Art Journal Your Inspirations
Creative Project Prompt Helps You Document What Inspires You
Mar 20, 2008
What inspires you, excites you, and gets your creative juices flowing? For some mixed-media artists, it could be as simple as a picture of their favorite flower or a loved one. For others, it could be a song playing on the radio or a book they just finished reading. This art journal prompt is going to focus on what is inspiring.
For this art journal prompt, you will need the following materials:
- Art journal
- Heavy-duty glue stick
- Your favorite magazine
- Assorted colored sharpies (glitter or metallic gel pens would also work well)
- Ballpoint pen
- Scissors (decorative edge, straight edge, or both)
- Your favorite rubber stamps
- Assorted colored ink pads
- Poetry
- Quotations
- Decorative papers
Follow these steps to complete this mixed media art journal prompt:
- Open your art journal to the first blank page spread and write out some brief journal entries along the edge of the pages about what inspires you. This will create a border for the rest of the prompt.
- Flip through your favorite magazine and cut out every picture, piece of text, and article you find inspiring. Add these cutouts to the page spread using the heavy-duty glue stick.
- Layer over the cutouts with rubber-stamping in as many assorted colors as possible. If you only have black or brown stamp pads, color in the images using assorted colors.
- On the decorative papers, write out poetry and quotations you find inspiring. Search the Internet for these or use your favorite books. This could also include song lyrics and passages from your favorite books. Attach these papers to the page layering them over what is already present using the heavy-duty glue stick.
- Layer over some more rubber-stamping over the decorative papers.
- Using the assorted colored sharpies, add text and random swirls over the entire page spread. Draw random patterns, pictures, and doodles.
Repeat this journal prompt on as many pages in your art journal as you choose until all the materials you have gathered have been either used up or implemented. You may wish to do a light watercolor wash over the page spread before beginning. This will add dimension and another opportunity for layering. Use mottled colors for this treatment for a more interesting background.
Allow this layer to dry completely before moving on to the next step. You can speed up the drying process using a heat gun or a hair dyer. Be sure not to use too much water, to prevent the page from curling and rippling.
