Hello fellow Get Messians! As one who loves loves loves art journaling, I wanted to share a little more about my art journaling practice. I’ve been art journaling pretty regularly since 2002, which has landed me with quite a nice collection of creative pages! Here is a look into my art journal practice:

I keep my the bulk of my art journals in an antique cupboard in our living room. Here’s a photo of them. It’s a bit disorganized, but all the color and pretty pattern makes me happy to see them, even at a distance.

1. classic Art Journal- usually made by hand, or at least the paper signatures are sewn in by hand, sometimes I repurpose old books as covers. These are the only journals documented in my art journal registry shown above, the other art journal categories below all have their own pages of documenting.
2. Mixed paper single signature Art Journal – these are fun and easy to put together and I use more unique/found papers inside.
3. Mixed paper single signature Art Journal – these are also light and travel more easily, even though I tend to make these oversized as well.
4. A small purchased sketchbook that I keep in my purse. I like to take this out when at restaurants and do blind contours or sketch the items that are on the table or sights I see from my seat.
5. A giant journal (called the Very Big Sketchbook). I use this to keep near me when I am painting on canvas or wood and clean my brush on it’s pages.
6. Creative Sketchbooking books. These are Strathmore Mixed Media books. I use these for full page specific exercises like the classes I teach online at Creativebug.com, both Creative Sketchbooking and Creative Doodling.
7. A pattern making book. I just put repeat pattern designs in this book. I have a few other small hand made books for pattern making too.
8. Another art Journal- I keep a couple going at once usually.
9. My current Sketchbook. This is a Moleskine, and I use it to do portraits of people, and representational or still life sketches and paintings.