I’d like to show you how many changes and layers there can be in an art journal page. For me the process is unpredictable. A little planning always gets me started but this can be simply the decision to start the first layer with blues and the next with a…
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I’ve been using mixed-media sketchbooks for my art journals. I never altered the front cover of the sketchbook, I just focused on the inside. But looking through Art Journal magazine, I realized it was time to work on the covers. I have five sketchbooks that are now in need of…
In the Summer issue of Art Journaling magazine that I posted about a few days ago, the artists in the magazine were asked this question: Do you know what you will write when you start a page, or does the art dictate what you write? It’s interesting to read the…
Yesterday I picked up the Summer issue of Art Journaling (never too late), a magazine published by Somerset Studio. It’s full of great tips and inspiring art journal pages! Have a peak at what’s inside here. I picked it up at Bird on A Wire on Main & Broadway in…
From time to time, I return to look at Sabrina Ward Harrison‘s book The True and the Questions (2005). This book is a journal, half filled with Sabrina’s thoughts, and half with adorned empty pages for you to fill in. This is perhaps a great starting book for someone who…
Getting back into art journaling–this is a section of today’s page. I might have spent half hour on it. I love that art journaling is a reflective process, nothing about finished results, product, etc. This creative process is calming, satisfying, and sometimes revealing. I’m still in exploration mode as far…
I started this art journal page today and I may work on it some more. I’ve been wanting to do more pieces with typewriters, so today I tried hand-drawing my Brother typewriter from a photograph. I’m pretty happy with the results as I consider myself more of a photo-based artist….
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