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The Documented Life Project (October prompts)

December 21, 2015 By Marit 1 Comment

Only a few days to go until Christmas… and to my Top 2000 party! I already bound a journal to use for my Top 2000 pages and I chose the first songs to work with. There will be not much time left to work on other projects so the last prompts of The Documented Life Project will move to 2016… but I caught up quite a bit on the challenges so here’s the DLP pages that I created with the October prompts. I had some issues with finding the right paper with each prompt, but I managed to find the different kinds of translucent paper (or something that came close) that the prompts  asked for.

October 3
October Theme: Translucent Papers
Art Challenge: Deli Paper
Journal Prompt: You Had Me At Hello

dlp40-delipaper

I used deli paper with my gelli plate and glued the monoprint on the background.

October 10
October Theme: Translucent Papers
Art Challenge: Tissue Paper
Journal Prompt: The Disappearing Trick

dlp41-tissuepaper

For this page, I colored tissue paper with red spray ink. I made a mistake by varnishing the page with bookbind glue instead of matte mod podge (the two cups stood next to each other on my desk and I noticed too late that I put my brush in the wrong can…) This page is very glossy now – that’s not what I wanted but it’s done now.

October 17
October Theme: Translucent Papers
Art Challenge: Vellum
Journal Prompt: Sheer Genius

dlp42-vellum

I cleaned, decluttered and redecorated my atelier in September and came across a lot of scrap-booking paper. I remembered that there was a sheet of vellum with clouds-print in my stack and I used it on the silhouette of the head. The silhouette was cut out of a mono-print and the total page is glued in my journal. You can see the background (an old book page) shimmer through.

October 24
October Theme: Translucent Papers
Art Challenge: Glassine
Journal Prompt: Windows of My Mind

dlp43-glassine-a

I could not figure out what ‘glassine’ is but looking at the examples that the DLP-team showed, I thought it would be OK to use this paper. I don’t know what the name is, but it’s used in photo-albums between the pages. I blind-drew a face, put the translucent paper over it and painted it black so that only the eyes show through. You can lift the top page to see the original drawing.

dlp43-glassine-b

October 31
October Theme: Translucent Papers
Art Challenge: Tea Bags, Dryer Sheets, Fibrous Papers
Journal Prompt: Just Create!

dlp44-teabags-originalstain

I let used teabags sit on watercolor-paper all night and these stains is what came out of it. Looking at the stains I got drawn to the top left shape, I thought it looked like a figure and “Le Petit Prince” came to mind, so I tore out that particular part to use on my page.

dlp44-teabags

Thanks for visiting me today, see you later this week!

 

 

Filed Under: art, Art Journals, The Documented Life 2015 Tagged With: art journaling, dlp#40, dlp#41, dlp#42, dlp#43, dlp#44, documented life project, mixed media

Comments

  1. nel (florenel) says

    December 23, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    A huge lot of work is done by you for DLP and I always like to follow your solutions. Just like Michelle once wrote: they are very special YOU !

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