Online Art Journaling

An art journal is a visual diary. It can combine art in many mediums, imagery, words... Simply put, it can be whatever you want or need it to be.

Join me Thursday evenings on Zoom*, and each week we'll start a different project.

 Each week I will give you a topic to reflect on, and writing prompts to get you started. Then we will create art with that topic in mind. You can follow my lead, or you can follow your own creative impulses (or a combination of both)!

For most classes, we use combinations of the following materials, and you are free to use whatever you have.

Supplies:

• Art journal: I use a 9x12 mixed media pad, but you can use any book with medium to heavy paper. You can even use an old reading book or writing journals. Mainly the paper needs to be heavy enough to stand up to paint. (Hint: you can always coat thinner pages with gesso, acrylic medium, or glue pages together.
• Paint: acrylic or watercolors.
• Brushes - use what you've got.
• Images to cut out and collage. You can take them from magazines, print ads... whatever you've got! Not all images have to be whole; some will be cut up for the color or a pattern in them.
• Glue, Mod Podge, or a matte or gloss medium. Also, glue sticks are nice, but not absolutely necessary.
• Mark making tools: pencils, markers, pastels... whatever you've got!
• Also paper towels or rags, a palette or paper plate, and a container for water. 
• A palette knife with a flat edge is handy, or an old used up gift card or credit card (for smoothing down glued images, or spreading paint.)