 to another episode of Journaling with Movement. This is episode four. If you've missed the first three, I will link them in the description below. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We're doing this in conjunction with Heart Journal magazine. It is a wonderful digital online art journaling magazine filled with artist interviews and how to inspiration free downloads. There's all sorts of things. It's a wonderful, wonderful magazine. I've done an interview for them and an article. This video here that you're watching is part of that. So if you would like to see the full article, I will again click that and I'll link that in the description below and you can click on that and go over there. I recommend that you subscribe if you can. It's again a great magazine. I am here working with yet another idea for Journaling with Movement and in this particular episode I wanted to review what we've already done briefly and then explore another idea for Journaling with Movement on our page and emphasizing our message or our artistic point of view with Movement on the page. Now here I have my moleskin daily planner thing that I picked up at Goodwill and I've already collaged a few vintage pieces of paper, some notes with my hand writing on them where I was testing a pen and a couple little pieces deli print onto the paper and I do think that although the pieces are laid out in a vertical pattern, I do think that despite that that it's going to work for what I want which I'll describe in just a minute. We're going to go back and review the other movements. First we did horizontal where we really emphasized across the page, speaking to our viewer and emphasizing our message with our elements moving in a horizontal motion across the page. This whole process is not about covering up the entire page you can if you want but it is about working with a negative space and putting elements on your page regardless of how you're doing them in a way that really make the main message pop out that they don't overshadow it or make things too confusing. I've done a lot of different work in this book and you can see some of the wax where I've waxed some of the pages it's made the paper a little bit transparent but I'm actually kind of liking that and I like the messy artistic goodness in the book that comes from doing that and so we started with horizontal movement and then we moved to vertical movement and I really really love this page. This is episode two where we worked with a vertical movement and moving the viewer's eye up the page to emphasize our message and our point of view on I love the way this one turned out and then we did diagonal movement which I found really interesting. I love the idea of diagonal movement and the little bubbles dancing across the page in a diagonal pattern really really appealed to me and it definitely inspired the page that we're gonna do now. I was doing this diagonal page thinking to myself as I'm doing it I really need to do a page where we have dancing movement on the page where we have movement on the page that's dancing around up and down across the page not at all in a straight line emphasizing highs and lows in life and in art and it really appealed to me so strongly I tried to do something else and it just wouldn't let me go the whole idea of it wouldn't let me go. So we are going to do a page with dancing movement and expressive movement across the page. We're going to start to combine the other three lessons into a new and unique movement. For this page I really decided that I wanted to honor the memory of my grandmother by coincidence I started making this page and got word from Heart Journal magazine to work on this article with them on February 1st which is my grandmother's birthday. She died in 2014 she was 99 years old and she was the wisest smartest most brilliant beautiful woman I've ever known and we all loved her very much and she still missed so I decided to honor her in this page I still have quite a number of her things that to most people they would just donate to Good Will or Throw Out but I have books stuffed with notes in her handwriting and grocery lists address books old pieces of paper all sorts of things like that so I decided for this page that having this old book text and the botanical print that's on here really would fit for what I wanted I really have lots of memories of my grandmother spending time in her garden she was always with her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren in the garden or in the kitchen always having big family dinners around her table and I thought that the happenstance of the papers that were already on here was going to lend itself very well to what was going to happen in the page so here are a few pictures of my grandparents at their wedding and the little baby is my dad he was a very fat little baby and my grandmother in her at her 90th birthday I believe if I'm not mistaken and here's her in her garden with some of her great-grandchildren and this is how I remember her this is the grandmother I remember so we're going to honor that as a child in their house I used to get in trouble constantly by both of my grandparents for playing with their fuchsia plants I used to be one of those children that loved to go over to the fuchsia plants and pop open all the flowers and I was constantly getting in trouble for popping open all the flowers and if we weren't doing that as a group that grandchildren especially the granddaughters were over shaking the plum tree so we can get all the plums off and then eat them before grandma could even wash them so but popping the fuchsia plants and the flowers and sometimes bees would come out and it was a lot of fun and that's what I remember and I remember her even when we were getting in trouble she was so sweet so I want to use that memory to create my page so I'm going to grab some paints that remind me of her and being in her garden and the fuchsia plants the colors of the fuchsia plants the colors of her garden I'm thinking of circular shapes that in an abstract sort of way remind me of fuchsia flowers so I grab a pink a blue I mean I sorry a pink a purple a couple of greens and a yellow I'll include the exact brands of paint and the colors in the description for you along with all the other materials that I've used if I forget something you guys asked me and let me know I will get right back to you so here we are going to create dancing movement across the page though the first thing I'm going to do is with my black ballpoint pen it's just a plain old big ballpoint pen I want to imagine that there's a horizontal line on the page and create dancing movement above and below the line as in art and life there are highs and lows and even in the lowest times my grandmother still was a very sweet woman and I want to honor and respect that and so we are going to create this dancing movement above and below that horizontal and imaginary line dancing its way across the page with these circles