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For 2018, I chose the word Explore. I’m not sure if this means I need to get out of my comfort zone, but I have somewhat interpreted it this way. I long to be an artist. I’ve tried many kinds of art, but this year I am trying art journaling.
In the fall I took a class about making your own books by sewing pages together. Using a discarded falling apart book, I took out the pages and sewed my own pages into it. I decided that this would be my art journal for 2018. I glued in a postcard from a postcard exchange that started me on a path of using color to define each month. The postcard was blue, so January was my blue month.
February became my red month. I am working in collage. Each month I will collage a heart map reflective of the month. My art journal is only for me. It only needs to please me. And it does.
On Saturday, there was a free open workshop at a local gallery. I decided to take my journal and work on some of the pages. This is a work in progress, but I am happy to be Exploring possibilities and expressing myself with creativity.
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