hi welcome to draw tip Tuesday today I want to give you a quick tip for your
mixed media journal because we just started a course all about mixed-media
journaling at sketchbook school so if you haven't signed up yet go to
sketchbook school come and sign up for this awesome course if you want to make
art but you feel like you can't really draw then this is the perfect course for
you because you can just dive in and start making art and if you do like
drawing this is also really a great course to take because you will be
taking out of your comfort zone with a lot of painting color textures and lots
and lots more things that will also come in useful for your sketchbook habit and
you can draw if you want to that's the beauty of mixed-media journaling you can
do whatever you want as long as you express yourself and have fun so today I
want to show you just a few quick tips on how to fill a page or at least a
layer because mixed-media journaling is mainly all about layering collage paint
line ink anything that you can think about so I
have just a few things here that I got from my stash of art supplies and you
might have similar stuff in your drawers or on the shelf so let's start with some
crayons why not that's the tool most of us started out with as kids right makes
me yeah journaling is all about experimenting and playing and it's so
much fun so what I am learning by doing here is that the white crane gives a
really great texture on the background that are already made beforehand it's
kind of transparent so it blends nicely into the blue background let's try a
bolder black and see what that brings to the page these crayons dry
water-resistant so I can paint over it and glue stuff on top without worrying
that the colors will bleed and even if that would happen that might actually
turn out to be a good thing just go with the flow you can make simple marks
without really thinking about where going because that's a fun thing about
mixed-media journaling you don't really need to think about what you want to
make you are just making when India ink dries up its water-resistant so as part
of the background that will be partly covered with collage stamps or paint
let's make some fingerprint marks with that simply use your finger and make
dots look at that each dot looks different some dots are juicy some are a
bit drier it's very organic by leaving your fingerprint you are adding
something very unique and personal which makes this page even more you and that's
really what your mixed-media journal is all about it's your personal journey on
the page these are poster paint sticks you can
use temper our gouache or acrylic paint but these sticks are pretty fun because
it kind of looks like a big lip stick and you can make really nice roundish
marks with them when you're making marks collaging and painting in your journal
you will see that repeating patterns or just repetitions of colors or shapes
brings balance to your page now I'll let this dry and who knows what happens next
maybe I will experiment with a bit of collage and add more paint do some
stamping I have so many ways to express myself I just go with the flow and enjoy
the whole process I am not at all an experienced mixed-media journaler as you
may know yesterday I just started taking the course mixed-media journaling at
sketchbooks cool calm along with lot of other enthusiastic students and I'm
already learning so much so that is actually what I'm sharing with you but
of course there is so much more that I cannot teach you but the amazing
teachers at sketchbook school they will we have very experienced mixed-media
artists who are teaching in this course and they make incredible art they will
inspire you to make your own art and they will show you how and how you can
do it because yes you can so sign up for mixed-media
journaling at sketchbooks cool calm and I will see you in class bye