Some New Journal Pages

This year I have decided to use the larger Moleskin Sketchbook to use as my Art Journal. After working on my Remains of the Day Journals for so long, my fingers were itching to be back in paint. This past week I decided that it was time to start my new journal. I had read on one of the journaling yahoo sights that Millande was doing a series of videos with prompts to start out the year. It sounded as good of place as any to start. These are some of the prompt pages I have completed.

Millande has a prompt and a video for everyday. Some of the videos for the day are two parts, none being longer than nine minutes. I really enjoy her style and painting. Now, I can finally use some of those Twinkling H2O's I have sitting around. Her journal is made of watercolor paper. Mine is not. I decided to just use her word prompts and go from there. She has a wealth of ideas on these videos.
p.s the pages with a border I used Nancy from Crowabout's border sheets.

The prompt here was use a diary or calendar page.

The prompt - include a smile on your page. This Art Journal is going to have a lot of quotes so I figured this was a good place to begin.

The prompt here was to use a checkered border.

The prompt was have a tree someplace on your page. I used my own photograph tranferred on to the page with gel medium.

Here, we were to use a large circle on the journal page. After my first trip to the beach in a few days due to the cold, I finally was inspired.

The first spread was to be an intro into your art journal. I sort of pooped out on this page. I figure I will go back and finish it as the inspiration comes...

Some New Journal Pages

I started a new moleskin journal about a week ago. I thought I would share some of my pages. I always think the first pristine page is the hardest. This time I took a piece of scrap paper I have been using and to blot and mask some other things. I glued that in and just put the word Begin as a starting point. Sometimes that is all you have to do - take the first step.

The young girl and the script are from Paperbag Studios. The other image is an old one from Lost Aussie. I have been playing around with stamping my stamps and then scanning them into my computer and then printing them out. I have gotten some interesting results. This page is exactly that.

I was waiting in line at the store the other day. It was a madhouse. There were two, late twenty early thirty looking, girls in line in front of me. I was reading one of the celeb magazine's while they whispered and chatted. All of a sudden one girl looked at the other and said she could feel her eggs ripening. I decided to do a journal page using that quote.

My mantra!

I incorporated a vintage photo with another photograph that I took to do this spread. It seemed such a good fit. The new with the old.

When I saw this vintage photo of the woman with the whip I knew she was getting control of her life. Some women use their looks and wiles, some their brains, others just have to pull out the whip.

A Moleskin Art Journal

Most times it starts with this little Moleskin sketchbook with the pretty lilac wrapper. I love the size of this journal, small and compact. The sturdy pages. I use this as a place to work on things in my head, keep some of my digital collages and bits and pieces of my art life. I usually go through one a month. I still get that feeling of excitement as I open a new one up.

Here is my latest almost finished. Some pages are completed, some are just waiting for the right word or quote. Sometimes the image says it all.

Have your moleskin's ever gotten so thick that they wouldn't close without the little elastic ribbon? So thick that your spine is almost broken? I am debating with this one in redoing the spine. It is very iffy. has anyone had to do this?

Almost finished.