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Working on Text, Maps, & Other Print: How to Make Them Your Blank Art Journal Page
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3 жыл бұрынI get a lot of questions about how to make beautiful work on text, handwritten, and print papers as well as maps and eco prints: how to use them as a “blank” page in your journal and mixed media work. Well, here are five ideas using soft pastels, collage, acrylic paint, stencils, pencil, and watercolour.
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This is a full-length video showing a ton of fun ways to use stencils in your pages:
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Kelly
Email: kelly@bookandpaperarts.com
Instagram: @book.and.paper.arts
@joyfreeman9962 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this video. I find creating relaxing and helps with my mental health, but I’m not an artist. Here you’ve made it doable, thank you! Also love the antique and vintage papers you use. I love to watch your “what’s new in the studio” videos. You find some lovely things that I just drool over, lol.
@BookandPaperArts Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Joy. I have been told my voice is calming and to this I say, What the What??? I have a new "What's New" video coming soon - including handwritten papers from the 1600s! thanks for the vote of confidence. Have a lovely weekend! Kelly
@suelutz5364 7 ай бұрын
@@BookandPaperArtsI enjoy watching some channels with lots of chatter, but I do like your "this is what I did and why" approach. I love the simplicity of your art.
@BookandPaperArts 7 ай бұрын
Why thank you, Sue. It's tricky (but not impossible) to do chatter well so I just stick (mostly) to teaching and encouraging and then encouraging all of us to get off of the screen and go make stuff. I appreciate the vote of confidence! Kelly @@suelutz5364
@JournalsByLeigh Жыл бұрын
I'm so pleased I found your channel. I love your work. ❤
@BookandPaperArts Жыл бұрын
Why thank you, Leigh. That makes me very happy to hear! Kelly
@AliceDel Жыл бұрын
so many great ideas, here. i especially like the way you made poppies from the eco print patterns. that was one of my favorite pages! thanks for your generosity.
@BookandPaperArts Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Alice. That is truly nice to here! I am really getting into making abstract blotches with ink or paint then drawing over and into them when they are dry (a little bit about this in the link below). And you? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rM-mlaaKrJjaiH0.html
@La1Senora 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful work, Miss Kelly! Thanks for the inspiration 🌹
@smurfette1961 2 жыл бұрын
I have learned a lot from your videos. I think the course will be great!! Thank you so much for sharing.
@cerropaint 2 жыл бұрын
I started out reading your blog this morning…and have gone down the rabbit hole of Kelly! Watching one video after another and ready to chuck my paints and canvases and move into books and boiled pages!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
Why thank you, Denise. That is one of the nicest things I have heard in ages. Hope you are making good stuff this weekend!
@sevenhawks3020 3 жыл бұрын
I really like these techniques. I’m currently working on a journal for my daughter in law and I’m going to try some of these techniques. Beautiful! I just bought another ephemera pack from you…I just couldn’t help myself! LOL. The first items I received from you are so incredible and really are an inspiration for me to just create! Thank you for sharing!!
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Why Angelia, I am so so happy you like the paper and the other goodies. Email is on its way.🌼🌻🌷
@blanchetait8063 3 жыл бұрын
Great video Kelly, I really liked this video as your techniques are simple but so effective and fun to do!!! Thank you for the free vintage papers.
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Why thank you, Blanche. When I teach workshops in my studios, the first (and second and on and on) thing I tell people is to be bold. Give yourself permission to let it be simple. Hope you make some gorgeous things!
@rgporter1957 2 жыл бұрын
As always, brilliant! I love all of these ideas, Kelly. And, of course, i love how you present your techniques. I have signed up for your newsletter several times and still don't get them. 😢 I'm going to try again and crossed all my body parts. i love the idea of having a course this fall teaching more if your techniques. You go, Girl!💗
@alicecabral8051 3 жыл бұрын
Great ideas. TFS. I look forward to the newsletter on Sunday
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Alice. And drafting the thing now. I like to announce it's coming out to make me do it and not make excuses.😁😉
@dennajohnson3177 2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your style! I’m so happy to have found your Channel. So genuine and new. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift of crafting!
@lynnparise9841 3 жыл бұрын
Great ideas, Missy! These were fun and I really liked the pops of red, poppies! Beautiful, fun! Thanks Kelly. I'm looking foreword to this Sundays newsletter from you!
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Lynn. I need to get my rear end in gear and start drafting the thing. It always takes ages and I have to make myself stay in the chair as I would be rather be altering something. 😁
@lynnparise9841 3 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts I totally understand! Like having to do frickin' homework, when you want to be outside playing!! BUT, you are a terrific writer Kelly, and we all look foreword to seeing your newsletters! Thank you in advance! ;)
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
@@lynnparise9841 Golly, thanks, Lynn. I used to be a journalist, back in the day, and wrote a book. Long out of print but I tried. And more and more I am hoping to use the newsletter for writing more of my own stuff, folding in little by little.
@laracraft82 2 жыл бұрын
Love that little booklet so so cute 😍 that is a very good point giving the receiver some room to write or add images themselves. The roses are my favourite 💕
@UrbanGrrl69 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing these great tips and techniques Kelly. Look forward to the course. Wondering when you say boiled book, did you boil them all at once, different times, additives etc. Would love to see these too in a course.
