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Art Journal to Explore Beauty
Everyone has their own definition of what they think is beautiful. Explore your definition of beauty in your art journal.
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Art Journal to Express Needs
Everyone has needs; there is no doubt about that. Expressing them is a difficult thing to do at times. Explore your needs in your art journal.
• art journal prompt • art journal ideas • journal prompt • ephemera • collage

Art Journal to Heal Anger
No one likes feeling angry, nor do they like holding on to unresolved anger. Use your art journal as a tool to manage anger issues.
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Art Journal Idea About Ugliness
Like beauty, there are a number of ways people define the word ugly. How do you define what's ugly? Explore this in your art journal.
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Art Journal Project for Spring
Spring is in the air! Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and trees are budding. Let's bring some of the spring season into our art journal pages.
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Art Journal to Aid Understanding
Do you feel you are an understanding person? Do you feel people understand you well or not well enough? Explore these thoughts in your art journal.
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Art Journal to Combat Depression
Few people haven't had depression touch their lives in one way or another. This art journal prompt is meant as a method to help break free.
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Art Journal to Find Serenity
Everyone knows it is important to find peace, harmony, and serenity in everyday life. This helps ward off stress and illnesses. Art journal to find this.
• art journal • art journal prompt • art journal ideas • finding peace • mixed media art

Art Journal to Make Wishes
Whenever wishing comes to mind, most think about birthday cakes or shooting stars. Do you have a list of wishes you would like to come true? Art them up!
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Art Journal To Reduce Stress
There are usually one or two stressors in everyone's life. There really is no escaping that. Let's art journal about this and find some relief.
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Art Journal to Sort Decisions
Turn the decision-making process into an opportunity for a mixed-media art project. If you are struggling with a decision, art it up!
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Art Journal Your Inspirations
Inspiration is a very important part of all artists' lives, not just mixed-media artists. This art journal prompt focuses on inspiration.
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Art Journaling To Achieve Goals
Experts have been suggesting making goals tangible by writing them down for years. What about turning goals into art, in addition to writing?
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Add Interactive Elements to Art
Creating projects within projects is a lot of fun, but it can be challenging coming up with new ideas. Let's look at some!
• mixed media art • art journal • altered book • object • found

Art Journal to Achieve Dreams
Dreams and aspirations help everyone formulate attainable goals. Get in touch with your dreams and goals through creating mixed media art.
• achieve goals • realize dreams • tools to improve life • art journal prompt • journal prompt

Art Journal To Heal From Tragedy
No one likes to experience tragedies, nor do we like to think we need help getting through them. Use your art journal as a tool to help you through.
• art journal prompt • art journal ideas • art book • sketchbook • mixed media art project

Art Journal to Plan Your Day
Does your schedule overwhelm you? Would you rather tear up your calendar than follow what is written out each day? Let's work on an art journal prompt!
• art journal prompt • journal prompt • rubber stamped project • sharpies • mixed media art

Art Journal to Sort Worries
Turn your art journal into a tool through use of this art journal prompt. Not only will you be able to create some art, but you will also sort through issues.
• reduce worries • reduce stress • self help art journal prompt • art journal ideas • mixed media art

Art Journal to Vent Frustrations
Self-help books constantly point out the importance of keeping a journal. This doesn't work for those who don't like to write. Let's make art instead.
• art journal prompt • art journal ideas • collage art • art book • altered art

Art Journal Your Aspirations
Self-help professionals have been noting the importance of outlining aspirations in order to reach achievement for years. That is the focus of this prompt.
• art journal prompt • art journal ideas • journal prompts • collage • assemblage

Art Journals For Challenges
Art-a-day challenges are sprinkled all over the Internet as a way for artists to get into the habit of daily art making. How does an art journal fit in?
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Art Journals for Mail-Art Artists
Mail artists know from experience how hard it is to manage projects they've started, those they're participating in and those they're waiting for. Let's get organized!
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Art Journals for Personal Projects
Use an art journal to keep track of personal mixed-media art projects. These projects are equally important to those for work, mail-art swaps and so on.
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Art Words Defined
Sometimes, mixed media artists just need a swift kick in the inspirational rear when it comes to working in their art journals. That's the point of these prompts.
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Conquering the Blank Page
We’ve all experienced it one form or another. Artist’s block can debilitate even the most brilliant artist without warning. What do artists do to remedy this problem when
• artists block • art • art journal • creative block • artist

Covered Pencil Mixed Media Project
Sometimes, mixed media artists want to add interest to their everyday objects. Today, we're going to talk about altering pencils.
• altered art • altered objects • art journals • sketchbooks • pencils

Exploring the Layers of Creativity
When you're working with mixed media, do you juxtapose or do you layer? Do you do both? Let's explore.
• art journal • collage • glue book • mixed media • mixed media art

