Hello.
There is something very special about creating with your own collection.
Overthinking in Colour was born from all those loud thoughts, messy emotions, music, colour, chaos and creativity that somehow live together in my head — so using it in my own art journal feels a little bit like putting pieces of myself back onto paper.
For this page I wanted to keep things quite simple and let the main image do most of the talking. I created the background using a stencil with those gorgeous messy circles, added just a little pink splatter, and then built the focal point using elements from the collection.
Of course, music had to be part of it.
The girl with her headphones, the cassette player, the little star, the concert ticket and the words “the music understands me more” all felt perfect together. I love how the black, pink and yellow work against the white background — still grungy and bold, but with enough empty space to let everything breathe.
I also added a loose hand-drawn border around the page because I never want my journal pages to feel too perfect. A little wonky, a little messy, a little unfinished — that is much more me.
This is exactly what I wanted Overthinking in Colour to be about: creating without overthinking every single detail, playing with colour, layers and images, and simply enjoying the process.
And yes… sometimes the music really does understand us more.
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