Hi everyone! It's Crew Member Wednesday and we have Linda today showing an awesome art journal spread. I just love Linda's collage pieces in which she uses people and animals cut from magazines and her use of black and white!!

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Hello !
A new year is time for new beginnings and new goals. In the last ten years I’ve picked a word for myself to live by in the start of a new year instead of new year resolutions and I actually find them more effective and uplifting than hard resolutions I usually don’t manage to hold on to through a whole year.
This year I picked the word FREE. More about why I choose the word I will share on my personal blog, but the word was a great inspiration for this art journal spread. I just let go and did whatever I felt was right at the time, without any boundaries for myself. I’ve used some of Birgit journaling and flower stamps to create interesting creatures and I hope you like it.


First I gathered some scrap paper and gel medium to create some texture to the background

When the papers are glued down I add white gesso on part of the background.

I’ve decided to add some collage to the page, so this is some of the choices I gave myself. I didn’t end up using all of these, but some.

Before I put down the collage I added some stamping on the background, I knew I would have some of the horse on top of this.

I added some ochre to the background and then washed it off with a wet tissue paper

After drying the page, I am adding white gesso on top of the ochre through a stencil, just to make more interest to the background

When all the collage and stamping is done it is time for doodling.
A close up of each page


Products used in this project:




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Linda
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