I am loving working in my art journal lately. Just yesterday I was working on it regularly throughout the entire day. There are several reasons for this, besides just a desire to make some personal art. I made a template to trace some boxes onto pages out of a piece of watercolor paper and it's been fun working within my template, which is surprisingly versatile for something with basically a lot of boxes on it. I bought a new pen to try in my journal - it's always fun to work with new supplies, right? And finally, I used color a bit differently in the next few pages of my journal, so I was interested to see how the black pen and my new color idea worked together.
Most of this journal page was made with my new pen, an Inkjoy pen made by Papermate. I wanted to try these because the advertisement is that they don't skip. It's true - the ink flows very nicely and it was a nice surprise. I found out they make these in colors, so I might just have to check them out. I do like the look of gel pens, though, so I think my journal supply bag will soon be bulging with many kinds of pens.
Of course, not all things worked out the way I thought or hoped they would. My new template still results in shaky lines, not the straight, crisp lines I want to have. I think I need to break down and use a ruler. I hate using a ruler! But I guess I have no choice if I want nice neat boxes. I am still thinking about my backgrounds as well. When I first made this background, it was a little more dramatic looking and once I added the filled boxes, I think it may have lost something.
However, I do think this page is pretty cool, especially my good things/great things lettered box at the bottom.
It's pretty simple, but the whole page is, and I do seem to like that about it. And this journal page does say that I need to simplify, and I really do.
At any rate, that's the page of the week. I'm looking forward to posting next week's page (more experimentation - no black ink!)
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