Friday, September 2, 2011

Visual Journal Friday! (Our First This Semester)

Today (after doing a quick warm-up, collecting homework, and finishing our Mr. Stravinsky line drawing), we started our first visual journal page in our sketchbook.

This page is a work in process but hopefully it will give students a creative outlet to express his/her own self!

"Visual journaling is a creative way to express and record life's experiences, feelings, emotional reactions, or our inner world - visually and verbally. Essentially, visual journaling can become a potential key to the artmaking process.

Exploring our own thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in a state of continuous change. Just as there are many ways to express oneself artistically, there are many ways to create visual journals. By committing to the visual journaling process, one can learn how to access his/her inner language of imagery and express it both visually and verbally, while exploring the connection between image and word. Through visual journaling one can also become capable of articulating connections between their own personal art-making experiences and the works of master and contemporary artists."

- Michael Bell, Artist

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