How to Make a Color Wheel for Your Art Journal

Color is definitely my thing. (I'm guessing that if you've been hanging with me since the beginning of my blogging career, you already knew that, didn't ya?)

I admire how people respond to color in different ways. We know what we like + there is such a yummy buffet of combinations. Being able to articulate what turns you off about a certain color will help as well. (Maybe you prefer olive green over pine green or light pink over flourescent pink...)

I understand the frustrations of not being able to mix that perfect color from your imagination. Learning the basics of color theory will help you immensely. Color theory is easy to learn!  

Tutorial: How to Make a Color Wheel for Your Art Journal

Every artist - no matter their skill-level - uses a color wheel at some point for their creative projects. Learn how to make your own color wheel, so that you can study at your own pace.

Fear no color.

Allow yourself to be open to experimenting + playing with color. This activity teaches you how to mix up your own, unique colors, apply them to your work + what you want to express.

Alright creative peapods - are you ready to slosh paint around? Hop on over to my guest post on the StencilGirl Talk blog to create a color wheel for your art journal.

New Video Series: Art Journal Flip Thru 1

I am super excited to announce my *new* series of videos, giving YOU the inside scoop on my visual journaling process + creative lettering skills.

Sit back, enjoy luscious layers, explosion of color, bold + empowering messages, straight from my heart to yours.

These will be short videos, under 3 minutes - just enough to re-energize your creative palette + have you trying out techniques TODAY!

This isn’t your average "peek inside my art journal" video.

Let me explain:

• This is where you are given permission to play + explore new techniques, delivered in high-quality production...

• This is where you get to ask your most burning questions about mixed-media art journaling (without feeling intimidated) + soak up all the in-depth, expert advice like a sponge...

• This is the time to be nourished, uplifted in spirit + connect with other creatives...

• This is the place where you allow your free-style imagination to run wild; to find the courage to make BIG changes...to always DECLARE that your creative expression matters!

This is my platform to demystify the ideas of the "perfect" art page + reveal my process of intuitive art-making by showing you how I work.

Discover how you can go from lack of personal style to overflowing with new ideas that you can barely keep up with yourself!! You will never suffer from "white page syndrome" when you're learning from me!


Well, it seems like you get my point now, right? Great!


I hope you enjoy Art Journal Flip Thru #1!

Art Journal Flip Thru #1 MarticeSmithART from Martice Smith II on Vimeo.

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Be the first to know when I release more Art Journal Flip Thru videos!

Oh, look! There's MORE! 

I will also share a few of my techniques via tutorials so that you can recreate these pages in your own way.
(If you are a regular reader of my blog, many of them will be familiar to you but there is always something new in the making, over here in my studio.)

Art Journal Flip Thru #1 
:: Feature Techniques::

Hand-carved Flower Stamp

Package Tape Tutorial

Handmade Foam Stamps & Printing Plates

**Other products include:
DecoArt's Media Fluid Acrylics
Americana multi-surface acrylics
black gesso 
liquid glass
Alphabet Stencil (Andy Skinner; DecoArt)

Crackle Paint 
Gelli Arts® - Gel Printing Plate 
Deconstructed Floral Bouquet (from StencilGirl)

What techniques you are dying to learn? Don't hold back - let me know your TOP 3 journaling techniques you are having trouble with or wish to learn more about.

sending you love, with paint-covered hands!