Mother Henna Video: heART Journal Part 1

In part 1, Kara L.C. Jones of Mother Henna demonstrates how to prep a old paper, wire-bound journal for layering and medium. She transforms a plain journal through the artistic process.

Materials

• plain old paper, wire-bound journal
• gesso
• soft-medium acrylic gel
• acrylic paints
• watercolor
• circle cut-outs
• rubber head brayer
• paint brush

Additional Instructions

• You can play around with the number of pages you acrylic together to play with thickness of page/sets you end up working with.
• To mix up the base of pages, you can do the gesso layer in black gesso!  Gives a dark base to play with for exploring light and texture!
• Try doing a cut out on the first page.  Layer something showing through that cut out by sandwiching it in-between the pages when you acrylic them together.
• If you are trying to work with a journal that is not wire bound, but rather perfect bound, you can actually rip out a few pages here and there to make more room for all the layering you'll be doing.
• Mostly, this is all a playful experiment!  You don't have to know the "right" way -- just play!  Find YOUR way.