Loose Sheet Journaling

My Town, Watercolour

This is another "intuitive painting", done on watercolour paper.  

I'm trying out what Roz Stendahl calls "loose sheet journaling".  Sometimes loose sheets are just easier to work on than in a book, or sometimes there is a loose sheet of paper that you just have to try RIGHT NOW.  Inspiration is like that.  Sometimes Roz uses loose sheets or cards for a special project and makes a slip case of some sort to hold them all when the project is finished.

I have a couple of other reasons for trying this out.  Occasionally someone will see something that I've done and will want to own it.  Or, I may want to do something else with the piece (turn it into artist trading cards or bookmarks, for example).  These things are all difficult if I've done the work in a journal.  So, for work I do on watercolour paper, I'm trying this approach for awhile.  Once I've accumulated a stack of loose pages, I may bind them using my Bind it All.  I did that once with the Index Card A Day project.

Dribbles and Bubbles

These are more pages from Whims in Watercolor 2:  Loose and Fearless, Joanne Sharpe's latest class.  This special journal will give me lots of inspiration for future play!

More Men in Hats

ATC, Markers

The Park

I wasn't fond of this when I finished it, and I wasn't going to post it anywhere. But it kind of grew on me, and I got some positive reaction to my other "intuitive painting", Vancouver in the Rain, when I posted it on Instagram.   So, as a kind of experiment, I posted The Park on Instagram with the comment, "This one not so much", and someone commented that they liked it and could see it hanging on their wall!

Art is so subjective - fascinating!  I must say that the encouragement makes me want to experiment with intuitive painting a little more.

Purple Forest

Gelatos and Watercolor on canvas paper

This is another "intuitive" painting.  Here again, the pink didn't scan well; it is more of a hot pink.

It Didn't Start out Purple

Artist Trading Card, Markers

For these value studies, I thought I pulled out the same gray marker I used in my last post.  The barrel of the marker is gray.  It went on gray.

By the next day, it had dried purple.  And what's more, it isn't actually this grape colour, it is more magenta.  Usually my scanner is good with colours, but not this time.  These really are "magic pens", as advertised, only in a slightly different way!

Men in Hats Artist Trading Cards

Markers

Some men in hats jumped out of the journal and onto artist trading cards for our July swap.

After doing one in colour, I decided to play with values: