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Lynne Perrella
R162.00
Lots of great images, in colour. Very user friendly.
Tons of techniques from transfering images to altering
photographs and everything in between. This is a great book.
It is a brilliant resource for so many techniques.
If you create journals or want to create them I am sure
you will find something useful in this book.
Creative souls want and need a special place for recording and decoding their interior world a place to download all their creative ideas, a place to remember the events of the day, or a place to doodle, to draw, and to dream. This book is an engaging and intimate glimpse into the personal pages of a wide variety of select artists and journal keepers whose works not only provide visual delight and inspiration but evidence the intensity and devotion that such personal journals invite.
Gwen Diehn
R194.00
This follow-up to the highly popular "Decorated Page "offers even more great ideas for beautifying a journal, more breathtaking photos to inspire, and more smart (and simple) ways to endow even the artistically timid with confidence. It simply brims with suggestions and instructions. Find out about the wealth of contemporary supplies, from papers and adhesives to paints, pens, and pastels. See how to create the actual journal from scratch, including a quick-to-do Three Minute Pamphlet. Use the tips for customizing a store-bought book that could use a little flair, such as adding pockets, inserting tabs, or adorning the cover. Build layered pages, take advantage of the creative potential of transparencies, and more. Sidebars and images of actual journals add to the fun. "A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club."
Gwen Diehn
R140.00
These are both great books. Gwen Diehn understands the art of sharing
information as well as she understands her art. Both books are brilliant
resources for so many techniques. If you create journals or want to create
them I am sure you will find something useful in this book. It is not only
for journal keepers though, I learned so much about art materials and the
different artists work displayed in the book is very inspring. Lots of great
images, in colour. Very user friendly. Tons of techniques from transfering
images to altering photographs and everything in between.
"Diehn opens up a new dimension--the artist's vision of visual memories. Consider this a superscript above all other entries."--"Booklist." "Encourages those who hesitate to start in on the pristine pages of a nicely bound blank book.... Lively and interesting illustrations make this a good selection for public library collections. "--"Library Journal."
Kathryn Bold
$29.95 / £29.42
From the Author "Sort of like Mardi Gras, where there are daytime parades, and nighttime reveleries, and pauses for banquets, and full-dress balls, and promendades - but it's ALL Mardi Gras."
Hannah Hinchman
£16.99/ $19.59
Please visit this absolutely beautiful site.
It is inspiring.
Hannah Hinchman
Hannah Hinchman's Journal Writing Guide
Barbara Ganim, Susan Fox
R190.00
From the Back Cover "A life-long treasure. This book conveys a technique for achieving insight, tranquillity, and clarity of expression. A spiritual skill such as this one serves a person for a lifetime." --Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
"I've kept a journal for years, but VISUAL JOURNALING adds an entirely new and exciting dimension to this healing process. I highly recommend this wonderful new book to anyone interested in creating health and healing in their lives." --Christiane Northrup, M.D. author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Art is the language of the soul and spirit, and spiritual expression is a powerful force for healing. Ganim and Fox have taken art, journaling, and healing to a higher level." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Reinventing Medicine
"It's part of every perennial wisdom teaching that there are profound healing powers within each of us. The question has always been how to find them and put them to work. VISUAL JOURNALING is an eminently practical and supremely useful guide to tapping the great forces of healing that reside in each of us. The more you use this book the better you'll feel and the healthier you'll be. --John Robbins, author of Reclaiming Our Health and Diet for a New America
Erin O'Toole
R198.00
In Create Your Own Artist's Journal, Erin O'Toole helps artists capture those fleeting moments of inspiration and beauty that compel them to create. She begins by showing them how to observe and record what they see; composing images that come alive with color and movement.
O'Toole also discusses the materials involved in keeping a journal, and offers advice for finding interesting subjects, painting from memory and improvising sketches as a scene changes. Finally, she provides guidelines for compiling a portable journaling "kit" that artists can take with them anywhere!
Claudia Nice
$17.00 /£12.75
Everyone, even those who claim they can't draw, can keep an illustrated sketchbook journal. Learning how to creatively illustrate their thoughts, ideas and feelings, readers will delight in recording the world around them as well as the events and details of their lives.
Claudia Nice, one of North Light's best-selling artists, begins by introducing readers to the wide variety of journals available and the materials they will need, then shows them how to make a sketch using basic art supplies like a pencil, colored pencils and pen & ink. She continues with instruction for using a basic watercolor palette and applying watercolor washes to a journal.