and marks at least that's how we're going to start and I don't remember now as I'm doing the voiceover if I did the paint first of the black pen first I might have done the paint first that's very possible and I do think I start out with a brush but it doesn't take me long to get my fingers involved because you know it's paint and who doesn't love paint I do as you say as you see have plastic boards in between my pages to protect the pages below they're cut from plastic cutting boards from the dollar store and they're cut to fit the journal so any thin plastic will work or a piece of deli paper I do find that very handy if you're new to art journaling you should have really have something like that to protect your other pages so I initially get out a couple of filbert's a little one and a slightly bigger one and I start with the pink and I just start painting circles on the page again it doesn't take me long to just start getting my fingers involved and want to smear the paint a little bit and get rid of some of the brush strokes so getting putting the paint on there with a brush but then getting my fingers involved helps me get a better circular shape but it also helps me get rid of some of those brush strokes I like uneven numbers and things I find it more interesting so I'm going to not stop before I'm going to add a fifth one and you'll notice again if we're imagining a horizontal line across the page the circular dots are above and below the horizontal line they're dancing across the page and kind of forcing your eye to dance across the page I'm going to add some purple if you've ever seen a fuchsia flower they're pink and purple little bits of yellow and then I'm going to take a small dotting tool and add the yellow and after I'm done adding the green in so and I couldn't decide on what color of green so I decided to add two colors of green one is an Americana paint one is a Dini Wigley paint I'm just being very random about it too I'm not being very very precise on purpose and so now we're going to add some yellow the yellow gives it a really nice bright pop which it kind of needs and this page takes on a life of its own and it really goes through a lot of changes before it's finished and that's okay journaling is always a process whether you're working out feelings about something or you're just playing and having fun it's always a process and it's okay to just enjoy the process and follow along with that process now here we're taking the black ballpoint pen just a plain old big pen and I am not really waiting for things to dry although I probably should I'm not and I am without lifting the pen up very much I'm circling each pink circle and then tracking down to the next circle and then going up to the next circle to start to create that visual dancing line that's traveling along the page it kind of reminds me of the lines on an EKG when you're getting your heart looked at and you see the EKG paper come out of the machine and it's got that up and down line I didn't think of that after had the page done and I thought oh wow that looks like an EKG reading so you can only really do so much of that until after the paint dries and then you can do more which I've done and I'm gonna do more even I want to make the lines darker I want them to stand out more from the background than they do and so we are going to we're gonna we're gonna do that so you'll see me go through again go through a process now I'm gonna take in each one of those little pink circles I'm gonna re journal about a memory of my grandmother something that I miss about her something that I loved about her and that I miss about her her sense of faith her sense of family the smell of her kitchen her smile so each one of the little pink circles has a different little message to myself about what I've missed about her and then while I'm doing that I'm also adding more black circular shapes or a circular marks around the painted shapes with my black pen and I I do end up doing this over and over and over again it's just it really does sort of remind me of a heartbeat anyway so here I am making those little notations of memory about her in each one of the pink circles you have to really make sure that the paint is dry before you do this and you write over it if you don't it's gonna frustrate you and clog up the pen so I do write little single word memories in some of the green dots too and when you're doing a piece like this it's really easy to think of the negative things about the person passing try to remember the good things and the things that you loved about them the things about them that brought light into your life and that's what I tried to do here in this case that last one was really hard to think of something to write we go so next I have a collection of my grandmother's books that nobody wanted again I said before address books little small Bibles all of them are stuffed with prayer cards and notes and little bits and pieces of paper flowers that she'd stuffed in the book and every single book I've gotten from her house has had that so I am showing you a few of them here it doesn't I did pull that particular card out because that needs to be on a future journaling page I did not even know that was in there until it was filming this anyway so these are just some of her old address books so I just pull a page out I think most of the writing is her some of it may be my aunt Sylvia's writing one of her daughters and that's fine but I pull some of the writing out and just pull a random page and I'm going to cut it up into circles and we are going to at some point put that on to our background right here I'm adding some white marks I just feel like we need to add some white it doesn't honestly quite do what I wanted to for the page now I could have cut a lot of this out I could have not explained any of this to you but that's not me I want you to see my whole process that I go through to come to the conclusion of the page that I made as I'm doing this I've got some of her favorite music playing in the background which happened to be Andrea Bocelli which we both live and Italian operatic music she loved Christmas church music and I've got some of that playing in the background and I am really just again going through a process to figure out how I can get this page to have the movement I want and have it say what I want whether it's with markers or pens or something I am here trying to find a different pens to add different marks to the page that I think will do what I want I'm thinking initially making the black darker and there's something on that one corner on the left side it just does not want me to write on it and I don't know if it's the map medium or what I don't know so I initially think just making it darker would work and it does kind of but it doesn't give me what I want but I I figure I'll try and I look at it and I think well that's close it's not exactly right I get that little piece of address book paper out I start cutting circles