Art Journaling

Sometimes you just need to splosh down some paint, collage and doodle don't you? And this is one of those days! I am sharing a recent page from my junk journal that is all about the collage and doodle. For the collage I have used old book pages and one of my expressive paint florals from my download available on Patreon. The…

Rubbish art is a fact of the artist's life. Yep, that is right, you make rubbish art, I make rubbish art, everyone who has ever tried to do something creative has messed it up at some point! But you know what? Making rubbish art is a great tool that we can use to help us to make better art. I am sharing…

Journal with me time! Part of being an artist is doing those personal projects that don't have to lead to a work to sell or shares on social media, unless you want them to of course. They are all about exploring and playing and letting yourself be free to see what happens. So do one of those projects you have been putting…

Come and Scribble Owls with me in my new mixed media workshop! It has been a long time coming and you have been asking for workshops, well now I can add them to what I can offer you to help you with your art! Yay! So for my first full online workshop I wanted to put together somewhere that we could play…

I think we could all do with something relaxing. Don't you think? So I have an easy and relaxing art project for you this week and if you want to join me then you can find the materials I used below as usual. So go grab what you can and come and do some relaxing art with me! The butterflies I have…

Let's make some abstract bookmarks! So this is a really easy but also fun and challenging creative exercise. Challenging because you are working on a really small piece and working with as many colours as you can muster to make these abstract bookmarks. And of course the other benefit of these is that they are functional art too as you can use…

I have a new, fun, abstract faces exercise for you today and all you need for this one is some paint and some pens, oh and paper too! So keeping it simple again, just like we did for the creative exercise from the weekend. How did you get on with that Scribble exercise? I hope you had fun scribbling away and I…

Mini-doodles on coloured backgrounds is like one of my go-to creative tricks for creating when I am in a hurry and don't have much time, or for those moments when I am actually feeling not that creative. And I have been having both of those art-troubles this week so I have a watercolour paint and pen doodle to share with you today.…

Welcome to a New Year and some New year mixed media art! I thought I would kick this year off with another layered, abstract, hopefully relaxing page from my junk journal. I did this page the same time as last week's page so spot that lovely mint color again! So let me know what art you are focusing on this year and…

I did not intend this to be a festive mixed media art piece but that is where I think it turned up! Well, a festive mixed media art piece in that it has many traditional Christmas colours and some non-traditional Christmas colours too! I was very pleased with that mint colour that I mixed in the video. Might be my new favourite…