Meditate On This—Journaling with Julie 6

Can't believe we're up to the 6th project in this cool Art Journal book that my sister, Julie, and I are completing in our own homes and then sharing with each other.

For this project, we decided to Facetime while we created, which ended up being way more fun. We chatted about this and that while we each worked on the project. We got to share progress and say hi to family members who wandered in and out and we offered advice and encouragement. I highly recommend doing this with a buddy...it's the next best thing to being there (some commercial stay with us forever, thanks, Bell Long Distance).

For this project, you were supposed to meditate and get in touch with your feelings, physical and emotional and then draw a girl meditating that represented you. My girl did not look like me much, but Julie did make her girl have blue hair—which she has currently. I used a pink and red situation because I didn't want to make gray hair, lololol.

You start with water soluble crayons or watercolors and then add acrylics and markers and collage the background. It was pretty enjoyable even though during the process we both were like, you know what—this is a hot mess. I felt like it came together more after adding the dark outline and kind of pulled the whole thing together. 

Here's Julie's version. She was afraid to add in the black outlines and totally mess it up...but I'm going to try to encourage her to keep going next time...because it's a process and kind of cool to go where you've never gone just to see what it's like. Shhh! Don't tell her I plan to push her out of her comfort zone.

Did you notice we both decided on rainbow clothes? In the original project, you're supposed to add chakra symbols but they're kind of complicated, so we both ditched that idea. Julie added her chakra beads, though, so that counts.

Hope you're able to do some crafting or watch cool crafting videos like I do (Vicky Papaioannou is one of my faves, she's got this great accent, is crazy talented and does the voice over instead of talking while crafting...plus she's a cardmaker and art journaler, so there's something for everyone) during this holed-up-in-my-house virus time.

Happy Friday,

Chark