Artworks Community Studio

🎨 Term 3, Week 9 — Art Journaling Final Session!

Can you believe we’ve reached the final session of the term?

Today, our Art Journaling group wrapped up Term 3 with a creative One Colour Mixed Media Spread!

Working with a single color palette is such a fantastic way to explore texture, depth, and layer variation without getting overwhelmed by color choices.
Everyone brought such unique energy, techniques, and personal style to their pages today.
​Thank you to everyone who joined us this term for your creativity, commitment, and inspiring work. 🖌️✨

​👇 Check out some of today’s monochromatic masterpieces below!

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Art Journaling Week 8 was all about the play of Gel Plate Printing! 🎨✨

​Our participants experimented with:

✨ Ombre gradients & single-color pulls
✨ Textures using household objects
✨ Botanical impressions, masking & ghost prints

​Scroll through to catch a glimpse of the magic! 📸
These experimental background prints will be transformed during our final class next week—stay tuned to see the finished pieces! 👇

✨ Art Journaling - Week 7 : Junk Journaling, Altered Magazine ✨

There’s something so liberating about altered art! This week, our Art Journaling group took preloved magazines and repurposed them into unique, rich visual journals.

By layering collected papers, packaging, tapes, and stickers over the original colors and compositions of the magazine pages, everyone found a fun, low-pressure way to dive straight into creation.

We love seeing how everyone’s individual style shines through, even when starting from the same material!

Swipe through to get inspired by this week's creations. ✂️🎨

Art is all about trusting the process. 🌿

​In our Art Journaling session on Monday (31.8.26), we used watercolour shapes as our jumping-off point. One page was dedicated to mindful, structured Zentangle patterns over geometric blocks.
On the facing page, we went total free-form—turning random paint blobs into charming little characters.
​It's amazing what a splash of color and a black pen can do! Check out some of the gorgeous pages created in the community studio this week. ✨

Pure magic in today’s Art Journaling class! 🎨✨
​There’s something so liberating about letting go of control, and today was all about embracing the beautiful mess. We kicked things off by crafting vibrant, unpredictable watercolor backgrounds using plastic sheets—the way the pigments swirl and blend on their own never gets old.
​Once our pages were dry, the real story-building began. We layered in vintage sheet music, strips of playful washi tape, and hunted through magazines for "found words" that brought us instant joy. Watching everyone assemble their own unique mosaic of texture and meaning was pure inspiration.
​Art isn't about making a masterpiece every time; it's about making space for delight. ✂️🎶

On Tuesday the watercolour class completed their first project. This piece is created in several steps, looking at different techniques and materials commonly used in watercolour painting. The end result are these beautiful, layered works.

Art Journaling – Week 4 ✨
17.8.26

Today’s class took us deeper into the creative process as we continued building on the collage backgrounds we started last week. 🎨

We added another layer of texture, pattern and personality using stencils, stamps and mark-making, creating little details and visual surprises across the page. Each layer added more depth and interest, while still allowing glimpses of the collage underneath to peek through.

For the focal point, we introduced a magazine silhouette image, which worked beautifully against our busy, colourful backgrounds. The strong, simple shape created a wonderful contrast and gave the eye somewhere to rest amongst all those delicious layers and marks.

It was all about building, experimenting and trusting the process — one mark, one layer and one happy accident at a time. ✨

Another fun and inspiring week of art journaling, with each page becoming a little more uniquely ours. 💕🎨

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Our mixed media class has been experimenting with so many different media techniques..charcoal, acrylic texture mediums, drawing techniques etc! Some great results from talented minds!