I have dreamed of going to Italy since I was very young. I am in the process of making an art journal to take with me. These are a few of the pages.
On the inside cover I have the places we will see on the "Grand Tour of Italy." WE start in Milan and then head for Venice. I created tabs for each of the locations throughout my art journal.
I decided to make my art journal with an accordion fold. As I add items, from the different cities, the book will expand.
I used watercolor paper for most of the pages. This allowed me to easily add water color, write, draw and stamps to each page.
Another example of what the tab page looks like. I still have a lot to do to get the book ready before Nov. 2011 but at least I have the basic prep done on each page.
I decide to carry out a theme for my pages with the water color spray. This helped unify the look of the art journal. I used all kinds of objects to help create the positive and negative areas on the pages.
After putting my art journal/book together I decided that I needed to add another signature of pages to the Rome section of my book. I will be going to Rome for 5 days in Nov. 2011 and then back again next year during spring break. Now that I have 2 sections for Rome I will have enough space for pictures, drawings, writing and things I pick up along the way during both visits to this city. I added pockets to the final signature of the art journal so I would have a place to hold things I don't want to glue down. I am loving this process of creating my own journal!
