I'd love to have an ongoing chat here about art journaling. Please leave a question or comment about art journaling in the comment section. When we have a bunch I will make a separate post with the answers from Lu.
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I was so inspired by your tutorial that I worked on a small canvas this afternoon - in greens which I plan to post on my blog tomorrow. I do have a question though - I noticed that so much of my early layering and painting is obscured by the later layers, why do you do so many layers? thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI have begun an art journal with a sketch pad. (thicker paper, though. Maybe it was a charcoal paper pad) I have modge-podged some, painted some, just used scrap paper on other. I love what I have, but most of the pages have curled. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have seen classes offered for design layout, etc. Are these helpful? I have had some art training, but I usually just go with what looks pleasing to the eye.
Thanks! Lynn
Could you talk about the benefits and advantages of art journaling?
ReplyDeleteFor a year now I've been keeping a regular writing journal but then some months ago I started an art journal-I did a couple of pages of backgrounds and later added clips from magazines and some journaling but then I kinda got stuck. I would like to do more art journaling( My hand tires from just writing) but somehow always end up writing rather than art journaling. Any ideas? Does that happen to others?
ReplyDeleteI am doing a "lifeskills" class with a group of 19 jr. highers and would like to introduce them to art journaling. I thought I would provide the journals and start a few pages by prepping with gesso. I will bring in tons of magazines, paints, and whatever odds and ends I have at home. I have 4 45minute classes with them. Any suggestions, esp. for getting the guys interested?? thanks, Lynn
ReplyDeleteLynn! This is so exciting. I was commissioned a couple of years ago to create about fifty art journal pages for a University project. The students would do the actual journaling on the pages I created. It was a challenge for me to do the pages and not write on them, but the process was great. What if you group your students and have them create the journals as a collaborative project? The students design their pages then trade journals and write based off of what kind of thoughts or emotions the journal pages evoke.
ReplyDeleteSomething a lot of scrapbookers do is participate in Circle Journals. It is basically the same kind of concept, only each journal has a theme. I have done circle journals with the following themes:
• What's Your Theme Song
• My Morning Routine
• Favorite Color
• This is Where I Live
• Dead or Alive, A Person I Would Like to Meet
• What's in My Purse
• My Favorite Things in Nature
• Sports Rocks!
The list goes on for possible themes. If you make this about the process more than the end result, I think the students will really enjoy this project. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. I love that you are doing this with them.
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Lucrecer Braxton
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Food for the Creative Soul
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Lucrecer, talk about divine intervention.... My computer crashed last week and I am borrowing a friend's lap top. Couldn't log in for some reason to a year of color on this computer. I have gone back and forth about the lifeskills class and since I couldn't find your reply, I thought I would go with the "easy" way and find some recipes for the kids to make. (snore.) I was looking around on some blogs and clicked a button and for crying out loud, I found a blog I had tried to start a YEAR ago, and couldn't find it, life got in the way, etc. and had forgotten all about it. Well, there were a whole 2 comments on there. One from Kari saying you had answered my question. (how she found the blog is beyond me) and it led me to HERE. Sooooo.... needless to say I am going to group the kids and swap journals-what a fabulous idea! Thanks so very much for your inspiration. My head is spinning with ideas and thoughts and projects. And, how to get my blog going for real this time!!! Lynn
ReplyDeleteone more thing (told you my head was spinning!!) If I group the kids, are you saying that the group of 4 kids designs a page, then swaps it and the next group of 4 journals around the design? or would you get each one a small sketchbook and each individual designs and swaps to the next person to journal, etc. lynn
ReplyDeleteOh, get them each a journal! That way they walk away with something they can keep from the experience. Do check in and let us know how the class went over with the kids. I hope it inspires them to LOVE making art for life.
ReplyDeleteLu, I am happy to report that day one with 19 7th graders was amazing!!! We talked about emotions, and how they express them and what colors emotions look like. Then I handed out journals and we went to town with magazines. The theme was "what was your favorite playground game in elementary?" One boy looked so frightened over the whole prospect I thought he would pop. Another boy came up with a beautiful 2-page spread about soccer and had a beautiful hummingbird as the goalie and the goal was a hedge of flowers. A girl came up with a couch and colored the surrounding page hot pink when I introduced colors. Then I switched and had them add 3-5 words to the page. I was going to have them switch journals and write in someone else's but they ALL looked panicked over that idea. I just kept remembering what you said about it "being about the process". The best part? My daughter (who has Down Syndrome) was a part of the group and didn't need an ounce of help. She put her own pictures down, colored around them and came up with 3 words all on her own. Nothing to do with the playground theme, although she said she liked hide and seek, but she had a ball.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could show you all of their creations. Tomorrow I think I will add in newspaper and paint. Lynn