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A colourful guest post :: Jane Dean talks art journals

This morning Jane Dean joins us to talk about her colour process for her art journal! Enjoy.

art journal pages
_{©Jane Dean}

After a couple of years of collecting books and internet site links for art journals I decided to start one of my own. I just go with whatever my thoughts are at the time of playing with my art box and have no order to my journal at all. I like it that way, no rules, no dates, no times to stick to, just doing what I feel like when I feel like. A perfect project for the disorganised, easily distracted, free spirit that is me.
This page was built on a story of colour. A close friend asked my advice on decorating his living room, a cream blank canvas. He told me that he would really like to have one wall painted terracotta and asked what I thought. After looking at the colours in his furnishings I suggested a particular shade of blue. He didn’t get it. “Blue is a cold colour and terracotta is warm he said. They won’t go.” I tried to explain but I couldn’t convey the picture in my head so I painted a background to show him the colours together. He still is not convinced and has yet to change the cream walls while I live in hope that one day he will believe that I am a goddess of colour and do as I say.

art journal pages