Visual Expressive Journaling: Part II

Date: Sunday, August 24, 2003
Time: 9am - 4pm
Instructor: Julianna Coles
Cost: $120

This second workshop is more emotionally intensive than Part I and is designed to help you discover your won way of expressing yourself. You hold your own deeper expression - I can help you find that. Here, we are less interested in setting up the page and are more concerned with how do we tell our story in our own way. With my gentle guidance, we will learn to let go and let the page be. By integrating journal writing assignments with art making explorations in a unique process designed by Juliana Coles, we will be able to initiate the path of self discovery in a remarkable and honest Mixed Media book of self reflection. In this class you will need your openness and willingness to explore your rich interior through art and words. This class is focused on PROCESS NOT PRODUCT.

Each student will be required to bring a "Mystery Box". The size of the box is up to you. Some suggestions are collage items, an old paintbrush that is all glued together, that orange paint you hate, stickers from when you were 14, artist tools and supplies you no longer use or never liked, torn up pieces of your artwork that didn't work out (no recognizable artwork, please), books to cut up, magazines, sticks, markers, 2 inch pencils - you get the picture - sort of a grab bag in a box. We will be using these mystery boxes as part of our mixed media explorations. What, and how much to bring, is up to you. Don't worry about trying to include nice things - we're looking for garbage items. We already have our own nice supplies - we want our cast offs to make us really think!

SUGGESTED supply list: Please bring your favorite supplies as well as collage items (use copies of things that are precious to you) and some magazines. Bring different kinds of things in your favorite colors. I LIKE black and white acrylic, cheap craft paints in light blue and butter cream, brush markers in orange and hot pink, yellow, black and red permanent markers, some colored pencils, a regular pencil, a sharpener, all kinds of tape, even a little stapler, India ink, walnut ink, red watercolor, a few water color crayons, my rubber stamp letters, poetry books to cut up, gold stamp pads, and I never travel without masking tape.... just make sure you have some wet items and some dry items.

You WILL need: Your book, 3-5 large glue sticks such as UHU, scissors, some brushes for your paints, a rag or two and a jar for water.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. FOR ALL LEVELS. Journals are made by students of this workshop.

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