working in the round art journal
what type of art journal do you like to use? for some reason recently i've been called to work in the round. what is that you might ask?
for me it means working within the confined parameters of a circle, my favourite symbol and one that finds itself in showing up in my artwork time and time again.
this week i began with this watercolours from my new grumbacher transparent pan set { santa must have thought i was real nice last christmas, huh }, a recommendation from this book. the green around the edges you see is masking fluid i applied so that the watercolours stayed within the boundary of the circle.
still struggling with using watercolours in abstract { which is usually how i like to work in acrylics } i then went to my regulars and added torn paper and a birds-on-a-wire stamp.
i worked it a bit more, covered up my initial beginnings, got to this place ...i will shine my light... and stopped there. not my fave piece by far and truth be told,at one point i even wanted to throw it away. i didn't. but i think i'll be reworking this so i can include it in my round art journal and, i definitely will work in the round again.
still......i got to work on some art today. my aim is to do this much, much more often this year of 2016.
toodles y'all, G
p.s. are you guys a part of JAM2016? you should be. tiare smith runs the embrace your art challenge and this year it's all about creating a "journal about me" { JAM for short } and i'm a guest artist this year. how flipping cool right! so look for more JAM/journaling-in-the-round journal pages from me this year and check out and sign up for the challenge.