An Art Journal Journey (part 2) – new time lapse video up 🙂
(In case you missed it, the first in this series is here)
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Giddy excitement. When I started this new (oooh new!!) art journal I decided to make the whole book the subject of a big time lapse experiment. There’s nothing like a new book to fill me with BIG intentions.
Plan: I’ll play first thing every morning and record what happens, then edit it all into a video for (mostly my own) amusement.
Reality: It’s been some mornings, but if I aim for all I’ll hit some. If I aim for some I might not hit many at all, the book will sink under a pile of other stuff, I won’t remember the plan. I know me. I know how this plays out.
If there’s one thing I consistently am, it’s inconsistent. Just the act of making a plan triggers the part of my brain that prevents me doing the thing, no matter how much I enjoy thinging that kinda thing.
Is this massively incompatible with daily life? Abso-total-lutely it is. Jeepers yes. It’s really inconvenient and a battle I fight with myself all the time.
If I let thing #1 stand in my way, it will destroy my creativity, and I’ll achieve nothing.
So in order to outwit myself I’ve put together the video of the first few pages. It’s not (yet) the epic project I first envisaged, and it might never be. But for now it is this, and this is a thing. If I’m quick, I’ll have done this before I realise I’ve fallen into my on trap. Sneaky? darned right I am.
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It’s curious to relive the visual journey. There’s nothing like filming the process to relive the ‘why did I do that?’ moments.
If you’ve been here before, you’ll know that lately I’ve been documenting my art journaling process through a series of time lapse videos.
It’s curious to relive a visual journey. There’s nothing like filming the process to relive the ‘why did I do that?’ moments. These came up a lot early on but I’m noticing a desensitising effect with practice, and letting go of expectations. Process is process.
Nonetheless, the push and pull of loving/hating the direction it’s taking remains real. It took a really long time for me to catch on where this one wanted me to lead it.
This video is a compilation of little time lapse videos taken over a few weeks of back-and-forth-ing on this spread.
The more time I spend in art making, the more I find parallels between a creative practice and all the other everyday-everythings. Seems to me, how we make tends to mirror how we live – bravely – messily – stubbornly – inconsistently… all of these are here!
This particular spread got so sticky because I reeeally didn’t want to lose that butterfly. I painted and drew around him until I had such a mess there was no other option, ultimately burying him under a new layer of paint to ease the intensity of so much going on. I was resisting letting go.
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Here is the second in my series of time lapse compilations. Wanna see previews of the next of this series + what’s coming next after this enormous project?
Here is the second in my series of time lapse compilations from the 100 day project (the first one is here)
You can see the rest of my 100 day project here.
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Over the weeks and months these pages changed beyond recognition. This is a snapshot into the evolution.
This week we reached the end of the #100dayproject. Every day for over 3 months I posted my daily doodles to Instagram. Yikes!
Sometimes just photos, but for the most part, I shared little 30 second or so time lapse videos.
This is an art journal I’ve been doodling back and forth through for a long time. Every day I’d find a page that wanted something new, different colors or just had a space to fill. I’d scribble down words that caught my attention in a podcast or song lyrics, I’d sketch and play and add bits of scraps of stuff from my desk.
There are no rules in a book like this, nothing can go *wrong*. It’s all subject to change, it’s all ephemeral.
Over the weeks and months these pages changed beyond recognition. This is a snapshot into the evolution.
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because a squillion things need doing.
because my eyes have soaked in so much color lately.
because time-lapse is the most fun thing in world.
today I made this:
Maybe it’s a throw back to school days, for me September has never lost that New-Beginning-y feel.
This bit of year where the edges of summer and fall meet up, crossover a little, shimmy back and forth for a week or two before chillier times set in for proper.
I love all the seasons, but I most enjoy the beginning part of each one.
All the first-in-a-long-whiles  — the little things, the details — I revel in these. Now is the season of crunchy leaves, soup, socks, dark evenings with candlelight and blankets, all of it has novelty value for the first few weeks.
As the season turned I came to the end of my art journal that I played in through the summer, so last week – to coincide with the Equinox – I began this new book.
I also began I new way of documenting – by time lapse photo. Â I reckon by the end of this book I’ll have perfected the recording and editing, it’s a learning curve, which I’ll share with you here.
Enjoy! 🙂
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