Art Journaling: my process

The beauty of “artjournaling” is its flexibility: the project’s construction and execution depend entirely on the creator and their vision. Its usefulness is growing in popularity, as visual accompaniments to script pitches and novels, helping convey the mood of productions, art therapy, etc.

This project was birthed through the use of antique books, especially those with deteriorating or thin pages, re-binding them, and gluing pages together to make a thicker paper on which I paint.

I used pages from other antique books, reading hundreds of pages and clipping phrases and paragraphs entirely at random with no connection to each other, and arranging them in a way that does, in fact, tell a story.

I never planned out how it will look or what the words would convey at the end. It was as much a surprise to me as it is to the viewer, and each section is open to interpretation.

This particular book, Hidden Pearls by Abbie Benton Bonsteel, was published in 1925. Many of the inner pages are from other books, but some original contents I decided to keep if they hooked my eye during construction.