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Art journals generally combine visual journaling and writing. Every imaginable style, media and technique is used by art journalists. There are no rules!
Today's Journal Prompt
Use these words as a prompt to inspire today's journal page!
- embonpoint: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
- embonpoint: plumpness of person.
Find Art Journalists Online
Try these sites to hook up with other people doing art journals...
- AritstsJournals2 Group on Yahoo
- A large and thriving group dedicated to art journaling. If you have questions, these folks have answers!
- Composition Art Journals on Yahoo
- A group all about journaling in inexpensive comp books. A great place to get started.
- 1000 Journals
- An ongoing art journal project that released 1000 journals out into the world.
- Raw Art Journaling
- Yahoo group dedicated to darker types of journals. "If Van Gogh, Tim Burton, or Dali kept art journals, this would be their list."
- Doll Journals
- A discussion group for people who make dolls and figures, and create journals for them.
- Artists Journals
- This is an announce-only list for people who are interested in art and diaries and journaling, especially personal visual journals, hosted--and generally written--by Aisling D'Art.
- 1001 Journals
- A collaborative system that allows you to send a journal out into the world to be worked by other artists, or to sign up to receive other people's journals to work in.
Art Journal Images
Pics of art journal pages from Flickr...
Promise
Desdemona detail
Joan
Lamont School of Mus...
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Desdemona
Just Let Go spread
I Wonder If I Can Ch...
Nothing Left to Hold...
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Art Journal Galleries
View pages from art journals at these sites.
- Book
- A collaborative journal exhibition by four artists from both sides of the Atlantic.
- Teesha Moore's Gallery
- The Nirvana of art journal galleries.
- Tracy Moore
- Offbeat and unusual journal pages.
- Brenda Carolan
- A handful of colorful pages can be found in this gallery.
- Dan Eldon
- Journals created from ages 15 - 22.
- John Copeland
- Lots of journal page examples.
- Karen Michel
- Artist journal examples using mixed media techniques, including altered photos.
- Tracy Bonkers
- Mixed media journal pages worked over the existing pages in printed books.
- Danny Gregory
- Illustrated journals with an emphasis on drawing and watercolor.
- Barron Storey
- Art journal examples with beautiful, detailed drawings and paintings. Small photos, but lots of them.
- Sabrina Ward Harrison
- Lively and free journaling by an infinitely talented artist.
- Glenn Moust
- Click on Books for an archive of his collage books---a cross between gluebooks and art journals.
- Mixed Media Memoirs
- Each week, a new topic is posted, and pages from various topics exploring that topic appear.
- Allisson Reed
- Ten tons of sketchbooks!
Your Art Journal Library
Amazing inspiration from talented journal artists...
True Colors: A Palette of Collaborative Art Journals
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 12/25/2009) 
Used Price: $20.00
Fabric Art Journals: Making, Sewing, and Embellishing Journals from Cloth and Fibers (Quarry Book)
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/25/2009)
Used Price: $12.44
Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 12/25/2009)
Used Price: $10.00
Artists' Journals and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/25/2009)
Used Price: $6.66
The Decorated Page: Journals, Scrapbooks & Albums Made Simply Beautiful
Amazon Price: (as of 12/25/2009)
Used Price: $19.82
Art Journal How-To
Stuck getting started? Try some of these articles.
- How I Journal
- Teesha Moore gives a layer-by-layer explanation of how she creates her journal pages. A really good read!
- Journaling Arts and Art Journaling
- Free how-to instruction in art journaling from Aisling D'Art.
- Tera Leigh: Art Journals
- Examples of journal pages, and an article on how she got started doing art journals.
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