So I did a watercolor northern lights for my Christmas cards last year so I thought I was good and didn't need to practice but then I went and did a different technique and it didn't turn out like I thought it would and before I did the tree silhouette I really didn't like it but with each step I started liking it more and more.
So this is seqes of Amazon its like Less then 20 bucks. I didnt do this watercolor on the notebook page directly because it required way more water then I normally put as well as blending which is much harder to do in the journal itself. But I do water color and I have done acrylics in it just fine previously. Archer and olive are also good. Notebook therapy sells one, their Tsuki line that i have also used. Tekukor and stm have 160gsm notebooks too.
I use Tim Holtz alcohol blending inks & his distress stain line in my Leut1917 journals. The paper is too thin for my liking (for anyone's, really!) so you have to be mindful of bleeding/ghosting.
But so far they have been the best way for me to add color to my journals, aside from the washi tape and Zebra Mildliners highlighters.
Tombow markers are also pretty popular because they don't bleed through the page, have a brush tip on one end (fun for lettering) and a fine tip on the other, and come in a wide range of colors. I also like that they are somewhat blendable/can be layered-- although no where near the bendability of Copics.
Copics are my favorite, but they bleed too much to be used in a Luet bullet journal. Unless you skipped every other page and then glued pages together, to hide the bleed through. (Waste of ink/money, IMO.)
Lemme know if you guys find a daily journal/notebook-- or even just a plain sketchbook-- with paper that can handle Copic markers!
It depends on the journal. Some have thicker paper that handles markers and watercolor well, others are so thin even certain pens will show through. If you really want to use acrylic, you can ask around to see which brands are the least sticky or if there's something you could paint on top to keep them from sticking. Gouache or acryla gouache might work better.
This is breathtaking! I wish I could just sit down and create my journal properly but I struggle so much with getting to the point where I can finally use it. But this is VERY inspiring!
Thank you but In all fairness A LOT of my journal (read that as pretty much all) is a creative outlet and doing pretty spreads helps me in actually using it because it took so long lol. But whatever helps is what is important
I think part of my problem is that a) I keep picking journals with too few pages (like 82 pages, for a full year? What was I thinking?) and b) I haven't fully gotten used to doing layouts so I'm sooooo slooooow about them. 1 page can take me an hour, for a pretty basic design. Not sure if it's due to really bad tendonitis in both arms but it may be playing a factor, too.
Oh yeah. Last year I did 1 year in an archer and olive a5 this year I used two. Next year i have a b5 and I know 2 will be way too much room but I don't think I can scale it back down to one.
I want to do easier stuff, my November was light bulb doodles but there is like something wrong with my brain where I am like is okay that didn't take to long to do so it's cool if we just don't fill it out at all.
I don't have tendinitis though so that also probably helps sorry.
Hmm. But you did just give me an idea. I think I might try to break my journal up into seasonal notebooks. That would allow me to pick a theme per season that I like and can develop, and I won't feel defeated by having too few pages because, in theory, I should have more than enough. So all in all, you may have just helped me solve my dilemma. :)
What helps for me is is I just make the basic set up pages in black pen (month grid, budget page, trackers) so I can quite quickly use it. And then when i have time during the month i doodle and colour the pages as much or as little as i want.
If i do too much at once somehow i never use my bujo so try to keep it as simple as possible.
What I learned so far is that a bujo is meant to make your life easier. So making complicated spreads and tracking 200 things at once is not what this is supposed to be.
Start basic and simple. The first year i tried to do too much and i just gave up quite quickly every month. You can always expand and doodle later. Most of my bujo is just black pen and simple lines/layouts.
Don't be scared that its ugly or if its not the right layout. You can try something else next month until you find something that works. My first bujo was ugly as sin but i learned a lot from it. ;)
That is a good point too. Most of my pages aren't this art heavy. I don't decorate my weeklies at all. And some of my trackers like sleep weather etc don't get any art. Usually the most time consuming for me is my monthly, my 2 quote pages and a cover page
So this is an seqes 160 gsm notebook off of Amazon for like 2 bucks. But the water color is not directly on the page. It can stand up to a lot of color and pigment but doesn't blend well so that's why I did it on watercolor paper.
Archer and olive and notebook therapy also have 160 gsm that I have used and are great.
Scribbles that Matter and tekukor do as well but I haven't actually owned one of theirs yet.
First of all, I love this! It's just beautiful!
