Little Faces Journal

 Hi everyone.

Today I have some art to share with your for my Let's Face It challenge at Art Journal Journey.

Months ago I received a "free" little disc bound journal when I placed an order on Joggles.com. This journal had been sitting in a pile on my work table waiting to be used. It is small (only 4 inches by 4 inches), and I'm still not sure about how well these disc bound journals actually stay held together. With the new year I want some new challenges so I decided to give it a try.

One thing I decided  before I started (this project) was that I was going to use only "cute and playful" face images in it (like those fun Janet Klein stamps). I was also not going to use  quotes, but only a word or phrase that the face represented to me. 

Most of the pages that came in this mini-journal are made of white watercolor paper, but a few are black watercolor paper. I started with the ones that were white and watercolored the background. Then I added the images, and on many, a few other bits and pieces to give the page more depth and texture.

Here's a few today, and I'll share more another time.

I thought the background on this first one looked like a forest, so I added this man's image. I drew in the design on the sweater body, the  jeans and also his arms. I added the owl and a few green little foamy dots for some texture on my page. I don't know what stained his face so that my marker wouldn't color over it. Perhaps it is a scar from a run in with a wild animal or perhaps he is sad that nature is being so overrun by people and their development.

I stuck with an owl in this next little page (above) too.  

I must say I love this page on black paper (above). I don't know what she is cheering about, but I want to cheer about it too. I stamped an image with white ink on the background and after I added the cheerleader, I used a paint pen to create lots of dots.

This next page has an image from Janet Klein. It is her cartoon image of Bud Abbott from the Abbott and Costello duo. I kept him as a comedian, as that is what he did best. I did add scraps of tissue paper and some dimensional "dots" and stars around him.

And the little devil in the  page below made me think she wanted her own way.

Here is another  page with a black background.  Besides my partial girl, I used  green tissue paper, rubbed on gold paint, as well as this acetate cat image that was in my stash.

And finally, one more page for today.

On the background, I stenciled in the black squares and rectangles. I also doodled the heart and dots with paint pens. Then I added a few bits of Japanese text. This lady looks well put together as well as being relaxed and calm.  I wondered if she wasn't a well seasoned traveler she might be a librarian.

I'll share more on Friday.

It's the middle of the week once again. I hope your week is going well.

And as always, thanks for visiting.