Combining Techniques for Creative Flow

Welcome to BETTER WITH ART! I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your creativity and practice creative self-care with weekly small-art prompts that can be done in an art journal or on paper if you don’t have one. This week I start with a fine-tip water-resistant pen for continuous, or single, line drawing; then continue with some neurographic softening and other simple embellishment. Watercolor, or other color, optional. But I’m so glad I decided to add the watercolor. Whether you only have a few minutes for a drawing, or longer to extend the pleasure of the process, or you start and come back to add more as the week goes on, don’t neglect creative self-care art-making time.

If you’d like an art journal to get started with my simple form of art journaling, click here for my top value-for-the-money recommendation. I use it in my prompt videos, and for the art journaling groups at the library where I work. I LOVE the paper. It works well with the dry, wet, and layered applications I use it for. If searching for something different remember the paper needs to be heavyweight and preferably hot-press because although I love the texture of cold-press it’s really hard on markers and pens. This one is 140lb/300gsm.

Click here for this week’s inexpensive water-resistant fine-tip marker pen.

And here’s the link to the basic eight Crayola watercolors.

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