Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures

Cathy Johnson

F+W Media, Jun 27, 2011 - Art - 144 pages

Discover the Joy of Art Journaling

An artist's journal is a powerful creative tool, offering you a safe place to experiment, explore, consider and improve. Artist's Journal Workshop provides all the guidance, structure and inspiration you need to create a meaningful art-journaling practice. Starting with the question, "What do you want from your journal?" you'll build a sound journaling concept that will serve your unique creative needs and give you the freedom to practice, play and develop as an artist. Featuring rich visual examples on every page, you'll receive continual guidance and inspiration from:

• 27 international artists who share pages and advice from their own art journals
• More than 25 hands-on exercises to help you personalize your journal while developing new ideas and techniques
• Journal pages featuring travel sketching, nature studies and celebrations of daily life
• Prompts for visually commemorating life events and milestones
• Support for working through creative doubts and blocks
• A range of artistic styles and perspectives to study and admire
• Instruction for trying your hand at new methods and materials

This is the perfect opportunity for you to begin realizing your artistic potential--one page at a time. Begin the journey today!

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User Review  - ValerieAndBooks - LibraryThing

Artist's Journal Workshop is a wealth of information and inspiration. Many wonderful examples are included; not all that of the author's. As for technique used, the focus is mainly on drawing and ...

About the author

Cathy Johnson has written 35 books on art and natural history. She has been a contributing editor, writer and illustrator for The Artist's Magazine, Watercolor Artist and Country Living for over a decade, and was staff naturalist for Country Living. She has a popular group blog called Sketching in Nature, http://naturesketchers.blogspot.com. She also teaches online workshops at www.cathyjohnson.info and runs blogs at katequicksilvr.livejournal.com and cathyjohnsonart.blogspot.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures
• Author: Cathy Johnson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: F+W Media, 2011
• ISBN: 1440308683, 9781440308680
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Art / Techniques / Drawing