Monday, January 31, 2011

January is Over (So Far I’m One for One)

I started a new art journal on January 1st.  This new year I planned on creating a calendar each month to help with my quest of journaling everyday.  Shortly after creating my January calendar, I happened upon Kate from The Kathryn Wheel.  She is an amazing artist from the UK.  Her work is so inspiring to me.  As is happens, she posts a calendar challenge.  Each month, calendars that have been created are posted to her site using a linky thing so others can view all the posted artwork.  I excitedly threw my hat in the ring for this challenge.

Full on art journaling everyday did not happen (like that was a surprise), but keeping up with the calendar in the journal was a small way of journaling when I didn’t have time for a complete page. 

Here is this month’s calendar.  I love the calendars on Kate’s page and I plan on trying one like that in the near future.  January’s calendar was created using fluid acrylics, poster paint markers, and watercolor crayons (to grunge it up a bit).  Paint drips were used to create the calendar boxes.
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I can’t believe January is over!  I’m off to start working on February!

9 comments:

  1. I love that you are so creative : ) Beautiful! Way to go completing the first month! You are so good!

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  2. Happy to have you join us, lovely page for Jan. Well done hope you keep up with us.
    Love your pup too. x

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  3. Lovely pages for January and I like the colours you have chosen.

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  4. Great Jan page, love your style! x

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  5. This is great. Its really worth doing it the whole year. I did it all last year and I'm just in love with looking through my pages. Your book is great. I love the color you used for your Jan page.

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  6. Your colors are lovely. Having a calendar as part of your art journal seems also to show time passing, and the growth involved.
    How do you find working with watercolor crayons? I love using watercolor, but have never tried the watercolor crayons.

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  7. Found you through Kate's 365 Challenge. I love your background...my kinda colours :)

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