As many of you know, Danny Gregory was one of the people who started me on my journaling journey. His book ‘Everyday Matters’ inspired me to start drawing again. So it is wonderful to see inside some of his original sketchbooks. Danny made a habit to draw something everyday – here you will see what inspired him – his local neighborhood, the conents of his kitchen cupboard, or drawings from newspapers and magazines…
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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Use your journal to experiment with media you are not familiar with -
Part of a journaling challenge to expand our horizons and try things we’re not used to doing. I chose to try watercolors, something VERY out of my norm…but I really enjoyed it.
From the journal of Barb Smith
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Julie Pritchard has just announced two exciting new online workshops. If you have ever wanted to make your own art journals then Art Journaling Supa Nova part one is for you. Part two will cover lots of journaling techniques. Workshops can be taken individually or booked together for a discount.
This is such a great journal page by Peter – it tells the whole story of his trip and cleverly uses filmstrip to record all the important details.
“Trip to Bristol film Gala, silent films with live 4 piece band. great time.
For the Journal I use Pilot P-500, extra fine, black, blue and red pens, I find them easy to use when out and about, also if you hold them on their side you can get a nice scratchy effect. I also use coloured pencils. The Journal at the moment is a WH Smith A5 sketch book, with hard waterproof covers.”
From the visual journal of Peter Hart (Click on the image to view original)
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No secret resolutions, fancy promises, or wordy goals…
Just one plain and simple idea
“BE”
…my word of “direction” and my personal focus for 2009.
To “BE” in the moment…every moment…
fully..
actively, healthily, creatively, appreciatively, openly,
each and every day.”
Holbein Drawing book..with Pitt Pens and Watercolor
From the journal of Margaret Storer-Roche
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Try to engage all your senses when completing a journal page – add fragrance to your page. Scents and fragrances are wonderfully evocative and bring back memories in an instant. Melissa’s page was completed in response to a challenge posted on Michelle Ward’s Street Team Crusades – a fantastic site encouraging artists to try new things (warning – music plays when the site loads).
Snow “I am working on loose sketching with watercolor in my art journals these days. I used 140 lb cold press paper, permanent Pitt pen to sketch, then colorized with watercolor. I added an oil scent to the page, called “Fir”, which of course, smells like pine. The scent is a way to take you back, when you view it later, to the time and place which you originally created the piece.”
Lavende
“I bought pure lavender oil in Provence this summer. I wanted to save some forever, so I did this page, and added drops of the oil on each of the colored spots at the bottom.”
From the journal of Melissa Sabin
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A simple page from Dave that still manages to capture a lot of information about his day…
“Just a page-a-day journal entry. I try to do a little sketch and some text around the image I make. I carry the journal everywhere and whenever I have a few moments I sketch what’s in front of me. Later I watercolor the sketch.”
Keep a record of the books you have read by creating a journal spread.
“Just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ and felt inspired to do a journal page. I wanted to try out a new material – Safmat, a transparent film, from Letraset that you can print onto. I edited a couple of photos of winter trees in photoshop and printed them onto the Safmat. I then peeled off the backing and stuck the transparent film with the printed image into my Moleskine sketchbook. I had used a grey PanPastel on the page first, deliberately patchy, to create the dusty landscape depicted in the book.
Quite pleased with the Safmat, it is very thin and ‘almost’ invisible, so a good way of getting photos into your journal without creating too much bulk.”
From the journal of Gill McCowen
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