Off the Page Art Journal Prompt

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Art Journal Prompt:  Off the Page

 

Instructions:

Create art that is outside your journal today.  A stick, a plate, a shirt or a lunch sack like I did.

 

Example Page:

  

 

How I created my page:

 

First step – Surface or Support.  Choose a surface to work on.. be creative!  I was packing my daughter’s lunch for school today so chose her lunch sack.

Second step – Sketch.  I did my sketch with a waterbrush filled with black acrylic ink.  I really like this for sketching because I can get different size lines with the same tool.

Third step – Color.  I could have stopped with a sketch but I wanted color so I used my neocolors and a waterbrush.

 

Tee’s Tips:

When you are painting something that will not remain flat.. try to take the future shape into account and compensate.  For my bag, I knew it would round out with the food inside, so I painted it a little elongated. 

Here’s what it looked like flat.  Notice how the neck and the face are a little longer than usual?  When the bag is filled.. they round and shorten.

 

Supplies used today:

• acrylic ink
• waterbrush - you can never have too many of these!
• neocolor II water-soluble crayons

 

A Word from Tee:

I’m still under the weather today… so I pulled out this prompt to do something outside our journals.

There may be more of them later… with tips on how to work with different surfaces.

 

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