art stuff: revisiting a favorite

Is it weird that looking at favorite art journaling pages makes me happy?

art stuff: adding layers

Walking away from an art journal page is sometimes difficult, but coming back to it can be rewarding.

art stuff: gelli plate play

This makes me happy.

Art stuff: adding layers

Adding layers in my art journal today.

Art stuff: it's a gelli art kind of day

A rainy day calls for some gelli art play!

Art stuff: doodling & gelli prints

Having a little fun with doodles and my gelli plate.

art stuff: more fun with gelli plate prints

I tell you people - I am addicted to this, so here are a few more!

I can't promise you that you won't see more of these.

art stuff: gelli plate play

I like to use a colorful background as a starting point in most of my journal work and Gelli Plates are an awesome way to work with color and texture. For basic colored backgrounds just squeeze on a few different colored paints and roll them around with your brayer. Lay your page down and pick up the color. Repeat until most or all of the color has been picked up. It is cool to see what your next print will look like when it picks up some of the previous prints color.

Here are a few backgrounds I created this week.

Making these backgrounds is repetitive in nature and therefore soothing to me. I could do this all day. The bonus? I have pages at the ready when I go to work in my journal. Win win.