True Vision Authentic Art Journaling

145 Pages·2008·82.13 MB·English

by  True Vision Authentic Art Journaling

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Authe nt ic
Art Jou rnalin g
L.K. Ludwig
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Contents
9 Introduction
CHAPTER CHAPTER
11 1 51 3
Getting Started The Written Word
12 The Basics of Art Journaling 52 Incorporating Text as a Design Element
15 Taking a Closer Look: Katie Kendrick
54 Favorite Quotes, Poems, and Prose
18 Selecting a Structure 57 Visual Toolbox: Text onto Metal Mesh
21 Insight Activity: Unblanking the Blank Page
60 Personal Writings and Storytelling
22 Content and Meaning 63 Insight Activity: The Found Poem
24 Taking a Closer Look: The Deconstruction of 64 Visual Toolbox: Writing with Fluid Acrylics
Rothko, Bee Shay
26 Collectors, Thing-Finders, and Treasure Keepers
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28 Insight Activity: Pillaging the Dragon’s Hoard by
Current Events
Using Your Good Stuff
29 Insight Activity: Automatic Writing
68 Everyday Events
30 Insight Activity: The Vision Deck
72 Insight Activity: One Hundred Versions
31 Insight Activity: Musical, Imaginary Alphabet
74 Insight Activity: The Calendar Journal
75 Taking a Closer Look: Traci Bunkers
CHAPTER
33 2 78 Personal Life-Changing Events
Relationships 80 Visual Toolbox: Adding Structured Texture to an
Art Journal Page
34 Family and Friends
82 Events with Global Impact
36 Insight Activity: Dropped-Paper Collage
83 Taking a Closer Look: September 11, 2001,
38 Visual Toolbox: Making a Stencil Portrait
L.K. Ludwig
40 Taking a Closer Look: Maggie’s Baby Book,
84 Insight Activity: Abstraction
Nina Bagley
85 Visual Toolbox: Silhouette Figure Study
42 Childhood
46 Tributes and Remembrances
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CHAPTER CHAPTER
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Places and Spaces Spirituality and Dreams
88 Travel Journals 126 Faith and Spirituality
90 Visual Toolbox: Altering a Child’s Board Book 129 Taking a Closer Look: Loretta Marvel
91 Insight Activity: The Local Tourist
132 Dreams
92 House and Home 133 Insight Activity: Dream Characters
94 Insight Activity: Building Your Sense of Home 135 Visual Toolbox: Altered Scrapbooking Papers
96 Favorite Spaces
99 Visual Toolbox: Faux Landscape Painting
Appendix:
136 Vision Deck
CHAPTER 140 Contributors
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Self-Explorations 141 Resources
142 Acknowledgments
102 Self-Portraiture
143 About the Author
103 Taking a Closer Look: Juliana Coles
106 Photographic Self-Portraiture
109 Visual Toolbox: Photographic Self-Portraits
110 Visual Toolbox: More Than the Sum of Our Parts
111 Visual Toolbox: Ink-Jet Transfer
113 Visual Toolbox: Patina on Paper
114 Taking a Closer Look: Melanie Sage
116 Self-Portraiture Using Other Media
118 Visual Toolbox: Blind Contour Drawing
120 Visual Toolbox: Carving a Self-Portrait into
a Printing Block
122 Personal Archetypes
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