For so long I struggled, and likely will again, with art journaling. Lately, it’s all I want to do. I’ve even started another book, one from the public library’s free shelf. It’s a teen fiction book called Kira-Kira.

kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining

I loved that! Also since it’s a slightly smaller book, I thought it would be perfect for another art journal.

I turned to the middle of the book and started painting with my fingers. No thought…just went for it. I definitely thought I’d wrecked these pages several times over.

First when I accidentally flopped the wet pages together, causing them to stick and tear away the top layer.

But in fact, it created some really fun texture and effect that I could have never created on my own.

Yummy, grungy texture…makes me so happy!!

The second and third time I thought I’d ruined the page was when I stamped the words with dye based in and it quickly faded and soaked into the painted page.  I went back with pigment ink and it was a really crappy image. I once again re-inked with pigment, carefully alining the stamp and finally got an image I could be happy about.  As it turns out, the dye based ink looks a bit like a shadow that I meant to have…happy accident.

I wish I didn’t have so many things on my plate today…I’d love to play with paint and paper all day!  What are you doing today?