I keep an art journal. (Ok – full disclosure – I have 4 art journals on the go at any one time). I do have one of those journals set aside as a daily art journal. I learned long ago that daily creativity and journal keeping is important to me. I keep a record of the day-to-day ordinariness of my world in this journal. It is not for sharing (only because my day-to-day meanderings don’t make for particularly interesting reading).

My daily art journal of choice at the moment is a Windsor and Newton A5 (approx 8″x6″) visual water colour journal. I really like it. It is a soft covered book and the pages hold up well to a variety of treatments. Usually the pages are on the receiving end of leftover paint from other projects. I typically prep the page first and then progressively fill up the leftover space with my daily ramblings.

My next prepared page is a combination of random brush strokes using paint from 2 other projects and tinted gel paste pushed through a stencil. I was experimenting with how the tint might work with the gel paste. All that remains to be added is some of my words …