The last thing in the world I’m interested in is art journaling. Or so I thought. AJ, for those of you who might not know, is the art of making elaborate journals consisting of, well…art. And whatever pithy thoughts might accompany that art. People go to great lengths with these little books but my feeling was if I put that much work into something I didn’t want to tuck it away somewhere. Because in my mind, journals are private things.
And art is public.
Then I heard about this year long on-line class, Life Book. You can read about it here if you’re interested. Fifty-two weeks of art journaling with lessons by fifteen different mixed media artists. Artists I wouldn’t mind taking a class with. Because I’m ALWAYS open to learning new things.
So I signed up. Along with something like 600 850 other people from around the world. I put my own spin on lesson 1, turned it into an acknowledgement of da muse. I didn’t know that’s what I was doing until I came home tonight and did it.
Totally different than what i usually do. And it was FUN. I enjoyed myself. And God help me, I made one of those silly faces with big eyes. I SWORE I WOULDN’T DO THAT. EVER! But I did. And it was FUN.
So here’s this week’s Life Book page. Ha–I just notices I left out the ‘e’ in stories. Oh well…
It has a fold over that I haven’t done yet. I’ll show you that another day.
Ok I also swore I would never paint a face because god only knows what it would look like…
I still havent signed up for Life Book, but feeling like I should…Aghh..are you loving it?
(but its more than faces right?)
Julie
I don’t know if it’s more than faces, Julie. I hope so. Tam is cool about taking whatever it is you need from the course and going with that. I signed up for the exposure to fifteen teachers and what I might learn from them. But I had fun with this first lesson and I
thinkknow it reawakened my whimsical voice. Early to say if I’m loving it but I’m sure liking it a lot. xo