I have taken up Caspiana’s Soul Journaling challenge, and will be documenting my progress here. I’m already out of sync, having started late, but I think the main thing here is to dive in and enjoy the inspiration this challenge offers, Besides, I have only dabbled in visual journaling before and this is a way to get my feet really wet.
Below is my work area – my daughter and son-in-law bought me the wonderful cubby hole desk with all its little nooks and crannies where I can store art materials and display bits and pieces that I love.It is here that I will be working on my journal every day.
On the first day of the challenge you have to choose your journal. I bought another of the art sketchbooks that I really love, and gesso’d the cover. I will be pimping that as I go along as well.
Here are my first two pages. On the first day you have to cover the first three pages with newsprint or pages from a dictionary – I chose pages from an old household management book that has been a source of collage bits for a while now. The pages have a really lovely brown edged sepia look.
This is the book – it’s going to be a rich source of collage material for some time yet!
Finally, the journalling – I love warm colors!
And that’s it for today – now I need to get out the gesso and start on the next pages.
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Good work, Gail. You are coming right along with your journal and it looks great. I hope you’ll share more of it with us as you progress.
Vi
Great start…it is good to see the process. I look forward to seeing more