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    Making Your Art Journal
    Making Your Art Journal
    Making Your Art Journal
    Ebook45 pages23 minutes

    Making Your Art Journal

    By Suzanne Gallop

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    Do you keep a journal? Not necessarily a diary, but a few short words that you keep to remember your accomplishments and achievements over a given period of time.

    When you recall those accomplishments do you imagine them in color or three-dimensional? Have you ever considered yourself a creative person? We're talking about artistic creativity here not necessarily the abstract.

    Perhaps you have never kept any type of record of your daily thoughts and activities. Regardless of what your answers to these questions may be there's a good chance that you are missing out on a great opportunity.

    An opportunity that (if you choose to share it later on) can sustain you and your family for generations to come. Imagine having such a wonderful expression of your life journey!

    What we are referring to is a method to recreate your experiences in a three-dimensional format. It's about recording your life in bite size pieces that will give more purpose and meaning to your memories.

    Without going into a bunch of boring statistical data, science has proven that we learn and remember content based on input that is either auditory, visual or tactile. It has also been proven that the more of these senses used at any given time the greater we retain the information.

    Creating an artistic journal is one method of preserving your life experience in a way that will reap tangible benefits for years to come. An artistic journal can incorporate more of these memories because you can use these three senses in creating the finished product.

    Understanding how this can be accomplished is simple and requires an easy read guide on how to do it. That's were we come in. Let's explore some ideas here.

    How would you like to learn how to build an artistic journal in just a few short lessons? The best way to do that is from someone who already does it. We have just the thing for you. Our guide. It's called "Making Your Art Journal."

    Suzanne will take you by the hand and guide you step-by-step showing you what you need in very simple terms. She what you will learn:
    1. How to unfold your life and ideas starting where you are.
    2. Discover how to competently gain confidence.
    3. Power up your knowledge about what to share.
    4. Unearth the secrets setting up your journal center.
    6. Educate yourself about how to simply sketch your ideas.
    7. Acquiring necessary materials.
    8. Decorating and techniques for your art journal.
    9. Using color effectively
    10. Adding touch and smell.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCPublishing
    Release dateFeb 5, 2015
    ISBN9781310381775
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      Largely pointless. Few images, which in a book about a visual medium is pointless. Nothing here you can't find in a single web search, with better instructions and more visual fodder. There are many other books for beginner art journalers, and you should definitely seek one or more of them out.

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    Making Your Art Journal - Suzanne Gallop

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    About the Author

    Suzanne Gallop loves art but never thought of herself as an artist. Now she draws something almost every day.

    She had tried to keep a regular type of journal a couple of times, but her enthusiasm waned before she'd filled in even a month of entries.

    But, that changed when she was told about Art Journaling.

    Susan said, I decided to try it when my friend told me she had found it fun and more interesting than just writing text in a paper or digital diary.

    It's more interesting because you can use whatever techniques you like and no-one is judging you.  If you make a mistake, paint over it or say that's what you meant to do (grin!)

    If you don't like writing, you can use photos or found artwork or draw simple pictures to tell most of the story.

    "I started by just decorating some of the words I wrote.

    Each person does it their way and that makes it much more personal."

    Susan added, Artists use these Art Journals to try new things and some get quite fancy. But, it's a great way for anyone to dabble in art and improve our creativity.

    "Kids often make this sort of journal and the couple I was allowed to see are full

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