2 Art Journal Supply Videos

Hello my love

I've 2 Art Supply Videos for you today.

The first I recently posted on youtube so you may have already seen (I so need to get better at posting blogs the same time as I post other stuff lol) is about creating using v.limited supplies. This video shows a super quick 5 minute journal page...yes you can create in only 5 minutes and using the 'limited supply journal game' is a great way to encourage that. 

Hope it gets your mojo-juices flowing:

Supplies used in this page*

Liquitex Basics Acrylics – https://goo.gl/p9obcn

Staedtler Lumocolor Fine Permanent Marker Pens – https://goo.gl/3F5cHN

Derwent Graphik Markers – https://goo.gl/rw0W6A

Staedtler Mars 780 Technical Mechanical Pencil - https://goo.gl/9VsM7O

Tsukineko Brilliance Dew Drop Inkpad in Pearlescent Beige - https://goo.gl/g7E1Y1

Come join me on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jennibellieart/

The second video is a new feature I'm sending out to my newsletter subscribers 'Art Supply of the Month'. 

I shared a peek of this video on facebook and said 'you'll never see this elsewhere' lol well that's usually true but I wanted to share just this one sneakily with you here, you'll have to sign up to my newsletter to receive the exclusive videos I send each month though. If you're not already on the list you can sign up to get these videos (as well as the art supply they also get an 'Ask Jennibellie' video where I candidly answer any question) plus awesome giveaways, news & offers and you’ll also get a BUNCH of *Free* Goodies for joining up immediately here: http://eepurl.com/BHv-1

Hope you enjoy: 

Here are the supplies shared in this video*

My Box of Medium Point Uni-posca Paint Marker Pens - amzn.to/2lPTZYW

(however these Extra Fine Points seem to be more popular - amzn.to/2mB8e2j)

My Hartbag (The Derwent Canvas Carry-All Bag) - amzn.to/2lPTI8w

*links may be affiliate; this costs nothing extra but allows me to get a free bottle of glue occasionally if you decide to purchase, but as ever I will only ever recommend products I use and trust myself :)

Hope you've enjoyed these vids

Have an awesome day

Much love

Jennibellie

PS want some more videos from me?? Next week I'll be sending my newsletter out so make sure you're on the list for that: http://eepurl.com/BHv-1 & also the new Monthly Challenge video will be posted on my art community Journal Workshops too so ensure you're a member there if you're not already (it's fast and free to join) http://journalworkshops.ning.com/

A Look into my Everyday Hartbags (Art Handbags) & Journals

Hi guys, a quick video post today to share a peek at my everyday Hartbags & take around journals. 

Click on the image to be taken to Youtube, enjoy:

Do you have a Hartbag or take around journals?

Share in the Gallery on Journal Workshops.

Travel Kit & Journal Flip

Hey guys
today I have the remaining travel art video that I have to share.

 In this one I share my biggest ever travel art kit, and then a flip through of my completed holiday journal. 

Hope you enjoy

Have an awesome weekend

Much love

Travel Journal Page Video Process...or Birds, Birds, Birds!!!

Hi ho,

I have as promised the first of my holiday videos.

This one is a journal page I did in my travel journal (which I will share fully in the next video).

Hope you enjoy:

Much love

Jennibellie

London...and the Merit of Ditching

Today I have learnt the merits of ditching.

Card Horse Heads in Liberty's...it'll make more sense as the post goes on...hopefully

I also learned something about myself too. In creative terms I always thought I was rather flexible, given that I get so many ideas I have to allow many of them (and good ones too) to be cast aside so that others can see the sunshine. But what I have found out is that in actuality I am rather stubborn, and once an idea takes root in my head to become more than just an idea then it's immovable.

ya know, that Abbey Place

Much like that recent video I spent aggggges working on....before I went and ditched it. I had to finish my vision, and only once it was done did I then decide I didn't like it anymore. I guess I would have saved myself a lot of time and energy if I had decided this beforehand. If I had removed the root before it became a weed may be a rose could have blossomed instead. 

(this is a CAKE! ... yup I know, from Choccywoccydoodah in London)

However that is what I am doing now, and with an idea that has been rooted a lot longer than that discarded video. It has been so long rooted in fact that it could be an oak tree by now.The idea itself was to make a London themed/travel journal.

that place the Queen lives

The place just always meant so much to me, I felt it was right, that it was necessary even. I have waited a loooong while to create such a journal. I have even just come back from London and thought this should be the time to do it. The problem is, I'm not sure 'should' is really the right motivation for such a thing as creativity to bloom. So I'm releasing myself from this and a couple of other projects to focus on my roses. Besides I have waited years to create a London journal so I can wait a little, or a lot, longer until the journal itself becomes the rose. And if it doesn't, and the other projects too remain nothing but air...well that's fine, my garden will likely be blooming anyways.

me on Millennium Bridge,
from this point I can point out over 10 buildings I've worked in on the River Thames

So all in all I learned this about myself this week:

I have a great weakness for having to finish (practically) everything I set my mind to.

I also learned:

I have a great strength for having to finish (practically) everything I set my mind to.

...for it must be a great strength too must-ant it? 

If it wasn't there you'd never even know who I was let alone be reading my blog because nearly every creative project has a problem phase (or several) where it seems reasonable to want to ditch it, even the roses. 

So I guess stubbornness has it's merits too, 

as it is important to finish,

but I cannot deny that sometimes it is also important to ditch.

(10 mins of the Vlog is showing a flip of (or lack of) my London Journal, only one min is actually London bits and pieces)

Much love

Travel Journal Pages & Flip

Hi guys, snotty rags here! I haven't had the flu in so long I'd forgotten that they aren't just 24hr things. I cannot believe it's been a week and I feel more like death warmed up than ever...it's definitely the dreaded man flu! But again it was still all worth it and here's some of the pages made in my travel journal while away.

I did manage to keep my voice steady enough to do a flip of it & as I say in the video it's not exactly the most artful or skilled of my journals, but what I like about it is; it is real. The journal was done on the go, meaning nothing is well thought out - it is purely about the holiday, what happened and as it happened. Here's a couple more pages and the flip video, I hope you enjoy.

(PS I'm still running behind on emails, comments, visits and things guys - I'm really sorry, please be patient with this clapped-out-ragged-thing-formerly-known-as-Jennibellie, it's taken me all day to figure out this posting malarkey so everything else is just a little beyond my capabilities at the mo. Thanks for being awesome). 

Venice

Hey guys I thought I would share some mandatory holiday art & snaps lol I'm still too sick at the mo to produce any artwork, so I thought I'd share some journal pages from my hol along with a few pics:

I have managed to make a video since being home, though I'm afraid it's not as fine-tuned as it might have been if I were well, but it still shows how I journal when I go on holiday, as well as Venice itself and you'll get to see a few more journal pages there:

On a final note our latest featured artist on TAT, Wendy Juhl, wanted me to thank you guys for the supportive comments on her interview ~ she's having a few technical difficulties so asked me to pass on the message so thank you =) the mutual support for one another is one of the (many*) wonderful things I love about our art community =D

(*...actually we're just damn all round awesome aren't we?? *grin* lol)