Art Journaling & Mixed Media Art
by Aisling D'Art
Looking for free, Easter coloring pages for all ages? Here are five of my hand-drawn coloring pages – originally created and shared back in 2019 – with Easter Egg themes. They’re 8.5″ x 11″ PDFs you can download and print. All five are kind of retro – 1960s and 70s – as that’s what I…
My “door signs” are back. Here’s one of my most recent. You can click on the image to download a free, printable, 8.5″ x 11″ copy. (The original was near an open, hallway window during a mid-March blizzard, so it has some imperfections.) Here’s the backstory: In Orlando (Florida) during the peak Covid years, many…
Recently, having misplaced my own copy of the 1000 Journals Project book, I ordered another. Seeing it again, after all these years, was astonishing. Even now, it feels like that being part of that art journal/project was a “right time, right place” moment. Even more bizarre, I received it at 9/11, and – a few…
Yesterday, when we arrived home after lots of errands, I felt like I needed to create another art journaling collage in my daily series. The problem was, I was tired and cranky, and in perfectionist mode as I worked. I think it turned out pretty well, despite how much I got in my own way….
When I sit down (or work at my standing desk), I like all of my art journaling supplies tidy and well-organized. If I have to interrupt my creative flow to search for a particular brush, or paint, or adhesive, or collage element, it can take far too long to get back “in flow.” Here’s what’s…
Earlier this week, I decided it’s time to resume daily art journaling. So, I created this collage: The next day, trying to work on another mixed media collage, I realized that the art/studio side of my home office was a mess. Okay, maybe not a total mess, but I needed to create order and space…
I love-love-LOVE this table for working on art. The surface is huge. It’s especially good for art journaling, which I used to do on the floor, or sitting – hunched over – on my bed. Now, no more backache! And I can control the light, with a nearby standing lamp. As an artist with a…
I’ve never seen anything like these pencils. Really. In the graphic below, I used just ONE pencil to color everything. (Okay, I colored the yellow stars with a brush marker, but that’s the ONLY other coloring tool I used.) It’s not a mechanical pencil with lots of leads in it. It’s an actual, hard-lead pencil……
This week, I tested a set of 120 colored pencils, sent to me by Kalour (via Amazon). My initial impression was, “Wow! That’s a LOT of pencils in one small container.” I almost expected them to be skinny, tiny pencils. They weren’t. They’re full-sized, and come pre-sharpened. The range of colors is impressive. Warm colors,…
Creating this torn-paper collage, I started with the words “A Story” and then “worth telling, worth finding.” I feel as if each has an important story – and probably many of them – worth telling. And, in our old journals, and blog & social media posts, many of more stories are worth finding. They’re the…