Visual journaling is more fun for me than written – I rarely reread my written entries but can look at the visual pages and know instantly what was happening, what I wanted to express (and things I wasn’t consciously aware of expressing!).
I also rarely reread what I write on the blog but the last post on gratitude stuck in my mind. So here’s my gratitude page AND the process I used . . . in REVERSE ORDER!
Step 3
Added squiggly lines and pastels
This is the finished page – I lost interest in the left side!
Sept 3: Added squiggly lines and pastels
Step 2
Smeared gesso (white paint works too) over the magazine images to blur them
Step 2: Smeared gesso (white) over top of pictures
Step 1
- I don’t like working on a white page so I spread paint on the blank page. Cut out about 20 pictures
- Focused on my “gratitude” and picked pictures that caught my attention.
- Pasted them down. Didn’t matter they got wrinkled – just adds texture!
Step 1: pasted magazine pictures onto page that I smeared with paint.
CURIOUS to the MAX 
Can you explain ‘visual journaling’ better to me? I’ve seen teachers use it, but it doesn’t resonate with me. Still, I bet it would with some of my students–who are more visually-oriented. I feel like I should understand it better.
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Jacqui,
I’ll try to update the Creative Expression page that better explains visual journaling. In the meantime it is simply using images (magazine collage, doodles, sketches etc.) and color to represent symbolically, metaphorically or literally thoughts/feelings/experiences instead words.
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You dream of being free of the constraints of time, where your soul can fly and be inventive. The egg represents your capacity for creativity, for all things possible, while the sleeping figure is you, free of pain. The image is lovely.
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Shari B-P,
Nope, that wasn’t what I was focusing on for gratitude BUT your interpretation is fantabulous and I’m adopting it!
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Your recent retirement? 🙂
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Carolyn,
Nope, not my retirement . . . but you’re very warm (as in the game “Hot ‘n Cold” not your body temperature . .
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