The remainder of the book deals with each type of journal individually, giving ideas and techniques to make every effort successful. Types include theme journals, discovery and exploration journals, travel journals, reference journals, in-depth study journals, fantasy journals, garden journals and life journals.
* Appropriate for all artistic levels
* Covers a range of journals for every style and taste
* Popular well-known author
* Friendly instruction and gorgeous art throughout
* Claudia Nice (Author's Website)
Jacqueline Penny, Raymond Fox, Maureen Carey
£14.24/ $16.47
The awesome and amazing agent 00Nola kindly and generously donated
her copy of this beautiful (must have) book to me and I shall forever
be in her debt for thisgift of a book – Big Sloppy Kisses and Rib Cracking
Hugs to you Nola
Anna Morgan
£14.99/ $22.99
Who can resist the appeal of a brand new notebook or journal? The clean blank pages are waiting to be filled, perhaps with secret thoughts, perhaps with favorite family recipes or pasted up with photos, ticket stubs and cherished mementos. And what could be more appealing than to embellish these blank books with attractive covers of fabric and other decorations?
Crafting Beautiful Journals and Albums shows readers how to beautify their ready-made blank books and plain photograph albums with a range of different materials, from tree bark and dried leaves to copper sheets and handmade papers. Once they've mastered these techniques, they'll move on to creating their own books from scratch using genuine bookbinding techniques.
* Shows readers how to transform any plain journal into something special
* More than 20 projects are presented with full color, step-by-step illustrations
Sara Midda
£14.99/ $13.62
From Sara Midda, the artist whose first book, In and Out of the Garden, evoked all the pleasures of the English garden and received international acclaim, comes a wondrous sketchbook from a year spent in the South of France--an artist's personal journal carried everywhere and crammed with drawings and notions and thoughts surprising and whimsical.
Sara Midda captures the land, the people, the shimmering air--the whole feeling of Provence and the Cote d' Azur and the spell they cast over even those who haven't been. Describing her own work, Sara Midda says: "It is an evocation, an interpretation of the everyday. It is making discoveries about ordinary things. It is not merely landscapes and buildings, but the artifacts that are the bricks and mortar of a culture."
The entire volume is printed on uncoated stock to convey the feeling and texture of an artist's sketchbook.
Holly Harrison
R167.00
Today more than ever, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two of the hottest new trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read, and experience a book.
This exciting guide explores the creative processes behind altered books when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published workand collaborative journals in which many artists come together to create a unique single work.
Readers will learn how to alter treasured books through collage, paint, layering, sewing and more. And they’ll learn how communities of artists can come together to select a topic, set up a project, and ultimately publish or show their finished collaborative work.
Filled with easy, how-to projects and beautiful gallery photos, this book will help artists of any ability to create books that tell unique and personal stories.
Hannah Hinchman
R165.00
To artist-writer-naturalist Hannah Hinchman, the blank pages of a journal are a call to awaken the soul, to celebrate being alive in the world, to get to know both the wilderness of our inmost selves and the "unpredictable and potent" natural world. In the richly illustrated pages of this book, she unfolds a myriad of wonders --the pattern of a bee abdomen, varieties of ice forms and sky colors, the joys of a garden --and shows us how to capture them on the page. Hinchman's respect for the miracle of our five senses, and her passion for what they can tell us about the world, is contagious. "Start with a smell, like a crushed marigold leaf, the sea, coal smoke," she advises, and from such raw materials begin to "decant the stuff of life" into journal form, "where it remains fresh, still tasting of its source." Even for one who has no intention of journal-keeping, to delve into Hinchman's own work is to see with new eyes. A Trail Through Leaves is a true gift and inspiration, a treasure-box of ways to write, draw, and be alive to the world.
Please visit this absolutely beautiful site.
It is inspiring.
Hannah Hinchman
Hannah Hinchman's Journal Writing Guide
Michael Jacobs, Judy Jacobs
R169.00
Creative Correspondence proves that anyone can make and send spectacular decorative mail even when they're pressed for time and money. Readers will find more than 15 step-by-step projects inside, including letters and envelopes with photo inserts, stapled booklets, envelope pockets and acetate address windows, plus clever self-mailers. There are also tips on turning used cardstock, bags and junk mail into colorful postcards, paper bag letters and hip stationery. Readers will learn basic paper folding, measuring and cutting techniques for great-looking results from the start. Techniques show how each letter or selfmailer can be embellished with colored pencils, rubber stamps, custom address labels and colorful flaps and stickers. Readers will also learn how to decorate plain paper with stamping, combing, bubble marbling and other fun techniques.