Visual Journals are great for going beyond the simple sketch. I only had a few minutes to do a quick pen and ink sketch of a building that caught my interest when we were traveling in the Czech Republic. The page looked so empty when I got home that I went back and added color and an interesting black and white design to finish out the page. I had so much fun with the design that I carried it over onto the facing page to unify the image. When I was finished, it looked as if I had planned it out from the very beginning, when in reality it had just evolved!
Here I used playing cards for inspiration. I altered the pages with watercolor first and then I glued on the playing cards. I used pen and ink to repeat some of the symbols and designs that were on the cards to make a uniformed page.
