Art Journal Process - Puffin

Well hello gorgeous earthlings!!!

So fabulous to see you again and if it's your first time here, welcome to my little blog!

Today I would like to share my experience with you of filming my first "live" YouTube video.

Many, many years ago, when YouTube was an infant, and I had no grey hair, I posted a few videos using still images. But, in keeping up with the times, I decided it was time to run with the dogs and film "live" process videos.  I touched on my setup in my previous post so I won't go into that again and if you would like to see my setup as well as my workspace during filming, please visit the previous post.

Back on topic. Once I had all the equipment in place, I went about filming myself creating an art journal page, trying to keep my head out of the shot (mildly successful), being carful not to bump the camera, and hopefully trying to stay in screen throughout the process (managed that most of the time).

All in all, I had about an hours worth of footage, which I know for sure would be way more time than I have available to watch YouTube.  After fumbling my way through the editing software, I ended up with just over 10 minutes of footage that was good to go.  Now the easy part, right?  Voice over.  WRONG!!! What can I say?  There is a reason I never use the voice message option....I don't like the sound of my own voice!!!  (My husband doesn't agree, he says I really enjoy using it, all the time, spending way more than my allotted 4000 words per day on him alone!!)

After several attempts to record a suitable voice over, I succumbed to adding captions instead and quite frankly, I enjoy this a little better, not only from my odd perspective, but from a viewing option too.

All new respect to all those fabulous people who not only successfully film videos, but manage riveting successful voice overs.  I bow in your glorious presence!!!

That brings us to....

*drum roll"


THE FIRST VIDEO, well, kind of!!

Here are some pictures and close ups of the page, and click here for the link to the video.

If any of you out there are thinking about sharing your talents on social media, I encourage you to do so.  Haters will hate, and they just need to be ignored.  Sharing your talents and abilities is a gift given, and far more people will appreciate than hate.

Thanks for stopping by!  If you want to see some more of my pages, please follow me on Instagram.  Click the link on the side bar or look up @josocrafty.

Later humans!!

Jo

Setup for Filming my YouTube Videos

Welcome gorgeous people!!

Thank you for stopping by!!  I have started making YouTube videos again.  My very early videos were a completion of still photos, at various stages in the progress of creating the Scrapbook page.

Subsequently, technology as increased in leaps and bounds, and the humble mobile phone is now a powerful social media tool!!

After several months of hopping back on the Mixed Media Train, I was encouraged by some close friends to film the process, and upload to YouTube.  I am known to look a challenge square in the eyeballs and say "It's On!!"

With a bit of research and practical thinking on my husbands part, we managed to fashion a setup which enables me to aerial view record videos.

I have had this tripod for years.  I tried so many variations to try and get a good aerial angle.  I consulted professor Google, and found some useful information on using a selfie stick wedged into a flower pot.  What a fabulous low cost solution to my problem!!

My ever practical husband came up with this idea.  He attached the selfie stick to the pivot of the tripod and voila!! My very own filming setup.  Boy do I just love that man!!!

This is a shot of my desk mid filming a recent video.  Everything outside of the blue square on my craft mat is out of sight of the viewers.  It's a big happy mushy mess of joy, in my eyes anyway!

Thank you for stopping by.  If you would like to see some more of my art pages, please follow me on Instagram @josocrafty or click link in side bar.  Watch me in action on YouTube here.

Keep creating!!

Jo

Mixed Media & Falling Back In Love With Art

Hi all you gorgeous humans!!

Oh how I have missed you!!!  Without getting into all the "gory" details, I have been MIA for the longest time because, well, lets just say I took a different road that needed travelling, but now I am back on track.

I never quite let go of the creative side of me, but I just had other things that needed more attention and focus, so I wasn't creating as actively as I would have liked. What I have learnt though, is that keeping that creative side of me fed and active is a crucial part of my being!!  I am sure there are some of you reading this that will agree.

Too much has passed since my last post to give you a blow-by-blow update, so I will just start from a little while back.

As the title of this post says, I have fallen back in love with art.  I never fell out of love with it as much as I neglected the relationship a little so we ended up sleeping in separate bedrooms.  But I admitted my faults and have repaired and rekindled my relationship with creativity and messy play!!

As with all things starting afresh, I decided that I needed to start a new journal, because you know, you need a new journal :)

I went out and bought a Moleskine Sketchbook. Moleskine is my all time favourite any notebook and it just made perfect sense to stick to what I know. (Side note, I have since bought several other art journals, from different brands - to be covered in later posts).

I pulled out my art supplies, salvaged what I could.  Some items had sadly seen their best times and needed to be sent on to the greater art store in the sky. sniff!  I sat down, opened the journal to the first page and well, just applied product to paper.

This was the result.  Not my first art journal page by a long shot.  I have several journals filled with mixed media art, but, it is the first in my "new me, new start" journal.

Supplies:

Gesso

Matte Medium

Texture paste

Book text from an old novel

Distress Ink

Acrylic paint

Well, the flood gates opened and I created several pages in a short space of time, like I had to purge myself of all the creative energy I had bottled up!!

Here are some of the pages I have created in my Moleskine Sketchbook, as well as an A4 journal I purchased.  The A4 sketchbook I purchased was sealed in plastic wrap, and I didn't get to feel the paper.  I take full responsibility for not doing my homework and as a result, the paper is not of Mixed Media grade, and it took longer to get the pages prepped to handle the media than it did to do the art.  As Jane Davenport says "Life is too short for crappy paper".  She is 100% correct.  It is now a purpose sketch book, reserved for nothing more hectic than pencil!!  

*Jane Davenport is an amazing Australian artist, and it's well worth looking her and her mixed media products up.  I have no affiliation with the artist or her brand, just huge admiration.

Thank you all so much for stopping by and visiting my blog. If you would like to see more of my mixed media pages, please follow me on Instagram @josocrafty, and if you would like to see me in action, hop on over to my YouTube channel, Josocrafty.