 Hey guys, how are you today? We're here with another video for my creative year. I'm gonna zoom out. Whoops wrong way and The prompt for this month is journaling and the topic for this week is use your words. There's a lot of oh wait Let's focus shall we there's a lot of different ways to use your words and journaling Of course, there's a traditional of right just writing doing a written journal and doing a sort of a diary You can do something that I did here on YouTube a few years back called negativity smackdown to work out and work through negative emotions I do a series with my friend Cindy udder and a few other people Leslie McGrath included called Explorations of me which is another take on negativity smackdown and something Cindy did Where again you're working through your emotions and doing a lot of writing on your pages. You can just keep it simple This whole year. I've been doing journal the journal pages that Say something Sometimes kind of powerful with one image and one word and they don't really say too much My art I've discovered over the years is about words I rarely do a journal page that has no words on it. That's that's really rare for me I'm all about using words in your art So I found recently on this theme. I was at the hardware store and This was a flyer at orchard supply hardware at the check stand and it's for I don't know their you know Rewards point thing whatever but that little window that says are you in? That says a lot and like our prompt last week, which was emotion for me evokes a lot of emotion So I want to do something with this this week to give you guys all some idea of what you can do With your words and your art. It doesn't have to be complicated. There doesn't have to be any drawing involved So I'm going to gather my thoughts and gather some things and I'll be right back. I've got some glue I've got some bits. Let's see what we can do So this is going to be the focus of our page and unlike last week Um for the video last week for my crevier. I think I'm going to talk my way through this one And I'm going to first Cut the distracting part of this off And I'm going to cut out this window Really should have my reading glasses on for this, but I don't I like that so to me this This really speaks to me. So have you Or are you ever feeling? Like the rest of the world is involved or part of some kind of a group Or club You're just not a member of and somebody forgot to tell you about and you just have no idea what they're talking about most of the time Okay, I've been like that my whole life and I know there's a lot of you out there that can relate And I think that's what this says to me because I always feel like somebody's saying aren't you in And I'm just like, what are you talking about? I have no idea So I'm going to I've had this page and this is a deena wakley media journal and this is one of her canvas pages And I took a bunch of um That was I think a piece of drop paper I threw that away. I didn't want to throw that away That was a piece of drop paper that had a bunch of washi tape on it And I didn't know what to do with it. So I just stuck it to the page, but that's okay We're going to use it there in our background My current style of journaling is not about covering up the entire journal page And let's see. Yeah, I just want one of each color and this is just some scribbling An experiment that I was doing And I save all these little bits and pieces and if I don't use them in my art then I send them out in half email and stuff This is from one of our art experiments our art mixology experiments So but I don't want too many straight edges other than in the window So we're going to tear the edges here instead of fussy cutting. I think a fussy tearing So are you in yet? Are you part of that club that other people feel like? um Somebody forgot to tell them about or are you like me and standing at the window looking in I always feel like I'm standing at the window looking in Okay, so now I want to dry fit my pieces It helps if they all lie flat And I might do a little writing down here. So let's get these glued down. I think we're going to just use I grabbed the Elmer's but actually I think I want to just use fluid matte medium Generally my preferred kind of clog collage glue unless I'm gluing down something really thick And it'll work just fine on the paper I mean on the fabric Y'all knew what I meant, right? Now these crayon rubbings are done on deli paper. So They will become a little bit transparent when they're glued down not too much And this is just no paper So you can do your journaling with Pictures or words. It doesn't have to be just words that being said I love to use words in my art and if especially if you're the kind of person that doesn't do that I want you to try it and I want you to give it a shot this month I just find that nine times out of ten, especially when I'm working in my journals that my work tends to become Even if it doesn't start out that way about art I mean about the words Did you see what I did there? I wanted the torn edge on the window There is a cut edge up here that I forgot to tear But I'm going to put it up here and it'll disappear into the background of the page So it's less obvious Push things down with a card I've got my heat gun here. We can try and push things down The pamphlet might not want to stick. Let's see Let's see if we can get it to stick. There we go. Didn't want to work. So Words even if they're scribbly illegible words can add a lot to a journal page Whether you're working on a journal page like this one that simply conveys What you need it to to yourself and the viewer or You're doing pages more like these that I've been doing lately Not only on these pieces of paper, but also in my travelers notebook where you Create certain drawings and then journal around the drawings to create a whole page Words definitely are a useful part of your art and your journaling to create To convey certain emotions and feelings about the piece I encourage you to give it a try if you're not already There's a lot of different ways to do it from using your actual writing and where you can read it illegible writing words from a pamphlet or magazine Whatever it is break out your words start using them. I would love to see what you do If you would like to share it in a safe creative place You can join the facebook group my creative year the links in the description below Don't forget to like share and subscribe and above all besides using your work in your art your words in your art Right now. I want to see you go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys