“Believe you can and you’re halfway there”
I do believe ;) big time …so bring it on- LOL
This is actually a page I made teaching my art journaling class at Pratt- it was so much fun. Lot’s of stamping, scraping paints and stenciling.
Here are some of the materials I used – some of the links are affiliate links.
Hope you are halfway there too :) Have a wonderful day
“Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not.”
I loved creating this page!
I used acrylic paints, stencils and stamps for the background and found a magazine image that fit to my quote and painted over with markers and charcoal stick.
I love that with art journaling you can tell a story but without revealing the whole story- that is the way how I prefer it. Everyone one does it differently- and if you want to write a lot- than that is the right way too – I just happen to rather hide it a bit more :)
Here are all the supplies I used – some of the links are affiliate links.
Hope you have a wonderful day!!!!
Art journaling is my therapy when needed.
Nice page and message Nat.
Wow – probably just what I needed to hear Nat. Lately I have had a few bumps in the art world and it has made me step back a bit. I need to remember your journal page today. Great background and your gal looks perfect for the sentiment! Thanks bunches. XXj.
Good advice Nat! Love your art journal pages so much! xx
In the mornings I play in my art journal to get myself into the creative groove and break the ice – so to speak- and get ready to paint. I recorded and fast forwarded my morning ritual for this video – and hope you enjoy it. Take it as what it is – a morning art journal play- not a tutorial ? – BTW- I had to buy a new camera and as you might see, I am still trying to get used to it. I learned a lot about it during the video- so bear with me on the bit of a weirdo-focus-color-format journey in this video – I promise it will be better next time.
Creative Ice Breaker VIDEO IV July 31, 2016 from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.
Here are the supplies I have used in my Creative Ice Breaker video above – some links are affiliate links.
Don’t forget that this is the last day of the Blogiversary SALE with 20% off of online workshops (like Creative Jumpstart 2016), DVDs, and select items (including all the stampsandstencils) from the n*Store online. The sale prices are reflected in the store now.
I hope you enjoyed the video ? Have a wonderful and creative day
Nat
I could not believe it when you started putting gesso over that lovely background, I was almost shouting at the screen, but what a lovely page you created and how wrong I was, gorgeous.
LOL- Kathy-I didn’t know I could make you almost shout at the screen ;) glad you still liked the page. Honestly I liked the background too but I was thinking- ah let’s roll with it :)
It’s Tuesday again and time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “Letter to my Future Self”. Throughout the month of July, the team will use any of my n*Studio Stamps and Stencils they would like to use to interpret the theme. This month’s theme is in honor of my recent 10 year (!) blog anniversary- which we will celebrate later this month! I asked the team to create something that they’d like to tell themselves in 10 years. Like a mixed media time capsule. This theme flips the “If only I knew then what I know now” sentiment up-side-down.
This week Cheiron Brandon shows you her amazing and colorful layered art journal page with a pretty good advice :)
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Hi everyone, Cheiron here with my monthly post. When I got the theme for this month “Letter to My Future Self” I got nervous. Was I going to have to write an actual letter? What AM I going to write that will be important to know in the next 10 years. Will this have to go in my journal for everyone to see it? Writing in a journal is not for me, I don’t like to share my thoughts in writing. For me my art journal represents a place to play and experiment with color, texture, new stamps and stencils.
When I started out on this page, I decided instead to not get nervous about writing a letter and just play with some new paint colors and layers. I did think about some personal plans for the next 10 years, and what I would like to tell myself whether I achieve these things or not. I have included some imagery that represents some of the things in my plan, including starting off my page with a piece of a house blueprint. When I do think of plans for the long term like health, finances and career there is no better advice I can give myself than to get started now. So I added the quote “10 YEARS FROM NOW YOU’D WISH YOU HAD STARTED TODAY”. I think that advice rings true at any point in our lives, and I am sure it will be just as relevant if I pull this journal out again in 10 years.
