For so long I struggled, and likely will again, with art journaling. Lately, it’s all I want to do. I’ve even started another book, one from the public library’s free shelf. It’s a teen fiction book called Kira-Kira.
kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining
I loved that! Also since it’s a slightly smaller book, I thought it would be perfect for another art journal.
I turned to the middle of the book and started painting with my fingers. No thought…just went for it. I definitely thought I’d wrecked these pages several times over.
First when I accidentally flopped the wet pages together, causing them to stick and tear away the top layer.
But in fact, it created some really fun texture and effect that I could have never created on my own.
Yummy, grungy texture…makes me so happy!!
The second and third time I thought I’d ruined the page was when I stamped the words with dye based in and it quickly faded and soaked into the painted page. I went back with pigment ink and it was a really crappy image. I once again re-inked with pigment, carefully alining the stamp and finally got an image I could be happy about. As it turns out, the dye based ink looks a bit like a shadow that I meant to have…happy accident.
I wish I didn’t have so many things on my plate today…I’d love to play with paint and paper all day! What are you doing today?
lovely pages, ‘accidental art’ perhaps?
Love your pages, and the way the accidents added to its more artistic textures!
awesome happy accident, halle! i am playing this weekend, been a long time since i’ve played alllllll day! i am excited to be able to just putter…i think that wanting to end up with a final product is what’s hard for me where art journaling is concerned…i’m learning to just let that go and i don’t have to show anyone what i did! that was liberating for me…xo
art journaling is so much fun – I need to get back into it – thanks for the reminder!
me thinks there are no accidents Halle…your pages are super with great textures and special effects going on
good you kept rolling with it…sure worth the results in the end
clearly you are on an art journaling roll!
oxo