Joyful Purpose

Oh Alice!

I made a new journal today with this great Alice in Wonderland Book that I have been saving.

Stay tuned for the inside stuff ...

I have a plan ....

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Thematic Journal Workshop - Part Three

Now is the time to start going back through pages and adding new elements and details to them.  I find that time away from the page gives you a new perspective and angle to your work.  Above I used tape to block out parts of the title page and to highlight the title of the

Book - A Simple Path

journaling desk

Journaling Page ~ Namaste

step 1

step 2

 step 3                                                                      

• using paints and pencil draw images and layer them with paint
• add painted images or shapes to integrate the pages together
• repeat shapes, symbols and designs on both pages to unify them.

 

Thematic Journal Workshop - Part Two

The second part of the Thematic journal project is to start laying down the beginnings of pages.

• choose some of your favorite photos and print them out on matter photo paper
• tear edges with a metal ruler or your fingers to create an organic edge
• go through pages in book and glue down photos on pages
• using caran d'ache and colored pencils add overlapping images - picking up a design or image and drawing it to connect the two pages.
• choose poems or quotes and add them to the pages

Thematic Journal Workshop - Part One

I have been working on a series of "thematic journals"

that I will be teaching at an upcoming workshop and thought that I would pass this along to all of you.  Over the next few weeks I will post instructions and progress.  If you would like to join in please comment and leave your link and I will post them so that others can enjoy the process.

Part One: Journal Prep

Materials:

• A hardback picture book that has a theme that speaks to you and has great images.  (Barnes and Noble bargain section is great, yard sales, etc)
• gesso in black and white
• craft paint
• pens, markers
• colored pencils
• caran d'ache neo color II
• stapler
• brushes
• glue stick
• metal ruler
• brayer
• bone folder
• variety of papers

Step 1:
Select a book

Step 2:
Go through book and mark pages that you really like to highlight.

Step 3:
Glue together pages that you don't care for to give pages that you do more weight.

Step 4:
Gesso pages

• paint over whole text pages
• paint over page but highlight an image or portion of an image
• frame images

Step 5:
Tear down pages

• using a metal ruler placed at the spine of the book tear down two pages at a time.
• insert a variety of papers by gluing into the middle of this leftover tab.
• tabs can be gessoed or painted over

*I use dyed papers, watercolor paper, printed paper, etc.

Step 6:
Add paper elements to pages using matte medium or glue.

p.s. I lovvvvveee black gesso - can you tell ;)

Part II shall be forthcoming ....