Art journaling is all the rage with mixed media folks these days, but I'll admit that I've never been one to use an art journal. Frankly, I just didn't see the point of creating a little book of art drawings that I wouldn't be able to hang on the wall. I mean, let's face it, I'm clearly not the kind of person who feels a need to keep much of anything to myself. Besides, art is for sharing. Even the most emotional paintings I make just for me, like the
canvases I painted to work through my kitty Finnegan's death, often end up finding new homes.
However, once I started to look at my little Moleskine sketch journal as a place to test out techniques, exercise my brain, play with imagery and plain ol' PRACTICE DRAWING, stuff started to happen.
It's pretty. However, it's not something I want to put on a more permanent canvas for a gallery as a representation of my personal style, but I got ideas for other paintings while I was working on this. So yeah. I get it now. Art journaling. Neato.
p.s. Testing out one of the images as my banner for a few days, but I'm not settled on anything yet.
I am starting one too...love the reds and oranges tones of the background!
ReplyDeleteRight on Flor!
ReplyDeleteExcellent! It is a great exercise, isn't it? I recently discovered the same thing but hadn't realized I was actually art journaling until I read this. I had been trying to keep a sketchbook practically all my life. Finally all the ideas in my head needed a place to pour out in a somewhat cohesive place instead of just scraps of random paper, so I started writing and drawing in an old appointment book. When I fill that up I think I will get a real blank journal or maybe make one myself!
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