This page was created using strips from a letter. Every other strip is placed upside down. The words and the picture are from a tea packet. Then I used a light yellow pencil to color shade the background. I hope you enjoy this.
Today, I made a page in the book I am repurposing. I used a paper towel that I had been using to clean my brushes on. I used Grandmother Stover’s Stikflat glue and applied it directly to the page of the book that I had previously prepared with a coat of off-white paint. I did NOT apply glue to the paper towel. It was delicate and most likely would have torn. Then I cut up an envelope from some junk mail and made sure I had 3 sides glued down. I colored it with a cerulean blue marker, glued the octopus picture and the word on it, and then applied glue to the back of it and stuck it onto the page. This only took about 20 minutes to complete, so even if you don’t have a lot of time there is still time for creating.
Today’s theme was my favorite color. Pink. I used all available mediums that I had in pink. Acrylics, markers, and watercolors in all shades of pink. The circles as you can see are not perfect and I goofed up the order of the colors one time. But that’s ok, that is allowing imperfection, not demanding more than what is. Just letting the colors flow.
Today’s art is an abstract with acrylic paint and black marker. I just freehand painted the three colors and then made the thick black lines with a paint marker. Nothing too technical. Just creating and relaxing.
These freestyle pages that I do will be used later in my altered book that I am working on.
Here are 2 pieces made with watercolors. The first is just a sampling of colors. The second was a doodle drawn by using a copper Pen-Touch pen to follow a pebble around the paper. Then, I used watercolors in blues and purples to fill it in.
What is your career plan?
To be an art therapist
I am a fairly new junk journaler. I will be publishing pictures of my work and documenting what I did to create it. I believe that this is a very therapeutic activity, and I hope to reach people who need a creative release even if they maybe don’t know it. I was able to collect enough paper supplies from around my house and one weekend of travel to get quite a good collection of things. I did purchase a few supplies that I didn’t have. One thing I learned that I wish I had known sooner was that the Elmer’s glue sticks are not permanent. So I had to get a different brand. I got a UHU stic from Amazon.
This is a container that I filled with small pieces of paper that I collected. Junk mail is great, I have a coffee sleeve, some receipts, some pages from a book I’m altering, and lots of other things.
Jennie's Junk Journaling 