Visual journals

This year, I have focused our first two weeks on really enforcing Visual Journal procedures. Yep, I said Visual Journals. I'm really trying to go away form using "sketchbook" as the term for them. From my three year experience teaching high school, I've noticed that my students really didn't seem to take the sketchbook seriously. Homework assignments were not done by most students, even the ones who were serious about art. They didn't feel an urgency to keep their sketchbooks in one piece…

Do you ever go onto Pinterest and suddenly realise you are looking at similar things that aren't necessarily what you would normally look at? Whilst looking at journal pages earlier this week I realised I was looking at quite a number that had circles in them. I know they are popular, but it's not a shape I have used much, and if I have it's just to print circles from little plastic pots over a journaling page. As they had caught my attention I wanted to have a play. I started by gessoing…

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Ideas and inspiration for keeping a travel journal, art journaling, and scrapbook.