Art Journal Every Day: Self Care for Valentine's Day

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It's Valentine's Day!  To celebrate, I thought I'd create an art journal page all about self care.  They do say that loving yourself is the first step towards any happy and healthy relationship!  

I found this list of twelve items online and it really spoke to me, so I decided to illustrate it!

I created this page in my junque journal and it has a funky uneven top edge.

A number of markers were used to create this spread....

I used Copics, Big Brush Pens, Permapaques, Koi Coloring Brush Pens, white Sharpies, and Pen Touch metallic pens.

I like to shake up my art journaling every now and then and I find that changing the materials I'm using gets my brain moving in different ways.  Putting the paint away and only using markers was freeing (though tiring -- my hand, my back, oy).  Do you ever change up your materials to see what will happen?

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Thanks for stopping by!  (And happy Valentine's Day!!!)