Art Journaling Club – Teaching myself Teesha 1

One thing that I know about myself – if I am not pushing myself forward, I am sliding backwards. I decided to try again to use online sources and teach myself. I also know that I am not one to hold myself to account and can easily tell myself that “it doesn’t matter” if it is something just for me. So I invited several women to join me in starting an Art Journaling Club and four of them accepted! We have started, but the summer and excessively full schedules have made for a bumpy beginning.

There are two online journaling resources that we decided to test out – all of us starting with Teesha Moore’s Amazing 16-page Journal so we would actually have a fresh new journal to work with. Teesha generously demonstrates her entire journaling process on YouTube videos and if you follow the link above you will be able see all of them listed to the side of the Youtube page.

Some of us will go ahead and work our way through the Teesha Moore videos to learn her techniques. Once absorbed, the techniques will become part of our own journaling process, at least that is the hope. LOL.

The club met twice – those little words sound so simple – major effort to get together and for me to have a studio that I was willing to have people see. I am fairly organized, but in the middle of a project, my studio devolves to chaos. Thinking about 6 women in the same creating frenzy as mine scared me a bit.

This picture was taken after working on the Teesha journal for a day, then cleaning up before bed. Cleaning up means, lids on glue and liquids, images sorted and pictures taken. I do clean it down to the surface at least weekly…I digress.

We got our blank journals made in the first session and we started painting them the second session and then we missed having a session in July and haven’t got one scheduled for August – we may postpone for cold weather…again LOL. I realized that 1. I was waiting for the meetings to do anything in the journal and 2. I was sliding back…So I gave myself a little pep talk and turned on the next section of Teesha Moore in Youtube. Stay tuned for progress reports!