I ♡ Spray Paint

Yes, I do. 
Spray paint is my favorite type of paint and I love using it in my journals.

This journal is a recycled wire bound desk type calendar.
I took the calendar apart, saved the pretty pages and spray painted several of the actual appointment pages.
They rest of the pages went to the paper recycling bin.
I re-bound the pages to make the wire bound journal.

Some pages still show evidence of spray paint and stencils.

Some end up nearly covered with other paint and markers.

I like the original calendar pages mixed in with the journal pages that I make.
This page was made with torn pieces of a copy of an original collage I made in 2007.
I like doing that.  Give it a try, make a good copy of an original piece of your artwork, then tear the copy up and use it for journal pages.
Then make a copy of your that journal page with the torn collage and tear it up and reuse it.
So you see where this is going, the results are infinite.

Comments

[Jo]

I'm sure that other readers have a different response but I particularly enjoy your posts about your journals above all else in your blog. You have a unique style that's unlike anyone else. My journals don't look like yours, even my Calendar Journals; that isn't the point or what's important. What is so useful is your approach to making journals out of the ordinary stuff of your life.
This datebook journal is a case in point. I simply never thought of taking a wire bound calendar apart, spraying the pages, and then making it into an art journal. Good idea. Great job. Thank you.

[Julie Prichard]

Thank you for posting these lovelies.....it helps me remember what I loved and why I am not having art-fun very much anymore.

[Whosyergurl]

I have a beautiful Kelly Rae calendar from last year that one of my friends suggested I make into an altered book. Love your pics. Love what you've done. Good inspiration.
xo, Cheryl

[Brian Kasstle]

I love your journal pages, they are so uniquely you, so original and raw and lovely. I am so glad your sharing again. I could stare at them for hours.

Love, LOVE, LOVE them!