One Little Word & New Art Journals

2013 Word

As many of you are aware lots of people in the Art Journaling and Scrapbooking communities choose a word each year to embody what they plan or hope for the coming year.  For 2013 my one little word is Grow.  In early February I did a quick couple of pages in my newst Art Journal about what the word Grow means to me for 2013.

 

 New Journal #1

At the begining of the month I also started working in two new journals.  One is a Canson Mix Media semi-hard bound journal (5.25" x 8.25"). 

 

Once Completed-I will
decorate or paint the cover!

 

Essentially this one is replacing my wirebound Strathmore.  I will probably do a lot of drawing in this book and then add colors and/or simple backgrounds later rather than working with a lot of layers. 

 

Having done only a few pages so far the pages seem thinner than in my Strathmore.  I used my Neocolor II's and my Inktense and the pages ended up wrinkling a bit...  So we shall see.

 

 

New Journal #2

The second journal I started working in is one that I made and bound myself using a coptic stitch.  I cut off the covers from a book I found at my local thrift store and painted them.  I made five signatures *** of six pages each using a comination of patterned papers, music sheets, cardstock, watercolor paper, ledger paper, acrylic sheets, pages from children's picture books and some of my handpainted paper scraps. 

I am excited to use this journal as it is very different from everything else that I have tried.