mark making with watercolor crayons, a White-Out pen and a red Signo pen.



  The I began loosely laying down my papers and rearranging them until I was pleased with the design before gluing them down.

  And this is my finished practice page:




  Watercolor crayons were used to cover the white space and unify the collage squares. A fun way to fill a page using scraps. I may journal in the spaces or I may just leave it. This is also a good way to create a page when nothing in particular has you motivated. Just play with your scraps!

  Have a happy, artful weekend everyone!

   " Act as if you are worthy to have what you want, and the universe will prove you correct."
                                                                                                       Alan Cohen
 

39 comments:

  1. Oh Linda! I love this! I read Jane's blog too. I love her work. I love how you were inspired to try something like her and you made it your own! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. This is a beautiful play, Linda!!. Can't wait to see it finished :). Inspiring!! Hugs.

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  3. Lovely colour and energy. Happy PPF.

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  4. I'm also a big Jane Davies fan and agree that she is very inspiring. Your collage is gorgeous! I love your colors.

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  5. Love that quote and your art here today, Linda!
    Wonderfully inspiring!
    ♥♥♥
    Happy PPF!!
    Mary
    Mixed-Media Map Art

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  6. That's a great way to start an art journaling page as well as clearing up your desk in the process. Must give it a go!

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  7. Terrific results. Happy PPF, Annette x

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  8. paper play! my favorite! all the pieces look like little candies. yum yum!

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  9. Hi Linda!!!! your paper play looks amazing!!! wonderful work and I love love love the colors!!! well done!!! Happy PPF!!!!

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  10. Great play in your sketchbook. So colorful. I have Jane Davies' book...she's great. Love the quote! In fact I wrote it down in my journal. Thank you for sharing. Have a super weekend! ♥ ♥

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  11. Gorgeous colors, Linda! I love how you used the watercolor crayons to add to the white space.

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  12. Very playful and colourful.
    Happy Creating.

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  13. So pretty and it looks like so much fun!

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  14. Spectacular...gorgeous colors shining and harmonizing..wonderful color- palette pieces..and inspiring how you merged them all as one..magical..beautiful work !
    Victoria

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  15. This is gorgeous! The colours, the little black lines and circles, all beautifully unified by the blue and green.

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  16. Beautiful composition with this delicious color.

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  17. Love that delicious vibrant colored pages!! Color always makes me swoon! Good job!!

    Hugs Giggles

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  18. Just took a class with Jane in Saluda, NC. It was a lot of fun - Love your page.

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  19. Lots of great results. Nice going. Happy PPF!

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  20. This is fabulous! Love how it the rectangles looked arranged on the paper. The colors really pop!

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  21. This is a wonderful piece you have arranged and coloured!

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  22. It's interesting how a little creative play will come up with the goods.

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  23. i love this. i will definitely be giving it a try. thanks for the inspiration!

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  24. it is always fun to play with scraps and see what they become...xx

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  25. Lovely colours, looks like fun, I love your quote as well. :)

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  26. this is a wonderful idea. there are times when i just want to have some design for my art journal page, no painting or something. and lots of space to write. i love the colors you used.
    thank you, too, for visiting my blog and for loving my irish landscape :)... i am a few more strokes away from saying it's done.
    have a happy weekend! mellinda alpha #35

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  27. This is really beautiful. I love the colours and composition! Happy PPF

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  28. I really like this a lot, your arrangement of the scraps is great, and I love how the watercolor background ties it all together, even though the scraps are so different. Nice work!

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  29. So playful, creative and colorful journal pages ~ (A Creative Harbor)

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  30. Love the way you've arranged the pieces.They're so well balanced.
    Have a great week Linda

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  31. I really like what you did here. I have to admit though that I often find it stressful to play with scarps... a pleasing composition (like yours) tends to elude me... maybe because the options are SO MANY! And yes, of course Miss Perfection is sitting on my shoulder telling me constantly that there is a better way... just move it one more time, and once more, and once more and... noooo the first lay-out was best. What did the first one look like again? hahah, you get me drift;-)

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  32. Such a beautiful page ..... I love how you created this.

    Karen

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  33. Beautiful colors Linda! Lovely to see your art! :)

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  34. What beautiful colours! You are such a huge inspiration to me that you will never have an idea. I can't ever thank you enough for leaving such kind words on my blog. Thank you thank you, for inspiring me greatly.
    I love your art journal, absolutely spectacular, I've never worked with scraps before but DEFINETLY have to try using the scraps.

    Hugs

    Hadiyah

    Your biggest fan

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  35. this is a beautiful collage and what a fun project. I love to play around with my scraps like this.

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  36. This is really fun and colorful! I love these scraps..so simply done yet really quite beautiful...thank you for the brilliant idea...must try this...I absolutely love working with scraps!

    Duaa

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