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Art Journal for Birgit's Art Crew August 2018 - free video!

another fun, easy & quick Art Journal video from me for Birgit's Art Crew, August 2018!!

I have found this cute, easy & stunning technique while using a stencil, modeling paste & watercolors! YES watercolors! when you use your stencil when the watercolors are still wet, it gives a stunning color effect to the modeling paste! Watch my video to see how easy it is :)

 

 

watch the free video here:

 

products used in this project:

Art Mask “Leafs”
Stamp “All you need is love”

other:
watercolor by Jane Davenport
white cardstock Bazzill Basicspencil
da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title)
da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12
tacky glue
black pen
white posca pen
Art Journal Revlie

make sure you check out all the other videos' from Birgit's Art Crew to get you inspired and motivated to create something.

thanks for watching!

Brand New online class "Easy Watercoloring in Your Art Journal" is LIVE

my brand new online class "Easy Watercoloring in Your Art Journal" at Big Picture Classes is LIVE NOW! 

watercolors can move and blend like they have a mind of their own - but that doesn't mean they have to be intimidating! in this class I share six quick and easy techniques that you can try today to add watercolors to your art journal. 

learn how to create a handwritten title using watercolors, how to blend different colors easily, and how to combine watercolors with fabric, doodles and other mixed media! 

at the end of this class, you'll have new skills you can apply to any project!

and the best part?! YOU & your bestie can win a free MONTH trial! how's that for cool huh? 

all you have to do, is comment under this post on my instagram feed with something nice & ofcourse tag your bestie in it. If one of you wins, you BOTH win that free MONTH trial!

you can find my Instagram post here

 

see you in class!!!

Fun Art Collaboration with my sweet friend Andrea!

oh, i had such fun doing this Art Collaboration with my sweet & very talented friend Andrea Gomoll from Cre8tive Cre8tions. make sure you check out her website, she has some crazy fun & lovely online classes and has the cutest stamps!

We both have created a mixed media background on a piece of watercolor paper and then send it to eachother to finish it.

 

BACKGROUND

In this video you can see me create my Mixed Media Artjournal Page background:

If you watch this video to the end, you can click the link to see how Andrea has finished my background! (SCROLL DOWN FOR ANOTHER VIDEO!!)

 

Andrea did make the most beautiful girl on my background. make sure you check out her video how she made it here: 

 

DRAWING THE GIRL

In my next video you can see me finish Andrea's background.

 

if you want to see how she made this beautiful background, go check out my video & I'll guide you to hers, or check out her video directly here.

thank you so much for watching & maybe you want to start a collaboration with your art friend too!

Art Journal Page for Birgit's Art Crew Guest Designer May 2018

another fun & easy project i made for Birgit's Art Crew as a Guest Designer. this time i choose to use one single stencil and lots of green & blue watercolors. this page is so very easy & quick to make! watch the fun little video i made and get your creativity going!

watch the video here

 

and a few pics to get a better idea:  

 

products used in this art journal page:

Art Mask “Leafs”
https://www.artstamp.fr/masque-a6-leafs-by-birgit-koopsen-carabelle-studio,fr,4,MA60059.cfm

 

 

other:

watercolor by Winsor & Newton
watercolor by Jane Davenport
white cardstock Bazzill Basics
pencil
da vinci watercolor brush nr. 0
da vinci watercolor brush nr. 3 (to write the title)
da vinci watercolor brush nr. 12 (for the drops)
4art artists watercolor brush nr. 1
green gelato (spearmint)
mixed media Art Journal A4 Strathmore
tacky glue

 

enjoy creating & show me your art journal if you made one!

#52promisestome #5 BE GRATEFUL

a new week, a new promise! and this week is all about BEING GRATEFUL. because, seriously, THINK about it, and you'll find so freaking much to be grateful for, even in the darkest of days and shittiest of times you can find the good in the ugly.

this is the art journal page I made:

journaling is in Dutch. here's what i had to say about it:

BE GRATEFUL. be grateful for all i already have. i am such an expert in looking up at others, see how much success they have, ambitious woman (and i don't even want to be them, or be ambitious), or how they are 'doing' on social media, way more followers than i have, more likes or comments. and mostly better and more beautiful pieces of art. but i truly truly need to promise myself and allow myself to be super grateful for all i have now, and mostly all i had dreamed of! i live the life that only a few years ago i had invisioned. i can almost work fulltime from home. i can be at home all the time when the kids are out of school or are on holidays. i only have to be 2 mornings a week at the company. ar and i rebuild our dream home, and we have the most amazing beautiful wild garden which is heaven for the kids, and my own freaking studio next to our living room is simply heaven and a dream come true. i can create as much and as often as i want. so jesus freaking frig, BE GRATEFUL for once! you already have it all. kids doing great, are very social and have lots of empathy. Arjan and i have build a warm & loving family of our own and if i would only look and notice how beautiful every day is (yes, with all the shitty parts too), i can only BE GRATEFUL.

here are some detail shots:

