I’m delighted to share another free treat with you today. L.K. Ludwig is offering an online workshop in creating and binding a journal from free materials. See what she says about the class -
This project combines several techniques from my fourth book, Creative Wildfire. Examples of the book and the flaps can be see on pages 6, 30, 46, and 47. The page painting technique can be found beginning on page 32, and the binding technique can be found beginning on page 20.
I want to stress that YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT NEED THE BOOK to take class, get the most out of the class, understand the class, or enjoy the class. I have all the techniques videotaped for you. If you do have the book, you may find making notes in the book margins helpful for future reference.
I had a wonderful weekend at the Patchings Art Festival near Nottingham, despite the wind and rain on Sunday. I helped out at the PanPastel demonstration area and had the pleasure of meeting Berni Ward (on the left of the picture) the co-creator of these wonderful products, just look at all those luscious colours.
If you have not tried using PanPastels in your journals you are missing a treat. They are artists quality soft pastel packaged in a pan – it is just like painting with a dry media. So the advantages for use in your journal are many – no waiting for paint to dry, no warping of pages and no problems with pages sticking together. Here are some examples of effects you can achieve -
If you pop on over to Green Isles Crafts, Tee is offering one lucky reader a chance to win a copy of Cathy Johnson’s new book Artists Journal Workshop.
Well, I can’t believe it is nearly the end of May and I have only just discovered the wonderful daily (well 6 days per week) art journal prompts being posted by Tee over at Green Isles Crafts.
Some of the prompts have video tutorials such as this one on a Monochrome page. I love the way Tee shows her thought process behind producing the page in this video.
WOW! Shelley has produced a really impactful page here. Your art journal can be a great tool to work out the frustrations of the day…
“There are layers of journaling around the outside edge of these pages. I didn’t want anybody to be able to read it – I just wanted to unload into my journal and get this stuff out of my head. I always find it helps to do a brain dump now and then!! Anyway, I was feeling as intense as this eagle looks when I did the writing. Afterward I was able to relax a little. More like a … flamingo? Are flamingos more relaxed than eagles? They look more cheery and pink at least.”
From the journal of Shelley Malone, visit her blog here
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Zom Osborne has written a wonderful article on Art Journaling on her blog -
What is it about art journaling that makes me love it so much?
I like that it’s in a book. I have always loved books, and I love working in a book. I can take it with me, and the pages turn and I can close it and it’s like I have my own little world under my arm or in my bag.
I love that I get to write in my book. I also love that it isn’t just writing. I love that I get to use different pens in pretty colours when I write. I have an excuse to buy lots of pens.
I love that I can do anything I want in there. I can draw or paint or collage or write, and one isn’t ‘better’ than another. I don’t have to worry about what it looks like or how it will turn out. I really really like that.
I love that I get to use pretty colours and buy new materials that I can try out. I also love that I can use ugly colours and use stuff out of the bin and recycle useless stuff.
I love that I sometimes write really deep stuff and get these wonderful insights into my self and the world. I also love that I can write really shallow stuff like lists of stuff I want to buy or complain about petty things, hee hee.
Take inspiration from what you find lying around, clippings, photos, magazines, and turn it into a wonderful journal page.
“Today it was Monet & blue – went searching through one of my “journal drawers”. It’s a drawer where I keep misc. paper scraps & old stationary to decorate pages. I pick the pieces and color scheme according to my mood.”
From the journal of Betsy Cañas Garmon
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Calligrapher and artist Martha Lever has come up with a great idea for what to do with all those loose bits of artwork we all have lying around, put them in a journal of course…
