As an artist I am enjoying spending more time making art. Art can be a solitary practice, so I am pretty good at social distancing. I do miss time with friends, and family. It is important for all of us
to be serious and stay away from others for the common good.
I enjoy working in my sketchbook or journal every day, and have been doing this for the last 16 years. I never kept a diary or journal growing up but loved to make art. So when introduced to Art journaling I had found a perfect match. The beauty of this is anything goes because it it for just you!
If you feel the need to write a few words, thats great, if not, paint, draw, scribble, anything that motivates you. After keeping an art journal for a while it becomes habit, and looking at completed ones you have done will show your progress in art and life.
I would like to motivate you to start one in the coming weeks. I will be posting photos and prompts to help you get inspired. I will be sharing lots of journal pages on my instagram feed and hope you will follow along with me. @lynncorsibland.
Here are some ideas using old books and calendars to alter. I always check thrift stores for children's
books, especially board books because the pages are nice and thick.
Coffee table books also make good altered journals. I haven't done the cover yet. this next photo shows a gessoed page ready to work on.
This one is an old do it yourself book from Goodwill. I liked the size, the pages were a little thin so I glued two of them together to use.
Below is a journal made from cereal box cardboard bound with a simple coptic stitch.
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