artist's journal workshop...

...creating your life in words and pictures (by cathy johnson) is as essential to summer as drink rimmer and spf! i love that the author makes a distinction between artist journals and art journals. there is a lot of material out there about art journals: altered books, calligraphy, steam punk, stamps, scraps, etc. but an artist journal, "a personal journal kept by the creative person that is you. you are an artist and a fully rounded, creative human being with plans, questions, answers, needs and goals, both ordinary and sublime. you explore, you respond, you worry, you delight in the moment--you run out of tea or eggs or need to remember a phone number or what happened at the meeting you attended--into the journal it goes! did you know that the word 'journal' originally was meant to describe a trip, a day-to-day record of travels, outward or inward?"