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I love love love the color combination in Cheiron’s art journal spread and the way how she layered and combined all stamps and stencils!
Cheiron used the supplies listed below (some are affiliate links):
Maybe you will even play along with us -I would love to see how you interpret our monthly themes. Email me how you used my stencils and stamps with the theme and email me an image – I would love to share your projects in my next “n*Spiration From Around the Globe“.
See you next Tuesday for another project from the Creative Squad!
Oh sooo vivid and splendid Cheiron. What a great idea to use part of a house plan in the background. Your work is so INTRICATELY STUNNING and my eyes loved roaming over it to see all the different ‘Nat toys’ you incorporated! Perfect sentiment. Thank you for the inspiration. j.
Those layers and colors are gorgeous Cheiron! I love your page!
In the mornings I play in my art journal to get myself into the creative groove and break the ice – so to speak- and get ready to paint. I recorded and fast forwarded my morning ritual for this video ��� and hope you enjoy it. Take it as what it is – a morning art journal play- not a tutorial ?
Creative Ice Breaker III July 9 2016 from Nathalie Kalbach on Vimeo.
And here is the page you see in the video:
Here are the supplies I have used in my Creative Ice Breaker video above – some links are affiliate links.
I hope you enjoyed the video ? Have a wonderful and creative day
Nat, I love these little videos and I hope you’ll keep them coming! Makes me want to play in my journal right now!
Just the motivation I needed this morning. Thanks for sharing.
Jean
YEahh – so glad it got you motivated- hope you had a fun day!!
Almost looks like your little elphant is smiling – SUNSHINE family!!! Wonderful as always Nat. Thanks bunches for making my day! Xj.
Had so much fun watching your vid today. Music fit perfect.LOL
I just have to get the elephant set now. Thanks.
:) thank you Susan – glad you enjoyed the music and video and the elephants :)
how do you contain the spray on the Liquitex sprays? I must be doing something wrong. I love your use of the layered stencils and stamps….I’ve really grown to love the elephant set and use it a lot of the time.
Hi Ruthie, I shake the bottle at least a minute before using it and make sure that the nozzle is free of spray. I usually have no problem with it, unless there is some dried in areas around the nozzle. Do you have that problem with all sprayers and caps? I also find that it is easier to control if you are a further away. If you are spraying very close you are spraying very forcefully to one spot but it will result in a big blot rather than a fine mist. I hope this helps a bit :) Glad you hear you love the elephant set- share with me some time what you did with it :)
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Lots of changes in my life and lots of changes this year …all of the old ones turned out gorgeous in the end and so I am confident this will be the same for the new changes – I am confident :)
For this art journal spread I broke out my acrylic spray paints again – I so love them. The Liquitex Spray Paints I used, are low odor, but you still have to work in a very well ventilated area and I usually wear a mask if I spray a lot. I had a background from an old paint-scrape-off paint, which I totally covered with spray paint, and layered over with the Art Deco, Circuit and some Alphabet Stencils.
While the Spray Paint was still wet I used the back of a brush and added some word scribbles. I used my old vintage sign maker stamp set to try out the lower case letters in there (oh man I love it) and added some white marks with a white signo pen and filled in some of the irregularities in the letters with black marker.
Are you good in dealing with Changes?
Here are the supplies I used for this art journal spread- some of the links are affiliate links:
P.S. If you are in the New York City Area – I am teaching an Art Journaling 101 Class at the Manhattan Campus at Pratt on July 16th! It is a very fun and great place to come for a class – here are the details:
Love this page Nat! :)
awe- thank you Rach!!!
Sweet sentiment and vivaciously vivid pages! Xj.
Thank you Joi! Wish you a gorgeous weekend!
Find your Tribe. Love them Hard.
I truly believe in this :) There are so many amazing people out there and they just get you, or your art or your passion and when you find them…love them, lift them up and be with them.
