THE BEST WAY TO REPEAT AN ELEMENT ON AN ART JOURNAL PAGE YOU NEED TO KNOW

Inside: the best way to repeat an element on your art journal page

Making art journal pages is for me not just a release or a therapeutic action it is also an opportunity to try new techniques an ideas. Recently I had an idea to make an art journal page with a repeat element that will appear on the page in a few different ways. So I challenged myself to come up with ways to do that and that was a really fun and creative exercise.

REPEAT ELEMENT IN ART

One of the most common elements in art is repeating elements. There are two ways to achieve that effect:

• REPETITION

Repetition refers to one object or shape repeated - it can be any shape arranged on the page in any order or direction. Once an element appears on the page more than once it can be considered as a repeat element.

• PATTERN

Pattern is a co mbination of elements or shapes repeated in a recurring and regular arrangement - that means that the repeat element is arranged on the art journal page in an order or structure.

OTHER WAY OF REPEAT ELEMENTS

While the repeat elemnts described above are visual a repeat element in art can also be a conseptual or in meaning. That means that the image or meaning that appears on the page can appear on it in different ways. For example if this page is about time and that it its main element it can be arepeat element by presenting time as a number, as a clock as a quote etc. All this creative ways basically say the same thing in a different way.

ART JOURNAL PAGE REPEAT ELEMENT

• Depict the element with a symbol like a number
• Use a word that is the element or describes it
• Add images and objects that describes the element

CREATIVE PROCESS

1. Decide what the repeat element you want to display on the page. On this page I picked the concept of time.
2. Make the background of the page with wahtever materials you want. I used Distress inks to blend the colors in the background.
3. Add elements in repition and patterns to the page. I used numbers to describe hourse and the passing of time.
4. Also add images or other elements that can descibe the theme of the page - I added a clock.
5. Finally I added a quote that talks about the passage of time.

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Here is what I used to make this page:

Have fun creating!