Visual journaling or art journaling is the simple process of recording your feeling using illustrations as well as words. If you are confused about how to do this, or just need some creative inspiration, check out these books, classes and tutorials for filling up your art journal with profound and aesthetically pleasing pages.
Art Journaling Video Tutorials and Classes
If you are a visual learner there are plenty of visual journaling videos and tutorials on the web. Here are a few to teach you some new techniques and inspire some creativity:
- Strathmore's Visual Journal Online Workshop Series is free and covers journaling basics, using recycled artwork and more.
- The Paper Studio website offers free how-to videos on visual journaling and other paper crafting techniques.
- Mixed Media Art Journaling with Teesha Moore is a website that has a library of video tutorials that are free to watch.
- How to Collage in Your Art Journal is a personal account of artist Aisling D'Art's process with links to specific techniques and examples.
Visual Journaling Books
Sometimes nothing beats a good how-to book. Here are some good books for learning more about visual journaling.
The Journal Junkies Workshop, Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict by Eric M. Scott and David R. Modler is an introduction, crash course, gallery and inspiration depository for all things that relate to artistic journaling. This book shows you how to get started, what supplies you need, what types of art media and genres you can use, how to get ideas onto paper and more. Be sure to check out the author's blog Journal Fodder Junkies, too, for a look at their own personal visual journals.
Visual Journaling: Going Deeper than Words by Barbara Ganim and Susan Fox focuses less on the artistic side and more on the inner journey. Fox and Ganim's goal is to show her readers how to make art journaling an everyday habit that can bring you a more serene life.
Wide Open: Inspiration and Techniques for Art Journaling on the Edge by Randi Feuerhelm-Watts gives its readers inspiration for wild and creative journaling pages. Extreme photography to mini murals are just a few of the projects found in the creative book.
While this list of tutorials, books and videos aren't definitive, it should get you started on creating your own visual journal. Once you understand the process, the only thing in your way is your own imagination.
Alina Bradford - Alina Bradford is an artist with around 20 years of experience and 12 years experience as a professional writer.
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