“Are those all your journals? What do you do with them all? They just sit on the bookshelf?” What do I do with my finished journals?
What do I do with my journals?
How do I decide what journal to work in?
How do I decide what journal to work in? Often it comes down to how much time I have to spend. If I have enough time, I just make a new book.
How do my pieces all connect?
Looking at my body of work I found a few themes that crop up over and over. How do all my pieces connect? Media, imagery, and techniques.
Color story art journal flip through
A video flip through of my color story art journal that I created in January 2023 and finished in March 2023.
Endpoint
I don’t usually start work on a piece with a fixed destination in mind. I don’t know what a piece is going to look like when I start work.
What’s in my travel art kit
A video and description of what I pack in my travel art kit. It all fits in a smallish bag that travels in the car like a dream.
Black cover art journal flip through
In this post I do a flip through video of my black cover art journal and show some stills.
Blue Journal Flip Through
A flip through video of an art journal I worked in for the past year. I talk about process and lessons learned.
Wanderlust 2022 Guest Teacher
Wanderlust 2022 announcement!
My Stay at Home Art Journal
The story of my Stay at Home art journal starts like a lot of my other journals. I bought it used so I could pull out the illustrations use them…
Using my art journals as wall art to enjoy and celebrate
What do you do with your books when they are finished? This question comes up a lot. I let people look through them whenever possible. I take them to shows…
Art Reflection Questions
I was recently listening to the Art Juice Podcast and the episode was titled “Is your personality in your art?” It’s a great episode over all but at about the…
You know what? My work last week was awesome.
The push and pull of posting work online is that there is the feeling that greater intrinsic value is assigned to work that gets more likes. Even as I know…
Why do I art journal?
A friend asked me this question on Facebook last week and I loved it so much I wanted to share it, and my response (which I’ve expanded with pics and…
Birthday Week Inspirations
It’s my birthday week! Turing 48 has me feeling some big feels. Looking toward 50 is both daunting and liberating. Daunting because where the heck did the past 25 years…