Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I have a new online course about how to make and keep a visual diary in an illustrated journal.
bookandpaperarts.com/the-book-of-you-how-to-keep-and-make-an-illustrated-journal

Inside this course are ideas, prompts, and practical instruction on how to start your book and make pages that are fun and interesting: a visual library of your experiences and memories. It covers:

• Choosing and preparing a book
• Suggested supplies
• What’s in a portable art kit
• How to use found papers
• Adding pockets to store loose cards and papers
• Using water solubles, stencils, ink and other mixed media to build up your pages visually
• Easy, no-fail ways to trick yourself into adding drawing and painting to your pages
• Adding maps
• Lettering and adding your words
• Adding borders, frames, and mark making to pull your pages together
• Flip throughs of my illustrated diaries for ideas
• Written prompts to get you jumpstarted

Cost is $75 USD. To find out more about The Book of You: How to Make and Keep an Illustrated Journal, go to my site here:
bookandpaperarts.com/the-book-of-you-how-to-keep-and-make-an-illustrated-journal

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