A return to painting on canvas after an 8 month hiatus.

I have been called back to creating on canvas. 
The past 8 months I have focussed quite heavily on art journaling and the R-evol-u-tion project,
I have made a few works in smaller tile format but it has been a while since I painted on a large scale canvas. I felt the pull lately and decided to let it out. I am so glad I did.
I have another couple of months to complete the e-course I am undertaking in art journaling (Metamorph- Erin Faith Allen) and will continue to explore suggested topics and techniques, but I feel it is time to integrate the new ways of working into my regular arts practice. How can an artist ever keep new discovery separate?
The style of working in the art journal seems to translate easily on to canvas.
Many of the influences, such as the reference to ancestral bones (past) and sewing like, mark making (integration) have appeared in among fields of color, unwittingly joining the present to the past.
I am enjoying the effect and the way the process feels on a larger scale. 
My work has always consisted of layering pigment and glaze in color fields, with mark making becoming more prominent since moving to California in my 'Fog Series' but I'm grateful for the way my experience with art journaling has allowed me to reach deep into the psyche in a deliberate manner to portray that excavation on paper and now on canvas.
There is a freedom in the art journaling that has informed my painting in a way I may not have discovered on canvas alone.