Introduction
Decide on material for paper weave. You can weave with ribbons, construction paper, heavier types of paper, and also incorporate decorative materials like glitter and sequins. I like to use paper that has 2 patterned sides to it, or one patterned side and one solid color side. That way, you get two pages out of the basic weave.
Directions
Cut one-inch-wide strips of your choice of paper.
Decide how many rows you want to have. My rows are 1 1/4” wide (for one inch strips of paper), with ¼” between them.
Next, mark off horizontal lines every ½”.
Put a cutting mat behind your page (or you can use a piece of cardboard). Using an xacto knife and a ruler, cut through the paper using the lines you marked above.
Weave your paper through. Here are the front and back sides of a journal page with a basic wave pattern.
For more elaborate weave patterns, visit the following page:
Examples
Homework
OBSCURING TEXT
When writing in our journals about our most private and intimate moments, we may feel the urge to censor ourselves if we invite others to look at our work. Fear that they may read these passages and pass judgment on us can scare us into holding back and bottling up. In the spirit of letting go, write whatever you need to write, but as you dump the reserves and put it all out there, consider obscuring the text to protect your private thoughts. Think about ways the words could purposely get smeared or covered over in order to hide some of the deeper, more personal thoughts you may not be quite willing to put on full display. This way you don’t keep the things you need to say buried inside, and you can release them and move on. Remember that it is not important that you can read your writing in the end. It is important that you get things out and release the troubles and anxieties.
Ideas:
Write with a water-soluble pencil or marker, and paint over the writing with water to obscure it.
Cover your writing with translucent or opaque tissue paper or vellum. Cover some or all of your Layer on top of the text with a drawing, cut out from a magazine, piece of fabric or some other collage material.
FROM START JOURNALING: AN ART JOURNALING WORKBOOK (Technique originally published in Journal Fodder 365 by Eric M. Scott and David R. Modler, 2012.)
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