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

**Brand:** cathy johnson
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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Why and how to keep an artist's journal that will enrich your life
  

*by L***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2015*

Cathy Johnson’s 35th (!) book is the product of her heartfelt, lifelong mission to introduce others to the value of journal keeping.Although many how-to art books are arranged so that the reader can dip and delve, this book has a graceful narrative arc and it’s really rewarding to follow it from first page to last. There’s a persuasive argument here about the benefits of developing the journal habit and you don’t want to miss a bit of it.Of course, there are lots of pictures and an abundance of stand-alone technical information and inspiration on each page, if reading a book cover-to-cover isn’t your thing!Johnson begins and ends with the point that journal keeping is for YOU, the journal keeper. YOU get to decide the whys and hows of your journal. YOU get to choose your tools and techniques... or choose to let them evolve as you do, with your journal as drawn and written evidence of that evolution. YOU can choose to share your pages or you can choose to keep them private.In her introduction, Johnson makes a distinction between ‘art journals’ and ‘artists’ journals.’ The former are often consciously created to look arty, to be finished art/ craft pieces in themselves. The latter are more often the repository of thoughts, ideas, sketches, technical experimentation, careful observations, laments, celebrations… whatever... of the practising artist, nature sketcher, urban sketcher, illustrator, or anyone wanting to develop their creative side in a kind of written/drawn/painted dialogue with the inner self.As you would expect given the author’s long career as teacher and writer of art books, there is an abundance of information about materials available to the visual journal-keeper. And there is a very well-chosen selection of journal pages from 27 artists from around the world, representing a huge range of both style and purpose.In Chapter 3, “ Exploring Journals”, Johnson writes about types of journals: the daily journal, travel journals, the memory journal,  nature journals, dream journals, reportage journals and more. One person can keep several types of journals at once, or over a lifetime. And it is this last that is one of the main thrusts of the book: the exhortation to make journal keeping a life habit, a habit that has the potential to repay you over time in profound ways.Johnson’s book will be a rich addition to the library of those interested in living the creative, examined, image-filled life. There’s not a word or observation in it that isn’t graceful, informative, and fueled by the passion Johnson has for her subject.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    great for anyone who wants to keep & create any kind of art journal!!!
  

*by M***B on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2011*

This book gives any journal keeper or wanna be journal keeper some great ideas to help inspire you or figure out exactly what you want to do with your sketchbook journals.  The book includes suggestions for travel journaling, daily journaling, nature journaling, spiritual etc and not just samples of what others have done, but questions for the reader to explore and think about to help develop individual journaling that means something to you.  I especially love the "Try This" exercises the author included in each chapter such as "describe your day," "abstract the scene," "travel-record the details," "sketch family mementos," "map family moves" and lots of other fun ideas to explore.While showing some useful, beautiful and inspirational examples of ways other experienced and talented artists have kept journals, Ms. Johnson's book expands on the examples and gives tips for developing content as well as some guidance on materials that are easy to use and portable.  She presents things very simply for beginners, in a completely non-intimidating way.  However, those who have some art experience will appreciate the fact that she didn't over do the "how to paint with watercolors" section, but rather includes a discussion on how to use a variety of materials that work together and are easy just to throw in your purse or art bag.  I haven't ever used colored pencils or acrylics because they seem too complicated of a medium to work properly for me, but after reading her suggestions I may experiment with some of these other mediums for fun in small sketches in my journal.Ms. Johnson's book is easy for anyone at any level to use, skim it for ideas or read it cover to cover.  It's a beautiful book and one that is clearly going to be a new classic on the topic of sketchbook journaling.  Others I highly recommend are any of the Danny Gregory books, Everyday Matters, The Creative License, and An Illustrated Life;  The Decorated Journal by Gwen Diehn; Keeping a Nature Journal by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles Roth.  Also recommend DVD Beginning Watercolor Journaling by Gay Kraeger and Christina Lopp.  Drawing from Life, the Journal as Art by Jennifer New has some interesting examples of how a variety of journal keepers approach and keep a journal.  Highly recommend the Urbansketchers website and blog, [...] for excellent examples of art journaling from all corners of the world.  Cathy Johnson is one of my favorite contributors to that website.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great for starting an artist's journal
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2011*

This is a beautiful book if you are interested in starting an artist's journal or if you already keep one.  I'm a fan of Cathy Johnson and she doesn't disappoint in this book.  There are a number of artists included in Artist's Journal Workshop.  Pages from artist's journals are abundant and many styles are shown.  One thing that I like is that the text is very readable and not a book of boring and tedious instructions.  Johnson suggests that the artist or journalist (or both) ask three questions when beginning.1.What do you want from your journal?2.What will go into your journal?3.When or how do you see yourself journaling?By asking these questions, one can develop a plan and begin with something concrete instead of starting disorganized and unsure.  However, these questions are not set in stone.  Just about anything goes with Cathy Johnson's style of journaling and that could be a page of drawings that include your grocery list or something that you're angry about.Suggestions for working with different pens, pencils, watercolors, washes and ideas for how to keep what you want to keep private away from others' eyes if they take a look at your journal are throughout the book.Recommended for any journalist who wants to include art to decorating a daily journal or journaling around the world.

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