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Art Journaling: An Online Class
Thursdays 6-7:30pm Mountain Time (Click here to convert to your time zone) Ongoing $25 per class, or $59.99/month An art journal is a visual diary. It can combine painting, drawing, collage, imagery, words... Simply put, it can be whatever want or need it to be.
Join me Thursday evenings, and each week we'll start a different project. Here's how it works: Each week I will give you a word or a quote to reflect on in your journal, and writing prompts to get you started. We spend 5-10 minutes writing about the word, then we create art based on the word, or with the word in mind. You can follow my instruction for whichever project I'm doing, or you can go in your own direction. We will use different mediums (which will be largely based on what supplies you have at home) and the projects will include painting, drawing, doodling and collage. This is art for art's sake - there are no wrong answers in art! |
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Supplies
Art journal: I use a 9x12 mixed media pad like this one, but you can use any book with medium to heavy paper. You can even use an old reading book, or writing journals. Mainly the paper needs to be heavy enough to stand up to paint. (Hint: you can always coat thinner pages with gesso, acrylic medium, or glue pages together.
The main event is the journal itself. Beyond that you can use whatever you've got. It can be any combination of the following:
Paint: acrylic or watercolors.
Brushes - use what you've got.
Images to cut out and collage. You can take them from magazines, print ads... whatever you've got! Not all images have to be whole - some will be cut up for the color or a pattern in them.
Other collage ephemera: old letters, stamps, wrapping paper, wine labels, receipts, tissue paper, bits of foil...
Glue, Mod Podge, or a matte or gloss medium. Also, glue sticks are nice, but not absolutely necessary.
Mark making tools: pencils, markers, pastels... whatever you've got!
Also paper towels or rags, a palette or paper plate, and a container for water.
If you need help choosing art supplies, here's a little video I made on the topic (I made it for a different course, but some of the supplies advice is the same): https://vimeo.com/261363987
Art journal: I use a 9x12 mixed media pad like this one, but you can use any book with medium to heavy paper. You can even use an old reading book, or writing journals. Mainly the paper needs to be heavy enough to stand up to paint. (Hint: you can always coat thinner pages with gesso, acrylic medium, or glue pages together.
The main event is the journal itself. Beyond that you can use whatever you've got. It can be any combination of the following:
Paint: acrylic or watercolors.
Brushes - use what you've got.
Images to cut out and collage. You can take them from magazines, print ads... whatever you've got! Not all images have to be whole - some will be cut up for the color or a pattern in them.
Other collage ephemera: old letters, stamps, wrapping paper, wine labels, receipts, tissue paper, bits of foil...
Glue, Mod Podge, or a matte or gloss medium. Also, glue sticks are nice, but not absolutely necessary.
Mark making tools: pencils, markers, pastels... whatever you've got!
Also paper towels or rags, a palette or paper plate, and a container for water.
If you need help choosing art supplies, here's a little video I made on the topic (I made it for a different course, but some of the supplies advice is the same): https://vimeo.com/261363987
