Welcome to Fort Mess

A place for Mess, Mistakes and Accidents. Doodles and Drawings. For a kind of everyday creativity. Essentially this is my online Creative Scrapbook :) Forever Inspired by Keri Smith.

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MerMay week again!

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Some of my favorite spreads from 2017!

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Me using an old novel to create a masterpiece 🐣

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hmm.... time to go Charity Shop book surfing....

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I’m back.

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Worldwide Journaling Club

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I just hope it doesn’t sound crazy.

I love journaling: writing down my thoughts, hopes and feelings, drawing sketches, sticking photos… In few words, expressing myself through art. So I really want to share my love for journals creating a worldwide club.

How would this work?

You keep a journal and fill it with all the art you want (document your life, stick photos of sunsets, draw strangers you meet in the underground, write positive quotes…).

When you feel satisfied, leave the journal somewhere so another person can find it and keep the journal as you did. Then, this person will leave the journal elsewhere.

So the journals can be found and don’t get lost, the idea is to track them online. They will have a number or a code so every time someone leaves the journal, other people can know where it is and look for it. Also, this way we could know who are the other artist that colaborated in the journal (although they could remain anonymous if they want).

Who could participate?

Everyone! As I said, it’s suppose to be a global community so no matter where you live, you can join the club! You just need to find a journal or start one yourself.

Basically, that is my idea. I really want to know your opinions! Let me know if this is too crazy or on the contrary, you’d like to participate. Also, if you like the project, share it! I can’t do this alone, so I’m looking for other journal lovers.

Calling all the journalers out there!

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This is what happened to the very first pages in my pocket art journal. I didn’t let the oil paint dry all the way, so when I drew the cactuses on the next spread, it imprinted in the oil paint. I think it’s pretty awesome; it was unintentional, but still cool.

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someone else’s tea bag (I don’t really know how to feel about Logan)

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It seems I’m using a Moleskine sketchbook as my art journal again. After a decade and changes to their paper quality, I still come back to these things. I love collecting other notebooks and using them for random stuff, but this just feels so right. Pardon my depressing entry. >_>

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Day 5 of @journaling-junkie’s April challenge. It’s intermittently sunny in Union Square Park and I have a vegan sweet potato cinnamon roll the size of my face. I’m feeling pretty good about today.

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some more notebook pages from the last couple of months (featuring david bowie, rubik’s cube algorithms, and an excessive amount of dragon age)

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Hello, everyone! Here is your April Journal Challenge. I hope you enjoy the prompts this month.

Rules:

1. Respond to the daily prompts in a journal or notebook.

2. Add hand lettering, drawings, paint, etc…

3. Snap a photo of your journal page for each day and share it with us. 4. Have fun and be creative!

Tag #journaling-junkie, and #2017AprilJournalChallenge so we can all like and reblog your original creations!

Happy writing! :)

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days are gone // haim

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Making colourful messes again.

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This is a new spread for my bujo… I’m writing a fact a day. Things I read or learn that I don’t wish to forget. And if you’re wondering what is on the right bottom corner, that’s the cuttlefish eye, which is the only one with a “w” shape 😊… If you want to know the other ones just ask me😋

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Collograph Printing with Mum. 

I went home over the weekend and my mum has a new press set up in her studio. Naturally we decided she would teach me how to do collographs, which are essentially the love-child of collage and printing. 

It was quite tricky to get my head around at first, because it is so much more about texture than colour or lines, and it’s very tricky to visualise what the final result will look like from the plate. I was, however, delighted with how this one turned out. In particular I love how the ink picks up the texture of the sweet wrappers over the string, and how the final print carries over the 3D nature of the plate. 

Good fun! Very messy. 

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A set of mini postcards made through playing with inks and watercolour.