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Pauline, I put all the pages together, added onion skins throughout and some rusty things, then tie them all together into a bundle. Then immerse in a rusty cast iron stock pot full of black tea. Simmer for a few hours. Then dry, but only after having dripped wet, rusty tea everywhere in your small flat. Hey presto, boiled book! (Thank you for the suggestion. I really, really want feedback and to know what people are curious about seeing. And hey, I am going to France in two weeks, so yippee!)
@janicep7119 2 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts Thanks was answers my question, Thanks for this list of ideas so simple yet effective!!
@marthamurphy7940 2 жыл бұрын
I love your videos!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, dear Martha.
@nicolaj3294 3 жыл бұрын
Lovely ideas Kelly. I started tearing out pages and glueing pages in my first altered book yesterday, using your techniques. Online course sounds great.
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Hey hey, that's so cool, Nicola. Would love to see what you make in your altered book! I am working on a new one and the spine just broke in two after ten days of prepping and I COULD JUST SCREAM but instead I will see if I can mend it. Fingers crossed. 😉
@nicolaj3294 3 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts oh no, how frustrating. Good luck with the restoration work
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
@@nicolaj3294 Yeah, I could just spit. But that wouldn't help, so I am mending mending mending. Holding out hope. 😉
@lauramarycann9590 3 жыл бұрын
Love love love your channel 👩🎨😍 fantastico Bella
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Why thank you so, LauraMary. You have made my day. 🌷🌻🌼😁
@barbaradaly4930 3 жыл бұрын
Very inspiring. Our souls are from elsewhere. Where?
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
It is by Rumi: "My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that. And I intend to end up there." Something that has been much on my mind as late. Reading about the mystics. Questioning reality. Ha. I sound like a kid at college. Just turned 60, and believe me, I am questioning reality and what we understand - or think we do - more than ever. And you?
@annwaddell7321 3 жыл бұрын
This is great! I have done the stencils before with ink, but I am a bit intimidated with paint, but what you did does not scare me! it inspires me. I will let you know how it goes. Thank you.
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, please keep me posted, Ann. Would love to hear how it works for you. If you look at my video on working with stencils (if you are curious, that is), I show a ton of techniques: some are scarier than others.😁 (Link is in the text above.)
@annwaddell7321 2 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts Hello Again! I had great success with the 3 pieces I worked on. I used oil pastels and a book page to make the pretty yellow flowers, and they look great. Then in 2 phases, I did the acrylic flowers and the water colored flowers. They both came out beautifully. I stayed pretty true to your instruction and I plan to do more, and perhaps do some from my own imagination based on your techniques. Thank you so much! I rewatched the videos you posted the links to, and loved them, and have watched a lot of your older ones, so lots more experimentation to come. I appreciate the encouragement!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
@@annwaddell7321 Hi Ann. This is so exciting. Your flowers sound very cool and yes, you are quite right the next step is you make the style your own. This is what I do: learn a technique by copying the original artist, then start looking at flowers in books and real ones in the garden (and yeah, on Pinterest, too 😁) then try my version of them on cheapo paper until I get something that really pops. So, go get 'em!
@annwaddell7321 2 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts More news! I am working on a project for family members which is sort of a journal focused on their life. There is a section about their house, and one about their garden. Last night I made a flip out of the water color that I did, with a collage of gardens on the back, and under it will be some photos of their own garden. It's very exciting. Thanks for the technique and the inspiration!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
@@annwaddell7321 Ann, I adore pull-outs and foldy things and inserts and pockets and surprises of all kinds. This journal sounds all kinds of charming.
@MissDaisyParsley 3 жыл бұрын
These are all wonderful ideas and very helpful! I’ve put these on my to-do list! That sounds like a wonderful course!
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Whew! After you said something about not being sure of working on or over papers like these, you were my test to see if the techniques are tempting. Have a good, creative weekend, Susan. 🌷🌻🌼
@debgamble8368 3 жыл бұрын
Hi new subbie here, thanks for these lovely ideas ❤️
@BookandPaperArts 3 жыл бұрын
Hello and welcome, Deb. So glad we found each other. Hope you have a creative weekend!🌼🌻🌷
@nevilgrubb 2 жыл бұрын
It’s funny what each person sees in a blob of colour…..you saw a petal and I saw a chair with a person sitting and holding a child!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Carrie. This is quite the Rorshach test, no? Looking at my own photo of the painting, I see balloons. Or maybe candy. So, all good stuff, anyway. 😁🌼🌻🌷
@nevilgrubb 2 жыл бұрын
@@BookandPaperArts I know, right!!
@dennajohnson3177 2 жыл бұрын
I would love the scans. Thank you very much!
@BookandPaperArts 2 жыл бұрын
Hello and welcome, Denna. Thank you so much for your kind words. You have made my day! Here is the link to a boatload of scans. I hope you make some good stuff! Kelly bookandpaperarts.com/free-scans/
@diannajohnston4558 2 жыл бұрын
I would love to take your course..is it too late???
@AudreyTedeman-mn3ig 3 ай бұрын
Do you use colored pencils or watercolor pencils?
@BookandPaperArts 3 ай бұрын
Hi there Audrey. Please forgive my late reply. I tend to use water soluble pencils such as watercolour pencils or Derwent ink sticks and the like. 🌷🌼🌻
@sueslaughter487 5 ай бұрын
What is a boiled book?
@BookandPaperArts 5 ай бұрын
Hi Sue. It is a book that where the pages were put together then tied into a bundle then boiled (steamed, really) in a tea and rust bath. The pages look something like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdRnjM55uNzVe4k.html They are quite easy to make once you get the knack and are very dramatic.
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