Art Journal Prompt: Quest

Completed this art journal page for the art journal challenge in the forums at jessicasprague.com .Art Journal Prompt This Week : Quest.

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Digital Art Journaling Class at JessicaSprague.com

I am so so excited. For the last while I have been interested in art journaling and really ended up wanting to learn digital art journaling as i love digital scrapbooking so very much. I just enrolled in Jessica Sprague's Digital Art Journaling Class. I was so exited after I unzipped the class kit. So beautiful and so many items - I was in heaven looking at it all and imagining how I would use it all. the art journal prompt for assignment #1 was {heart}. I made a page similar to the one Jessica uses in her video but loved being able to do all the brushwork and blending myself. I've only completed the one assignment and I have learned so much already! here is the page I made for the first assignment {heart}

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{Texture Tuesday} The Warm eDition

I have become really interested in art journaling recently and have been searching through lots of blogs and websites for new idea and how-to information. I came across this awesome site by Kim Klassen. On the site she has a feature called Texture Tuesday.

Here are this week's TT challenge details.

• Share an image centred around the word, warmth . Also, your image must contain at least one layer of any of my textures. 

My image recipe (by Kim Klassen)

• Open the image in photoshop. 
• Duplicate the background layer....or CS users can convert the background for smart filters. Apply a gaussian blur filter at about 8 px...this will vary depending on your image resolution. Change the layer blend mode to overlay and lower the opacity to about 65%.
• Add a hue/sat adjustment layer and reduced the saturation in the red channel. 
• Add a photo filter layer at warming filter 85 and lowered the layer blend mode to 45% opacity. 
• Add a layer of Sunday texture at soft light 100% opacity and another layer Sunday texture at multiply 55% opacity.
• Add a black and white adjustment layer or a black to white gradient map will work also....and lowered the opacity to 33%.
• Duplicate the black and white adjustment layer and changed the blend mode to soft light at 33% opacity.
• Add the type if you like.
• The End

Here is the photo I created using this recipe.

this was the original image.

I really had a lot of fun doing this. I really was unaware that there were so many options to layers and blending. Going to have to make this a weekly challenge to do these Texture Tuesday's. Can't wait to learn more.

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Wordless Wednesday

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Sandra Collins Photography {Sneak Peeks: The "S" Family}

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7 Days In May -Day 7 - Art Journal Challenge

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Art Journal Challenge "I AM"

Over in the forums at JessicaSprague.com I have come accross a great art journal challenge. The promt for this week is "I AM". The post for this prompt had a link to a website that has a fill-in the blank poem called "I AM" that helps describe who you are. You can find the article and original poem here.

Here is my digital art journal page I created for this prompt.

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