Get Messy Season of Color

In this blog post I'm rounding up some of my favorite pages from my art journal that I created during Get Messy's season of contrast.

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Week 1:

The journal I had made to use with the last Get Messy season (contrast) is only about half full, so I am continuing to use it for the Season of Color. I almost made a new journal for the season, because I love binding journals, but I decided I’d rather have this one full than half empty.

First up, I have this rainbow page!

After adhering on that striped rainbow paper, I decided I wanted to cut out a “window” to the next page, and then I decided to sketch the girl showing through.

I got out my Tombow Dual Brush Pens and colored her rainbow. 

After flipping the page over, you can see all of the girl I sketched, and then I made a list of colors and their emotions.

My next page to share:

This one I kind of like, but at the same time it almost doesn’t feel like it is my “style”, you know?

Another window cut out. This time a heart shape.

Week 2:

Let’s start this post with my favorite page from the week! Pink is my favorite color, so I decided to feature it on this page with a pink fern drawing.

It was only after completing this page that I googled pink ferns, and apparently some fern fronds do start out pink when they’re young. That’s magic! 😉

The background is watercolor, but I colored in the fern with Tombow Dual Brush Pens.

Next up, 2 space-y pages!

I don’t think I am finished with this Mars page, but I didn’t get a chance to go back and add anymore layers yet.

The hands on the page below are actually stickers by my friend Elly Mack. I stuck them on this page after doing the marbled high flow acrylic background, next to the galaxy image.

Week 3:

We’re already halfway through the season of color! This is a really fun season, it makes me want to make every page a rainbow. 😉

If you’re a member of Get Messy, you can find that tutorial on the Get Messy blog!

These are my colorful hair pages:

Acrylic paint hair on the page above, and watercolor hair on the page below.

For my other page of the week, I printed out some of my butterfly illustrations with a pink tint, and adhered them onto this page. I’m considering turning some of these butterflies into stickers, wouldn’t that be fun??

Week 4:

This week I spent a lot of time working on my upcoming course at Big Picture Classes, and experimenting in my Pen + Ink journal, but I did find a little bit of time to work in my current art journal.

 

My first page is definitely influenced by the Pen + Ink class and Julia’s work. It’s a super simple but fun page.

 

 

My second page for the week is a take on the quote “When I haven’t any blue I use red.” by Pablo Picasso. I however changed it to fit me a little bit, as I love pink and green.

I painted the pink girl in my sketchbook this week, but for this page I scanned her into my computer and altered the colors in photoshop, then printed out 2 copies to use here in my journal.

 

 

What 2 colors do you love the most?

 

Week 5:

The first page I’m sharing here is my favorite of the week. Which is no doubt because it has galaxies. I used strips of my favorite starry washi tapes and painted watercolor galaxies in between them.

 

 

I do like this last page, although it doesn’t feel like it’s quite my normal style. It’s my painty/collage style that I throw into my journal once in a while. Usually after I’ve been looking at some of Misty’s pages.

I do love this bird though. I got him from a National Geographic magazine. It was also fun to work in a (mostly) monochromatic color scheme.

 

 

That's it for this season! I hope you're inspired to use some color!