A couple of weeks ago Blade aka the Artistic Biker, interviewed me for his Ustream show. There were some technical difficulties but he’s fixed them and the video is now up. You can check it out on his site here.
If you haven’t seen Blade’s unique brand of art journaling before be sure to check out his live Ustream every Thursday (yes – tonight!), at 7-9pm USC (1am BST). Over the last few weeks he’s been interviewing those of us who are involved in the Top Sekrit Project over on artjournaling.ning.com and has already interviewed myself, Connie, Eveline and Less. Tonight he’s interviewing Samantha Kira I believe.
Yes, I totally stole this image from Connie at Dirty Footprints Studio. If you have 5, grab a brew and go check out her 30 Journals, 30 Days post happening right through July.
Last week was busy with personal stuff. This week is busy with art stuff while I catch up and music stuff while I unwind.
I carry an everyday journal around with me where I stick things in that interest me, write notes, doodle when I have downtime and whatnot. It’s in a sketchbook so I mostly do collage and illustration in it, and a lot of writing. Which is why I don’t show the pages too often, because a lot of the writing is quite personal. Hence the tiny images.
These are some pages from June
June Journal pages
You can see the important bits – the layout and the pictures. The details aren’t for public eyes. This is my default style of journaling and how I’ve kept a ‘visual’ journal since I was a kid. It’s not painterly, which is why I prefer the term ‘visual’ journal to ‘art’ journal but it does include lots of hand-done work. Of course I have other books where I do do more painterly things.
June Journal pages
I like to collect images that mean something or that I like the design of, or perhaps the texture. Anything that catches my eye really. Sometimes I don’t realise why it caught my eye until much later. I don’t really think too hard about it. I also do a lot of sketching.
June Journal pages
It’s also where I try out different styles and practice things, for example, the ‘Queen of Spades’ was done in the style of Suzi Blu as a practice in pencil shading. It does say that on the page, but since you can’t see the writing, credit where credit is due and all that.
This is a new book with ‘white pages’. I just finished a Moleskine that took nearly 2 years because the pages are so thin and I felt constricted by the lines. I’m enjoying the freedom of the white space with this one.
