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3 Steps to Make an Art Journal Page | Art Journaling Process for Beginners
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Feb 21, 2025
Learn how to make an art journal page. This is a step by step art journaling process for beginners to help you start making journal pages #artjournal #artjournaling #arttutorial #watercolortutorial Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPdD0ifkS1vKYPs3zgDx3YQ/join
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hi everyone inat kler here with a new
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video tutorial and today I'm going to
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show you or teach you um our journal
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page tutorial for beginners we are going
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to explore the three steps or the three
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elements you need to make an AR journal
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page and the three elements are are the
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background the focal point and the
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details that you need to add at the end
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to tie everything together so let's get
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started with the
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background you can create the background
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basically in any way that you want you
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can use sprays you can use acrylic
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paints you can use stencils you can use
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um paper you can use tissue paper you
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can can use crayons you can use whatever
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you want to add color to your background
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I'm using watercolors today we're going
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to explore water colors in different
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tutorials but today I want to show you
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how to make a really easy background
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we're going to explore these layers
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these tiers these these steps with very
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easy materials and
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techniques so I'm just going to add two
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two different watercolors to my
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background just to I want to make this
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page very easy not complicated so you
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can follow the three steps to make the
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art joural page so I'm using yellow and
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I'm using sort of an aqua color and I'm
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blending them on the paper I'm using a
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wet brush and I'm controlling the shade
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of the color by
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adding more or less water so I'm working
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on a dry paper sometimes you see
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watercolor techniques when you work on
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wet paper we're going to work on dry
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paper with a wet brush and simply
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add um the aqua color and the yellow
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color on the page just by some brush
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Strokes blending the colors as we go and
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if you feel like there is a spot that is
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too dark you simply add more water and
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then it becomes brighter one thing to
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remember though is that when watercolor
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dries they become lighter so just
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remember that and don't make it too
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light otherwise when it dries it can be
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lighter that you originally
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wanted so I'm keeping
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I'm just adding more and more
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watercolors just those two and you see
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that while I'm blending them on the
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paper we get new
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colors because when I blend the green or
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it's an aqua it's a type of
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blue with yellow I get green get get
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shades of green so basically you can see
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how we have a third color just by adding
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those
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two and of course if you don't like this
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color combination you can change it and
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use whatever colors that you want and
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again it doesn't have to be watercolors
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you can use whatever you have whatever
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you want to the the pre preferred
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technique or material you have to add
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color to the background so let's keep on
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adding more color and again you can
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spray that will make this process much
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faster or take a brush and paint the
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page with acrylic paints or even cut
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pieces of paper like we did in the
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collage page and add them to
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the
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background and of course you can combine
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techniques to make a background you can
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color with acrylic paint and also add
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some tissue paper pieces or some other
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pattern paper pieces or you can um
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create pattern in the background with
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some stencils and acrylic paints you can
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cover the paper with distress inks also
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an
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idea so like I said the first step to
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making an arinal page is creating the
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background the background can be as
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minimal or as busy as you want it to
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be and it's all a matter of of taste of
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style of your art of your of
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preference you can try to make two kinds
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of pages one page is busier than the
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other just experiment and try so you'll
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learn the the the steps that you need to
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make the art journal page so basically I
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want to see how it all looks when it's
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dry so you can just let it dry in the
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air but I have a heat tool that I'm
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going to use to make the page dry and
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make all the art um all the waterc
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colors dry and then see if it's dark
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enough for me if the colors are visible
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enough for me and if not I can always go
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back and add more
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colors and you'll be able to see once
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it's
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dry that the colors are slightly lighter
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like I I said
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before but it's fine for me next step of
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making our journal page is adding the
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focal point this is the middle
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layer of this that triangle that I asked
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you to imagine and that focal point can
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basically be
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anything but it has to be something that
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is large enough bold enough with v
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enough visual weight remember we
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discussed that in previous page what is
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visual weight it has to be with enough
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visual weight to be a focal point and to
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draw your eye to it so that's supposed
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to catch the attention that's supposed
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to be the center of the page everything
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is going around that thing or that
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element and that is the main idea of
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your
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page so I'm using um tissue paper
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with a face on it I'm going to attach it
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to my
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page so some more ideas for focal points
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can be a cutout shape from a magazine a
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large stamped
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image um a
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drawing uh a large image that you
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stencil it can be a shape it doesn't be
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have to be like a silhouette of a person
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it can be a butterfly it can be a circle
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it can be a flower a tree a
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house anything that you want to say
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basically an AR joural page needs to say
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something so the focal point needs to
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match what you want to
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say so if you want to talk about spring
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you might want to add flowers and if you
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want to talk about how you're feeling
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blue or down then you want my want to
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draw clouds with
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rain um etc etc we also talked about how
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to translate a
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quote to an image and that can also help
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with this step because you have to know
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what you want to say in order to match
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the right focal point so I'm using Mod
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Podge you can use gel medium to glue the
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tissue paper to my
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page this makes it absorbs the the
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tissue paper absorbs the glue and then
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it looks like it's handdrawn on the page
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it doesn't look like the P the tissue
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paper was attached to the page so I like
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using tissue paper because it looks like
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it's embedded in the page
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itself so this is going to be my focal
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point
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and the second step of making an our
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journal page remember the first step was
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making the background now we're adding a
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focal point and supporting elements
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supporting elements are basically if you
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need to add more colors or patterns to
