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Recent pages in three sketchbooks:

Sketchbook

Not quite journalling but using a sketchbook!! I have filled an A6 sketchbook with work on some monoprints

Journalling for Healing

Whilst I am off work on sick leave - I have just started a free journalling course Art, Heart & Healing run by Tamara Laporte, before I embark on her course Life Book 2015 (obviously in 2015) - I wanted to get a feel for the way Tamara works - see her website here - it is lovely.

So far I have worked in two books (at once) - an A5 sketchbook - the one which I started some time ago and showed you work in the last posts (its also the one which has my blog border designs in) and an A4 old work diary - where I glued and painted the pages to cover up the old notes. Both books were started some years ago one in 2007 and the other in 2009 - but I have not done much in either.

Here are the first two pieces - my first faces....  we started by writing stuff and then covering it up - this is a very useful exercise - letting go. The first is the big journal and then the small

14 Sept 2014

Sadly I did not start the project back in July as I had wanted because I have not been well, however I have done one layout - on 4 September - it is quite large as the book is A4 size.

When I started the Soul Journal Course with Sarah Whitmire, way back in 2008 I made some lovely pages which I have played with in Paint Shop Pro - one of my favourites is this one: This is in an A5 sketchbook (what Anna using two books at once?? - Never!!)  The original is on the left and is, or rather was, my profile bak in 2008! I had such fun once I scanned the page and hope to use these pieces again for future work.

Welcome

So maybe its time to blog about my journalling over the years and for the future.  I hope to start a new journal exercise starting 1 July with a group of internet friends (This did not happen as I have been unwell !).  For the moment I will let you know I have tried journalling in various forms over the years - some OK, some a bit less than average!!  The header is one fun page from a 'Soul Journal' I tried some years ago - did not get too far with that but enjoyed some of the pages I had done - I will show you a few here over time.  The side backgrounds are also another page from the same Soul Journal - it is me - or at least an outline of my head from a photo.