May 4, 12:29 am
Journal type?
I’ve only quickly grazed through here today and have managed to read the prompt for the first week hurrah and kind of get the idea but then my mind goes off on a tangent and I follow it ha-ha.
having read the guding notes too I was pleased that there is no right or wrong with this challenge but am just a little concerned that maybe my ‘journal ’ won’t fit some criteria I might have missed so am just checking it out before I post what I manage this first week – whatever that may be:0). If my idea doesn’t fit then I t won’t stop me continuing with the twenty weeks but I’d not wish to upset any flat earthers here who would find my round earth approach difficult.
After considering a flat book like journal to build upon and picking up and laying down a number that are lying around my home I couldn’t see this is what I felt I needed to do. I’m not a scrapbooker nor really a journaler in straight words to paper sense, though I do maintain two weBlogs on a semi regular basis but I have for a long time kept what I call workbooks which contain lists, scraps ripped out of papers and magazines, quotes from books, overheard conversation, experiments with colour and texture, doodles and sketches etc etc. In fact a real mishmash which I then draw on when making something be that table setting to tree house. I also keep a daybook which does have a little sketch in it most days I write in it which you can see an example of here http://animatedstardust.typepad.com/stepping_stones/2005/04/walk_6.html and here http://animatedstardust.typepad.com/stepping_stones/2005/04/thanks_5.htmlSo Art Journals in a sense are not new to me but circumstances have meant that my ‘practice’ is in a transformation period and I really thought it would be good to learn new technigues and converse with other creating people.
So now I’m asking will it upset the apple cart if I post a journal that is not in book form. I’m happy to just work on this alongside you all and listen and learn without confusing the issue and posting pictures of my ‘journal’.
By the way someone said they would not call themselves an artist. Too long has that word had ‘special’ ‘different’ ‘chosen’ added to its meaning plus invariably white western male too but that as they say is another story, let us all male or female reclaim the word be out and proud:0) It may sound like the beginning of an AA meeting but I’m Daisy-Winifred and I AM an ARTIST!
