#theminimalistartjournal

[stumblingoverchaos]

This one’s from a while ago, but it’s also from a sort of Minimalist Art Journal tutorial.

Scrapbook paper, gesso, black pen of some sort.

[aerialovely]

day twenty-eight :: my wish for 2018 Nothing but love and good stuff. Gotta stay positive; this world is rough. Also, enjoy this spread from my #theminimalistartjournal #artjournal cause I forgot to take any photos yesterday.

[divyamsdoodles]

My first page for #theminimalistartjournal 2.0 with @cayleegrey . What makes this a minimalist page for me is that I would normally keep going, adding more details or more writing until I can’t think of anything more to add. Instead I stopped before I ran out of ideas. An unfamiliar feeling but I kinda like it! Also, I think this might be the first time I’ve ever included a photo of myself in a page. Can you believe it??!!

[stumblingoverchaos]

And ANOTHER Minimalist Art Journal tutorial.

Because all life is - is really just a circle. -Big Head Todd & the Monsters

Watercolor, paper punch, collage, Gelly Roll Glaze pen, scrapbook paper.

[stumblingoverchaos]

This ALSO started as a Minimalist Art Journal tutorial...

"Why is Minnesota still the center of the F Scott Fitzgerald universe even though he didn't really like it all that much?"

Scraped acrylic paint, fingerpainted acrylic paint, gel plate printing on deli paper (dry waxed paper), collage.

[stumblingoverchaos]

I decided that using carbon paper, type, and a hand-cranked proofing press counted as Minimalist Art Journaling.

[stumblingoverchaos]

From a Minimalist Art Journal tutorial. I really don’t use people in my art journaling, so this was just SO WEIRD for me.

Acrylic ink+water, collage.

[stumblingoverchaos]

Some whiteout poetry from The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien. (Book page, white acrylic paint)

friendship gleams striking scanning very strange nothing descending safe together to its end

[stumblingoverchaos]

For my Minimalist Art Journal - I was trying a matte medium image transfer here - it was sort of successful. The grey blotches on the image are where I didn’t rub away all the paper because of bubbles (which leave behind much worse white blotches).

I love this image! The source is an 8x10 black & white photo that I must’ve picked up at Art Scraps in St Paul at some point.

"She could not be reached." -Jane Evershead

Matte medium, black and white photocopy, black acrylic paint, white Gelly Roll gel pen.

[stumblingoverchaos]

It’s in my mini Minimalist Art Journal, but this one was all me, no tutorial. These are sticker sheets I letterpress printed in the platen printing class I took recently at MCBA. Both were happy accidents! On the left, I forgot to reink my type a couple of times. On the right, my sticker sheet fell as I was printing it and somehow became the tale of an isolated, despondent stick figure!

[stumblingoverchaos]

It started as a Minimalist Art Journal tutorial...

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

India ink, acrylic ink, Uniball Signo Broad gel pens.

[stumblingoverchaos]

My artist self for an assignment from a class I’m taking online (The Minimalist Art Journal 2).

India ink, collage (from scraps I use to catch overspray when I’m working with alcohol acrylic spray ink and stencils - the incomplete typewritten text on the scraps was about my artistic archetypes, so it seemed very appropriate for this!), zInk photo sticker, stick-on letters.

[stumblingoverchaos]

Again from a Minimalist Art Journal tutorial, sort of - I definitely went my own way on this one and what do you know, I like it the best!

Icarus? or Crow Girl?

Acrylic ink+water, collage, Pitt brush pen.

[stumblingoverchaos]

I'm taking a class called The Minimalist Art Journal. We'll see how I do with THAT. :D

"It's a paradox that structure brings freedom....But freedom for one person can be bondage for another." -Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words (1995)

Watercolor, Kuretake #7 pen.

[stumblingoverchaos]

Another Minimalist Art Journal tutorial - can you tell??

I need to get outside and enjoy nature more...

Acrylic ink+water, collage.

[stumblingoverchaos]

I was testing an acrylic painting technique in my Minimalist Art Journal and used my favorite acrylic paint color. You’ll never guess what it is! ;)