visual journaling

Wanna Save an Unloved Book? Diana Trout Shows You How

Ricë talks to Diana Trout about her brand-new online book arts workshop.

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Book Notes: Artist’s Journal Workshop

Get a peek into “Artist’s Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures” by Cathy Johnson.

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The Open Page: Share Your Visual Journals

Until recently, I never took the time to consider visual journaling. I like doodling, sure, and journaling, but the two seldom met. It wasn’t until I started reading the Journal Fresh posts by Dawn Sokol and checked out these journal …

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Journal Fresh: Emily Kobliska Christians

An Art Journal Q&A by Dawn Sokol This month, Dawn would like to introduce you to Emily Kobliska Christians, an artist from Ankeny, Iowa. Why art journaling? When you keep an art journal, you are essentially recording the story of …

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6 Prompts for Journaling

Author Randi Feuerhelm-Watts (Wide Open) shares six of her creative inspirations in this excerpt from her book and card deck. And while her work is intended for the journaler, any artist can find inspiration in the artists, cities and techniques she describes. So what are you waiting for? Get going … now!

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Silencing Your Inner Critic

Violette, author of Journal Bliss, knows just how to handle that dark force in her creative life. And she’s eager to share with you techniques that will have you trusting and believing in your artistic self. Through pages of beautiful hand-drawn doodles and simple but strong words of encouragement, she aims to teach you to beat back that gremlin of doubt.

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Art Journal Doodling: Tips & Techniques

Violette, journal artist and author of Journal Bliss, believes that doodling, along with more traditional journaling, can be a transformative experience. Here, she not just tells you how but she shows you how doodling can be a viable part of your journey. You’ll be inspired by both her words and her pictures.

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Altering Pages

Here, the authors of Journal Junkies Workshop, Eric Scott and David Modler, explore techniques that make journaling more interactive, techniques that offer the viewer glimpses and peeks into other pages, and techniques that encourage the viewer to open envelopes and pockets and to reveal hidden spaces behind doors and folds.

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Writing in Your Journal

In this tutorial, Eric Scott and David Modler make fresh suggestions for how you can get in the art journaling groove. Above and beyond daily and stream of consciousness journaling, the authors suggest pages of prompts, random words, eavesdropping bits and pieces and more. With their tips and suggestions you’ll never run out of ideas!

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