By golly its all excitement around here! I have a new journal and I'm LOVING working it in - its another spiral bound book and approx 10 x 10" square. I've filled 8 A5 ones so far, and it was a big step to branch out from those, so forgive me if this seems like a small thing to get excited about, but I am! The extra space of the square format allows so much more possibility.
For those who like to know such things its a Pink Pig journal and the paper is a really nice quality - although I am still sticking two pages together as I like them to be nice and strong for anything I may throw at them, and don't want any bleed through.
You can see below what nice effects I got on this new paper (gessoed first) with my Neocolour II crayons - I never got subtle watercolour type results like this before.
I was so delighted that it took me a while to decide I could bear to do any work on top, but eventually I went for outlining some of the "layers" and doodling in the spaces. This was done using Pitt Artist pens which write pretty well over the crayon - except if its laid on too thick when it gets a bit waxy. However I now have a secret weapon to combat this problem in the form of a black Posca paint pen, which writes superbly over absolutely anything! Its not as fine a nib as some others you can get, but its great for doodling and drawing. The white and greeny blue are also Posca colours - I have a selection of these in medium and in the finer 0.7. The colour range is sadly much better in the bigger chunky nibs (why?) but I have fun even with the limited choice of 10-12 colours, and particularly like their opacity. If I want see through colours I go with my Promarkers.
The page was then left like this for over a week because I was so delighted with it that I didn't want to ruin it, but in the end a journal page isn't one (for me anyway) unless it has words on it, and these are what popped out of the far recesses of my brain.
So as you can see, I'm not at all troubled by the fact that I shall be 60 next week - my fifties have been absolutely fabulous (painful illness notwithstanding) and I hope my next decade will see me grow as an artist as much or more than I have in this one. We shall see!!
4 comments:
Happy Birthday for next week, Rosie.
I am impressed with the new shape of your pages, this one looks really good. love the decoration over the bottom arch of colour
Hope you enjoy your special birthday next week!i like the colours you have used on your new journal page,thanks for the information of all the pens and inks that you use.mary
Oh, these are some of my most favourite colours! And your beautiful doodly shapes are glorious ... I admire your being able to view pain as a gift, Rosie - I think you must already have maturity, insight and wisdom in abundance :).
Hope you've had a happy birthday, Rosie!
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