the joy of art journals

I’ve been keeping journals for many years—most of them half full, half empty. With acrylic paints now as my primary medium, they’ve become the perfect landing place for leftover paint on my palette. Ironically, these spontaneous pages often feel more interesting than the projects they came from.

My journals have also become a space to process frustration—both with myself and the world—through color, words, and images. I usually have four or five going at once. Focusing on just one has never been my style, but I’ve learned that it doesn’t really matter. The process itself is what keeps me going

An other artists with a dynamic journal and sketchbook pracitce is Sarah Z. Short.