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it's been a while since i've done an art journal post. i may have done some pages and just neglected to post them, but i've lost my actual journal i'd keep them in, in the absolute wreck of my office @_@

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this quote came from a guided meditation (hi Jeff Warren!) and i really liked it :) i don't have to be vigilant All. The. Time.

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more old and mostly-forgotten art journal pages :)

this is part 2; part 1 is here.

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i found an old journal i'd actually forgotten i'd done! i believe it's because it's when i was weaning off of a prescription drug that my body was addicted to but that gave me terrible side effects - but without it, the side effects were worse -_- i was out of my MIND most of the time lol.

lots of radiohead lyrics between parts 1 & 2.

this is part 1; part 2 will be posted soon.

i sure liked modeling paste and stencils XD i should try to put the same amount of effort into doing my art journal pages now, maybe. but i'd decided i was going to try to do more with  less, so hmm. i guess i'll decide on a case-by-case basis lol

[sadfishpile]

“i am a good fisherman, jack.”

[imlikrafts]

i don't necessarily quote things i believe or truths i hold, or ways i act or react to things - my art journal is largely things i *wish* i believed and did. anybody else use theirs that way?

anyway, i've been struggling to use my traditional media stuff, and i came across this quote and loved it. gave me an excuse to open up and use all the neon paints i'd been "saving" lol now i need to actually open up and use my "new" watercolor journals that i've had for half a year!

please forgive the pencil! i had a hard time getting it erased, and i was afraid to try too hard and completely ruin it.

materials: acrylic paint, paint marker

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i can survive being misunderstood.

this is the basicest of basic art journal pages, but it's what the quote wanted? i tried to think of things to snazzy up the page, but words only, it said. i almost don't want to post it, but. here we are lol.

the quote's been hanging on in my brain for a couple of weeks, from when i went looking for answers about what i can do about being SO AWKWARD and timid and afraid of what people think of me. even if i don't understand what someone says, though, i'll live, i'm trying to tell myself. and if they don't understand what i, in all my awkwardness, am trying to say? i'll live!

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this one's similar in sentiment to my last one, but a little different. i've been really feeling this one lately. i'm sure some of you have, too.

still having trouble with my centering! i'll get better someday i'm sure. i used a ruler and everything lol

materials: ink & stamps, chalk paint, red permanent marker

[tiredegggo]

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every time this comes across my dash, i want to unlike it just so that i can like it again :D

[tacklemi]

so yesterday was my birthday lol

i love this quote... it's a little morbid, but it's also really rather freeing! i guess it depends on how you look at it :) i choose freeing.

calendars & printed cardstock collage, rubber stamps w/ black & white ink, labelmaker labels, turquoise paint marker.

[tacklemi]

borrowed from @niscuit-gravy from a convo we had a while back

it stuck with me!

i'm getting better with my vertical spacing, but my horizontal spacing/centering still needs work. i even wrote it out in pencil first XD i did mean for at least the word "understood" to break out of the collage box, so i guess i got that part, at least

i wish i could say that having "the desperate need to be understood" be hard to read was intentional, but alas, it was not lol