Art Journaling Process Video: Junk Journal Flip Through: Journal With Me
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Finding Your Style: Episode 2: Collecting Inspiration
Each week I take a look at my previous journals to find clues about my ever-elusive style. I encourage your to reflect upon your own work and discover some things about your creativity, too.
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gina
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My very first collage /recycle journal was made when I was about 8 years old.It was a very wet school holiday and mum gave us some scissors ,a pot of glue and some old magazines, which were the old large Australian Womens Weekly.We used 1 magazine as our glue book and cut images out of the other mags to glue in .I can remember having a page full of dogs and one with beaches .As a young teenager I was mad about animals ,so filled exercise books with animal photos I found .And when I started art and using a sketch book I would add photos, writing ,colour ,fabric what ever caught my eye.My style has changed over the years and while I absolutely love your work its not something that I myself can make no matter how hard I try ,so instead I work with what I can make .
I love this series. Thank you.
I love it, I love it, I looooove iiiiit!🤗
Loved this video. I have been going thru old scrapbooks that I have kept since the 80's to revisit things I liked and saved. It was funny that you than posted this video that went along with my train of thought. I too don't like dead space and neatness in my work. I love collage, layering and am very eclectic in my choices of what I like. My epiphany when going thru my books was that I like things that hold other things. lol. Especially decorative boxes, jars and containers. I love your books because they so reflect my style. Love your homework project and can't wait to do it. I am camping this weekend and it will be a great time to do this in the motor home if it rains. Thanks for all your inspiration!!
I'm loving this series of yours! One fab thing I noticed, which made me laugh was when you had your epiphany with the fabrics not being linear and molding into each other, behind that page you were holding up was a page that you'd collected that had colourful boxes, small tables and chairs atop them and they were all on a different angle to each other! Brilliant! 🙂💎
On it! This is great!
Re following directions .... kind of requires us to stay within the lines or parameters, so it makes sense to me you'd say you're not good with them, and also one reason I'm inspired by you. If I can, I avoid the directions, preferring to dive in and see if I can figure it out. I'm discovering the freedom and soul satisfaction of pleasing my spirit and own artistic style, instead of trying uselessly to live up to what I think others might like - of learning to love the beautifully imperfect creations coming out of me. And, I love that we can love, appreciate, respect another's technique without the pressure of trying to duplicate it. Oh my goodness, this subject gets my passions going ...
Okay, direction/questions, etc. I wonder about something I touched on - developing our own unique style through inspiration not duplication, where is the line, and how to find or create the market niche for our unique brand/style, bringing them together. ??
Am I making sense, and is this an applicable question for this series? ❤❤❤
You are brought up some great questions. I will ponder them and see if I can come up with some solutions.
Thank you!
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gina
Great series. I have certainly learned a lot about myself through collaging magazine images.
Gina - this is so amazing to see!! I have A TON of journals kept for many many many years, but they are literally HANDWRITTEN : ))) I just love how you journaling artists have taken journaling to a WHOLE NOTHER level ... an ART level as well preserving memory!!! I get my non-linear fix in my classrooms: I teach Toni Morrison...William Faulkner (my god of literature)...and of course Virginia Woolf. We usually reference Quentin Tarantino (film, among others). Thanks for always inspiring and being so genuine!!!! xXRenee
I would love to be a student in your class.
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gina
I had old notebooks full of magazine clippings of things I was drawn too as well! I started doing it in Jr. High and called it my re-magazine. Hair, make-up, clothes, colors, decorating, gardening etc. Sadly they were all lost in a move. How fun it would be to look back on them! Love your videos!
I laughed so hard when you were talking about your class. I can never follow directions either but always love how my projects turn out. I’m enjoying your channel so much. My scrapbook style is uniquely mine and my family love it.
Have ya all heard of inspiration boards? Or inspiration books? Thats what we're doing and it is "totally" an ARTIST thing. I love magazines and have bins and file folders and envelopes of clippings that make me swoon. I'm in the process of gluing them into blank books. One tip is to use glue tape. Your pages won't buckle no matter what kind of paper it's on. I'm loving these videos! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.
Good to know!
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gina
Love this series!! I have old books that I am now going through to see what I love and keep being drawn to!! Thank you!!
When the Smash books first came out I bought several, some for me and some for gifts. This video is just how I used the smash books. Love your work. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.