For this art journal spread I used mostly my stamps and the stencil with the man and woman silhouette in my Fiesta Stencil. I stamped and stenciled with a dark and light acrylic paint green. Once it was dried I mixed some gesso with magenta acrylic paint and scraped it in a thin layer using the Catalyst tool over most of the spread to achieve a glaze and change the color. This also creates some texture.
Next I used some yellow which I also mixed with a tiny bit of gesso to make it more opaque and stenciled again with the Stencil in the Fiesta set. I love the lady and the gent – they are so versatile :)
I wanted the under layer peak a bit through but cover most of it- hence the gesso in the yellow.
Next I used this stamp set- which I scored a couple weeks ago at a Jazz festival. Yes, you heard right. I went to a jazz festival and there was a tent with some antique stuff for sale and of course I was instantly drawn to these old sign marker sets. The smaller one with the colorful box is from the 50s and other one is a big set with lower case and upper case letters in a huge wooden box and is from the 20s – I am so over the moon – and I tried it out for the first time on the spread.
The set has a little wooden stick which is meant to be used as a guide to stamp evenly- as you can see…that only works when you do not move the stick (note to self: don’t move the stick ! ;) )
I added some white sharpie marks into the letters and outlined them with a fine acrylic markers. Added some dots- and voila …done :)
It was a great morning session which didn’t take too long but made me instantly happy as I played with paint, stamps, stencils and even new treasures.
Did you find your tribe yet?
Here are the links to the supplies I used for the art journal spread -(some are affiliate links):
Have a gorgeous day!!!
Wow, I love this! Great sentiment, fab colours and layout. Creative Blessings, Tracy x
Gorgeous page, Nathalie! Just love that stencil/template, those gorgeous, versatile, flippable heads are so perfect for so many projects! And the lace is just wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve got a small tribe. Working to nurture it. That type is SOO awesome.
YEah- glad to hear. and yes the type is pretty cool – I am not sure how often one can find those sets, but I think they are not super rare, so maybe you score one too :)
YES, I have found my tribe (or two) and I just love those words.
I think that they’ll be perfect for a canvas that I’m working on right now.
yeah for finding your tribe and I love the idea to put this on canvas!!!
Last week I went to Arlington, Texas to teach together with MaryBeth Shaw, Jodi Ohl and Gina Rossi Armfield an Art Journaling Live Class which was recorded and will be available as DVDs and Video Download at the end of November this year.
I started with some Creative Icebreaker techniques and lot’s of visual and actual texture.
And it was fun to see what the amazing students created in this 1 1/2 hour with me.
All the while Aaron was being serious and filming everyone and everything ;)
Here is Amy Jones, our wonderful producer and you can see Jeannine Stein the editor of Cloth Paper Scissors doing fun stuff with Jodi in the background.
And here is Jodi showing off her hands to proof she painted
My favorite part of the day was that after I was done with my teaching, I got to play along in all the other classes and below you see what I did in Jodi’s fantastic class …I changed her awesome whimsical birds and fish up a bit and out came: Botox fish – I love them- they crack me up :)
Here is a view of the classroom.
And the amazing MaryBeth Shaw – so good to spend time with her too
and take her amazing layering and stencil class
I realize, I do not have a photo of Gina- grrr- but she was sitting right next to me
and she taught a really really wonderful watercolor class which makes me want to do more with watercolors!!!
And here we are – all four of us – relieved and happy that we made it- and super thankful for all the wonderful and talented students we spent time with on that day.
I will keep you updated on the DVD and Video Download but meanwhile you can check out the ones from last year and some others I did
looks like it was fab!
ADORE your botox fish Nat. Hehehhehehe – made my day!!!!
And what a wonderful array of FABULOUS photos. I loved seeing EVERY one of them. And the last one of the four of you together is so perfect. How fun that you not only got to teach but had some fun learning time too!
