Letting art speak for itself

new handmade art journal for portrait paintings

New handmade art journal for portraits

These pages were created with acrylic paint, oil pastels, pencils, markers, and whatever else I had within my reach.

For now, my paint palette is limited to a few colors. Why? Idk? My goal is to torture myself use up some old acrylic paint before it dries up, and I wanted to make it more challenging, I guess?

It’s already difficult for me because I don’t like acrylic paint. Why I’m making it harder on myself, I have no idea. I’ll most likely swap out colors this week because I’m a little bored now. We’ll see.

For paint colors I didn’t have in front of me, I substituted oil pastels & tempera color stix.

When I made these journals, I made one for portraits, and one for abstracts. I thought I’d use the abstract one more, but so far, I’ve been reaching for the portrait book just about every day.

Let your work speak for itself: If poor, it will remain silent. If average, it will whisper. If good, it will talk. If great, it will shout.

Ifeoma Odimba

That’s gonna do it for me today. I hope you have a creative week ahead.

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If you want to own an original or giclee print of my work, you’ll find it on Daily Paintworks. I also have weekly auctions on eBay, along with set priced art.

You can also find me on pinksky & blsky.

I’ve also been posting notes here on Substack in between these longer posts.

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