How can you artfully document and process the experiences of your life, without doing it on social media or keeping a traditional scrapbook?
Big life changes and transitions make great topics for a single subject visual journal, because you can keep it all private and don’t have to show it to anyone unless you want to.
In this video I’ll read you one of my written journal entries inside the visual journal I kept during business school.
I keep all sorts of visual journals because it’s a really satisfying way to make meaningful art without any pressure to show it or share it.
Since my visual journals are journals, I keep them private, like you would a written diary.
The writing is something I don't usually share with people, especially EVERYONE on Youtube! But when I have shared writings and images like this from my visual journals in my classes and with artist friends, they always encourage me to share more, and share publicly. This is an experiment that may stop at any time. LOL.
You can let me know in the comments if this type of video resonates with you, if it’s helpful and what else you’d like to see more of on my channel. I LOVE reading your comments and do my best to respond to all of your questions.
What is visual journaling? Why keep a sketchbook? How is that the same or different from keeping an art journal?
Keeping a visual journal is vital to my creative process, but first, it was always the way I processed my feelings, made sense out of the senseless, and found meaning in my challenges.
This is what it means to put your creative process before the outcome. What ends up on the pages of my visual journals are a result of digging deep and being willing to tell the truth about my own experience. The images and words that appear flow from the creative reservoir that is inside all of us.
This is what I share and teach in my visual journaling classes and workshops. Below are suggested videos for you to watch next, as well as links to my art and teaching websites.
Thanks so much for being here, and I hope you take away something that helps you make art and feel better.
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Learn more about how to structure your visual journal in this video: How Making Art Helps You Find Your Purpose.
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If you want to see how I use a visual journal to support my creative practice as a painter, and hear me read another written journal entry about the benefit to my art practice of keeping visual journals, then watch this video:
Sketchbook Tour — From Word to Image: My Layered Visual Journal for Painting Practice [ Ссылка ]
Sketchbook Tour — I filled this travel journal during a week in Paris [ Ссылка ]
Sketchbook Tour — How I Visual Journal in a Daily Agenda: [ Ссылка ]
[ ABOUT ] Lisa Sonora & Visual Journal Studio
Hi! I’m Lisa Sonora, a visual artist, author, and former art therapist.
Creating art can transform your life, but self-doubt and judgment make it hard to get started — and that’s why I teach Visual Journaling — a powerful creative practice that can disarm your inner critic and free you to make meaningful art with confidence.
If you're curious how visual journaling can help you make more meaningful art AND support your emotional well being, then I'd love to send you my free illustrated visual journal guidebook.
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📓➪ Get you FREE Visual Journaling Guidebook here: [ Ссылка ]
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Thanks so much for watching Why Keep a Visual Journal? reading from my sketchbook [ Ссылка ]
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