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1. Drawing Your Days 2: Hybrid Art Journaling: Oh. Hello, friends, and welcome
to drawing your days to Hybrid Art Journaling with
Polaroids and memorabilia. Or rather, welcome
back for those who watched my original
drawing your days class. And for those who are new,
you don't need to have seen my first class to get on board with this
journaling journey. But I will be referencing several approaches that are
detailed in that first class. Either way, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. In this class, we're going to
take the theme of capturing the little things
that I wholeheartedly embrace with my personal
art journaling. We are going to add a
photography element as in polaroids or printed photos from a printer plus
other memorabilia, like scraps from your
day, such as receipts, tickets, maps, stickers, labels, business cards, and more. If you don't have a polaroid
camera, no worries. Perhaps you can borrow one from a friend or neighbor
for a week or so, purchase a pack of film and see what you decide
to take a picture of. Or take a picture
with your phone or other camera and print
it on a home printer. We will look at incorporating
a snapshot and how to embellish it as well as using
other items from our days. Items you might not
even think about, but actually hold some meaning and can act as great prompts. If you were thinking this has a scrapbook element,
then you're right. It also has an obvious
link to travel journaling, where finding and keeping
scraps is something we do when we're outside
of our normal routines. This hybrid of art
journaling and element collecting is
where we will start. This is the perfect activity for newbies and seasoned journals. Let's take a moment now to go over the project and
what you will need.
2. The Project: And Oh. The goal for
this class is to get you started
with a new approach to capturing your days. I would love for you to
do two journal entries, one with a polaroid or
printed photograph, and one with an element or
memorabilia from your day. The polaroid or printed
photo will be used in one of six techniques which will be presented and demonstrated in one of the upcoming lessons. These techniques
will help you get in the habit of
incorporating your photo. The techniques are
continue the drawing, use as reference
thought bubbles, tell a story, describe
details, comments. The element or memorabilia
will also be demonstrated. I'll show you how to use something that you normally
would have thought of as trash or just
nothing at all. And you'll see this item might actually be a really
good journal prompt. You're gonna need
to look deep in your purse or your back pocket, and maybe even the garbage can. Besides photos and scraps, let's take a look at some of the other simple supplies and getting mentally set
up for this activity.
3. Set-Up: The setup. In this class,
you will need a journal. Anything we do, and a
good pen that you like. Tape and or a glosti for adhering the photos and
items to your pages, a polaroid camera and film
if you're going that route, or just a camera
that you can easily use a home printer to
print out your picture. And I suggest a basic envelope that you can tape to the
inside cover of your journal where you can collect some
scraps until you're ready to incorporate them into
your journal pages. I'm going to list some
of the themes that are great to capture in
this hybrid journal. And when I say capture, once again, I mean
in a polaroid, a regular picture that
you can easily print later or a scrap
from these areas, like a receipt, a label, a sticker, a tag, a business card, a napkin,
honestly, any scrap. The idea of capturing the small things exists
throughout our day. Here are some daily
themes, food, meals prepared,
restaurants, cafes, pets, family and friends,
social get togethers, fashion, outfit, shopping, task
related, desk work, kitchen work, et
cetera, rooms or areas. Media and entertainment, as in TV, theater tickets, movies, exercise, errands,
community and civic activities like
volunteering, work, hobbies. So basically, these themes
represent our lives, right? Once you have captured
some activity or item or experience
from your day, it's time to incorporate
it into your journal. Let's start with some polaroids, and I will show you
how I embellish, enhance, engage,
inspire, and more. Let's go. Up next,
polaroids or photographs.