Thank you sooo much for sharing your journey. XXj.
Hi, it was such a fun day and wonderful seeing you. It’s fun to see the pictures. Would it be okay to “borrow” the first and last pictures for my blog. I will include a link to yours.
Hi Denise- so good to see you again- and of course you can use the pix !!!! have a wonderful weekend!!!!
Botox fish…LOL.
Great pic of the 4 of you at the end of the post!
Today is the last day of the Nathalie Kalbach & Friends Stampendous Summer Hop – so much fun :)
What better way to celebrate summer than with some summer colors, I thought and created this Art Journal spread with all kinds of bold summer colors and different sets of the stamps I designed for Stampendous.
I layered some acrylic paint onto my art journal pages and set it aside for later. A list of all supplies can be found at the end of this post.
For the Bird, Elephant and Urban Scribble image I wanted to create my own patterned paper and I love to use deli paper for this because it is cheap and thin enough that you can use it to wrap up small presents, and can be used easily as collage material in your mixed media art work. I used the same colors over and over again, first adding big patches of colors to the deli paper, then stamping with acrylic paint and all kinds different Rubber and Foam Stamps. Later I layered some of the stencils which are included in my stamp sets on top to tie some areas together. Last but not least I used the Urban Scribble rubber Stamp and black archival ink and stamped randomly here and there.
I traced the Foam Stamps onto the back of my new patterned paper and cut out an elephant, bird and the urban skyline. I glued all the cutouts down onto my earlier painted art journal spread using Matte Medium and a cosmetic sponge. Then I added a couple more marks and colors to the page and outlined the shapes in a sketchy manner. Added some Journaling- and voila :) It was a lot of fun to just play with all the different stamps. I cannot wait to make more patterned paper to use this way for wrapping paper – a good way to use up some of your left over paints and stamp off your inked stamps. Here are the details of the elements on the finished page
I hope you enjoyed this fun and colorful post :)
Do not forget that you can win all three of my Stamp Sets by commenting today on the blogs with projects of my stamp sets in this list from the whole week. Check out all those amazing projects my friends posted – I am blown away:
my blog – Creative Squad – Cheiron Brandon on Tuesday
Stampendous Blog Post Wednesday
my Creative Ice Breaker Wednesday
Stampendous Blog Post Thursday
my blog- you are here :)
Have a wondeful day and good luck!!! Stampendous and I will post about the winner on our blogs next week!
Here are all supplies including the stamps I used (some are affiliate links).
Oh goodness! Your art journal pages are SO gorgeous and completely inspiring!!! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome creativity and talent and for coming together to bring your fans this super cool mixed media hop!! I’m thoroughly enjoying seeing your marvelous designs come to life!!!
Oh, I have a serious crush on your user of neon colors!!! I have also developed a serious crush on your stamp/stencil sets this week. Can’t wait till my budget let’s me indulge in getting some!!! -FL
I absolutely love your style of creating, Nat. Like me, you love color and it shows beautifully in your work. Your art journal pages just speak to my heart. Thank you for sharing!
I LOVE this! So bright while being subtle and bold! Brilliant. I’m glad I ran across this…can’t wait to see the other artists’ interpretations! Thank you so much for all of your inspiration Nat!
Love, love, love!
Love all of the bright colors and the elephant!
When I reached this page I just said to myself “wow’. Love the
brilliant colors of the backgrounds and stamps. You and your
designers are so talented. Have enjoyed this week’s blog
hop – it was fun. TFS.
Jackie, Tel Aviv, Israel
The journaling pages are so colorful and make a statement. I love them, they catch your eye for sure.
So inspiring! Love the hold colors!
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Joi @RR
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Wow – just SUPER creativity Nat. What a glorious background! Love the sentiment – need to do a bit of that believing myself!!! Have a happy weekend. Xj.
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nathalie-kalbach
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thank you so much Joi! Hope you have a happy weekend as well :) nat
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