{"id":1878,"date":"2011-12-06T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2011-12-06T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:11:30","slug":"what-to-do-when-you-make-an-ugly-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"What to do when you make an ugly page&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#39;ve talked about this before&#8230;ugly pages. I&#39;ve shared my thoughts before. But it bears repeating. We all do it. We all make art journaling pages that we don&#39;t like. I do it all the time! This page started out as the bullseye inspiration (from a few posts ago), and it has turned into a hot mess. I did too much to it, and the page lost focus and got muddled.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#39;m okay with that. Really, I am.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s my &quot;ugly page&quot; philosophy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#39;re working in your journal. You&#39;re not making art to go on museum walls. Give yourself <em><strong>permission to make mistakes<\/strong><\/em>, to make ugly pages. I often call them &quot;puke on a page&quot; pages.<\/li>\n<li>You <strong><em>learn artistic lessons <\/em><\/strong>from every page you do. How can you learn and grow as an artist without making mistakes? You can&#39;t make amazing art every single time, that&#39;s unrealistic. If anything, you learn what not to do again. Or you learn when to stop. Or you learn not to use certain colors together. <\/li>\n<li>The <em><strong>process is just as important <\/strong><\/em>(or even <strong>more <\/strong>important) than the finished result. Expression, play, experimentation is the name of the game here. Play and see what happens. If it ends up ugly, oh well. They&#39;ll make more paper. Turn the page and start again.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Sometimes happy accidents happen <\/strong><\/em>that you turn around and use to your benefit. You can refine technique, style and try it again and make it work in a different way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No matter what, don&#39;t give up. Keep journaling. <em><strong>Fill up those pages with your soul.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e20153941aed7f970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ugly page 03\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e20153941aed7f970b\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e20153941aed7f970b-500wi\" title=\"Ugly page 03\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2015437eed6e8970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ugly page 02\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e2015437eed6e8970c\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2015437eed6e8970c-500wi\" title=\"Ugly page 02\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#39;ve talked about this before&#8230;ugly pages. I&#39;ve shared my thoughts before. But it bears repeating. We all do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}