Since following the Paint Party Friday Blog and posting every week there I have met some amazing artists. One whose art really speaks to me is Jessica Sporn. She is a very talented woman! On her blog you will learn about her colorful art making, her stencil designs, her stunning collection of Judaic art, her trips to Guatemala and the family she helps there and last, but certainly not least or even all of it, she makes terrific videos of herself creating her art!
I fell in love with this one showing how she put together an adorable mixed media art journal. I liked it so much I wanted to make it myself and after watching and re-watching THE VIDEO I spent an evening doing just that!
Here is Jessica Sporn's Wonderful Video that Inspired ME To make my own art journal like hers! THANKS JESSICA for persmission to post your video on my blog!!!!!
I have no doubt it will inspire others as well!
I set out to create an art journal for my grand daughter who will be turning 9 in September. I chose a butterfly for the covers (front and back) and cut out the shape from a colorful magazine page. I laid it on the already painted card board pieces covered in gold and green and blue acrylic paints. Then I used paint, greasy crayons, gold and silver marking pens and black ink pens to draw around the paper cut out.
I added some Hebrew Words from a Jessica Sporn Stencil I had previously purchased from her blog store. My grand kids are learning Hebrew as a second language in school so GD'll be able to read the words.
Just like in Jessica's video I found the same duck tape she used on her book at Michael's Art Supply Store. And I used it to bind the front and back covers together. Okay I am a bit of a copy cat! Although there were lots of choices in duck tape I liked this one best! (maybe I'm just a little bit of a Jessica Sporn wantabe!)
I went on to gather papers from some Somerset Magazines I had on hand for my inside cover and inside pages. Some of which I painted and some I stamped and added photos of my grand daughter.
I added a little pocket on this page with brackets, (something I learned in Seth Apter's workshop I posted about a few weeks ago). And put in tags with messages to GD. BTW the photo on the pocket is an old piece of art I made using paint-dyed paper towels and dryer sheets on a painted canavas, which I later sold!
I made suggestions for drawing, stamping and collaging on the pages. My grand daughter is quite the artist already and I have no doubt she will come up with her own ideas about how to use this little book.
I like this page with the picture of her walking on this old wooden walkway in Locke, CA on a recent trip we took together. It's exciting to see how her life is evolving and the things she is learning and doing. I can't help wondering what her life holds in store for her, what she will create it to be in the years to come!
She's probably not old enough to get the significance of this old watch half hidden behind the paint, but I am! ;-)
The inside back cover has plain slick magazine-page pages that can easily be used for drawing, stamping, writing, or collaging.
And the very back cover sports another butterfly!
Fly Yael, fly and CREATE to your hearts content!
Thank you Jessica Sporn for your wonderful video that inspired me to make this book. I have already started the second such book for my grand son who turns 9 as well on the very same day! They are twins!!!
I am linking this to Paint Party Friday this week. If you are wondering where my usual drawings and paintings from my week are check in on Sunday when I post for Sunday Sketchers on Blue Chair Diary Illustrations Blog, that is when you will learn where I ate lunch this past week and what other adventures I had that I show in my art work! See you there and there!
Thanks for your comments, they mean the world to me!!!! Really! They make my day! ;-))))
ONE MORE THING:
Thank you for the prayers and good wishes for healing you sent last week to my dearest friend, Patty.
She will start Chemo therapy tomorrow. She strongly believes in the power of prayer,
positive thought and energy. So any more of those you can send her way will be greatly appreciated by her and by me.
;-)
Have a wonderful weekend!
ONE MORE THING:
Thank you for the prayers and good wishes for healing you sent last week to my dearest friend, Patty.
She will start Chemo therapy tomorrow. She strongly believes in the power of prayer,
positive thought and energy. So any more of those you can send her way will be greatly appreciated by her and by me.
;-)
Have a wonderful weekend!
