Thursday, October 11, 2012

A new passion: Art journaling

When I took a class with the great Finnabair last June, the proposed project was to make an art journal using mixed media techniques.  Every one of us created a beautiful art journal using a Prima mixed media book cover and the coordinated pages

As I said in a previous post, this experience was a revelation for me!  I had some much pleasure creating with cover, and the result still blows me away!  Everyone in the class created a gorgeous art journal cover, and they were all so different from one another!  Here is mine, a mix of green, teal and gold.




I ART YOU
Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod, inpired by Finnabair

 The class with Anna also included techniques to create art journal pages.  We used tea to stain our pages, as well as distress ink, stains, gesso, stamps, etc.  Awesome!!

Here are the pages I made using the Finnabair techniques shown in the class.

Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod, inpired by Finnabair
 
Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod, inpired by Finnabair
 

This experience made me want to try doing more by myself.  I created my own art journal pages using all kind of medias, including modeling paste, gesso, Dylusions, stains, burlap, lace, etc. 



Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod

 
Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod

 
Created by Nathalie Noreau-McLeod

It felt wonderful creating these pages and I am so looking forward to making more.  Let me know if you like them!  I could post more... :o)
Ciao!