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free online art journaling courses + resources

February 10, 2020
art journaling courses + resources

It’s kind of amazing how huge art journaling has become in the past few years. I remember discovering it back in 2013, when I found a couple of bloggers posting about their “Summer of Love” art journals. This lead me to Kara Haupt and Natty Malik and the Art Journaling Ning community. I think that now that the scrapbook community has embraced art journaling as its own, more people than ever are wanting to get into art journaling. While there are a ton of online classes and workshops out there, I’ve compiled a list of a couple that I have personally bookmarked over the years that are completely and totally free. So here’s my list of free art journaling courses and resources on the web.

Classes

Introduction to Art Journaling by Get Messy Art Journal
A very simple and concise class, Introduction to Art Journaling offers exactly as the name says. Once you sign up, the course materials are sent straight to your email inbox. This is a go-to class for beginners, who have no clue where to even begin.

Making Faces Workshop by Jane Davenport
Jane Davenport offers this free mixed media workshop to showcase all the different ways you can use her mixed media products from her Making Faces collection, which you can find at Michaels and Hobby Lobby. Even though the workshop is geared to those who want to get the most out of their Making Faces products, you don’t need any of Jane’s products to enjoy and learn loads from her. There are plenty of supplies you can substitute to follow along with Jane, learn a few skills and be inspired by her art.

Art, Heart, and Healing by Tamara Laporte (Willowing)
This is an older Tamara Laporte ecourse, but a good jumping off point to get a feel of her mixed media process and teaching style before spending money on one of her other classes. Tamara combines wellness and self care with art making, using art as a tool to heal.

Urban Journal Remix by Roben-Marie Smith
Roben-Marie offers a wide range of art journaling/mixed media classes on her site. In Urban Journal Remix, you learn how to make your very own junk journal repurposed from an old book cover and random papers.

Strathmore Workshop Series
Each year, Strathmore puts on a series of online art workshops that cover all sorts of topics from watercolor to pencil sketching to oil pastels. While these workshops aren’t art journal specific, they offer a wide range of topics where you can learn how to do specific techniques or use specific mediums.

Art Journaling Prompts Series

Mindfully You by Tiffany Julia
This is my very own monthly email series, focused on being more mindful in your life and in your art. The prompts are introspective and prompt you to explore all of your senses, allowing you to interpret them and respond however you want on the page.

52 Weeks of Being Me, Journey to the Heart + Mind.Body.Soul by Words of Me Project
These are three different blog series, each series sharing a list of art journaling prompts around an overarching topic. Great place if you need a bit of inspiration in the form of prompts.

artJOURNALING daily by Traci Bautista
This is another art journaling blog series. It’s a series of daily journaling prompts, with each prompt being simple tasks that you can complete in about 5-20 minutes. This is an excellent resource if you’re looking for ways to art journal but can’t always find the time to.

Art Journaling with Wilna Furstenberg
This is a series of art journaling videos all compiled into a Youtube playlist. I absolutely love Wilna’s journaling style. Her pages are heavy on the paint and mixed media and they are so uniquely beautiful. Her style is like no other. I loved watching these video and learning a few things just by watching and listening to her as she works. I’m so grateful Wilna shared all of these videos with us. Best part is that they’re entirely free!

Resources

Art Journal Everyday by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
This is a mega art journaling resource page! There are plenty of tips and tricks on how to start and keep a daily art journal. Great if you want to start a journal but want to do your own thing without taking a class. You can get excellent insight on Julie’s own process and peeks into her journals as well.

Free Art Tutorials by Amy of Mindful Art Studio
This is a great page filled with awesome resources and art journal/mixed media technique tutorials.

Art Journal 101 by Kristal Norton
This is just a quick guide on what art journaling is and how to get started.

Keeping your Visual Journal
This is just a page on why some people keep visual journals. It’s a great resource if you’re struggling with starting or just wondering why you should start a journal.

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I made a new snippet journal. This one is 6x6 and I'm going to use it as an art journal. I really really want to get back into art journaling. Like, it has been calling me for most of this year and I just haven't gotten back into the flow of it. I've been enjoying my time (writing) journaling, but there's this nagging feeling deep inside of me that wants to get messy but for some reason refuses to begin. So I think I'm just going to make myself begin. Just start and see what happens. I'm gonna make a lot of shitty art but if that's the means to begin then so be it

 Let's go make some shitty art. 

I hope I can begin this weekend. Process video of me creating this journal is up on my Youtube channel, if you're interested.

Happy Friday lovelies! xx
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Still working through @lizelayne’s Water Your Soul course in my WYS journal. This little binder is getting so chunky! I still have lots to work through and am just merrily bouncing back and forth between lessons, anchoring myself in whatever practice my heart needs right now.
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Today’s Flip-Through Friday is my Summer Stories 2023 journal.

This is sort of a hodge-podge journal of all sorts of bits—memories, junk, photos, art journal spreads, and lots of journaling. I've kept it all summer and it's now filled and completed and ready to share.

Here's just a quick flip-through. I've got a full chatty flip up on my Youtube channel if that's more your speed.

Happy Friday loves! xx
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I finally finished filling up my 2023 Summer Stories journal. I had originally intended to only keep this one from June to July, but I didn't journal as much as I thought I would in here this summer, so it has lasted me through to the first few days of September. I'm not mad about it. I prefer a filled journal to a half-filled one. I personally hate leaving too many pages blank at the end. I'm hoping to have a flip-through up on my Youtube channel tomorrow. Just have to film it! 😆
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Just wanted to share a little look at my Water Your Soul journal that I've been keeping this year for @lizelayne's class. I'm finding that I tend to dip into the course whenever I have the time and it's never consistent. But I am so surprised at how much I've actually managed to fill in this journal!

It is mostly a mixture of the class printables and my answers to the questions, magazine clippings, quotes, and lots and LOTS of journaling, but it's been a lovely place to return to over and over again.

I was able to explore more of the lessons this past weekend when I had some time thanks to the holiday. But I think that the joy of this particular journal—and course really—is that I can return to any part of it at any time and pick up where I left off. I can work out of order and move stuff around—love the binder for this! I get it, Liz! I love how this journal is growing as I move and grow through all of the And Spaces we've been exploring—and even some other And Spaces that showed up for me too!

I can't wait to see how this journal ends up looking by the end of the year. xx
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I had one of those days today where I was so exhausted from the week but at the same time wanted to go out and do something. Ever feel that way while also knowing that you just need to rest?

I really wanted to sit in Central Park and catch up on all of my journals but I just couldn’t motivate myself to actually walk to the park. So I took myself (and the dog) down to our building’s courtyard and set up shop on the tiled patio. While there was no grass, it was very quiet out there and I was able to catch up on some journaling and continue in my Water Your Soul binder from where I left off months ago.

Past me had printed all the lovely printables @lizelayne had for every lesson that I had yet to complete, so I spent some time getting all of them into my journal. This quote in particular stood out to me today. This is me. I've dealt with perfectionism all my life and for the last 10 years, I've slowly been coming into my own person separate from the need to "be perfect."

There is no such thing as perfection. The reality that we're all so beautifully imperfect is the real truth we should all strive for.

Anyway, I hope you've all had and are having a wonderful Sunday. xx
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