Upcoming things

I have been busy busy busy making journals in the hope of selling a few at Christmas. I have also just got organised to arrange some more Art Journaling sessions before Christmas aswell as a one to one and some more sessions with Barnsley museum. I have set myself up for a busy few months ahead but looking forward to it all!

Interested in coming along to my Art Journaling sessions? They will take place at the Old Junior School, South View Road, Sheffield. on the following dates:

15th, 22nd, 29th November & 6th December 10:00am-12:00pm
£10 per person per session, materials included, all ages welcome.

Another Journal!

 This is a quick one I made for my daughter. The cover is a fruit bar box and the pages are pieces of her own old art work. I tried out a different binding technique for this which worked well particularly for its size.

The Finished Journal

Journal Workshop 23rd August

I delivered a 5 hour session with lunch included at Sharrow Vale School of Art. We made journal covers from old cereal boxes.

First we used stencils and gesso straight on to the cardboard and while they were drying we made our own figurative stencils.

We added a layer of gesso to our covers and left them to dry while making tin foil and paper mache embellishments.

We added colour with tissue paper and by scraping paint and blending with baby wipes, and used our homemade stencils.

After lunch we added details with stamps and washi tape and collaged the inside.

 I demonstrated how to make signatures and bind these into the cover. We did not have time to do this in the session but I hope to get some photos of the finished journals from my class soon. The picture above is my own cover, I will post more photos of the completed journal hopefully in a few days.

All in all the session went well and I really enjoyed seeing how different all the covers turned out.

Recycled Art Journal

After watching a you tube video by Jennibellie I was inspired to have a go created a recycled Art Journal. It is made mainly from cereal boxes and bits and bobs from around the house or leftover from other projects. I really enjoyed making it and looking forward to filling it now! This is definitley the first of many.

Here is the tutorial from Jennibellie, it is ace!

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My Own Work

So I started this blog and it looks so blank and A bit like the start of a new journal. I feel like I just want get a move on, add some colour, add some art! So here are a few Journal pages I have been working on lately. Just to get the ball rolling .....

A moment captured from our family camping holiday

My labels

Cherish the little moments

Experimenting!

My little girl is so full of questions, I decided to document some of them!

Glamorous