Every Friday on this blog we talk about art journaling and my belief that every artist should have a daily art journal practice — even if it’s just for 10 minutes a day. It has been transformative for me and I hope it will be for you too!
This week I’ve got a little something different for you. Starting last Friday, I recorded myself playing in my art journal every day. Some days I spent a long time. Some days I spent just a few minutes. I worked on my pages in stages, as I always do. Take a peek:
BTW: This is the style of art journaling that I teach in my “30 Days in Your Journal” online class.
Take a Closer Look at My Journal Pages
And here are the pages I worked on in the video:
It’s Amazing How Much You Can Get Done in Just 10 Minutes
Ten minutes doesn’t sound like much. Honestly, it sounds almost pointless. But in an art journal, ten minutes a day adds up in a way that’s kind of astonishing. It lowers the barrier to starting, which means you actually show up. And when you show up consistently, pages accumulate, ideas compound, and your hand gets looser and more confident without you even noticing. A single ten-minute session might feel small, but a week, a month, a year of those sessions? That’s a body of work. That’s a practice. And it’s proof that progress in art isn’t about huge stretches of time, rather it’s about returning, again and again, even briefly! You can do it!
Hope you enjoyed this peek into my journaling process!
Thanks for stopping by!
WOW ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW….you were beautiful before and are beautiful now. Be proud that you are brave enough to do it now – I’m 61 and still can’t get “it” done. So proud and happy for you.
Wow, like Linda above….your doodles, the washi heart, the face…wow and your new profile pics are so beautiful….xox
Love your work Julie. It’s so happy!…and your face is incredible! Thank you for sharing it
Great video Julie, really fun to see how you work a page through several days. 🙂
Love watching the work in progress!
Wow, thanks for the video. I see that the daily discipline to create is so important. The 30-day in your art journal class is great – highly recommended!! I need to watch again as I have the forever access. I like how you do this in about 10 minutes a day and use a few supplies. Sometimes I get stuck thinking about what I want to do and never actually do it. I encourage others to take the 30-day class if they haven’t.
Wow! I really enjoyed watching your day after day work in your journal. I love the richness and dynamism in your pages and the way you dare,something I still do not do enough. Thanks so much for sharing.
Great Julie! Love the energy you radiate!
Great fun to watch your week of art journaling on fast forward. The face on the tag is wonderful. Your finished pages wow me and I can see all the time, energy and practice that goes into your journal pages. So glad you share your unique style with us here! Peace, Donna
love you work and style, thanks for sharing
beautiful journal pages
susan s
AWESOME!!! thanks for sharing!
Julie – I absolutely loved this post. In that very short video, I learned so much! At first i was SHOCKED when you covered over previously collaged pages… but it all started to make total sense. I am going to be brave and try doing the same on my journal pages. thanks for sharing your process!
Do you make your own journals? I’ve started making journals out of Gelli prints, but they are almost too small after I fold them in half. I’m sure you have ideas!!
Julie, you are an amazing artist, and you always inspire me!
Julie – Your passion & energy continue to inspire. I’ve done a lot in my journal this week as a beginning. Gesso base, then watercolour, which I love that look. The third layer has me crazy though. I hate what it does to my first two layers. How can I turn this around?
Awesome, Julie! I always love your videos! Watching you doodle in fast-forward is mesmerizing. Off to play!
I get so tense when you cover up a page. I have a hard time doing that, but the layers really help. I have to force myself to be more brave!!
The way you turned that tag into a face! And what a face. Very cool. Watching this makes me realize how art journaling (the way you do it anyway) – layering over even the GOOD stuff – that it is an exercise in not being attached, again and again. I’d never seen that before and it makes me want to do it more consistently and to take that class of yours.
Awesome to watch and love the choice of soundtrack. Being a Portuguesa, I well know those tunes. My baby son even enjoyed watching it with me. Thanks for adding a little art “voyeurism” to my day.
Great video! I took your 30 Days in your Art Journal course and loved it, but, um, well, haven’t exactly kept up with journalling. The video might just have inspired me to start again!
I love all the pages, but, oh, that face! Fabulous.
That was an awesome video, I love watching your creative process. You are such an inspiration. Thank you!
Love the video, Julie. Thanks for showing the masking of the #2… great reminder to use that one this way.
Julie,
Of course you make creating something so simple especially when it is sped up!
Thanks for posting such great ideas and keeping all of us going.
My journal is 9×12.
I really like the girls face you painted on these pages!
WOW WOW WOW!! I LOVED watching this video, all the pages are amazing. DITTO TO ALL THE COMMENTS ABOVE!! Each spread just made me happier and happier!! That face out of a tag, OMG you ROCK JULIE!!
Thanks so much for adding the video for us, hope you can do that again.
gosh where did that face appear from. it was like magic ….fantastic to see your creativity ….wonderful pages…
Thanks for sharing the video today. Do you always video when you are working or did you plan to showcase this one week of journaling on the blog? I noticed that you used the nib pen and india ink in this video and then I saw that you used a brush and the sumi ink on the face. Why the difference in inks? I’ve seen you do MANY faces but there was something about this one that really struck me. The face is beautiful and has a different, maybe cultural look to it. Really liked it.
thanks for the inspiration. i was especially happy to see you use the day/month stencil. i have that one and have been struggling with it….as funny as it sounds, never even thought about pouncing with paint!
Really love your journal process and your pages are awesome…
Kirsti xx
Ps…you makeup is beautiful too..
I love the red you added on day 3 and how the white sharpie just make it all point out and show the design. BTW, you have me looking at patterns on the street almost every day now. I even stop and take pics of some of them to use for ideas later.
Dear Julie, Because of you and everything on your blog, I am now Art Journaling. All I have done is buy, buy journals & supplies for over a year. Here they have sat, not really knowing how to start. I absolutely love your policy that there are no mistakes. The perfectionist in me loves that. I have spent 2 days going through the Archives. What an incredible amount of knowledge you have shared with us. I for one am extremely grateful. I can’t wait to get started, I am overflowing with ideas. I will always credit you if anybody ever asks me how I got started. I have a question on 30 Days in your Journal Class. Some of the video is perfect, some of them I can not understand at all. It seems like they are in slow motion. Any ideas? Had the same problem on another class and she told me to use Google Chrome, which I am. I know it is me because I am pretty computer illiterate.
Thank you again. You are so extremely talented and generous with your time and talent.
Cathe Ekas in Oregon
Cathe, Im so glad that youre feeling inspired. I left an answer to your question about the video in the classroom yesterday. But here is the info again: https://vimeo.com/help/faq/video#stuttering I hope that helps! 🙂
fabulous work as always julie. x
I love the video! I imagine it took a chunk of time and I hope you’ll do that again – it was really neat, seeing the pages come together!
LOVED this process and the resulting pages. Very inspiring
julie, your video inspired me to get out my ink and nibs. i had so much fun playing with those supplies. thanks for your artful awesomeness! 🙂
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