** This is a live workshop via Zoom or Google Meet that we’ll schedule together. You invite whomever you’d like and I’ll guide us all through an accessible, very low-stress art journaling/doodling activity, and be available to answer any questions. In this remote version, everyone supplies their own simple materials: pens or pencils, and paper; with the option of magazine photos, scissors, glue, and any other art supplies available). **

For info about the in-person version of this workshop, held in my NE Portland studio, click here.

Discover how art journaling can help keep you sane, organized, and calm, when you’re feeling looney, scattered and shaking with anxiety. It’s the cheapest, most accessible form of therapy I’ve found. I love art journaling and doodling so much, in fact, that I wrote a whole book about it. (See photo #3; books are available for purchase here or at the workshop.)

In this 1.5-hour virtual workshop, we’ll start by looking at different forms that art journaling takes, and explore some of the hows and whys. I’ll guide you through a simple warm-up activity to get the ideas and the ink flowing. Then you’ll settle in and create a page inspired by found images and intuitive mark-making. Let’s see what emerges when we leave expectations of perfection and “deep meaning” outside the door.

If you’re new to art journaling, and are (like I was a few years ago) in awe of people who just let designs spill out of their fingers, then welcome! You’re about to enter a wide-open, free-form and liberating world. There are absolutely NO pre-requisites for this course, other than an interest in exploring.