A little bit of Julie, Traci...and me!

I felt like doing some more art journaling this week! Of course, you all know by now that I'm very much inspired by Julie Fein-Fan Balzer's art journaling. I love her patterns and the colors she uses. Another great mixe media artist..I've told you about her before...is Traci Bautista. She also uses lots of patterns and colors in her artwork, only a little bit more graffiti look. She draws her 'Girlie Glam'-faces a lot and I love them!
So, for my art journal page I did yesterday I copied one of her Girlie Glam faces. The other patterns are inspired by Julie:

I used watercolor paint, gelly roll glaze pens and some markers.

Today I did another page. I watched Julie's liveshow for Prima this morning, in which she painted a canvas bag shaped mini-album. I really wanted to try and 'so something' with her pattern of leaves she often uses.

That was my starting point...the rest sort of followed automatically:

The cute fish come from an artbook about comics. I just cut them out and added some extra lines with my marker. The journaling isn't about fish at all! It is just a little story about today and the fact that I love it when I get some ME-time during the day...instead of waiting until the kids are in bed.

The leaves and the background are painted with watercolor paint. De pink and purple flowers are painted with acrylic paint. As always, the finishing touch is done with my black and white markers!

TFL!

Sandra