I've been working in a larger Moleskine journal in the mornings in the car before work. I have to arrive at my work place nearly 45 minutes before I actually start in order to find a decent parking spot so I take advantage of the time by bringing my breakfast, coffee and some art supplies with me. It's pretty amazing how much you can do in that amount of time five days a week. It also makes me feel better by creating something before I start my rat race of a work day, which seems to suck more out of me lately.
I have pre-gesso-ed the pages a head of time and mostly have been spreading the color on with the Caran d'Ache neocolor 2 water color crayons. I've journaled a little bit each morning and then sometimes in the evening or on the weekends will add more marks and doodles with paint markers or bits of collage. I can be working on a couple of spreads at a time. Here's a couple of close ups.
I'm sharing this with the good people over at the
party. If you haven't already, do check this site out. It's full of wonderful, creative "stuff." I am looking forward to another couple of hours teaching a mixed media workshop at my local AC Moore store tomorrow. I wish you a peaceful, creative weekend. Thanks for visiting here.
I have pre-gesso-ed the pages a head of time and mostly have been spreading the color on with the Caran d'Ache neocolor 2 water color crayons. I've journaled a little bit each morning and then sometimes in the evening or on the weekends will add more marks and doodles with paint markers or bits of collage. I can be working on a couple of spreads at a time. Here's a couple of close ups.
I'm sharing this with the good people over at the party. If you haven't already, do check this site out. It's full of wonderful, creative "stuff." I am looking forward to another couple of hours teaching a mixed media workshop at my local AC Moore store tomorrow. I wish you a peaceful, creative weekend. Thanks for visiting here.
Now, that's inspiring!!! Good for you to fill that 45 minutes with art and coffee and food!!! Love your work.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your spread, and your sharing how much you can get done if you do a bit every day. I also get up about an hour early so i can do a bit before our business begins. Lovely! How are you doing on Society6?
ReplyDeleteI totally understand doing "car art". I do the same on my lunch hour! Nice journal pages, enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteThose two purple flowers....♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
ReplyDeletewhat gorgeous textures created by that lettering...xx
ReplyDeleteYour pages are gorgeous, what a great way to spend the journey time to work! Valerie
ReplyDeleteHow marvellous to use parking time to make art. I like your colourful pages very much with the colourful flowers, I especially like the pointed purple ones in the last picture with the texty background.
ReplyDeleteLove the beautiful colours. Happy PPF, Annette x
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These colours are amazing they make me want to add neo 2's to my ever-growing 'must haves' list. Enjoy your mixed media class and I hope you take some pics to share with us.
ReplyDeleteWow! these are really beautiful, Jo. I am amazed that you can do these in your car. Is the background done with the Neocolor 2 pencils then wet with a waterbrush? It looks so perfectly painted. What a clever use of you time. Oh, what types of things does one write in a journal? I have taped up some pages and gessoed them as suggested by Julie Fei-Fan Belzer, but don't know what types of things people write in their journals. Is it like a diary? The only things I write down during a day are grocery lists and other things to get done. thank you for commenting on my blog.
ReplyDeleteWow--this is amazing. This just fills my eyes. I want to keep looking and looking.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pages Jo! What a good way of centering yourself each morning! You are truly working towards your true purpose! Keep dreaming my friend...I see good things for you!
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Amasing, that you can work in the car waiting for the job begin! The colors are so beautiful in your works. Have a nice week !
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