Raw Art Journals--We don't find meaning, we make meaning.
Art Unraveled August 3-10, 2010
Art Unraveled 2010
Art Unraveled is an exciting art retreat that beats even the August heat of Phoenix! I hope to see you at Art Unraveled, not just in my classes in the many events that are offered this year.
I'd love to welcome you to both of my classes. We'll have fun, and I'm a creativity coach, so there is a lot of that going on in class. It's deep, meaning-making work with fun and sharing.
I'd love to welcome you to both of my classes. We'll have fun, and I'm a creativity coach, so there is a lot of that going on in class. It's deep, meaning-making work with fun and sharing.
Journaling For Perfectionists
August 4, 6:30 - 9:30p.m.
Started 50 journals and never filled a single one? This is the class for you.
If you are a perfectionist, you know how hard it is to work deeply and playfully. Perfectionists start with high hopes, and then get discouraged because their work is not exactly what they had imagined.
Notorious procrastinators, perfectionists start 50 journals and finish none of them. You will make many journal pages, and keep the ones you like. No one will know about the rest.
You will learn how to choose a journal that suits your needs, how to use your own ideas to write in and create abstract designs of your own invention in your journal.
No previous art experience needed.
One-Sentence Journaling
Monday, August 9, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Keeping a journal doesn’t have to be a time drain. Learn to keep a journal with just one sentence a day, two if you are ambitious. In this technique class, you will learn how to keep an interesting journal that you look forward to working in.
We’ll play word games, make magic word tickets, invent new names for our many different selves. You’ll learn Haiku writing and how to fight negative self-talk. You’ll also learn how to use words and abstract designs of your own invention to turn a regular journal into a raw-art-journal. This is a technique class, so you will experiment on different size sheets of paper.
No experience needed.
August 4, 6:30 - 9:30p.m.
Started 50 journals and never filled a single one? This is the class for you.
If you are a perfectionist, you know how hard it is to work deeply and playfully. Perfectionists start with high hopes, and then get discouraged because their work is not exactly what they had imagined.
Notorious procrastinators, perfectionists start 50 journals and finish none of them. You will make many journal pages, and keep the ones you like. No one will know about the rest.
You will learn how to choose a journal that suits your needs, how to use your own ideas to write in and create abstract designs of your own invention in your journal.
No previous art experience needed.
One-Sentence Journaling
Monday, August 9, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Keeping a journal doesn’t have to be a time drain. Learn to keep a journal with just one sentence a day, two if you are ambitious. In this technique class, you will learn how to keep an interesting journal that you look forward to working in.
We’ll play word games, make magic word tickets, invent new names for our many different selves. You’ll learn Haiku writing and how to fight negative self-talk. You’ll also learn how to use words and abstract designs of your own invention to turn a regular journal into a raw-art-journal. This is a technique class, so you will experiment on different size sheets of paper.
No experience needed.
Q and A's for AU 2010You've already started to ask me a lot of questions about my classes. I thought it would be a good idea to keep them here so you can get information fast. Have a question? Send an email.
Q: Are your two classes different enough so I should sign up for both?
A: The classes are very different, although some of the techniques are the same. Here is how they are alike: you will make art journal pages in both of them and laugh a lot. Here is how they are different:
In One-Sentence Journaling we will use words to play games, make up sentences, give ourselves new names, tell the future, fill up art journal pages.
In Journaling for Perfectionists, we'll see how our best characteristics are also our weaknesses, and why "pulling out our bad habits" doesn't do anyone any favors. We'll do a lot of creating personal stories with abstract, emotional art.
Q: I didn't see a supply list, what should I bring?
A: Many of you are flying in, and I didn't want to have you load up a suitcase. Bare bones, show up with a pencil, pen and your journal. Most of you are bringing things for other classes--gel pens, glitter glue, colored pencils, scissors, X-acto knives. You can bring those. I'm bringing a lot of materials for everyone to use.
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