So here we are at the beginning of the New Year! It still has that New Year shiny look and new car smell. Have you made any resolutions, goals, or ideals for your year? I don’t really like to make any because life just happens sometimes and I’m not really good at giving myself lee…
Hello everyone!! I hope if you celebrated the holidays that you had a wonderful time! We had a very quiet but beautiful Christmas with family and LOTS of food!! I am sure gonna need the gym right about now! We have been talking about Robin Williams’ Principles of Design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. As…
Today we are continuing with Robin Williams’ Principles of Design: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. We talked about contrast last week and how using it can make items on your page take priority, or using the opposite, low contrast, you can make elements fade or even mask journaling you don’t want others to see. Today…
So, on our journey, we have so far stopped at these places: Lines, Shapes, Color, Value, Form, Texture, and Space. We have also introduced the topic of CRAP – Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity as they relate to the above 7 design principles. I hope that this short course of design principles has been helpful…
Hello fellow Digi-travelers!!! I hope this day finds you in a good space and having fun scrapping your holidays as they unfold! I. know I always make a goal to scrap things as they happen, but that never seems to be the case. I wind up picking old pictures. Oh well…as long as they get…
Welcome to this week’s art journaling post. Today we will talk about TEXTURE. I know, you’re probably asking “How in the heck can we have texture with digital art??”. Well, like everything else, we need to CREATE it. Texture adds visual interest and dimension to our pages. We can make texture and dimension by the…
So far, we have talked about lines, shapes, color, and the design principle of C.R.A.P. – or Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity. We are now going to dive deeper into color principles, and more specifically the concept of Value. Simply put, value describes the lightness or the darkness of a color. Even if you only…
Hello my friends! Welcome back to Art Journaling Tuesdays where we feature the art journaling challenges over at oScraps, and we are also doing a 7 part series on design elements. This is week 3, and week 3 is all about how we use color in our designs. If you missed the first two, go…