31 Art Journals - Weekly Tips No 2, Recaps and More!

Welcome to the second recap for the month where if you haven't been able to watch the videos during the week you can catch them all in one place on the same day and you can also catch up with any other video that takes your fancy.  I also get to give you a series of tips for your journals that you can apply when you are doing your videos.

Art Journal TipsAs your approaching your journal think about some of the excuses you give yourself for not spending time, what things can be improved, and how can you get more quality time spent.  Think about some of these tips are there any that you can try out and if not what things are you already doing that you can improve?

1. Use your journal to work on ideas, it is a great way to solve problems or work through new ideas.
2. Work in your journal on a regular basis, and make it a regular practice.
3. If you don’t have a lot of time, find a few things that you can do on a small scale, it could be adding some collage to a page, find one or two things that can be done so that you can keep the regular practice going.
4. Break down the things you can do in your journal will help you return on a regular basis.
5. There are many ways in which you can prepare a background page.  Adding collage as above, gesso the page, adding paint, adding embellishments, working on the front of the pages, it is yours, remember to play and experiment.
6. Have fun in your Art Journal.

Here are the Art Journal videos for the Week
No 11
No 10
No 9
No 8
No 7
I would love to hear from you, what has been your favorite journal this week, and how many of the tips can you put in place to work in your own journal.