Art Journaling!

No matter how much of a creative rut I get myself stuck in sometimes, the one ever-present medium/way of working/whatever you want to call it I come back to is always art journaling and altered art. I've been getting inspired by the many time lapse videos on YouTube of others' creative work recently, and thought it was high time I started a new creative project.

This is a "PaperBlanks" journal which I bought on holiday in Scotland, some years ago now. It was full of waffle about my pre-spoonie life (not good) and I didn't want to throw it away or rip the pages out, yet I needed to "erase the past" somehow. So in stepped trusty old PVA glue, paint and a hoard of scrap paper and bits of old envelope that I knew I was keeping for something-now they have a use!

My lovely thick, textured, layered book ready to go!!!

I've pasted over the random scribblings (reading back made me cringe!) and now I have some brilliant art journaling backgrounds to inspire me. It's really hard to create on a blank piece of white paper, so this is a really good idea if you're new to journaling, this took me a morning of basically sticking down and painting over, I wasn't really thinking about careful compostition or placing things neatly, and the overlapping and sticky-out-ness (it's a word now, okay) of the glued pages just adds to the whole general scrapbooky-journal-y feel of the thing! Okay I'm starting to ramble now, but art journal lovers will understand-hopefully!

Now to fill the pages with loveliness-I can't wait to start my altered art journal journey!

Follow the Flickr feed of this project here: [JayHell] Art Journaling

 Who else loves art journaling and altered/mixed media art? Tell me in the comments below or on Twitter @JayHell83

J :) x