hey friends Elizabeth here from plant based bride back again with another video and today
I'm excited to share my plan with me for July in my bullet Journal this month's theme is all
about calm relaxing time by the lake I'm going to be spending about a week in Ontario with my
family hanging out by Lake in July and I'm so excited it's been a while since I've seen my
family in person and it's also been a while since I had a vacation especially one during the warmer
months where I can just enjoy nature so I am very excited so I decided to make my bullet Journal sit
the theme get myself even more pumped up and ready to go on this trip and because we're going on this
trip we're going to be spending a lot of time in our bathing suits in and around the lake and I
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starting by grabbing a little bit more paint for my palette using almost entirely gouache
paints from Windsor Newton although I am adding in some Haines gray watercolor because I don't
have any gouache in Payne's gray and I knew I wanted a little bit of that to desaturate some
of the colors starting with some white primary blue and Payne's gray to make a nice Smoky blue
for the sky in this painting I wanted the cover page painting to be a really calming peaceful
Lake scene and the style of this painting is inspired by a combination of paint by numbers
art and digital art that's sort of abstract and blocky I thought that was kind of a fun
way to approach doing a painting instead of trying to blend things together and make it
look realistic I'm just placing down different colors in blocky shapes and irregular shapes to
give the impression of all of the different elements of this landscape so we have the
sky and the background at the top and then the foreground at the bottom is going to be the lake
itself a mix of different colors I had sort of a pastelly greenish blue and then a brighter true
blue and then a bit of a darker almost purpleyish grayish blue to give the water a little bit more
Dimension we also have some grasses and Hills so using a combination of different shades of green
from dark to light and also from cooler toned greens through to very bright yellowy greens
there's also a smaller little Lake in the distance back there in the center of the painting
and a couple rocks in the foreground that pick up some of the brown tones that are also going
to be in the sort of Rolling Hills or mountains in the background for pretty much all of these
sections I started with a color and then started making adjustments to it where I'd add a little
bit of white to make it lighter or maybe add a little bit of Payne's gray to cool it down
a little bit desaturate it a little bit or maybe I would mix it with another color to shift the
tone a little bit to get variations on a theme of a color basically I wanted this to have a
pretty flat pretty consistent look so I tried to use more pigment and less water I did end
up with a little bit of texture in certain areas from the layered on paint but I didn't mind that
because I'd sketched this entire scene ahead of time with pencil I tried to leave gaps for some
of the main elements like the trees and the clouds and the Sun so I wouldn't have to worry too much
about perfectly layering one color on another and getting perfect coverage although with gouache
you can do a little bit of layering and I do do some where I paint on top of another color but
if you have the time to plan ahead sometimes it makes it a little bit easier to just not
have to worry about that at all by leaving gaps for the different elements and different colors
foreign
I decided to introduce some bright orange for the Sun and for a little tent near the lake
and for the clouds I just really lightened up the color of the sky with a lot of zinc white
to get a really soft off-white sort of grayish bluish green color for the clouds and I also
did a little bit of a mix of a lighter tone and also made a darker tone to be a shadow
at the base of the clouds just for a little bit more Dimension especially because the sky
itself is one flat color instead of being made up of a bunch of different colors like most of
the other elements of this painting I wanted to add a little bit more variation with the clouds
then it was time for the trees and I decided to use three colors of green a really dark bluish
green a lighter seafoamy green and then a more true Forest Green in the middle this was done
with a mix of a basic green and blue and then adding Payne's gray to make the darker green
and adding white to make the lighter green all the trees are basic flat color with the
exception of the biggest tree in the foreground that has a little bit more going on detail wise
and dimension wise I used the darkest green to add Shadows to the base of the branches and a little
bit of dimension for where the trunk is going to be just to make it a little bit more interesting
thank you foreign
Micron to add some black details the entrance to the tent a mother duck and two of her ducklings
on the lake and also a hawk in the sky and the final detail of a shadow on the inner flap that
you can see of the tent it's a tiny detail but I feel like it really finished everything off
then it was time for the most satisfying bit which is removing the washi tape and seeing
the crisp outlines of my painting I'm using my alphabet stamps again they're Linked In
the description box along with all of the other supplies I'm using in this video just to add a
header below the painting July 2023 and to add my quote for the month which is an Edgar Allan
Poe quote yet again I feel like I quote Poe quite frequently in my bullet Journal but I'm not mad
at it so the quote I chose for this month was so lovely was the loneliness of a wild Lake which
exactly the vibe I'm hoping for in July I want the wild lonely
of a quiet peaceful Lake just rest and Rejuvenation now that this first spread is
finished I'm flipping over to my calendar spread and for this one I wanted to paint a wooden canoe
with a little bit of a Rippling reflection in the lake this was inspired by a piece of art I saw on
Pinterest that just blew my mind when I saw it I thought it was so cool and I shifted it quite a
bit to fit with the style I was going for here but definitely inspired by this one piece of I think
digital art it really sparked my imagination so in my version of this the canoe itself is a
tiny bit more realistic though still obviously pretty cartoony but the reflection in the like
the water is super abstract and almost pixelated looking which I don't know I just thought it would
be cool and I'm happy with how it turned out so I think it worked I'm using a mix of different
shades of orange you can kind of see on my palette I'm mixing primary red and primary yellow together