Thanks so much for the ideas you give me! I have a lot of ripped out pages all over the place, in folders and bins, and never thought to glue them on notebook paper and put them in a binder! My journalling is mostly mind dump writing in cheap spiral notebooks, bought in bulk when school supplies are on sale at back-to-school time. I write down my creative thoughts, put them away to try out 'some day'.
I have tons of Country Sampler magazines with dog-eared pages of things I love. I go back through them, from time to time, reminding myself of what I liked about it. I never thought of making notes about it 😄 I'm going to have a lot of fun tearing out pages and putting it all together in one place!
this sure does make you stop and think about "WHY" we glue images down.I use to ,but then I stopped.time to get back into it.thank you for what to do with all the old scrapbooking magazines.thank you for sharing.you sure do inspire me.
Wow way more organized than I ever was!!! Gosh I felt good when I put my pictures in my storage thing in the correct order by what I wanted to scrap together . Ok I need to work in my glue book more and do this. I will tell you I did my daughter's wedding album and my whole way of working a page has become so much more relaxed . I use to pick the pictures for a page and spends a couple days pondering what colors and how I was going to do it. I did the album so fast and free.
The stampington and company has their back issues on sale 99 cents and up . They have great magazines for this
Thank you so much! I have been trying to find my style since I started journaling and it was staring me in the face with all my collected pictures. Love your videos!
Okay, I'll take you up on the mini album series! Even if it is just a flip through, I'd love to see your unique style. Your art shows so much imagination, that it would be cool to see how it came out in your mini albums :)
tfs, look forward to the next episode!
My personal revelations so far are that I love to glue and collage. (I have been collecting images since I was a teenager.) I love fussy cutting. I hate acrylic paint because it is messy. Making endless layers and covering them up is definitely not my style. I don't really like words in my work. The process is more important than the product. And, I don't use art to process my emotions and/or life. As for following directions-I never do, even for recipes!
Great! Sounds like you are very in touch with your artistic style. Happy creating!
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gina
Really interesting perspective!
Oh my goodness I have a binder where I cut out layouts and made notes! I totally forgot about it. I was obsessed with Elsie back in the day and I found her box of inspiration cards I bought years ago. You had me thinking I should pull them out and look at them again. I was thinking of repurposing the cards but might peek at them first to inspire me again. I love love this series because I have been noticing when I create I'm getting caught up in if it looks good or if it looks like what I see on Pinterest. I was working on a art journal page in my TN and kept second guessing what I liked. Boy you sure make me rethink about MY style is so thank you!!
OH MY...YES!!! We get so caught up in comparison that we forget why we are creating in the first place. I definitely will address this in a future video.
Thank you!
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gina
I'm pretty new to art journaling and mixed media, but I still love the series. I don't have much old stuff to go back to, so thanks for the homework. I did have a few💡moments! Tfs, Fia
Please please do a series on mini albums!!! I'd love to see that
You got it!
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gina
I have a book a lot like this binder you have. Until now, I didn't realize this is the ground work for developing my style. I thought I was just collecting home decorating ideas I liked. I too, put notes on my pages, because I wanted to see when I flip back thru a year later, that the same things still appealed to me. Never studied the pages from the prospective as an art junk journal. Thank you for helping me find some clarity.
Awesome! I am so glad you have already started this journey, and didn't even realize it!
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gina
I’m so glad I found you on RUclips! I love your style and you are so easy and fun to watch. I just started journaling recently and trying to find my style, so I’m finding these vids very helpful thank you so much for sharing 😊
Loved watching this! I had a binder like this! I threw it out a few years ago because I thought I had used everything from them that I wanted.That was before I started art journaling. Wish I had it now! You video has inspired me to start another one. One thing I do know is I love your style, but I am one of those that likes straight lines and it's hard for me to put something on a page that's not perfectly lined up. I guess that's why I like your pages so much - they are so creative and I want to be more like that. I'm working on it!
Great! You have already made a huge discovery about yourself and that is awesome.
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gina
Oh my, I recognized some of those pages! I have binders full of torn out pages :-) In 1980 while in college I spent a month in New York City, I was an Art major, we went to a museum and I discovered Joseph Cornell, his work was a big influence on my art. Unfortunately life got in the way and I lost that part of me and would really like to find it again. Thanks for your inspiration.
Oh yes....You must find that part of you again!
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gina
I would like to see some of your small scrapbooks it encourages me.that I'm perfectly perfect even if my pages don't look like those scrapbook magazines.
