Sunday, 22 August 2021

Art Journal Journey - Types of Marks

I have actually called this page "Make Your Mark" and I tried to show various ways in which you can make marks when corresponding with someone.  I made this page way back at the beginning of the month in my square Dylusion Journal, and, funnily enough, two days ago, Chris did an excellent  page where she reminded us of how we often put off writing, either correspondence or that book we intended writing long ago.

I had a tag sent to me a long time ago with the ink bottles on it with some dictionary page tucked behind so I tore that bit off (I did ask the friend if she minded) and then began looking for other things that would mix in with the bottles.  I had this set of three pens, the two pencils, another ink bottle and a hand obviously writing.  All of these were gathered together and later stamped on the page using Black Versafine Ink.


Later I found an image of a wax seal stamp, some postmarks and another ink bottle - that filled my page up and so I just wrote "make your" and added some domed stickers for the word "mark".

To finish off the page and link in with typewriters I found some pictures of old tins that had held the typewriter ribbons.  I remember them being black and red with the red hardly ever getting used and my asking the company purchaser if we could have some all black ones in future.

I hope this  has given you another idea of my interpretation of "Type" for my theme at Art Journal Journey.