to get a nice bright orange and then I'm mixing in either zinc white to get a lighter peachy orange
or mixing it with some darker Shades I have on my palette like a yellow ocher I also have a
rusty reddish color I cannot remember the name of that one but it'll be linked along with all
of the shades I'm using in the description box to get a variety of light oranges all the way
through to dark reddish oranges to try to get across the look of a bright wooden canoe I'm
starting by blocking in some of the basic colors some lights and darks a little bit of detail for
the interior of the canoe the seats some of the slats on the interior but then the reflection
in the water is a lot more abstract I'm painting these sort of pill or capsule shapes these rounded
rectangles I guess in blocks and irregular shapes that pick up those same tones from the canoe
I need a lot more detail with a small dry brush for that streakiness some Shadows
just a little bit more texture as if it's a wood grain almost
and outside of the actual reflection of the canoe we're going to transition
into greenish blue for the rest of the lake for the true color of
the water I'm just doing a lighter tone and a darker tone to keep things simple
thank you
foreign
and then as a final touch I'm using a brown colored pencil just to add a little bit of
separation between the canoe and Its Reflection I wanted it to be a little bit more clear where
one ended and the other began and adding a tiny bit more detail and dimension to some
of the inner portions of the canoe and a little bit of a shadow at the bow once I
was happy with this painting it was time to add my really simple calendar just using my
secure Micron in zero two adding the boxes for each day of the month and then using the
005 nib a nice tiny nib to add in all of the dates in the lower right hand corner of each box
foreign and using my stamps again to add July 23. moving on to my final spreads my weeklies
I'm doing a similar layout to my June weeklies but I'm cutting away the top portion so I can
add some art along the top of these spreads so I'm alternating between cutting a third of the
page away just straight up the side and cutting a third of the page with a little tab for each of my
weeklies for the month my tabs are two by two on the little diagonal sections and the shorter side
of the trapezoid is four spaces tall my bullet Journal is a B5 size so that's the size tab that
I think looks good in my size Journal but if you have a smaller notebook maybe you're in an A5 you
might find you want to make the tab slightly smaller to fit the scale or not it's up to you
once I was done with all my cutting it was time to add that art along the top I really wanted to
have a peaceful end screen of a movie Vibe like the final shot of the movie and then the credits
start rolling of two Adirondack chairs on a dock or maybe on a beach looking out over the lake at
some hills in the distance a couple trees some fluffy clouds just a very chill peaceful scene
I also thought this would work well on the scale for a very long but short space so starting with
the blue for the sky and then a thick blue line all the way across for the lake that I'm adding
the brown that could either be a deck or sand I'm not really attached to either or I'm not really
attached to either one I just went with a nice neutral light brown I had initially planned on
this stopping at the top of where all of the cut Pages were but I made a little bit of a Mess by
accident so I ended up extending this a little bit lower which meant that I had to add a tiny little
stripe of this brown to the top of each of the pages I cut away which took a little longer than
I'd initially planned so if I could go back in time I would be a little bit more patient before
turning the page and not make a mess and not have to paint each of the pages for my weekly but now
that it exists and it's happened I do kind of like the look it was just a lot more work especially
waiting for each of the pages to dry before I could flip over and do the next I'm doing a mix
of dark yellow dark brown and dark green for my Hills I wanted them to have a bit of a different
vibe from the hills in my cover page painting and I wanted them to have almost what looks
like potentially Greenery at the base like there could be a bunch of bushes or small trees that
are in the distance you can't quite See Clearly with the lower section being a dark green foreign
for the Adirondack chairs themselves I decided to go with a nice sunny orange since orange is
an accent color in the cover page painting and then the most prominent color in my calendar page
painting I wanted to incorporate some orange in this one as well so I'm using a pretty small brush
to get all the general shapes in and then using a teeny teeny tiny brush to try to distinguish
between each of the slats adding in a little bit of that blue and green to fill in any gaps
foreign
I'm also using a nice soft off-white bluish color to make my little clouds and I decided to do them
in that sort of very cartoony capsule shaped very rounded style to really tie in the clouds from the
first painting and also the Reflections in the water from the calendar page painting to kind of
pull everything together I also decided to add just a couple distinct trees in the same style
from the cover page painting just for a little bit more interest and again to try to tie everything
together so using a combination of nice dark green trees and lighter sort of seafoam green trees
and to finish off these spreads I'm just using my stamps again to add in all of the
headers so I have my work task list for the month on the left side my personal task list
for the month on the right side and then each column for these weeklies is a daily
along with a priority tasks section for each week
and of course I painted my tabs as well to finish everything off
so let's do a final little flip through of these spreads here I really love how bright and summery
these feel I also like that the weeklies are a little bit more toned down the colors are a
bit more desaturated a bit more chill like it's maybe the evening and the Sun is going down and
everything's a little bit darker a little bit more shadowy so it's a little more calm and peaceful
not quite as bright whereas the calendar page painting and the cover page painting are both
super bright like middle of the afternoon really bright sunlight feel very warm and summery so that
is it for my July setup I'm really happy with how these spreads turned out I had a lot of fun
doing this style again inspired by digital art and paint by numbers it was really fun
I would highly recommend it if you're looking for a new style to try out thank you again to
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