The self feels torn between its obligations and disappearing dreams, desires and worth. The self feels obligated to abandon itself in order to meet the societal expectations. It doubts...
04 – The Tower Moment
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03 – The Fragmentation
The society’s need for conformity widens the gap between the inner child and the growing self. The growing self continues to internalize the beliefs and paradigms that it learns every...
02 – The Journey
The inner child’s life journey begins to tear it away from its own truths. As the inner child begins its life’s journey, it leaves its core and is programmed to adapt to the requirements...
Sarah – Art Journal Zines
Make a Zine inspired by pages in your art journal and create a tip-in pocket to store it. Do you have a spread (or more!) in your art journal that you just love? Why not create a zine inspired...
Step by Step: Monthly Recap
This lesson walks you through a step by step process of creating a monthly recap journal page.
Color
Color is an element consisting of hues, of which there are three properties: hue, chroma or intensity, and value. Color is present when light strikes an object and it is reflected back into the eye, a reaction to a hue arising in the optic nerve. The...
Found Nature Objects by Arlyna So
SlowYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Incorporate what you can find outside, in nature, and bring them inside into your journal. Part 1Part 2 Action Steps Bring your imperfect, messy...
The Missing Piece
So far in this course we’ve been focusing on being in conversation with the bits and pieces of life we’ve collected, and letting that tumble out onto the page. Now, we are going to shift a...
Step by Step: Daily Entry
This lesson walks you through a step by step process of creating a daily entry page.
Floral Sister Pages by Camila Garcia
EnoughYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Create a double-page spread in which one flower is explored in two different ways using the same colour pallet. Work with your favourite media...
Online Inspiration to Art
We always hear about using Pinterest for inspiration. Let’s make a pin board of things we love and use it to inspire endless journal pages!
The Sticky-Note
Get creative using sticky-notes (post-its) in your journal pages. The humble sticky-note is often overlooked as an art material, but there are lots of fun ways of using them. We’ll share a few of our suggestions and we’re sure you’ll have lots more ideas of your own.
Rooted
New#gmseasonofnewYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Go back to your roots.I went back to my roots by going back to old journals. Here are some more ideas: copy one of...
Warm up: Create Inviting Journal Pages
In this bonus lesson, I am sharing a really quick and easy way to make your journal pages inviting to write on. Once we have the pages prepared, we will start adding the wonderful...
01 – The Inner Child
It is time to give the silenced inner child a voice to speak with us again. In my understanding, the inner child is the feeling, intuitive and sensitive part of each one of us - the part...
Carolyn – 60 Minute Zines
Make a zine from start to finish in less than 60 minutes! You’ll go through 6 steps using a variety of art supplies and techniques that you can make your own. Add words, quotes or phrases to...
04 – Drawing Leaves
Let’s use repetition and re-creation in our art practice as a way to lower pressure, explore, and develop an idea. In this session, we will be drawing from observation using a fallen leaf or...
Line
Lines are marks moving in a space between two points whereby a viewer can visualize the stroke movement, direction, and intention based on how the line is oriented. Lines describe an outline, capable of producing texture according to their length and...
Frame it, Landscape it, Populate it by Tammy Murdock
AweYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Use this 3 step guide to fill your pages with something playful, serious, or perhaps perfectly preposterous! Part 1Part 2 Action Steps Bring your...
Breaking Patterns by Mou Saha
ChaptersYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Use your art journal as an intentional self-healing tool. We will focus on spotting some of our unproductive thought patterns and creating...
3.2 Highest Self
Growth is a marker of life. As we grow, we learn. As we learn, we simplify and purify. This is a transformative alchemical process where our creativity, spirituality and self-awareness...
3.1 Our Transformation
In the next three lessons, we will create a series of windows leading to an ‘altar’ to the divinity present within each one of us. Our altars will be the seat of our highest self - that is...
Steph – Affirmation Zines
We will create and cut out flowers, letter affirmations, and decorate our zine using what you have on hand. There are step by step directions on how to draw flowing flowers, cut them out, and...
Visualising a Poem by Noor Unnahar
FlowYour challenge, should you choose to accept it: Pick a poem or a song and visualise it into a work of art into your journal. Close your eyes and understand what the piece could look like when...
Incorporating your favourite elements into an art journal spread
Focus#gmseasonoffocusIn this video, I’ll take you step by step through my process of creating a spread which combines all the elements of my work. I will show you how I merge...
An intuitive approach to building a layered spread
Focus#gmseasonoffocusIn this video I’ll be sharing a layered spread from start to finish in my handmade journal. These spreads used to intimidate me, but not any more. I overcame...
3.3 You at Your Greatest
In this lesson, we'll wrap up this journey to the divine within. Action StepsWrap up this stage of your journey to the divine within
2.3 Into the Journal
Now that our doll -along with her symbols - is ready and assembled, I will take you through how to add her to your journal as well as how to make a paper shelf/library of sorts to hold all...
2.2 An Articulated Doll
We will start by making our paper doll. For this part, you should – just like LaQuisha did with her doll – draw a representation of you. It’s a representation – it’s not a copy of you. So...
Debbie – Instructional Zines
This is a lesson about how to make a one-page zine teaching others how to do something you’re good at.Supplies 1 sheet of printer paper scissors pencil and eraser black pen colored pencils Go...
Messy and Loose
Have fun with messy lines and loose watercolor using an ink and wash style.
1.6 5-Point Journaling
Since 2016, I’ve followed the same journaling strategy to reflect on my faith and fond daily moments. After showing a group of my art friends on Zoom, they named it the “5-Point Journaling...