Journal Craft Inspirations

A great way to bring back memories of places you have visited or lived in, is to draw a floorplan – as shown in these two wonderful examples -

Home in Japan - Jerrie Hall

“All of us have special places that we want to remember…I was thinking about our 1st home in Yokuska, Japan…..40 years ago. I really wanted to remember the floor plan and as much of what we had in there…
It was a struggle to pull all of these old memories out of my brain….but on the most part, this was successful.”

Watercolour pencil in Moleskine Sketchbook

From the journal of Jerrie Hall

Childhood Home – John Payne

“I decided to do a spread of our city home before we moved to our final home in the country. It was enjoyable to try to remember all the details. Even talked to my Mom for a little help remembering.”

Watercolour pencil in Moleskine Sketchbook

From the journal of John Payne

 

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Vicky has drawn some beautiful renditions of herbs in her journal, along with her thoughts about which variety to choose.

“I’ve been playing around with ways to simplify my small garden, freeing up time for art — yet keep the herbs that I love using the most.From the Garden Journal of – Vicky Williamson
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Dan Price was one of my original inspirations for starting a journal. For the last 10 years he has been keeping a daily journal of his life and publishing it as a Zine called Moonlight Chronicles.

This is a fascinating interview with Dan, and is especially interesting to watch if you feel you can’t draw, he talks us through how he started and gained inspiration from his then 4 year old son (this is near the end of the video) 

 Watch Interview with Dan Price

Dan’s book “How To Make A Journal Of Your Life” can be purchased here

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Well, a girl just have to have shoes, so she may as well journal about them too….

Moleskine Sketchbook

From the Visual Journal of Laura Kishimoto
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Nancy has used a variety of media, collage and journaling to create this page

From the Art Journal of Nancy Baumiller

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Jan has created a great journal page of her likes and dislikes as a young girl. I love the way she has chosen to depict herself as a paper doll – itself a memory from childhood…

From the Visual Journal of Jan Allsopp

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