out of it and I think okay well I know I want to have this on here somewhere I know the background is getting a little busy I'm covering up more of the page than I normally do some pages are just happened to be like that and that's okay but I know I want this paper on there for me the background works because it's all very muted and monotone this is a picture of my grandmother when she was about 20 and I printed it out on my little small LG pocket photo printer and I'm going to get her down there at the same time that I glue these circles of old paper down kind of flip everything together because my protector keeps sliding out I am using a glue stick to stick the address book paper down I don't want to get wet glue out because honestly I don't want to wait for things to dry to continue on I'm layering some of the circles on top of each other and I'm using you who glue stick I do know I want to put some writing across the line connecting all of our pink circles across the dancing line and I initially thought I was going to use that green gel pen you see to the side I end up not using that pen because it's not dark enough I'm just using the glue stick and make sure that you really push hard and that you get that stuck down there really well the paper I used on the pocket photo printer was adhesive paper so I'm peeling the backing off of the paper and then sticking the image down making sure all my edges are stuck down well and here you see me trying to use that green pen and I'm just like it's really just not dark enough so then I start looking for another pen to do what I want one that is not too fat and is the right color I initially think maybe I should do black and then I'm thinking no I don't like the black so again it's a process and this is normal and if you're doing this when you're making journal pages and you're thinking I've done something wrong it's just taking me too long I'm too indecisive no you're not so here I found a green paint pen I do believe it's a Posca pen and I write something along a personal message for me to her along the black line the sort of heartbeat line of this dancing page and it's not about anybody ever reading it or anything it's about a message from her from me to her and again me working through those feelings I have of how much I miss her now I do decide that at some point I need to push the background into the back back a little bit so those pink circles in her photo stand out more I also know I want a quote on the page I'm always about quotes on pages and I have a box of quotes some of which are from her estate and I found boxes of quotes that she also kept I did not know she did that until after she passed so here I'm just cut cutting some plain white paper to protect the images I don't want to get the white paint on and this is a little plastic container of just random brands of white paint I mixed them together you know you have those mostly empty tubes that have got just a little bit of paint them yeah I put them all in this little bucket and I'm using a baby wipe to just spread a little bit of an around on the background and my head's gonna get in the way a little bit here and I'm sorry about that I'm trying really hard to not get my head in the way but I'm holding those circles down and then rubbing the white paint around on the background to just push some of that busyness back so that we see the pink circles and her photos stand out more and the quote eventually when I get it on there now if you get some of this paint on a part of the page that you didn't intend it to like I got a little bit of it here on her picture really quick to go in there with the baby wipe and just wipe it away wipe it back before it dries and you'll be fine and then I can just I'm going back in very gingerly sort of and putting some more white on there to just really push it back the whites gonna dry a bit more translucent that it's showing up here it doesn't actually come out as opaque and but it provides the effect that I want of pushing that busyness back you still see it you know it's there but the other things stand out more prominently I do want to bring back some of those black lines and make them a big darker again so I do that here with the big pen and then we're going to let that dry and I'm going to look for a quote from my page I have a box of quotes that I'm going to dig through on that I find one that's perfect and I've just cleaned up the page with a baby wipe and that's really looking the way I really want it to I've got the dancing movement I've got that heartbeat line so to speak across the page her picture is right there at the beginning of the line which is exactly what I wanted so here I found a quote by Abraham Lincoln actually that we're going to use on the page and I'm going to cut it apart so that it is in separate lines instead of a block I initially think I'm going to put it by her photo it's not what I end up doing again I excuse me again I am gluing it down with a glue stick because I don't want to be bothered to wait for anything to dry at all because yeah I just can't be bothered with that I use you who glue but Elmer's glue sticks work really well too Elmer's extreme glue especially you can glue it down with tacky glue or matte medium if you would prefer you could also staple it down or maybe you have a couple of you know if you're doing it with your from your grandmother maybe you have a couple of hair pins and you could use them to attach it to the page or sewing pins or you know don't be afraid to get any of those little bits of memorabilia involved in attaching these things to your page so here I was going out to the other room to dig out my little memory book of funeral cards I have of loved ones I know who have passed to get the her exact date of birth and death for the page because I wanted to make sure I had that on the page I wanted to put the quote in the upper right and to balance that out and to keep our movement balanced I wanted to put in memory of in the lower left so that's what we're going to do now you don't have to do this I could have left it just the way it was the movement across the page is prominent it shows up really well it's exactly what I wanted and I am doing the writing in a black ballpoint pen so that it's there but it's not as bright and is detracting from the movement in the page as it would be if I did it saying in pink like the circles so I hope that you experiment with movement in your journal and that you have fun with the process and you explore the process of creating movement in your journals and expression in your art and you know remembering those people places and things that are no longer with us in your art for me art is part of therapy my personal form of therapy and the way that I work out my feelings about things and I know it can be that for you too so I hope this gives you another idea of what you can do don't forget to go check out heart journal magazine and the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys