And here are some more journal pages.
This next page uses the Pink Paislee tissue paper and then I used Pan Pastels to add some butterflies in the background and then I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I thought and thought and then finally ended up with this.
I love that Pink Paislee stamp on the right. I added some Tim Holtz tissue tape and a little more stamping and this simple page is done. Different but I like it.
This next one is super simple. Just stars. It says “Always be the best version of you.”
A little too simple maybe. I still like it.
As if to compensate, the next one is crazy busy. Mostly uses acrylics. Says “you are writing the music of your life. Write the song you want to listen to.”
I like all the colors in this one.
The next one didn’t really work out as I’d hoped but I still like it. The quote says “If you look, you can see that you are not as alone as you think. Look harder.”
My intention was to make a mask of one person on the right page and a crowd of people on the left one. Make the left side more obscured to imply that the other people might be hard to see but they are there. Rub ons, Pink Paislee stamps, Cat’s Life Press stamps, pan pastels and acrylics on this one.
And now for something completely different. This one says “You must walk down the path to see where it leads.”
This page was gesso’ed and then I used the Inktense Watercolor pencils to draw the path and trees and color the background. Then I used heavy bodied acrylics to do the tree tops and added some on the trunks, too.
I like how it turned out. Mostly I like that the pages are different from each other and I am trying different mediums, ideas, and layouts.
That’s the five I’ll share this week. More coming next week. Thank you for letting me share.
I am creating art journaling pages daily for June (and maybe longer). You can read more about it and the book I am using here.
This is awesome, Karen! Beautiful art!!
stunning karen, oh how I love seeing your pages every week. The tree with the lane is so cool and the mask you used to make people, so awesome. I wish you lived nearby so we could paint together and you could show me how to do all this fun art. Thanks so much for sharing.
I totally love the first page – it is so gorgeous. Each page is inspiring both for the art, the experimentation and the journaling. Thanks for mentioning what materials you used – love those butterflies too.
It would be great to see a post about the different art books you are working on – how many is it?
donna did you see the post I made that had all my books? http://www.karenika.com/?p=16085
Yes I did! Thank you so much for posting it!
Thank you for sharing these layouts with us. You are an endless source of inspiration and happiness waiting for me at the end of the day. It’s getting increasingly difficult to find good reasons NOT to buy panpastels when I see what you do with them!
I really love all of these. I really enjoy the way you added the stamped sentiments and the butterflies… These are all just fantastic! Really gorgeous!
you have some really lovely pieces here! what kind of supplies do you use? like what brand?
thank you! depends on the page, if you show me which one you mean, i can give you all the details 🙂