I love your magazine pages and clips. I have multiple composition notebooks that I have done this same thing! We are artistic twins-lol!!
Gina, I love you sharing this as well. I have been doing something similar for a long time, however, I had not taken the time to look at the WHY, or my STYLE, with all my gathered images. You've given us great homework, I am even more excited now to go through my stack of gathered magazine bits and find more about me in there! I knew there was reason why I pulled out all those images! Tfs ❤️😀
Oh my days Gina, you have no idea! I watched this video within an hour of you putting it up and it been a ride, I can tell you. Apologise in advance as this may be a long comment! I ended up creating a 10 side book and writing a review! I make collage pages from magazines and discovered:
I love Nature - I already knew that and I use a lot of green. I love water colour but for back ground mainly as I cannot paint. I adore sketched images but never use them. I have to co-ordinate colours which is why I am afraid to use it, I stick to neutrals and I obviously hate straight edges, I tear everything, If I have a straight edge, it goes against the edge of the page or gets covered with washi! Worst of all I discovered that I really want to be able to draw and watercolour detail. I love drawing and although I am an art teacher, I cannot draw in detail or accurately although my dad is a true master, and I found this really upsetting. I think I have tried to compensate for this for a very long time. Thank you for the journey and sorry again for the length of this comment xx
Never apologize for making a profound discovery about yourself. How wonderful! I am so happy you are able to dig deep and search for your artistic style. Thank you for sharing this story with me. You are an inspiration.
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gina
Oh you were the inspiration, I thank you for that, deeply. xx
I am totally gonna have to make a binder like that now, I have been saving magazine pages instead of the whole magazine, since my shelves were getting overwhelmed.
I'm NOT into home decorating, but I have lots of outdoor photography magazines like Arizona Highways and Outdoor Photographer...Can I use those? I would be able to add comments to those. Finally, may we see some of your mini-journals? I would love to see some of them!
Inspiration can come from anywhere.
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gina
I have the exact same Journal! We truly have the same nerd effect!!!! I can't wait to go back to my journal and see make notes. BTW. I had my church giggle moment at a bingo night my friend insisted I go to. All the people were so serious about this stupid game I started to laugh. Never went to Bingo again.
Thanks. I have a book just like yours. I will go on an adventure with new eyes. Thanks
I have saved that VERY SAME PAGE "French Connection!" I will go look for it. It also was my favorite! I get what you're saying. I'm on a hunt looking for.my style! Thanks!
Love this series...I get so excited when I get a notification of one! Actually, I love all of your videos..especially journal with me! I started a big binder of home decorating magazine pictures about 15 years ago. I would usually write in margins what I like about them. I'm going to get it out tonight and go through it..haven't done that in awhile! I'm still fairly new to journaling and am definately wanting to find my style as well as my method of Journaling. I'm experimenting with glue books, altered books, junk journals, and faubonichee journaling. I bought a fancy, embellished JJ and I don't like that as well as the one I made with a lot of different papers and not so much embellishing! Do you bounce around from journal to journal or stick with one for a while? I feel I'm not accomplishing much with all the bouncing, lol!! Thanks again for all your sharing! It's I spiraling as well as fun!💕
Thank you! Yes, bouncing around can get overwhelming and counterproductive. I felt that same way at the beginning of the summer so I made a journal plan. It helped me to clarify what journal was for what purpose and I felt so much better. Perhaps you should try that. I made a video about it here is the link:
ruclips.net/video/kAxHQ7LkRyA/видео.html
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gina
Just in watching you flick through your pages I noticed im very similar in that i dont like structure in my pages, lines dots etc they make me uninspired as they are to linear or organised if you will and as for instructions I'm a dive in don't read instructions kind of girl as i feel instructions are telling me how i am supposed to do something and i don't like that lol, gosh this is brilliant Gina really got me thinking, i know what i like but I struggle to put it all together...
I love turquoise, too! When you are journaling, I guess you are experiencing the perfection of imperfection. Your hodge-podge of colors and designs always come together in a great way at the end.
I have experienced the church laugh a few times! LOL
Love this topic! I say thank goodness for Pinterest so I can manage images that don't collect dust. My stumbling block is organization. I have a zillion ideas and items for journaling, but never seem to get much accomplished because I'm so scattered. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear them 😊
Great suggestions! I am constantly looking for better ways to organize. One thing that really helps me is to plan out my journaling - I know that sounds nerdy but sometimes just making a list of what I want to journal/scrapbook about gives me a sense of purpose and accomplishment, and those are very powerful.
