Day 17: Q – Quiet Pages
In a world that is often loud with bold colors
and ‘in your face’ imagery, there is something we can do to bring moments of
quiet contemplation in our work.
I do love lots of color and patterns in my
work but every now and again I like to strip it back and keep it simple. It might be soft watercolor washes, light
pencil sketches or muted collage layers and tones. Maybe it’s a stitched piece
with a single thread, a page with only one word or shape. Don’t be afraid to
leave space. Space lets the page breathe. It allows your viewer and yourself to
rest and reflect.
Intentional quiet can bring restoration. When
we slow down we give ourselves permission to listen and we can hear the still
small voice and make sense of the complicated.
What you can Try
- Quiet pages become moments of pause, and can balance out the louder more vibrant pages of your art journal
- Make room for stillness on the page. Think about muting the colors or being minimalist in your message. How can you say more with less.
- Create a page using only 1–2 materials. Let negative space or simplicity guide your choices.
Takeaway Nuggets:
- Silence can be a bold creative choice.
- Simplicity holds space for deeper
emotion.
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Check out some of the free and paid resources below to enhance your creative journey
Check out Filling the Creative Well which helps you establish your creative practice. In the course Filling the Creative Well, your journal is also a place to answer questions, encourage and motivate you, some days you need a reminder and so filling it with encouraging words so that you can come back to it, especially in those days where you are in a valley is really important. .
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