{"id":6920,"date":"2012-02-03T00:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2012-02-03T00:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:13:44","slug":"artist-journal-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=6920","title":{"rendered":"Artist Journal Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve love sketch books — textured-filled experimentation books, books of drawings, text and picture filled journals, and so on — they all get my attention.\u00a0 While at Blick Art Supply in San Francisco, I came across the Artist’s Journal Workshop, Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures<\/a>, by Cathy Johnson (with insights from 27 artists).\u00a0 After picking it up and doing a quick perusal of the pages, within moments I got the “ooh … I have to get this” reaction.\u00a0 Every two-page spread in the 145 page full-color book has eye-grabbing illustrations on it.\u00a0 The book covers what you need to get started, testing driving materials, what type of journal is right for you, finding time and making time to develop a habit of journaling, and pulling it all together.<\/p>\n

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\nThe illustrations are engaging; the text is beyond fluff and is instead filled with solid information.\u00a0 For example, “If you don’t get the Moleskine type (she’s not a fan of thin weight or overly slick paper in journals) specifically made for watercolor, you’ll want to add a bit of soap or detergent to your paint water to make the paint adhere to the slick surface.”\u00a0 Or, “If you really hate an image, you can paint over all or part of it with gouache or acrylic. … Be aware that acrylics can cause pages to stick together.\u00a0 Gouache doesn’t.”<\/p>\n

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\nI don’t generally read this type of book from the beginning to the end.\u00a0 Rather I skip around a lot, going from one area to another depending on what grabs my attention.\u00a0 Each time I do so in this book, I find another helpful tidbit, such as the advantages of having a blue-gray watercolor pencil as part of your travel-light kit.\u00a0 This is a good book — lots of helpful information, many gorgeous illustrations, and plenty of fuel to keep your journal pages filled.\u00a0 If you like keeping a sketchbook, or if you’d like to but don’t know where to begin, check out this book.\u00a0 If you don’t get it from your local book store, Amazon sells it for under $16<\/a> –worth every cent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve love sketch books — textured-filled experimentation books, books of drawings, text and picture filled journals, and so on — they all get my attention.\u00a0 While at Blick Art Supply in San Francisco, I came across the Artist’s Journal Workshop, Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures, by Cathy Johnson (with insights from 27 artists).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}