VISUAL JOURNALING

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Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 21:10:31 PST

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Creativity!
WOW!
Sara
Illuminations: Visual Journaling Inspirations

Starting an art journal is a powerful way to move beyond words in your daily writing practice. Not only does working with images access a different part of our brains than words, making art is a source of playfulness and creative joy.

When we make pictures in our journals, we often come to deeper insights about ourselves and the world around us than we can when we carefully shape our thoughts and write them on paper. By adding color and form to the pages of our journals we illuminate them and in the process we illuminate ourselves.

http://www.kporterfield.com/journal/Illuminations.html

Websites on Visual Journaling
Art of the Journal provides visitors with a peek inside Elizabeth Badurina's art journals. She writes, "My visual journals are more raw than my journals with words ever hoped to be. There's something about art that gets to the heart of a matter with a minimum of effort." Her site also contains information on altered books.

Somerset Studio's Art Journal 2003 calendar has photos of 70 original journal pages and contains comments by the artists as well as journaling suggestions. Somerset Studio publishes Somerset Studio Magazine and Legacy Magazine. Both provide inspiration for paper artists. You can buy art and crafting essentials on their site too.

How to Keep an Art Journal posted on the Scribbles Kids' Art site provides non-intimidating information and inspiration for adult beginners too.

Play Magazine - the Art of Visual Journals, an article by artist Teesha Moore. is a full color quarterly dedicated to visual journaling. Her website site contains knockout sample pages from her journals.

Keeping an Art Journal, an article on the Artistic Enhancements site, created by collage artist Kari Quinto is full of great pictures and tips. Kari sells collage grab bags and has a section on collage techniques and ideas.

How to Collage in Your Art Journal by Aisling D'Art is posted on her Wild Artistic Visions site provides practical and basic information. She's also posted her online art diary and artistic journals for inspiration.

Image Cards/Visual Journaling by Luna Jaffee contains good instructions on how to make visual cards to use as journaling prompts. Luna has her own site www.lunajaffe.com where you can sign up for her free newsletter on visual journaling.

I haven't heard of letterboxing, have you??

http://www.letterboxing.org/kids/kidsbu.htm

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