page painting technique

i had the urge to paint the other night and work in a comp journal, but didn't really have a plan of what to do. i decided to take my paints and my journals to my night job and work on painting some pages so they would be ready to work on.

unlike some people in my groups, i can't seem to plan ahead and paint the page in the morning w/ the intention of journaling on it that night. i like to have several pages painted ahead, flip open my book and find a color i want to work on or will work well w/ my topic, and go from there.

the other problem i have is getting paint on other pages, the back of the page i'm painting on, or various other places that it shouldn't be. as i was putting plastic down on my work area to begin painting, i realized that i should put my whole journal into a small trash bag, cut a slit to pull a couple pages through, and then paint could only get on those 2 pages.

pull the pages through that i'm going to paint on and leave the rest of the book protected inside the plastic bag.

now, clean white pages ready for painting. with 4 books set up this way, painting pages went really fast. i could put the paint on, go do a couple things for work, come back and switch pages to paint, and paint some more. it also helped that the work table i was using for painting was located right under and AC vent -- so pages dried very quickly, too.

overall, i was pretty happy w/ my idea of painting my pages while protecting my books. i couldn't decide if i had thought of something other people hadn't thought of OR if it was so obvious that everyone but me had already thought of it!

anyway, that's the news on painting journal pages here. i'm working on getting a bunch of pages painted so i can just have fun on doing journal pages then.