Creating a Visual Journal
Want to learn how to keep a visual diary? The possibilities are endless with Visual Journaling – as varied as your days and as boundless as your art! Learn how with Ashley and Ursula.
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Description
Want to learn how to keep a visual diary? The possibilities are endless with Visual Journaling – as varied as your days and as boundless as your art! We’ll learn about supplies – what mediums and sketchbooks work for you, then move on to filling your pages without fear. We’ll give you ideas for six types of pages, working with you to discover your own style, so that you can go out and immediately start your unique Visual Journaling practice.
Course outline
- What is visual journaling?
- Choosing a sketchbook, or making your own!
- Material Possibilities: Pencils, Felts, Crayons, Paint, Collage
- Making your first mark (warmups)
- Calendar + To-Do Lists (Bullet Journal format)
- Considering Your Compositions
- Journalling Your Day (Using Felts, Highlighters, Collage, and/or Pencils) Things I saw on a walk, What I did today, What I ate today.
- Practicing – Things I see, touch, hear, smell, taste)
- Building a Travel Kit
- Plein Air Sketch-booking (Watercolour, line and wash + Urban Sketching)
Expected learning outcomes
- Learn which sketchbook, journal, and supplies work best for you.
- Learn how to plan and complete six types of visual journaling pages, as well as how to spontaneously fill a page.
- Discover the power of learning and sharing with others as the group’s multiple styles come to light.
- Become motivated, equipped, and excited to spend the next few days (or the rest of your life) journaling your life in a sketchbook.
Who should attend?
If you’ve ever doodled a stick figure, come along! And if you’ve been sketch-booking for a while, you’ll learn from others, but also gain some new skills to incorporate into your daily practice.
What to bring
- We'll provide a sketchbook plus pens and watercolours to use on the day (a materials charge of $25 is included within your course fee)
- You bring any pencils, pens, collage fodder, or felts you particularly like (again, we’ll have options for you as well to practise on the day).
- Your lunch, for the weekend workshop
About your tutors
Ashley Ruth lives and breathes art, taking her travel-size watercolour and mixed media supplies with her everywhere she goes - no exaggeration! She has developed her own unique style of watercolour and illustration and creates art every day, primarily through visual journaling. A gifted teacher, she will guide you through the creative process in an enabling and encouraging manner so therapeutic you won't want class to end.
Ursula is passionate about the power of creativity, art and design, colour and pattern. With a background working in the fashion industry, a Bachelor of Fine Arts and about to embark on a PGDip in Creative Arts Therapies at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, she has a well-honed eye and lots of enthusiasm to share with you.
