Since the first two weeks of April were part of my spring break, I was able to work in the art room and get a lot of projects completed.
For the calendar challenge over at The Kathryn Wheel, I tried a new calendar layout. Instead of cutting out squares for each day of the week, I masked the squares and then worked over them. Once the background was completed, I removed the masks and the white squares remained.
As I mentioned last time, I’m having trouble getting the squares large enough without covering up too much of the background. I like the look of these, but they were WAY too small! I have too much to say. I started working on May’s calendar this afternoon and have resigned myself to just making larger days and not worrying too much about my background. My favorite part of spring break, other than the sleep, was uninterrupted time to play in the art room. And that’s just what I did.
Pages from my art journal.
Kimberly love your bright pink page for April. I too have trouble fitting in my writing some days! Look forwards to seeing May. Great art journal. Fabby eyelashes in your previous post too, looks like you had a ball.
ReplyDeleteHappy crafting, Erika.
Can you get an A2 size book of heavy grade card. It looks like you need 4 of those squares to make it viable for people other than Lilliputians ;-). That'd give you a good sized landscape of 2'10" by 2'.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of masking the squares, very clever.
ReplyDeletecalendar is wonderful. I get what you mean about the squares, made my smaller in May to play more on background! Who knows...I love yours! I think, just do what makes you feel good, besides we can always journal all other 'bigger' stuff in our other journals...right?
ReplyDeleteLove the pink and the idea of masking the squares x
ReplyDeletelove your idea of masking the squares off and painting all around them, and your colours are to dye for, Siobhan
ReplyDeleteLove your calendar. I have a hard time checking mine until it's too late. The one on my phone is the only one that works for me...with a loud noise.
ReplyDeleteGlad you've had time to play :-) Love the idea to mask out the daily squares!
ReplyDeleteOh yes... creative play time, love it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your wonderful journal pages :]
Masking off the squares, clever idea.
i have the same problem - next year I am buying a bigger journal!
ReplyDeleteWow, great. I love the idea of masking the squares. I'm feeling the need to do something different - may have to nick your idea! Well done for keeping up so far, only 8 months to go!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about masking the squares- a great idea. Love the colour too!
ReplyDeleteYou're just way too talented to be a teacher! I love your work!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the nice complements. I started working in a 9x12 journal this year. I've always worked in 5x8 so this is much larger than I'm used to. I love working bigger now that I've done it for a few months. I haven't ventured into a double page calendar yet. I've been debating it, but I think it would end up too long and narrow. Plus it is spiral bound, which I like that it can go flat, but it makes it harder for double pages.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous colourful page, wonderful work
ReplyDeletelove that shade of pink with black ink!
ReplyDeleteCool - the page pops :-)
ReplyDeleteMasked squares... a great idea! Its a gorgeously pink page :D
ReplyDeletelove your bight vibrant page
ReplyDeleteSome people doing this project I noticed just summed up their day in 2 or 3 words! Thats one way of doing it but I find that difficult. I also hate covering up my decorative background, in February I put an acetate overlay over my page. I also use a big sketchbook. Great page, look forward to seeing May.
ReplyDeleteFabulous vibrant page.
ReplyDeleteI must admit i quite like the idea of the previous poster (quicksave) and her idea of acetate (simple but effective)
Hope you find a suitable solution
Loving your pages x
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