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
title is made on watercolor paper and glued onJane Davenport watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
Ecoline White
lots and lots of small alphabet letters. don't know the manufacturer, they are old and came in a tube. i'm guessin KI Memories.
gel medium
fabric and felt for the hearts
tombow markers to add lines to the fabric hearts

show me what you've made for this week on Instagram, and use the hashtag #52promisestome. i promise to find you! happy creating everybody!
love

Easy watercolor in your art journal #5

i LOVE to combine watercolors with doodling in my art journal. a bit handlettering with a brush and watercolors and i'm totally happy.

to see how i made this cute art journal page, go watch my video. oh. and i messed up. big time. but that's how i roll and i just keep going. i'm not perfect, FAR FROM, and i feel 'perfectly fine' by being me with all the stuff i mess up or forget. so, GO and watch happy stuff being made: 

 

 

and of course some close up shots so you can see it a bit better :) 

don't you love that quote from Maya Angelou? "the real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself". how true is that?!

love,

#52promisestome #4 OFFLINE

52promisestome #4 OFFLINE

it is actually kinda absurd how much we (i :) are online. check email. check business email. check webshop mail. check Etsy messages. go to facebook. instagram.youtube. twitter. pinterest. news sites. and back to instagram it is. watching a few stories and before you know it, 1 or maybe 2 hours have passed by. the book you wanted to read still lies untouched. 4 Flow Magazines, on a pile, not read. "had no time yet" is what i tell myself. 

or that crochet project i started months ago and wanted to finish it months ago too. and it's just such a shame. you are not getting anywhere by keep going online. sure, sometimes it's nice to see what your friends are up to, what fellow-entrepeneurs (hello :) are doing. but more times than most i feel empty and feel so much better when i put down my phone. go artjournal, read, crochet, draw. play games. build a barbie dollhouse with Sanne. thinking up plans and ideas together how we can make it beautiful. so this is such a nice promise to myself: BE AND DO MORE OFFLINE. put that thing down, pancake! be conscious of what you are doing. don't pick up my smartphone without thinking. put a timer on. FREE MYSELF.

and are you ready to join in? here's the list for January, this week i'll show you the words for February too! it's easy, just follow me on Instagram, and let me know that you are joining. use the hashtags #52promisestome and i'll watch your every move. that sounded more creepy than i meant. haha.

 

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
title is made on watercolor paper and glued on
winsor & newton watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
stickles from Ranger to add the glitterzzzzzz

happy creating everybody!
love

 

memory keeping in my creative planner

this week in my creative planner (last week of september 2017):
daddy mcGyver made them a pulley for their treehouse! well. it's not really a treehouse, but they sit on that tree and imagine the treehouse <3. we had this flagpole lying around (yup. we have the strangest stuff just hanging around), and he used it. i think he secretly wants to sit up there.

i asked them to go find me some chestnuts because i wanted to paint them. they came home. proudly! and handed me a bag of empty sleeves. GO kids :P

i did my daily walk (winning!) and we FINALLY found a couch we all 4 loved. or was it, that we were sick of looking and bought the first one we saw at IKEA. that might be a true story. who knows :P

and that's why keeping memory like this is so much fun. when i read this, it comes to mind directly, while otherwise i would have never ever remembered this. and i'm all about remembering it ALL. <3

Love,

Easy watercolor in your art journal #4

 

ohhhh my next video "easy watercolor with Revlie" is up on my youtube and i have to tell ya, it's the cutest! i've made my cute little up-side-down galaxy girl for you! this time it's a LONG video, almost an hour! but don't worry! for those of you who are always in a hurry (slow down by the way!), can also check out my quick version of it! maybe you get a little bit dizzy by my amazing speed, but hey, that's what you asked for!

SO FOR THE NORMAL (LONG) VERSION (speed up time 2x) check out this one:

 

 

AND FOR THE SHORT VERSION (speed up time 6x) check out this one:

 

 

 and because i'm thinking you need to seeeeeeee it all more closely, here are some cute pics:

and because this smarty pants wasn't paying attention, i got some pics while she was standing up. duh. ofcourse she needed to be hanging down. but you'll get the idea <3.

SERIOUSLY, how cute is she?! one day i'm hoping to get my hair exactly like her!

so, you were wondering, supplies used hey?!

SUPPLIES USED:
strath more visual journal
watercolors (Jane Davenport and Winsor & Newton)
black pen (micron)
white acrylic marker (Molotow)
Tombow markers
brush
and of course a pot of water

 

so, let me know what you think, get your art journal out there, stop scrolling the internetzzzzz people and start CREATING!!

Easy watercolor in your art journal #3

 

 

there's a new video!! jeehaaaa, a beautiful watercolor background with doodles with my favorite black & white pens: posca & molotow. working with watercolors is just so much fun. it gives me freedom, watercolor does what watercolor does. exactly what you were not expecting and usually you get the most beautiful results.

so if you haven't used watercolor in your art journal just yet, why not start now! i've got a few video's up on my  YouTube channel already and I will upload regularly. ofcourse not only watercolors, i've got more stuff i love to work with :D

 

check out the new watercolor video here:

 

 

 

so happy creating, and before i forget, are you joining me on my #52promisestome challenge on Instagram just yet? check out THIS POST and my instagram post & play with us! you can play how it works best for you. 52 promises to you in 2018. you can do that <3