Art journals are a valuable tool for artists to record ideas and possibilities, emotions, and to help organize thoughts. Journals can be both private, as in a diary, or public, as part of an artist's portfolio. In order to be useful, journals need to be made comprised of the appropriate paper for the durability of medium (watercolor, ink, markers, acrylic, collage) and forgiving (as to allow for removal of pages and attachment of images).

This course provides one method to create an expanding journal that is tailored to your needs as an artist. If you would like a journal for adding wet media, use watercolor paper, if you require a journal for dry media, use bristol paper or copy paper. You can choose to fill your journal with cardstock, reused paper, or a combination. This course allows you to be as flexible or precise with your materials as you like.

Using simple office file folders, elastic bands, and paper, we will create a journal that allows for the removal of pages, as well as almost any size. These methods will allow you to select the journal that is right for you, and then modify it, in the future, if so desired.