Yesterday, in between working (as a school teacher), taking my son to football, collecting my daughter from Drama, walking the dog, and feeding everyone (by everyone I mean the kids, me, the husband, the dog and several small animals), I managed to complete a small page in my *new* junk journal LOL! This page used to be a small cardboard box which contained cereal bars. I just had the sudden urge to paint (which often comes at a most inconvenient time) so this page was completed very quickly in a slap-happy fashion :-)
I used acrylic paints, oil pastels, a stabilo marks-all pencil, and some paint pens to create a messy background, and I scribbled into wet paint with the end of a paintbrush:
Anyone else work in a chaotic mess like this?!
I used my lovely old vintage typewriter to add a phrase to the page. This isn't the most pretty of typewriters, and it's a peculiar colour, but it types well.
I used washi tape to add a previously doodled face from my Art Doodle Love book:
And then hand-wrote the journaling with a dip-pen:
yes, I recognise that chaos, therein lies creativity, which you have in spades. Love the junk journal. and the typewriter!
ReplyDeleteWas that all at the same time or three different occasions?? :) Which did you least mind being called?:)
ReplyDeleteFabulous page Kate. Your work space is relatively clean and tidy, some days I have so much on the go that I can't see my desk!
ReplyDeleteIt is a very clourful and pretty page.
ReplyDeleteLiefs, Melanie
Fabulous Kate, I don't see it as messy, just beautifully creative and full of expression.
ReplyDeletehugs {Brenda} x0x
I love your slap-happy painting!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Love, love, love... your journal ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteI love your junk page! Colorful and lots of fun details to discover. I also love seeing it at scale. I would have thought it to be much larger. A chaotic work space seems to be the norm among artists. I don't know that I've ever seen a tidy artistic work space. At least not one in action. LOL
ReplyDeletei love your backgrounds, all those colours all jumbled around is just great
ReplyDeleteGill x
An anorak? I think I need more details about that one!
ReplyDeleteLOL! OK, here's a definition I found on Urban Dictionary: A person obsessively interested in a thing or topic that doesn't seem to warrant such attention. Haha!
DeleteHi Kate, LOVE this page :-) and I think you have slightly more room on your desk than I do on mine....XXX
ReplyDeleteThat is quite mild to what I've been called at school today (I'm a teaching assistant).
ReplyDeleteYour page is wonderful and I particularly like your writing using the dip pen.
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I love, love, love this Kate!!! You are so amazing, and so very inspiring!!! Truly wish we lived closer!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, I so wish we lived closer too Ophelia!
DeleteSlap happy works for me Kate! Love your cheerful and interesting page. Been called the first two plus pages more - teacher forever but never an anorak!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a coat worn by Eskimos so thank you for adding to my knowledge as well as wowing with your bright and zany!
Keep having fun!
I don'T know about"anorak" but a witch makes magic and a gypsy is a very colorful and interesting person so I guess you have had great compliments! And as I said when I was young "Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me...! great journal page Kate! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteCreative mess is the best kind! Fab page Kate, just ordered Art Doodle Love (thanks for the link) ;o) x
ReplyDeleteWhat can I tell you except absolutely fabulous!! You are the it girl for sure. Your schedule sounds like my daughter - she teaches 5th grade and has 4 kids and is always on the go. Very creative and I love your sentiment - just love it. How do you bind your art journal - excuse me - your junk journal!! Thanks Sugar -
ReplyDeleteSandy
Hi Sandy,
DeleteAhh, thanks for your kind words :-) I bound this journal with a bind it all machine, but I didn't want the wires to show, so I covered it with sticky-back canvas (Claudine Hellmuth Studio) which I painted first. Of course, you have to make a 'spine' to go inside the canvas or it would just stick to the spirals!
Kate
Another fab page Kate and you dont look like you are working in chaos - that looks positively tidy compared to mine once the paints come out.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should go back to scrapbooking that never made as much mess lol - mind you its not half as much fun though
fantastic page, Kate, I love it!
ReplyDeleteHopefully only your kids said those things (in jest!) - my boys call me a hobbit now I'm smaller than them so I guess it goes with the territory! Lovely page despite the hectic life - maybe you work better under pressure?!! x
ReplyDeleteLOVE this page! LOVE your colors and doodling and hand writing - wish I could write like that! I am too afraid! And YES I work in chaos, too! Need to get off of the computer and clean my latest mess but I first wanted to say how much I LOVE this!
ReplyDeleteI love the page!! :)
ReplyDeletelol and i am familiar with the chaotic mess as I usually work sitting cross legged on the floor in front of my cubby where all my art supplies are ;)