Day 27
August 18: Patience
Today's live cast, I picked up that handful of crayons I swatched a few days ago and started fleshing out the gelli page I'd pasted into my book. Last week I realized I wanted to go deeper with my water-soluble crayons — I love them, they're easily the most versatile art supply I own. Wet and dry give you totally different effects, and I wanted to really play with that, using my gelli prints as the background.

What the crayons taught me today: patience. The more I kept going, the more the page threatened to turn to mud. Turns out even your favorite supply will humble you if you don't know when to stop.

To see the live chat in real time watch this video on YouTube here.

Download and print
How to save & print your files:

  1. Right-click  (or control click for mac, press and hold on mobile) on the image and choose "Save Image As" (or "Download Image").
  2. Save it to a folder you'll remember — like "Day 1 Journal Files."
  3. Open the saved JPEG and print at 100% / actual size (not "fit to page") so nothing gets cropped or stretched.
  4. Print on whatever paper you're testing today — plain, cardstock, watercolor, whatever's on hand.

Tip: if the image opens directly instead of downloading, just right-click anywhere on it for the save option.

Things I used Some of these are an affiliate link some are not. 

This big ass tin of watercolor crayons

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