Keep Project Themed Art Journals
Many believe art journals are meant as a form of visual expression, unlike text-only entries in a regular journal or diary. Break free!
• mixed media • art journal • art project • project planning • art

Leftover Makeover Art Project Idea
Do not throw those scraps away! Set them aside and use them for the projects outlined here. You will be surprised what you will come up with!
• scrap art projects • assemblage art • art journal • altered book • collage

Making an Art Journal
For newcomers to the mixed media art form, creating an art journal is a great way to grow as an artist.
• making art journal • mixed media artists • diaries • sketchbook journal • journaling

Use Autumn Events In Art Journals
We're wrapping up October and, with that, come festivals, parties and other autumn activities. Let's bring in the season using art journals!
• autumn art project • art journal ideas • prompt • mixed media art • assemblage

Waxed Paper Wonders
There’s nothing more frustrating than wet media bleeding through on to other pages in your art journal. Let’s solve that!
• wet media • art journal • collage • paint • mod podge

Add Niches & Nooks to Art Projects
When participating in mail-art projects, artists have the opportunity to be exposed to methods they would have otherwise never tried. Let's look at some!
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An Art Journal? What’s that?
Journaling doesn’t have to be boring, text only entries! Look into a widely popular, though often unrecognized, visual exploration using mixed media in your journal.
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Art Journaling Without Rules
Create art journal pages that incorporate both text and mixed media art without conforming to ruled pages and text boxes.
• mixed media art • art journal prompt • art craft isea • pages with no lines • unruled paper

Artist's Tool Kit: Game Pieces
It's happened to us all. We've got three or four game boxes with that, that or the other thing. Why keep them? It's trash, right? No way! Use these game pieces in art!!
• altered art • assemblage art • atc • mixed media art • mixed media

Autumn Assemblage Art
These projects are suitable for children and can be completed in art journals or on flat surfaces (canvas, drawing paper, and so on). Let's embrace this colorful season!
• autumn art projects fall crafts children • autumn themes • mixed media art • assemblage • altered art

Build an Art Bag to Carry Material
Inspiration strikes when an artist least expects. So, it is important to have what is needed when it is needed. Build an art bag!
• art bag • art ideas • portable art • mixed media art • art journal

Experiment - Niches in Art Books
Adding niches to altered books is not only interesting when your audience looks through them, they are really fun to work on. Nervous novices take note!
• altered book project • novice artists • book arts • art book • altered book ideas

Explore Artistic Boundaries
There isn't a mixed-media artist out there that doesn't have envelopes, boxes or drawers full of what they call randomness. Use these to break free!
• explore creativity • mixed media art project • assemblage art • collage art • art journal

Halloween Artist Date Ide
What kind of artist date would we have if artists couldn't embrace the Halloween season in one way or another? This includes Harvest Festivals, as well!
• halloween art ideas • harvest festival art craft project • mixed media art • art journal • artist date

How to Alter Ceramic Tiles
Sometimes, when visiting a home improvement center or a surplus store, there are remnant tiles available to purchase. Why not turn them into art?
• altered art • altered object • mixed media art • ceramic tile art • assemblage art

Idea for an Artist Date With Kids
Most artist dates should occur alone, but this is one adventure that would be worth bringing your children. Consider taking two adventures if you still crave solitude.
• artist date idea • autumn art project • childrens art idea • fall art outing with kids • art journal

Make Easter Mini Books
This is the perfect rainy day (or, in some cases, snowy day) mixed media art project. Create handmade holiday gifts for Easter.
• easter art project • mini book • handmade book • handmade journal • gift book

Make Rounded Corner Templates
Time and time again, mixed media artists are in the flurry of creation only to discover they don't have what they need. Make some templates to help build up your supplies
• mixed media art • template • cardboard box project • art supplies • geometric shapes

Paint Color Chip Craft Art Project
Take yourself on an artist's date to your local home improvement store and gather a selection of paint color chip samples. We're going to make some mixed media art!
• paint chip sample art • artist date idea • mixed media art • altered art • art book

Project Planner: Altered Covers
Creating handmade books are wonderful projects, but we're going to focus solely on the covers of these creations in this week's Project Planner.
• art journal • art book • handmade book • handmade journal • altered book

Use of Distress Inks
Use of distress inks on a wide variety of projects is highly addictive. There are a lot of different inks to choose from based on an artist's taste and project needs.
• using distress inks • aging paper • aging artwork • mixed media • art journal

Artist Date Idea #5
In keeping with a lot of your goals to go on Artist Dates through use of Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way, I'll be presenting Artist Date Ideas weekly.
• artist date • artist date idea • paint chips • assemblage art • mixed media

More Mail Art Mania
Last week, we explored a lot of different links about mail art. There’s a lot more information than just that, though, so let’s continue.
• mailart • mail-art • mail art • envelope templates • nake mail