Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures

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Provides guidance in creating a meaningful art journal and includes exercises to help personalize a journal, writing and art prompts, and pages from international artists' journals.

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Fun book. Lots of cool things to try and ideas for experiments and tests--which I've already plastered my sketchbook with. It's got me itching for spring so I can get outside to draw something that doesn't reside in my living room.

Mar 10, 2020

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Cathy Johnson

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Canonical title: Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures
Original publication date: 2011-06
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Languages: English
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Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures

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