Is there anything better than sharing art? I just had the privilege of working on a collaborative art journal project with Tina Walker, Andrea Chebeleu, and Jamie Dougherty, and it was amazing! I was able to work with artists whose work I admired and I learned so much from the experience. With the finished art journal, I can now hold accomplished pieces of art in my hands and figure out how to incorporate it into my own work. I can’t wait to stare at these pages and continue making art!
I met Tina Walker while I worked at Stampington in the marketing deparment. When Tina Walker proposed a four-way art journal swap, I accepted immediately!
Here’s how it worked:
- We each prepared 12 art journal backgrounds
- We then sent our journal to the next person in the loop and they created three art journal pages on our prepared backgrounds.
- We then sent it to the next artist, and the next artist until the journal was complete!
The Cover
This was a scrapbook that I bought at Daiso for only $1.50. I still would love to paint the front cover, but I loved the sturdy kraft pages and the heavy cardboard cover! I usually don’t like spiral bound notebooks for art journals, but this one had a very narrow spine, so it didn’t get in the way while painting and the book lays flat! I highly recommend this notebook for the price and the amazing paper.
Pages
These are the amazing pages made by Tina Walker, Andrea Chebeleu, and Jamie Dougherty. I can’t believe the amazing work that they returned to me. It was nothing like I expected, it was even better! I am still mesmerized by the bright paints and designs that aren’t part of my normal style.
And did you see that mermaid with the map tail? Amazing!
Some Sample Backgrounds
