WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ART JOURNAL
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You turn the page, grab some color...begin to splash it around a bit...and you are there.
No where else. In the moment, fully engaged, focused...
content.
Not every time, though.
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THE INNER CRITIC'S SEVEN BEST WEAPONS
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One of the reasons we art journal is because it's a safe place to be creative. At least theoretically. This blank book is our and ours alone. We're not making pages for others, but only ourselves. We can play and take risks creatively—"fail" as often as we "succeed"—on the page and it's okay. No one to judge us here.
Read MoreHOW INTUITION SPEAKS
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Your art journal is a great place for the intuitive power of collage. While you can build and arrange a collaged page according to a plan, it's really fun and often powerful to give your creative self free reign. To let your mind release control and let your intuition guide you as you choose your images (shapes, color, line, pattern...), combine and alter them. Just play.
Read MoreFACING DOWN YOUR INNER CRITIC
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We all have our own lurking Inner Critic.
Some are louder and meaner than others, some sound a lot like other voices from our lives, and some are quieter and less overt but just as critical. You are probably intimately familiar with your Inner Critic when you begin to create something new—whether it's a page in your art journal or anything else.
Read MoreFINDING TIME AND SPACE IS AN INSIDE JOB
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Chances are, one or both of these statements have come out of your mouth:
"I want to art journal, but I don't have time.
or
I want to art journal, but I don't have the space in my house."
Read MoreI SAY EVERYONE SHOULD ART JOURNAL
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My secret dream is that everyone in the world keeps an art journal. Wouldn't that be something? A whole world of people, young and old, sick and healthy, laborers and power brokers, all who reflect, experiment, express...who witness and value their own creativity... and then go out into the world as the creative beings they are (we all are) and unleash that force into all the occupations on earth.
Read MoreDO YOU GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION TO PLAY?
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As the oldest of three siblings with a single mother, I carried responsibility from an early age. I took care of my brother and sister, household chores and dinners, and somewhere along the way I also made it my job to keep everyone happy. (Ahem, I'm working on that). I learned that play came after work—if at all.
Read More12 REASONS TO ART JOURNAL
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Although there are other reasons to art journal—as you'll see below—the main reason to art journal is to be creative without worrying about anything else.
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