Soul Journal - Day Seven

Today in our Soul Journal we were to journal two pages with the prompt "I forgot to tell you..." We knew ahead of time we were going to be covering the journaling up so I allowed myself to get a little more personal and say some things I wish I had said to my older brother.

I don't know, no, I know for a fact I would not have written it if it was not being covered up. I poo-poo'd covering up the journaling in the earlier pages I had done but this time I found it strangely liberating. Now, that's not to say I will be covering my journaling from now on but I can certainly see where it has it's moments.


O-M-G. Dark Knight was friggin' awesome! Heath Ledger was just fantastic in this role. I don't know if I would have enjoyed the movie as well if he had not played his role so convincingly.

It's such a horrid shame he died. He was so talented and in my opinion just getting started.

Soul Journal - Day Ten

Mood - Hurried

We were suppose to draw a symbolic version of our homes or where ever it was that made us feel safe. I started off with the symbolic house but it didn't feel right so I ended up doing an actual drawing of our house. I haven't glued it down yet bacause I have an idea of what I want to do for the sky and I don't want to mess up the drawing.

The other page is suppose to represent your neighborhood. My drawing has absolutely nothing do do with my actual neighborhood. this is more of my "I wish" neighborhood. We I went up to Chicago some years ago to visit my brother I was facinated by the row houses they had in some of the neighborhoods. I still am. I have no interest in living in Chicago (waaaay too cold up there) but those houses are what I picture in my ideal neighborhood.

Soul Journal - Day Nine (update)

Mood: Happy/Anxious

Dun-duh-duuun! *think horn playing* I am now happy with these pages. I added some neocolors, colored pencils, gel pens and sharpies. I think it helps the images stand out a lot better.

I am working on pages seven and eight today, well and ten, eleven and twelve. I'm multitasking! I have the journaling done for seven and eight but I want to get some duct and electrical tape when we are at Wal-Mart later today. I just got through drawing my house. I didn't go the symbolic route like prompted. I went more literal. I still thinking how I want to do the neighborhood.

Cory and I are going to see Dark Knight this morning. Speaking of which, I should probably go wake him up. No, I think I will wait a bit yet. I work best when I am working quietly in the mornings while he is still sleeping. I'm really excited about seeing the movie. The only negative thing I have heard about it was that is was a bit gory but I don't mind gory. Well, within reason. Everything else I have heard about it is positive. I have purposely not watched trailers or read reviews for it so I don't get disappointed.

I just remembered this morning I forgot my sweater at the movie theatre last weekend!! I hope they have it in lost and found. That was my favorite sweater! I have to remember to ask about it.

*Update* I didn't forget it at the theatre. It was laying on the credenza in my living room.

Soul Journal - Day Nine

Mood: Good

Okay so I had to skip days seven and eight because I didn't have all the tape I wanted. How do you run out of electrical tape?!?! I always assumed it was one of those things that was just magically at your house but you never knew where it came from.

Anyway - on to day nine. I'm not sure I care for the outcome of this one. I thought the brown was too light so I added two colors of dye ink to the edges. Then, we were suppose to add a glaze of acrylics taking care not to cover the pics. I, of course, covered the pics completely and waited too long to wipe it off with the baby wipe. It came off though. I don't like how muted it looks. It could be the colors I chose or how long I took before wiping the paint off. I added glitter gel pens but it doesn't really show in the pic.

I think I will come back to this one and play with it some more. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it though. I need to think about it a bit.

Soul Journal - Day Five and Six

Mood: Chipper

I skipped days two, three and four for now. I want to think about how I do the pages. Particularly the second page. This is day five and six combined together. I've discovered I'm not the best at stopping to take progress pictures.

These are pages three and four in my soul journal. We had to cover our journaling with gesso and put an acrylic wash over it. I chose burnt umber and yellow ochre. We were suppose to go on a scavenger hunt at the end of day five but I didn't care for all the items we were suppose to search for and did my own thing. I just randomly pulled out images I thought were cool in the magazines. I tried to balance them out on the opposite page by having a couple of similar images.

I'm not really sure what the point is to gesso over our journaling. Most people like to go back and reflect on how far they've come in a time frame. I will go with it for now. I might find creative ways to find hiding places for it if I still don't like it later.

Soul Journal - Day One (Page 1 and 2)

Mood: Chipper

I'm a little behind starting out on my journal. I think they are on day 11. It's fine with me though because it allows me to work at my own pace. I don't like having to wait on more instructions when I'm in the mood to do a page.

The first day of journalling we were prompted to cover three pages with old dictionary or book pages and then journal with the prompt "Today I feel...". I wrote four pages to make two open page spreads.

Soul Journal

Mood: Motivated

Another user at atcsforall.com posted a link to a blog who is doing daily art journal prompts. It's called the Soul Journal Challenge. It doesn't seem to be as much about daily themes as it is about learning to let go a little bit to play in your journal and reflect on you. You can join along with everyone here - Caspiana: Soul Journal Challenge.

Here's the journal I chose for it. I was really happy with it when I found it at Barnes and Noble. Both the outside and inside are done with handmade paper. I tried finding a watercolor journal but the only two they had I wasn't happy with. This one just jumped off the shelf at me! I'm really eager to get started.