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Celebrate and Develop Your Creative Talent with Art JournalingIn the Artist's Journal Workshop, noted artist, author, and teacher Cathy Johnson leads an exploration and celebration of the art journal. With insights from 27 artists, she guides you into developing ""the habit"" with your unique style and materials. Beginning with the question ""What do you want from a journal and what do you need to get there?"" Johnson gives you the tools to develop your journaling lifestyle as a creative and playful expression. Rich visual examples on every page and hands-on exercises offer a source for inspiration and practice. The workshop offers a range of artistic styles and perspectives and provides advice for working through creative doubts and blocks. The workshop takes the journalist on a test drive, with information on suitable materials, from pens, graphite and colored pencils to watercolor and collage. Whether you are thinking of a daily or travel journal, a dream journal, or want to develop a journal showing the evolution from inspiration to detailed sketches to finished pieces, this book provides invaluable guidance and inspiration. Along the way, it offers advice for integrating a journal into your lifestyle, helping you tease out what works for you and what doesn't. Complete with an index and listing of resources, the Artist's Journal Workshop is a book you will happily turn to again and again. This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a paperback (ISBN 1648372163).

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Cathy Johnson has written more than thirty-five books, many on art and natural history. She was a contributing editor, writer, and illustrator for Watercolor Artist for over a decade and has written regular columns for that magazine, as well as The Artist's Magazine and Country Living. She started the popular group blog Sketching in Nature (naturesketchers.blogspot.com), as well as a Facebook group that grew from this book (https: //www.facebook.com/groups/artists.journal.workshop), where she is also active. She also teaches online workshops at www.cathyjohnson.info and runs the blog Cathy Johnson Fine Art Galleries (cathyjohnsonart.blogspot.com). Her blog Artist's Journal Workshop (artistsjournalworkshop.blogspot.com) expands on topics and contributors featured in this book. Johnson lives and works in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, with her husband and cats.

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