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Art Journal Ideas and Techniques Part 1 PDF

This document provides various art journaling techniques and ideas in two parts, including using bleed layouts, borders, columns, cutouts, and windows. It suggests drawing the hands of elders and having them share a story, as well as using layers of automatic writing, photocopies of old photos tinted with color, and silhouettes cut from alternative papers. The techniques aim to incorporate writing, artwork, photos, and mixed media in creative page layouts.

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Art Journal Ideas and Techniques Part 1 PDF

This document provides various art journaling techniques and ideas in two parts, including using bleed layouts, borders, columns, cutouts, and windows. It suggests drawing the hands of elders and having them share a story, as well as using layers of automatic writing, photocopies of old photos tinted with color, and silhouettes cut from alternative papers. The techniques aim to incorporate writing, artwork, photos, and mixed media in creative page layouts.

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Art Journal Ideas and

Techniques

By Laura Corbin

Part 1 of 2 Parts
•  Bleed layout
•  Extend color to the full
borders of the page
•  Use writing, artwork, or
combination
•  Work over protective
sheet to shield other
pages
Layout with Borders
Columns
Cutouts and Add-ons
Windows and Pop Outs
Writing Stories--
Drawing Stories
•  Draw the hands of a
person older than you.
•  Ask them to tell you a
story from their lives
that you may have
never heard before
•  Make personal
connections
•  Discover perspective of
others
Layers of Automatic Writing
•  Color page with
darker colors
•  Write over with white
or silver gel pens
•  Create an overall
surface of writing
•  Use photocopies of
old photos from
family albums
•  “Tint” with colored
pencils
•  Use transfer
techniques
•  Scan and alter/filter
in Photoshop
Silhouettes Cut from
Alternative Papers
•  Blind contour drawings
•  Mixed media
•  Layered effect by
drawing on top of
random papers
•  Watercolor, markers,
stamps
•  Self-portraits
•  Portraits of others

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