From Page to canvas
Are you into art journaling, but also wish you could create gorgeous large paintings? Maybe it feels a bit scary? If so, your journal is your best friend!
Let me show you how to dive into your existing pages to create a big, magical painting on a canvas:
Become an endless source of inspiration for larger art?
Bring you ideas and solutions whenever you get stuck?
Help you create art that is more personal, moving and unique?
Art journaling has made me grow so much as an artist, and it can do the same for you! In this very special class, I share all my little secrets and show you exactly how to tap into your existing art to find new inspiration & create beautiful art that you’re proud to display and share with others.
Are you ready for this exciting journey?
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When I started as a mixed media artist, I mostly loved to create large paintings. It took me a few years before I started art journaling. But when I did, I realized that it made my whole creative process so much richer… and my paintings better! I can honestly say that art journaling has made me grow as an artist like nothing else, and the same is possible for you too!
Here is why:
Art journaling helps you make more art, more often, and build those creative muscles! Practice is absolutely key when you want to grow as an artist. When I don’t have the time to set up my easel, I can still play on my pages. Then when I do work on a painting, my creativity flows much better than if I had done nothing for weeks.
If you learn (and dare!) to really use your art journal as a creative tool, it can become the best playground. It’s not just about making pretty pages! Your art journal is the best place to try new color combinations, new art supplies, themes and ideas, personal mark-making etc. Then you can take all your discoveries to the canvas!
Your art journal is a sacred, intimate space where you can truly be yourself. Making art just for you, without judgement, allows your truest stories and emotions to show up. When you gently unveil them and make friends with them on your pages, you can then make art that is much braver and more authentic.
In this workshop, I’m taking you along step by step as I create a big, super layered mixed media painting by drawing inspiration (and courage!) from my art journal. You will be right by my side as I look for ideas, start my painting, get stuck, find solutions and start again, all the way to finishing touches!
Among many other tips and techniques, I’m going to show you how to:
Use a viewfinder to look for composition ideas inside your pages. Your next painting might be hiding in plain sight!
Translate ideas for color schemes, collage, imagery, mark-making and more, from your pages to your painting.
Be brave and challenge yourself to use ideas or techniques you’ve experimented with in your art journal, and take them to the next step. In the lesson, you’ll see me play (and struggle) with red!
Use your art journal as a resource whenever you get stuck: combine inspiration from different pages into one painting, find ideas that work in the journal to solve problems on your canvas!
“It was very helpful to watch you go through the thinking process as the painting evolved. I love how you present the material. It is very concise and explained in great detail. Thank you for sharing your talent. I am so glad that I decided to buy this class. It has really helped me grow as an artist and try new materials and techniques.”
Self-paced online art class with Instant, Lifetime Access & private Community Forum
Here’s what you’re getting inside of the “From Page to Canvas” online course:
Around 2 hours of step-by-step video lessons where I openly share everything of my artistic process, including the challenges and how to overcome them.
Detailed supplies list with shopping links
Lifetime access to lessons & any course upgrades
Private community forum with weekly support to share your progress, ask questions and make friends
Optional private Facebook group
“Laly, I wanted to let you know that I successfully did a “journal to canvas” series. I ended up doing two canvases and I chose one of them to show at an art exhibit last summer. It sold on the first day! I am considering showing the second one at a show sometime this year. It’s a testimonial that your teaching method works.”
Below is a list of my favorite mixed media painting supplies. A more detailed supplies list with shopping links will be available in the classroom after you join. These are only suggestions and apart from a canvas, you simply need the same supplies you already use for art journaling! I encourage you to work with your favorite colors and materials to make your painting uniquely yours.
Basic tools:
A stretched canvas or wood panel in the size of your choice
A few paint brushes in various sizes, including a flat one for collage
Other painting tools like a palette knife, plastic card, brayer
Some mark-making tools like bubble wrap, stencils & stamps
Water & a rag
Mixed media materials:
Matte gel medium or other glue of your choice (Modpodge etc.)
White Gesso
Paper in neutral tones (junk mail, book pages, sheet music)
Paper in colors of your choice (tissue, wrapping paper, printed napkin, magazines)
Acrylic paints (heavy body or fluid)
Pens & pencils of your choice
Other materials you might enjoy:
Acrylic and/or alcohol inks
Watersoluble pencils/crayons like Neocolor 2, Stabilo All, Stabilo Woodies, Inktense…
Permanent pens & markers: Pitt Artist pens, Posca/Molotow pens
Craft heat gun to speed up the drying time
Spray bottle
“Laly has taught me what it means to be an artist, to take risks, to keep at it, to listen to my intuition and to work with my canvas to bring it to life. She gave me courage and permission to call myself an Artist and I thank her for that.”
your guide for this creative journey
I'm so glad you’re here! I’m a mixed media artist from France, and I’m here to help you grow your artist wings!
A few years after I started painting, I discovered the wonderful practice of art journaling and it has made me grow so much as an artist. My journal is my best-kept secret to make better paintings! Because it helps me play and experiment without judgement, try new color combinations and themes, which I can then use in my larger art. Plus it’s such a wonderful source of ideas, and a life-saver whenever I get stuck! I can’t wait to show you how, because I know there is art in your heart that longs to come to life and be shared with others.
What if you listened to your creative longings? What if you dared to follow this little spark? I believe with my whole heart that YOUR ART MATTERS. It is your gift to the world, and now is your time to let it shine!
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