Art Journal Inspiration-Soul Singing

Hello friends!  I’m back today with one last inspiration for Art Journal Journey to remind you that there are still a few days left to enter your art journal project for this month!  So please be sure to hop on over to the Art Journal Journey Challenge Blog to see the details about how to enter.  I have really enjoyed all of the inspiration from the gallery!  So fun to see what everyone comes up with using my “MUSIC” theme this month!  I thank everyone for having me along as a host and sharing your kindness in welcoming me back this year.

I went with some animals this time:

I’m pretty sure that there has to be some sort of music going on at farm too, right?!  LOL  I found these cute “singing” critters online and thought that a farm scene would be a perfect platform stage for them!  This is also the first time that I’ve ever added an interactive element to an art journal page, so that was fun!

For the background:  Starting with an 8.5″x 5.5″ watercolor paper,  I printed the critters over it in the position that I wanted…this is so that the musical notes showed on the page.

I then used my Kuratake Gansi watercolors and brush to paint a scene starting with blues for the sky, letting that dry and then adding some green hills for the bottom of the scene.  I went over the areas a couple of times to get the look I wanted and let it dry.  I also die cut a green grassy border at the bottom of the page with green cardstock being careful to place it so that it covered the “legs/feet” of all the critters.

More layers over the background:  I used older Tim Holtz stamps to add some texture by stamping brown ink, then I used an old TH stencil and some yellow paint for the “sun rays” around the hill with a sponge to apply it.  I also used a sponge with white ink to stencil over another stencil in areas and lastly, I stamped some musical notes in silver ink in a few places.

Here’s a closer look at some of the details including the critters.  

Since I covered up the critters with the grassy border, I printed out the critters again on a separate piece of cardstock, colored them with Copic markers and fussy cut them out with my scissors.  I attached them over top of the printed out ones on the page so that they align with the music notes above them.  I used more markers to add some darker shadow grounding underneath each critter before permanently attaching to the page.

For the interactive element:  I used a die cut to cut out the pieces for the windmill in the brown, white and silver cardstock pieces.  I then used a circle die to cut a hole in the center of the windmill on the page and then added an element that makes the wheel portion spin in a circle when you spin it with your finger.

I went around the edges with some blue ink for the sky, attached some clouds and then printed out the quote on my computer and cut out each word attached to the page.  I used some blue ink to lightly add to the bottom of each one.

Lastly, I went around the edges of the page along with the edges of each word with a black micron pen and then I used a silver paint pen to go around the edges of the page again.

It’s a pretty flat page, but it made me happy!  What song do you think they’re singing?  

• I hope you’ve enjoyed my page today as well as my art journal inspiration throughout the month!  Thank you so much for your kindness and support!  See you soon!

Challenges:

1. Art Journal Journey – MUSIC
2. Creative Artiste – #112 Anything Goes Mixed Media
3. We Love 2 Create Mixed Media – #2 Anything Goes MM/Papercraft
4. Creative Fingers – #295 Anything Goes
5. Gem of a Craft – Anything Goes