Today will be tomorrows memory. A Visual Journal page.

Hello there art lovers!

Today I'd like to share with you a page in my Visual Journal.

Making this page was such a delight! I started out with the words: Today I Play! and ended up with a beautiful message about how today becomes tomorrows memory.

It made me realise once more that we live in the 'here and now' and that it is up to us to make it worth remembering tomorrow.

Many  thanks to Pink! who's music was playing while I was creating my page. Her words: 'These are the good old days' inspired my conversation with my muse.

I started without a plan, really just playing with color and materials. This creative play always gets me into a meditative state where I seem to open up to whatever my muse wants to reveal. I just love these conversations!

I hope you enjoy the video! I'd be happy to answer any question you might have, just leave a comment.

~Monique

Drawing and journaling my Rootchakra

Hi there mixed media lovers!

I came across a free workshop about drawing chakra's at Timeless Rituals.
It has been a while for me that I drew Chakra's and thought I'd give myself an energyboost by taking this workshop.
I looked up some of my drawings from way back when.... wow! things have changed! :-)
I used to design them with a compass and ruler, then color them with colored pencils. Hours of layering the colors with pencil was my meditation.

Heart Chakra                                                                  Throat Chakra

Now I am much more a mixed media artist and journaler so that's where I want to go.
Where better to make these but in my Mandala Journal?
Let's start at the bottom... The Root Chakra.

Enjoy and happy creating!

~Monique

Art Journal Background Swap

Hey lovely Creators!

Here's a little demo-video I did for those who joined me in the background swap over at Gulfsprites Art journal.
In the class '30 pages in 90 days' we did a swap with 20 students, we all created a background and Christy Sobolewski assembled them into little booklets and send them to all who joined in.

I made a little demo-video to go along with it, here it is... ;-)
Enjoy and Happy Creating!

Monique

Artjournalflip!!

Yes artjournal lovers, another artjournal flip. :-)

This time one from a class I did; 30 pages in 90 days with Christy Sobolewski. You can find this class here.

This is the result of 90 days of artjournaling, I've learned a lot and had so much fun!

In fact, I'm going to start all over again for round 2! LOL (it starts next monday, 10th of june)

I am very curious how the second one will turn out. 3 Months have past, things have changed, I learned a lot but probably have missed some things and/or have allready forgotten all about them. There was so much information in this class.

I hope you enjoy the video and if you are not in a class right now go and give yourself one! 

Learning and making that wich you have learned your own is such a beautiful journey...

Happy Creating!

~Monique

Mandala artjournal page

A quicky this time.. :-)
I am still following my renewed mandala path.. lol.
I was enjoying making this page so much I forgot to take pictures, I only took two so here they are...

If you like Mandala's maybe you would like to join me on google+?
I have started a comunity called Mandal Mayhem where we can share our mandala's.
All mandala's are welcome!
I would love to see your Mandala's and maybe hear about how you create them and why?

Happy creating,
Monique

Artjournal flip!!!

For you art journalers out there,

Take a quick peek into one of my finished art journals! Wel, more an altered book to be precise... lol
Now I can start a new journal, Yes! :-)
Only because I have no other projects running at the moment... *chuckle*

Enjoy!

Inspiration, old and new...

Hello crafters!

At the moment I am doing an online Artjournaling course at http://gulfspritesartjournal.ning.com/ and having tons of fun!
On more than one occasion the lessons brought back memories of the mandala and celtic knotwork I used to make. At first I set it aside, just a good memorie I thought, it made me smile.
Yeah, right.... The memories kept creeping up on me, I could't ignore them, they were telling me something...but what?
I decided to listen to my muse and just make one of the pages in the style I was formiliar with way back when. I'd see where it would lead me...
This is the result of a lesson about boxes and letting other elements flow in and out of these boxes. This is where my new journey started I quess. :-)

This is SO different than the way I work now. It is al done in pencil, not a drop of paint!

The only thing that is the same are the layers, there are many, many layers of pencil on the page to create the shadows and mix the colors.

I felt I was on the right path so to speak but this way of working doesn't feel like me anymore. 

So, now what?

I started out on a search for my old mandala's to see if they had anything to say.

Here are some of them. Some are from 2002!!!

 

 

I do still love them and I felt I wanted to create Mandala's again. Offcourse A lot has changed since then. In my life and in my artwork so how to go about it?

I had no clue whatsoever but just went for it!

This is my latest artjournal page with a Mandala:

You could say something has changed right? :-)

Some details:

  

I am working on a canvas right now, it's not finished yet but I'm liking it so there is more comming...

Stay tuned and get creative in any way that feels right to you ok? Creativity is food for the soul!

Love,

Monique