4. Polaroids & Photos: Over the course of a week, I captured the
following themes from my daily life using
a polaroid camera. My dog Gabby in our usual spot in the
corner of the couch, a lovely still life of
flowers and a bowl of lemons, my desk area. Our coffee and tea area, a mirror selfie in a
yellow floral dress. I took this one with
my phone camera and printed on my home printer, a favorite park bench, my green toes at the pool. Let's get at it. As usual, I will add my date bubble, perhaps some hand lettering for a header and use a variety
of layout techniques. See my first class of
drawing your days that covers many approaches to
setting up your journal pages. And now let's get to those techniques for
using these photos. These techniques
will help you get in the habit of
incorporating your photo. The techniques are continue the drawing, use as reference, thought bubbles, tell a story, describe details, comments. I use the Park Bench polaroid with my continue
the drawing technique. By taking a picture
of half of the bench, I left myself room to
illustrate the other half, creating a fun mix
of photography and illustration for this
art journal entry. Of course, I added some hand
lettering and comments. The polaroid of
the bowl of lemons and flowers was a great
reference picture. I enjoyed redrawing this
picture when I had time to sit down and before the flowers died or the
lemons shriveled up. I really like how the
photo and the drawing share the space and capture
an element of the day. These items were used as table decoration for
our Father's Day. Once again, I captured a small
detail of the day because often it's the
little things that should be appreciated
and remembered. Thought bubbles are a fun way to incorporate
thoughts for a person, object, or in this
case, my dog Gabby. I captured a small part of our family life with this
daily scene at our house. We take a lot of
pictures of Gabby and I often wonder
what she is thinking. I also use to continue the drawing technique
to fill in the couch. I took my daughters
for pedicures, and they spent a lot of energy teasing me and choosing
green for my toes. Suddenly, green became
the theme of the summer. I use this polaroid and
art journal entry to tell the story of the green
toes and the green summer. Like many people, my
desk has a lot going on. It captures a moment in time
as to what I'm working on, how tidy I may be, certain featured and
favorite things. I love taking a picture of any space and then
describing it with details. These are the types
of entries that are extra special
to look back on. Here is our coffee
and tea corner. Believe it or not, this
area had once been my desk. Comments are basically
any little opinion, information or descriptor
that you include and sort of an extension
of describing details. Here's an example of
a photo I took on my phone and then printed
out on regular paper. I cut it out and taped
it down into my journal. I added a border,
which is one of the design elements I go
over in my first class, as well as banners
and hand lettering. And of course, I'm going
to add my comments here. Now that we've gone over
the six techniques on easily incorporating
polroids and photos in your art journal
continue the drawing, uses reference, thought bubbles, tell a story, describe
details, comments. Let's apply the same techniques with the scraps and
bits and pieces of life also known in the next lesson as
elements or memorabilia.
5. Elements & Memorabilia: Building on the theme of
It's the Little Things, let's apply our six
journaling techniques to elements and memorabilia. Truly, some of the
littlest things. To continue the drawing, I used the tiny banana label and built my own
illustration from it, filling in the blanks and
continuing the drawing. In this case, a giveaway
sticker at a restaurant was inspiring enough for me to want to use it for reference
for my own drawing, as well as capture
the day's outing. The free library bookmark
worked perfectly as Inspo for a thought bubble capturing an activity
from that day. The bus schedule helped me
tell the story of a day trip. A business card
was the prompt for the details surrounding an
emergency dental situation. I couldn't help but comment
on the new skirt I bought. The tag and sticker
provided some fun, colorful visuals for the page. In all of my entries in
this hybrid art journal, you can see how I honed in on smaller events and
items because I truly believe it's the little
things that make up our lives and are the fun
parts to look back on. It's the little things we
sometimes forget to capture. I love using photography
or scraps from the day as inspiration
for an art journal entry. It's really fraying to
have something to build on rather than coming up with
everything on one's own, and it's especially
enjoyable to look at and touch because
of all the texture, color, fonts, and more. H
6. It's A Wrap: I hope you enjoyed drawing your days to the Hybrid
Journaling journey. I would love to see
some of your pages and what photos you
took or items you collected and how you used them to enhance your days
art journal entry. Did you use poloids, printed photos, or bits
and pieces from your day? Make sure you post and share in the project section
of this class. I'd also love to
hear if you came up with other ideas to
keep you motivated, inspired, and engaged
in your journal. And feel free to check out my first drawing
your days class, where I go over date bubbles, banners, hand lettering,
design elements, and layout ideas.
See you next time.
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