Art Journal Every Day: Changing My Handwriting

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I use my art journal to pour out a lot of raw feelings that I don't necessarily want to share with the world.  You'll notice that I often redact my art journal pages when I share them here on the blog.  I often feel awkward bringing my art journal to class for students to see.  I rarely publish my journal pages, because they're intensely private.  And then I had a thought: What if my handwriting was unreadable?

So, I decided to work on making it unreadable.

1. My normal handwriting.
2. Squishing my normal handwriting.
3. Squishing my handwriting even more and elongating it a bit.
4. Spreading out my handwriting
5. Spreading it even more.
6. Really spreading it, and keeping it super loose.
7. My normal handwriting with a nib pen and India Ink.
8. Squished.
9. Spread out.

I decided to try out my new handwriting in my art journal:

(I also experimented with my new white acrylic ink and a nib pen to create the white writing you see!)

I'm totally digging how the two kinds of handwriting turned out and I think I'll be doing this a lot more.  It will make it easier to share my pages.  

How about you?  Do you use your regular handwriting in your art journal?

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