Art Journaling Magazine and some sketchbooks

I've been wanting to share this good news with you for a while but I was waiting for the issue to arrive everywhere. I wrote an article for the Autumn issue of Art Journaling magazine!

It's all about going back to basics with great tips for beginners and for busy art journalists.

I have several journals already finished and I'd like to share some of the pages from those with you since there are not many pictures of the one I sent in the magazine (and I don't have it with me yet).


I like a lot to use a picture from myself when I was about 5 years old and I'm dressed as a flower with my older sister's costume in my journal. Sometimes I just cut the face and paste it on other body.


I also have LOTS of scrap paper from my collages and I use that as well as ephemera and other things I find around. I'm a visual person and I don't write much on my art journal. I usually feel that I express myself better with color and shapes or that someone else has said it better so I print and paste the text on my journal.

Other times I use mostly paint to fill the backgrounds and a mixture of drawings, paper and stamps. A few words and pictures can say a lot sometimes.

Other times I just journal about the most trivial things. I have entries in my journals about days I wanted to go out but couldn't or just with images or color combination or candy wraps that I like. Before becoming a painter I used to draw the most memorable thing in my day in a notebook and I still can remember pretty much what I did just by looking at those little drawings.

Remember my last post with lots of Gocco printed images? I got carried away and I made a limited edition of 60 Sketchbooks.

They're very pretty and useful! You can use them for sketches, doodling, making lists, art journaling and many other things you can think of... I only made 20 of each
(ruled, squared and blank) and they're 5x8 each and made with recycled fibers (so you won't feel guilty for getting more than one).

And they're available here.

Oh and before I forget, I just make a new section in my shop that will be open just for the season to make it easier for you to find all the HALLOWEEN related items :)

Hope you have a wonderful week!