Product Description

Rise up and CREATE! No borders, no boundaries: truth, journaled wherever you find it. Grab your mess kit--we're starting a Journal Revolution.

Overthrow your inner critic's tyranny of fear and rules, and discover fresh techniques and inspiration to rant, whisper, beg, stomp or sing your truths. Celebrate your rough edges with a revolutionary new approach to art journaling, as you learn to vividly express your uncensored emotions and boldly record your deepest secrets.

Each chapter pulses with honest humor, art and writing guidance, and easy ways to create vibrant, edgy art. Once you've been through basic training, you'll practice these Tactical Maneuvers with dynamic projects such as Feel The Beat: Your Life Soundtrack personalized CD covers, retro-looking Fauxlaroid pictures worth a thousand words, and framed canvas Writings on the Wall. Along the way, Sound Off! exercises help you trek confidently into new territory.

Featuring a bonus gallery of art by Rosie O'Donnell and members of the Art Army, Journal Revolution will have you marching to the beat of your most creative drummer, knowing that everything in your life really is part of "the journal."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36382 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781581809954
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Journal Revolution inspires with vibrant and edgy pieces and simple techniques. Journaling and scrapbooking take on a whole new meaning, achieving the latest trends of intense urban emotion inspired by honesty and wit. -- --Somerset Studio Magazine

You'll find plenty to love. ---Skirt! Magazine

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You'll find plenty to love.

This is unlike any book on journaling you've ever read. Become part of the Revolution!

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This is unlike any book on journaling you've ever read. Become part of the Revolution!

Customer Reviews

Even better than Visual Chronicles!
Lets start by recognizing that these girls really know their stuff. To imagine that Journal Revolution is a "how-to" or a "scrapbook idea book" is wrong; everyone should "get" that this, like Visual Chronicles, is a free-yourself-of-inner-angst/give-yourself-permission-to-express-the-inner-artist kind of book and then some! The excellent use of examples, the colors utilized in the presentation, the projects themselves: mind-expanding!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is an artist, who wants to be an artist, who thinks they cannot possibly be an artist: you don't even have to want to be an artist to get the gist of this baby! So go for it; invest the less-than-$20. and jump-start your creativity. This is the one to go for.

A 'MUST HAVE' BOOK
WOW.
It's hard to describe in words the "WOW" feeling you get as you pour over the opening pages of this book. The writing is easy to read, with detailed instructions (but no hard and fast rules to memorize and follow) and written in a lyrical, poetic manner that makes you open your eyes to the beauty in the smallest every day things, and, more importantly, the beauty in your own unique way of looking at the universe. It is full of practical tips for HOW to journal, a wide range of ideas for materials to use and gives you lots of mental jumping-off points to move your process along. If you ever have looked in wonder at the artistic journals of creative people and wondered if you might have the tiniest bit of ability to make something beautiful yourself, READ THIS BOOK!!! It will give you the freedom and courage to pick up a crumpled piece of paper, the nearest writing implement, a glue stick and JUST START. It isn't pretentious. You won't need any art experience at all to follow it's instructions but even WITH an artistic background, you will find something new and inspirational to get your butt in gear! Art isn't always 'pretty'. And freeing you from the need to make something perfect is just ONE of the gifts this book's authors has in store for you! Just get messy, have fun, and write down your own personal truths.

An Empowering and Inspiring Book
Karen and Linda have done it again! Journal Revolution is the perfect follow up to Visual Chronicles! This book is just as funny, and also shows many types of journaling and art, yet the style is new and exciting. The book is empowering and inspiring with out being overbearing. These sisters have the ability to relate to their readers as if they were sitting right there next to them, talking as friends would. You feel like Linda and Karen (and even Rosie!) are right there with you spilling paint and cutting out words. The art and writing are intimate and personal, and we get to see inside the minds and lives of these authors in a much deeper way than before. The fonts project and fauxlaroid project alone are worth the price of the book. You'll also never look at a calendar the same way again. Journal Revolution is different than any book out there.