Illustrated Journaling - image 1 - student project

Day 1: Really excited about this! Some low pressure art is really what I need to start back up; I'm really hoping this class will make the blank white page less scary to start.

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Day 2: Still not up to my best work, but it's nice to experiment without needing it to be perfect. Somehow starting with the title and adding text at the end really takes the pressure off--whether it turns out perfect or terrible it's definitely not getting framed.

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Day 3: This one was fun! I especially like how the brush ends came out.

Materials used: tube watercolors, water, brushes; pencils; Micron brush pens and fineliners.

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Day 4: some new colors here! This was a fun easy one.

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Day 5: I colored these from my dried palette and the muddy colors aren't doing much for me. Eh, they can't all be winners.

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Day 6: Again, too lazy to clean out the palette and I just used what was on there already. I'm def losing momentum--this one was done as a to-do list item instead of a creative joy. Still, practice is practice.

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Day 7: I really like how this one came out! I don't know if that's just a happy accident of subject matter/reference photo/woke up on the right side of the bed, but this is probably my favorite out of everything I've done so far! I actually added the title in Photoshop after because I think I might frame this one??

Actually did another one since I tore that one out of my journal; a bit messier, but I'm starting to think that a key idea to getting consistent art is drawing/painting the same things over and over til you can predict the results, so this was still useful.

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Day 8: very simple.

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Day 9: Self Care. Fun, but nothing special. This did make me want to take a bath though.

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Day 10: I really like the pasta jar!

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Day 11: Favorite Corner. This is actually from my old house a few years back, but I love how inviting it looks. Wingback chairs are my all-time favorites!

This one came together pretty quick. I bought some new art supplies and I'm LOVING the Posca paint brush pen. It's so much different from my Sakura Microns!

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Day 12: SKINCARE! This is something I've really been trying to nail down lately, so this was a fun one!

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Day 13: My favorite beef stew recipe! Not sure I really got the stew to look appetizing, but trust me, you want to try this.

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Day 14: Got a little lazy with the layout of this one, but it was a fun little quickie!

Deborah Bush

designer, creative, artist

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