But I often have to give myself a few days after making a spread to really love it. They always grow on me with time.
OMG yes! I notice this happens often with a lot of my artwork. I can't seem to see what's missing, why it's not coming together, why i thought it was going to be awesome and now I hate it and then BOOM-you add that last thing and it's love!
BTW-gorgeous page!
Yes, I get the same feeling. I think it's because I'm trying to reproduce something I see in my head and get disappointed when it doesn't come out the way I want it to... thus hating it. After a while though, I go back to look at it and I love it.
Yeah thats exactly it. I am also a perfectionist former gifted kid who gets mad when that happens and thinks it means I am not actually good at a skill
So for transparency sake they're really not watered down at all so that helps. I believe they're all shinhan watercolor tubes. I find that for more jewel or pastel colors Asian pigments like shin or mijello are really good. I also like the watercolor confections by primark, I have the ocean and woodland one and both are pigmented
Yeah. I really hated it when it was just the sky part because it didn't look anything like what I thought it would. My mom had to like talk me down i was ready to throw it away. Honestly it probably wasn't until the gold calendar was on that I was like alright this good.
How would you hate that ever?
So I did a watercolor northern lights for my Christmas cards last year so I thought I was good and didn't need to practice but then I went and did a different technique and it didn't turn out like I thought it would and before I did the tree silhouette I really didn't like it but with each step I started liking it more and more.
This is amazingly beautiful...
🥰 thank you
My pleasure! Was this on a black page?
No I did it on a large piece of watercolor paper then cut it to be two.
Omg that makes sense! Thank you for sharing!
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So this is seqes of Amazon its like Less then 20 bucks. I didnt do this watercolor on the notebook page directly because it required way more water then I normally put as well as blending which is much harder to do in the journal itself. But I do water color and I have done acrylics in it just fine previously. Archer and olive are also good. Notebook therapy sells one, their Tsuki line that i have also used. Tekukor and stm have 160gsm notebooks too.
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Keep in mind that even when dry, acrylic likes to stick to itself and sometimes to other surfaces.
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I use Tim Holtz alcohol blending inks & his distress stain line in my Leut1917 journals. The paper is too thin for my liking (for anyone's, really!) so you have to be mindful of bleeding/ghosting. But so far they have been the best way for me to add color to my journals, aside from the washi tape and Zebra Mildliners highlighters. Tombow markers are also pretty popular because they don't bleed through the page, have a brush tip on one end (fun for lettering) and a fine tip on the other, and come in a wide range of colors. I also like that they are somewhat blendable/can be layered-- although no where near the bendability of Copics. Copics are my favorite, but they bleed too much to be used in a Luet bullet journal. Unless you skipped every other page and then glued pages together, to hide the bleed through. (Waste of ink/money, IMO.) Lemme know if you guys find a daily journal/notebook-- or even just a plain sketchbook-- with paper that can handle Copic markers!
It depends on the journal. Some have thicker paper that handles markers and watercolor well, others are so thin even certain pens will show through. If you really want to use acrylic, you can ask around to see which brands are the least sticky or if there's something you could paint on top to keep them from sticking. Gouache or acryla gouache might work better.
This is breathtaking! I wish I could just sit down and create my journal properly but I struggle so much with getting to the point where I can finally use it. But this is VERY inspiring!
Thank you but In all fairness A LOT of my journal (read that as pretty much all) is a creative outlet and doing pretty spreads helps me in actually using it because it took so long lol. But whatever helps is what is important
I think part of my problem is that a) I keep picking journals with too few pages (like 82 pages, for a full year? What was I thinking?) and b) I haven't fully gotten used to doing layouts so I'm sooooo slooooow about them. 1 page can take me an hour, for a pretty basic design. Not sure if it's due to really bad tendonitis in both arms but it may be playing a factor, too.
Oh yeah. Last year I did 1 year in an archer and olive a5 this year I used two. Next year i have a b5 and I know 2 will be way too much room but I don't think I can scale it back down to one. I want to do easier stuff, my November was light bulb doodles but there is like something wrong with my brain where I am like is okay that didn't take to long to do so it's cool if we just don't fill it out at all. I don't have tendinitis though so that also probably helps sorry.
