This month’s art journal moodboard page started in my Dylusions journal with purple paint and a lace-covered roller for texture, then a Hydrangea stencil in white Gesso on top.

From there came a whimsical little dancer — her head cut from a magazine, her body built from gelli plate prints, and her legs simply drawn and coloured in with Posca pens.

Alongside her, a line I’ve had saved for a while in my collection of quotes that speak to me:
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we should dance.“

In this post (and the accompanying video), I’m walking through how the page came together — the textured background, building the figure from collage and cut paper, and finishing with Posca pens. It’s a simple reminder-to-self kind of page, and I hope it gives you a little push to make something playful this month too.