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PC~Page-by-Page Art Journal: GRUNGE

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Group:Paper Cutz
Swap Coordinator:LauraAust (contact)
Swap categories: Journals 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:June 17, 2012
Date items must be sent by:July 1, 2012
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Theme for this installment: GRUNGE (totally open theme as far as the text you use)

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From about.com: An art journal is a journal or diary that has a strong visual element to it, an expression of your artistic creativity and imagination, not filled only with words like a traditional journal. It's a journal for using your art to express your memories, dreams, and thoughts. How you create the images, and what type of imagery you make, is entirely a matter of personal choice. There are no rules. You can paint or draw, use pen and ink, photos, collage, doodle, stickers... anything and everything.

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You can use any technique(s) you want to illustrate your feelings about the theme. Your completed page should have at least one word on it. The journaling/text does not have to be elaborate - you can paste a single word on the page or you can journal several paragraphs - totally up to you! Your page does not have to be serious or though provoking - it can be fun or funny, serious or light-hearted. The choice is yours!

  • You will have one partner
  • The page will be 4" by 6"
  • Sign or initial the front of the page
  • Choose your backing material by how much you are going to glue/add to the front - if you are doing a drawing and not adding any thickness, start out with a really sturdy backing. If you are doing a layered collage, you might want to start out with a thinner backing, etc.
  • Let your imagination, creativity, and thoughts run wild!
  • You can put info on the back of your page but it's not required

I plan on obtaining a spiral bound journal that is approximately 5" by 7" in which to mount the pieces I receive. Because we are trading 4" by 6" pieces you could add them to your postcard collection, store them in a photo album, etc. - you wouldn't have to make them into an art journal at all!

Let me know if you have any questions at all! There is also a thread in the Paper Cutz forum so we can talk about this series there if anyone wants.

Here are themes I have hosted in the past:
* Paisley Zentangle
* Magazine Collage
* Song Lyric
* Love
* Flowers
* Friends
* Family
* Themeless
* Me
* Memories
* Home
* Life
* Death
* Ransom Note Style
* Bucket List
* Black & White
* Grunge

Discussion

MichelleWillow 05/21/2012 #

type 1?

LauraAust 05/22/2012 #

Thanks @MichelleWillow - it has been fixed now! :)

FiWebster 06/10/2012 #

Could you say a little bit about what GRUNGE means? All I know from grunge is the Seattle bands of the early '90s, flannel shirts, that scene. I don't know what it would mean in the context of an art journal piece.

LauraAust 06/11/2012 #

I think of grunge as kind of dirty, rusty, mismatched. Someone else mentioned that it's just past shabby chic. Some consider Tim Holtz to be the end all/be all of grunge. And I would love a page with a grunge band lyric on it. :)

FiWebster 06/11/2012 #

Would a collage from photos of old moldy stone or rusty tools or peeling paint count as grunge, or does the paper itself need to be dirty or distressed in some way?

LauraAust 06/12/2012 #

I think that photos would be just fine! I used paper that is a photo of old metal printing letters, etc. The page itself does NOT have to be distressed in any way.

FiWebster 06/12/2012 #

Thanks, Laura!

CarlyJo 06/13/2012 #

Would anyone be willing to do an offset trade for one of these? I never made one and I am too scared to join and would like to get 1 or 2 before I start making mine. Sometimes flickr just cannot give you the info that you are looking for. PM me :)

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