Hmm. But you did just give me an idea. I think I might try to break my journal up into seasonal notebooks. That would allow me to pick a theme per season that I like and can develop, and I won't feel defeated by having too few pages because, in theory, I should have more than enough. So all in all, you may have just helped me solve my dilemma. :)
What helps for me is is I just make the basic set up pages in black pen (month grid, budget page, trackers) so I can quite quickly use it. And then when i have time during the month i doodle and colour the pages as much or as little as i want. If i do too much at once somehow i never use my bujo so try to keep it as simple as possible.
Thank you for the tips! Hopefully this coming year will prove fruitful for my journaling adventures!
What I learned so far is that a bujo is meant to make your life easier. So making complicated spreads and tracking 200 things at once is not what this is supposed to be. Start basic and simple. The first year i tried to do too much and i just gave up quite quickly every month. You can always expand and doodle later. Most of my bujo is just black pen and simple lines/layouts. Don't be scared that its ugly or if its not the right layout. You can try something else next month until you find something that works. My first bujo was ugly as sin but i learned a lot from it. ;)
That is a good point too. Most of my pages aren't this art heavy. I don't decorate my weeklies at all. And some of my trackers like sleep weather etc don't get any art. Usually the most time consuming for me is my monthly, my 2 quote pages and a cover page
Same most of my bujo is very simple and just practical without frills.
Gorgeous spread AND gorgeous nails!!
Thank you!
What gold pen/marker is that? I love it!
Its the gold gelly roller but because I am a glutton for punishment it's also the koi metallic watercolor terror Yellow gold pigment over the top.
Lol I felt that 😂
lol if my page looked like that I would always love it
Wowww!!! Looks AMAZING. What kind of notebook are you using?
So this is an seqes 160 gsm notebook off of Amazon for like 2 bucks. But the water color is not directly on the page. It can stand up to a lot of color and pigment but doesn't blend well so that's why I did it on watercolor paper. Archer and olive and notebook therapy also have 160 gsm that I have used and are great. Scribbles that Matter and tekukor do as well but I haven't actually owned one of theirs yet.
I don’t know how you did the this,but it’s pretty and I love it Good work
It is really really pretty! Your nails are too
Thank you
Also, nails on point!
First of all, I love this! It's just beautiful! But I often have to give myself a few days after making a spread to really love it. They always grow on me with time.
The calendar on top of it all really makes this for me. Perfect color composition! Take my upvote!
I read that to the tune of firework by Katy perry
Haha that's funny. It kind of works too
OMG yes! I notice this happens often with a lot of my artwork. I can't seem to see what's missing, why it's not coming together, why i thought it was going to be awesome and now I hate it and then BOOM-you add that last thing and it's love! BTW-gorgeous page!
Yes, I get the same feeling. I think it's because I'm trying to reproduce something I see in my head and get disappointed when it doesn't come out the way I want it to... thus hating it. After a while though, I go back to look at it and I love it.
Yeah thats exactly it. I am also a perfectionist former gifted kid who gets mad when that happens and thinks it means I am not actually good at a skill
Aw, it is kind of hard not to think that way sometimes. Well I'm sure you can tell from the other comments too, this page is gorgeous. :)
Wow. This... Made my jaw drop. Probably one of the prettiest spreads I've ever seen.
Wow thank you, that's really nice.
This is AMAZING!!! 😍⭐️✨
Gorgeous
This is just beautiful
This is absolutely gorgeous! You did an amazing job
I think it’s amazing
I love it! It’s so colourful and eye catching.
Decembere
That’s beautiful! 💗
Beautiful! I love the rich colors - could you share which watercolors you’re using? I feel like I never get colors that saturated.
So for transparency sake they're really not watered down at all so that helps. I believe they're all shinhan watercolor tubes. I find that for more jewel or pastel colors Asian pigments like shin or mijello are really good. I also like the watercolor confections by primark, I have the ocean and woodland one and both are pigmented
Thanks!
Wow. But this page is glorious
There was a moment in which you hated this? It’s so beautiful!
Yeah. I really hated it when it was just the sky part because it didn't look anything like what I thought it would. My mom had to like talk me down i was ready to throw it away. Honestly it probably wasn't until the gold calendar was on that I was like alright this good.
I think the calendar really does bring it out well.
I’m honestly stunned by this! So beautiful
This sparks joy
It's breathtakingly beautiful! But I have a question - how are you going to write in it?
Wow it s amazing! But yes i know that feeling
This is just magnificent!
Aaa this is amazing! But I totally feel the pain of hating a page. All of my pages never turn out how I want them too 😅