Art Journaling
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catinmylapI got this book for my birthday, and I'm quite excited about it: No Excuses Art Journaling by Gina Rossi Armfield.
Her process isn't complex, and that's the whole point, making art journaling something that isn't a big deal to take a few minutes -- or longer as one wishes -- to do on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis.
The daily elements she uses are simple: a word, a color, the weather, a tiny bit of writing. Yet they are the kinds of things that can kick start some serious idea generation and artwork, whether image making or writing, or one could simply use it as a method for scrapbooking.
The process begins with choosing a journal to use, and it can be a weekly calendar type of planner, of whatever design one prefers. One with thick paper is best.
My daily planner is designed differently, on thin paper and meant to be a thick thing by the end of the year even with just my daily tasks. This calls for something different. My daily planner is also a compact size, really almost too small for what I already use it for.
I want the art journal to be about 1/2 a standard page in size, around 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. So I'm going to rev up the new printer and make my own pages, for now. I have an older planner binder the right size, and I'll follow the basic design of a Date Book that I used for a few years, made by Brush Dance.
After a couple of months maybe I'll decided to just get a new Brush Dance Weekly Planner for 2015 for this specific purpose. I like the product and it could be highly adaptable to this type of art journaling. However, it's spiral bound, and I might want to add pages, so I might decide on a more flexible system like Levanger's Circa Notebooks, which are expensive if one goes whole hog, but can be adapted to be a fairly economic system. I've been thinking of switching to that system for my planner anyway. The Circa system uses discs to hold things together instead of binder rings and can be made as elaborate or as simple as one wishes, whatever one's purpose. If I used that system, I could add watercolor paper pages, or really anything I wanted. I would have to invest in their special hole punch, though, so I will likely stick with my current system for now, printing calendar pages on my home printer and using an old planner binder that's a large enough size, things I already have. I'll see how this goes, for now, before throwing any money into it. I have no shortage of art supplies, that's for sure, all sadly under-used.
I kept an art journal for a while in late 2007 and early 2008, and I still love looking through it even though it wasn't all I planned it to be. So I feel ready for this new art journal process, which can stay within the most simple boundaries or bloom into something much more.
Her process isn't complex, and that's the whole point, making art journaling something that isn't a big deal to take a few minutes -- or longer as one wishes -- to do on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis.The daily elements she uses are simple: a word, a color, the weather, a tiny bit of writing. Yet they are the kinds of things that can kick start some serious idea generation and artwork, whether image making or writing, or one could simply use it as a method for scrapbooking.
The process begins with choosing a journal to use, and it can be a weekly calendar type of planner, of whatever design one prefers. One with thick paper is best.
My daily planner is designed differently, on thin paper and meant to be a thick thing by the end of the year even with just my daily tasks. This calls for something different. My daily planner is also a compact size, really almost too small for what I already use it for.
I want the art journal to be about 1/2 a standard page in size, around 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. So I'm going to rev up the new printer and make my own pages, for now. I have an older planner binder the right size, and I'll follow the basic design of a Date Book that I used for a few years, made by Brush Dance.
After a couple of months maybe I'll decided to just get a new Brush Dance Weekly Planner for 2015 for this specific purpose. I like the product and it could be highly adaptable to this type of art journaling. However, it's spiral bound, and I might want to add pages, so I might decide on a more flexible system like Levanger's Circa Notebooks, which are expensive if one goes whole hog, but can be adapted to be a fairly economic system. I've been thinking of switching to that system for my planner anyway. The Circa system uses discs to hold things together instead of binder rings and can be made as elaborate or as simple as one wishes, whatever one's purpose. If I used that system, I could add watercolor paper pages, or really anything I wanted. I would have to invest in their special hole punch, though, so I will likely stick with my current system for now, printing calendar pages on my home printer and using an old planner binder that's a large enough size, things I already have. I'll see how this goes, for now, before throwing any money into it. I have no shortage of art supplies, that's for sure, all sadly under-used.
I kept an art journal for a while in late 2007 and early 2008, and I still love looking through it even though it wasn't all I planned it to be. So I feel ready for this new art journal process, which can stay within the most simple boundaries or bloom into something much more.
