Do you use a fountain pen in your art journaling and if you do what ink do you use? Recently I have been doing more fountain pen art. I really love the feel and flow of using a fountain pen. It is great for doodles and also for sketching too but I wanted to find out if I could use it in…
I warn you this video starts with a rather nasty art journal fail! I mean it is ugly. A catastrophe! A mistake! A mess! Don't say that I didn't warn you! But don't worry because I save the page and make some new art from the mess and I hope that it puts you in the mood to revisit some…
You know when you have half an idea in your head but you aren't really sure where it will take you? Well this easy flowers art journal page is definitely one of those! I thought I would take you through my full thought process for how this easy flowers painting art journal page came into being and I really hope that…
You guys know that I love a bit of easy stenciling don't you? I mean give me a piece of paper and a pair of scissors and I'll give you a stencil and mask to play with! It's so lo-tech but I've gone even lower tech today because I have re-purposed a kitchen sponge - don't worry it won't be going…
It's art journal time! I thought I would change pace today, well it is Sunday after all, and share an art journal page process video. This page started with some paint left over from another project that I wanted to use up, so I had no real plans for it. I've built it up with gouache and acrylic paint and also…
Where do you get your ideas? How do you keep inspired and do you have any tricks for when you aren't feeling inspired? I'm sharing some of my go-to habits and ways that I generate ideas and keep inspired but I also want to hear yours too, so do share, either here or over on my YouTube channel. I'm also practising…
I've got a fun heat embossing technique for you today. It is so simple that you will wonder why you don't use it with your heat embossing all of the time! It is a really great way to stretch your stash and make more out of your stamps, particularly your background stamps, texture stamps or pattern stamps. With this really simple technique…
Ok, I'll own up! I have been on a spending spree! I have some Amsterdam acrylic paints to try out this week and following on from last Sunday, when I was putting the Pebeo Irridescent paints through their paces, it is starting to look like I might have gone a bit acrylic paint-crazeeee! Mmm? Perhaps I have?! But I wanted to branch…
I'm testing out some acrylic paints today and sharing how I test out new paint. The paints under the arty microscope in my video are the Pebeo Studio DYNA Iridescent acrylic paints, now these aren't new paints, they have been around for a while but they are new to me and I'm just giving them a test drive to see how…
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018 and a new creative year for us all. To kick off this creative year I have another in my art journal page process videos showcasing the 'what happened next' story for one of the pages that I started in the 12 Tips For Starting Art Journal Pages Using Acrylic paint video. This was the page…
Is it snowing where you are? Well, it is definitely snowing in my art journal today! I have a little Winter texture art journal page inspiration for you and a technique for making a nice DIY snowy scene that you can use as a backdrop for something else or as it is to make lovely abstract Winter art. I've used a…