Simple Journal Pages - Part 4

Hello everyone!  Here's yet another example for you of how to do simple pages in your art journal with your Gelli plate printed papers (or any paper for that matter - doesn't matter if it's Gelli prints or not).

Again, I am using my 5.5" X 8" Strathmore mixed media journal.

In the first photo, I've just glued into the journal one of my bazillions of Gelli plate printed papers and trimmed away the excess.

I wasn't particularly happy with this print, so I decided to add a bit more interest to it by tearing some irregularly shaped strips from another Gelli printed page and gluing those bits to the page too.  Now I like it a bit better.

Next, I created a little character to be the central image of the journal page.  I made the body from an over-sized scrapbooking tag that was kind of dress-shaped or body-shaped.  I cut out some star shapes from yet another piece of Gelli printed paper and adhered them to the dress/body.  There's lots of glitter on this piece, which doesn't show up well in the scans.

I took some stamped images of arms, scanned them, resized them to a variety of lengths and then created a page (8.5" X 11") of arm images in MS Publisher.  My thought was that I could use all these arms in my various characters I make in my art journals and mixed media work.  When the page was filled with all these images, I ran a piece of paper through my printer that was a photocopy of one of my Gelli prints, so that when the arms page was printed, it printed onto this paper.  I hope that is clear, if not let me know and I will try to explain better.  Basically, I now have a Gelli print photocopy of a whole page of sets of arms.

I cut out a set of arms to use for this character and glued them to the body, along with a face (stamped image that is stamped on a different Gelli print paper).

Then, I glued the character onto the journal page.

Lastly, I used my white Gelly Roll pen on the eyes to define them more.  I also glued some buttons down the front of the body and added the text (cut from magazines and then highlighted around with a black permanent marker).

All in all, a great page that really allows all the interesting colors and texture of the Gelli prints to speak for themselves, due in large part I think to the simplicity of it.  Sometimes it really is a good thing to just leave well enough alone.

Namaste, my dear friends!

Joanna