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gina
I really wanted to love scrapbooking, but I didn't. I don't like the perfection of the pages I saw others do back 20 years ago when I was trying to scrapbook, I am much more a art journal type of person, and I love the junk journal idea. I like to make them but am not as sure about how to work in them.
Yep! Having a junk journal and working in a junk journal are two totally different things. I'll will address how I overcame that in a future video.
thank you!
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gina
Hehe, I made my Hairstyles "church laugh" Yesterday when I told her I couldn't grow my hair out long because I would look like the lady from Kentucky that wouldn't marry gay people, she seriously started laughing so hard she had to step away from the chair, and said...Oh I shouldn't be laughing.....but I told her that I was glad she did. Thanks for giving me a new name for it. Church Laughing....Perfect!
I absolutely love your style, and have been instantly drawn to it. My problem is, I feel like I have always been very matchy matchy, and I don't know how to get myself out of that. I want to be more organic, and less critical with my creations...I just don't know how to do that. How do I push myself out of the mindset that everything needs to match?! Take you again for all your insight and tips!
Great questions! I wish I had an instant answer. Let me do some thinking and I'll try to come up with some solutions.
thank you!
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gina
Anna Buitendorp you should watch Shannon green do journaling by fives because you have a certain amount of time to do each step and you don't have time to match everything maybe doing that will help you to relax and not to be so rigid with matching your stuff just a thought
Anna, I can so relate to your statements. I have always been matchy matchy, as well, and I want things "square with the world", to quote my mother's observation of me. My stacks of towels and linens and t-shirts are ruler straight! BUT.... this whole junk journal, art journal thing has given me the freedom to be messy and off kilter! 😂 In fact, it's encouraged! So to do this perfectly.... you have to be imperfect. Gotta love the irony in that!!! Go for it and if it doesn't look the way you want... cut out a larger picture and slap over it!!
Some great ideas here, love your technique :) I have never seen/heard of Somerset magazine, I love the images in there, maybe it's not available in the UK? New subbie here :) TFS xox
Hello Suz! Thank you for the sweet comments. I believe Somerset has magazines you can look at and order from their website
stampington.com/#
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gina
So love this!!! I cut things out at work & tape them into a composition book. I just ordered a set of Koi watercolors & Tombow markers (on sale @ Michael's for $15 per set!!!) and I am going to journal on those pages in my composition books. I tape business cards, greeting cards, invitations, neat ads, etc into this book cause that's all I can get my hands on @ work. I did order 5 colors of china markers to play with (your influence!!!).
This must be a teacher thing. I have binders like this: Gardens. Fiber arts. Paper arts. Card making.
I went through my first art journal last week. I analyzed my entries. I found collage is my thing. I love to glue paper in interesting patterns. I watch mixed media artists who collage then cover it up with paint and stencils and stamps...it literally gives me anxiety lol. Why cover up all that beautiful work for texture? Why? LOL. I to am a non liner artist. Straight lines wear me out and I can't for the life of me use odd numbers of items. But, all in all, this art journey has brought me peace, helped with my anxiety/depression/agoraphobia. I am in such a beautiful place now.
Hooray! You are an inspiration! I am so happy journaling and art are helping you find peace.
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gina
Loved your quilt closet magazine page! I find some images call to me like yours did and I use them again and again in different journals. Changing size, placement and focus keeps them fresh and iconic. Other people wouldn't see them as such, but they really speak to me. It could be the color, the emotion, or the movement they inspire that attracts me. They add little punch of joy whenever I rediscover them in an old journal page.
Non-linear? THAT IS ME TOO! I can't sew a straight line or glue a scrapbook paper on straight to save my life! My husband ALWAYS instantly notices! (He's ... SPATIAL...I'm NOT!) I drive him NUTS!!!!
Gina, I LOVE your style! For those of us that cannot sew or glue things in straight lines, like me, you have been an inspiration!
Hi. How does your etsy shop work? Will you have items we can browse and order or do we need to place specific custom special orders?
Hi Elaine, my shop is on vacation now. I will let my subscribers know as soon as I open it again, probably September. Currently, I am not taking custom orders.
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gina
TheReBookery thank you.
I can't follow instructions either 😂