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In peeking through the #artjournaleveryday hashtag, I discovered that I was being drawn, over and over, to pages that included dash marks.
arteverydaystudio filled a page with dash marks of different kinds:
sojournertracy added small white dash lines to a field of black paint:
And, it looks like she also used striped washi tape that mimics a kind of dashed line look.
bedsit_diary turned a black line into a road with a few dash lines:
mariko_koda uses a lot of dashed lines to create emphasis and energy around the text:
sjrondon uses soft watercolor dashes to create a splashy circle:
divsy uses shorter dashes (almost squares) on this rainbow colored spread:
sheofthewild uses dash marks to create a sort of halo effect:
And there are so many more examples of dash marks in the #artjournaleveryday pool!
Personally, I loooove dashed lines. I've been using dashes forever! They're such a simple shape, but they have enormous impact and they're very flexible.
Check out this 2012 spread where you can see I've sectioned the page using dash marks:
And you can see several different dashed lines on this 2013 page (including a hand carved stamp of dashes):
And you can see the dashes used in the pattern here from 2014:
The dashes make the pattern look more complicated than it actually is.
In 2015 I used dashes to help hold this abstract spread together:
And just so you see that I copy myself over and over again, in 2016 I was still using dash lines to divide up my pages:
In 2017 I used dash lines for eyelashes, as a pattern, and to create shading in the face:
And this year, 2018, I used dash marks to create visual texture and energy:
Have you tried using dash marks in your art journal?!
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