~Edgar Cayce
A few years ago I kept hearing about artists that were doing an art journal. This was a whole new concept to me and I really wasn't sure how to go about doing one. Junelle Jacobsen was teaching several workshops about Art Journaling in Lake Geneva. If you click on her name, you'll be taken to her wonderful blog, Yes and Amen, where she shares her drawings, photography and her lambs and sheep that she raises.
A journal can be anything from store bought, to a plain old notebook or even an older book, such as what we used. The book jacket was removed, then three pages where gessoed together...
If we found words or drawings that we liked, we gessoed around them...
This is a page that I randomly painted, after first gessoing. Now I can go back and do anything I want with it...
Junelle had us sketch rather quickly to come up with ideas. This one was of a mudroom and what you might find in it...
Here's a gate and arbor...
And cornstalks with pumpkins underneath...
She worked on a mixed media cake as we worked in our journals...
Bottom line, she challenged us to come up with ideas from just about anything and see where it might lead us...
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