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the background for example if you want
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to
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boost the focal point maybe add more
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color to that
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maybe he needs to add more elements to
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the focal point because it's not bold
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enough for not um doesn't draw the eye
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like you
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wanted it can also be the text the
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writing but I like to leave the writing
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to the final
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step so in the second step I like to
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concentrate on adding my focal point so
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I'm making I'm just drying everything
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because you can't add anything on a wet
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Mod Podge everything everything needs to
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be completely dry for
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that and my supporting elements for this
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focal point is adding a little bit of
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color to the face in the hair of this
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um image so I'm using the exact same
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colors as I use in the background
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because I don't want to add more colors
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I want this page to be
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only with these two colors but what I
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can't play with is the boldness and the
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Darkness of the same colors that I used
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in the background so I'm still adding
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the yellow and the aqua but I'm adding
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them in a much darker
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layer creating some Shadows on the
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face and the hairline under the
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eyebrowsbrow
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and next to the nose under the mouth all
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the places that you need to add Shadows
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on a face and by the way we are going to
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explore making a face in our journaling
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in future
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tutorials so I'm just adding the same
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colors but in a bolder and
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darker Hues and shades under the neck
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under the
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chin so this is making my focal
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point looking better
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more eye
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catching
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and just
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more a part of the face
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basically and a part of the page because
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the colors match it all looks like one
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piece of art you need to match the
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colors when you create
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art so I'm
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just adding some final touches to
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my
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face and then I'll be able
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to add the last layer the final layer
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the last lay there
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is the final touches which are the
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writing adding the text and all the
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marks and details that basically tie
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everything together and add some
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interest and message to the
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page so this is where accept writing
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this is where stamping will come in Mark
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making maybe stenciling a little bit
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dood in drawing all those things
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splattering all those things
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are part of the last step of making an
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arinal page so I'm dry everything
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because again you can't do anything on
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wet
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paint and now I can go ahead and add all
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those final touches all those
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details to my page
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just want to finish
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everything until I'm
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happy with all the
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shadowing and then we'll be able to move
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on to the final step
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so we had the first step of making the
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background the second step of adding a
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focal point and now the third step the
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top of the triangle the last layer is
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adding the details the writing and all
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the final touches to the
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page let's dry it a little bit more and
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I like to add details at least to this
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type of page which is kind of a
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minimalist page with a black pen so just
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writing with a regular black
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pen and I'm going first I'm going to add
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the text because the text is kind of a
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large element on this page so I want to
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build the final touches around it but
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first want to add some more
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interest to the background so did you
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know that you
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can stamp with
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watercolors it doesn't come out as Crisp
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And as sharp but it I like the look of
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it so I just take some watercolors and I
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paint the stamp without any acrylic
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block I just use my hands to press the
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stamp slightly on the page and then I
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get that
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image so this is a circle stamp you see
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the circles they're not complete they're
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not
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nearly as crisp and sharp and complete
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as if I were to use
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ink but I really like how this looks and
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it goes well with the watercolor theme
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that I have on this
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page and it
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makes the background a little bit more
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interesting gives it a little bit of
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movement just those little circles I
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love Circles by by the way
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I want to add maybe a little bit
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more I press very
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gently
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okay so now when it's dry I can go ahead
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and add all the text and the doodling
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and the marks that I want with my black
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pen so once that's dry let's of course
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if you don't have a heat tool
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you need to wait until it's dry if you
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live in a hot country that can take a
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few minutes if not maybe an hour but
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please make sure everything is
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completely dry otherwise your pen will
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be completely destroyed I can't believe
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how many
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pens I single-handedly destroyed because
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I was
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impatient so I'm going to add my
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writing
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um facing basically horizontally while
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the page is turned in 90° so when you
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will look on the page the handwriting
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will be on the
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side CU nobody said that handwriting
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should
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be horizontally like you normally would
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this is Art and in art everything goes
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so you can add your text any way that
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you want in waves upside down from right
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to left from left to right ver
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vertically horizontally any way that you
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want different fonts different boldness
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different colors different
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anything so I just added a
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quote and again you find the quote that
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you want any text is relevant for you it
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can just be thoughts it can be a quote
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it can be a line from a book it can be
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lyrics of a song it can be a verse from
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the Bible it can be whatever you want it
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can just be one word can be a title
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whatever you want so this is the
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text and this is how it
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looks and now I want to add my final
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touches to the page I'm just going
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to add some
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scribbles with my
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pen and then I think I'm also going to
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add some circles like I said I really
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love
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circles so the circles with the pen will
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complement the circles in the background
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that I made with the
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stamp so I'm just going to add different
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size circles in a
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cluster and this is going to be like I
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said a very minimal page because I
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wanted to concentrate on showing you the
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three different steps to making an art
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journal page and how they all combine
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together to one page so first we had the
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background then we had the focal point
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and finally we had the text and the
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details and you can see how it all comes
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together now so I've added a few more
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