MAKE TIME AND SPACE FOR ART JOURNALING
/You've given yourself the inner space you need for your art journaling practice. You are committed. Now, let's find some actual time and space, shall we?
Read MoreHere's a collection of posts that focus on the nuts and bolts of art journaling: supplies, techniques, processes, and tutorials too.
You've given yourself the inner space you need for your art journaling practice. You are committed. Now, let's find some actual time and space, shall we?
Read MoreAn art journal is simply a private and safe place to be creative. Often a book (but not always), it can be of any size or dimension. It doesn't have to be a place to create "art" (though it may), and you definitely don't need to be an artist to work in an art journal (although you most certainly can be)...
Read MoreMy 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 MoreAs 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 MoreArt journaling is a kind of magic. I mean, until you create an art journal page, it doesn't exist. You create it. You bring it into existence.
Read MoreAlthough 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.
Read MoreLet me tell you a secret: Art journaling doesn’t have to be art. And you don’t have to “be” an artist (although you can be). An art journal is simply a private and safe place for anyone—anyone—to be creative.
Read MoreYour art journal is not only something you want to make. It’s where you spend important, creative time with yourself, for yourself—and you know that’s the most important reason of all.
Yet. It can be hard to find time.
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