1. Art Journals

2. What is an Art Journal?
Either make 2 slides or animate to diagram examples and label

3. It is similar to a sketchbook, yet different
How so? Elaborate with more slides

4. - It is a type of journal showing visual thinking
Words are an important part of the Journal.
Journals are personally meaningful
Journals allow us to think about our thinking and avoid just reflex reaction

5. What does an Art Journal include?

6. CONTENT: SKETCHES DRAWINGS WORDS:
describe and support depictions and become graphic devices

7. CONTENT: PHOTOGRAPHS PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL SYMBOLS WORDS:
describe and support depictions and become graphic devices

8. Visual Verbal Journals
CONTENT:
COLLAGES
WORDS:
describe and support depictions and become graphic devices
Visual Verbal Journals

9. What are the uses of Art Journals?

10. Source of ideas for future artworks
Research
Source of ideas for future artworks
Reflection
Exploring new ideas
Exploring new medias
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11. Benefits to students: Realize how daily life influences art work
Identify significant events
Become a source for future artworks
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12. Benefits to teachers:
Provide insight into students’ emotional and cognitive experiences
Can show teaching style students’ are most responsive to
Can be used as authentic assessment (Zimmerman 1994)

13. Artists’ Art Journals

14. - Artists using Visual Journals:
•Leonardo da Vinci
recorded questions and daily observations visually and verbally in a sketchbook

15. How do Art Journals influence creativity?

16. Writing helps develop ideas:
"I write so I can find out what I am thinking" Jerome Bruner
Drawing helps develop ideas:
Visual imagery offers a freedom that words do not.
Either use list with brief description; different slide for each artist w/examples; or animate and label examples

17. Journals are low risk places to experiment :
- Multiple solutions can be explored---Fluency
- Ideas can be embellished---Elaboration

18. Assessments: Criteria: Composition
Development of ideas and media experimentation: demonstrate progression
Craftsmanship: although not every entry must be complete, all should be readable, executed with care, and presented in an orderly manner

19. Suggestions for New Journals:
Tear random pages
Paint washes
Gesso pages
Glue in tissue paper, found objects, leaves
Cut holes through several pages
Cut and fold pages to hide or reveal areas
Do rubbings on parts of pages

20. Creating your own Art Journal:

21. Composition Variations: Full Page Design

22. Bleeds

23. Borders

24. Grids

25. Mandala= Radial Design

26. Columns

27. Diagonals

28. Organic Shapes

29. Cut Outs and Windows

30. Transparent Overlay

31. More Examples

34. Requirements: Today you will start to design your cover Materials:
The whole page must be “worked on”, your name must be incorporated some how, and INTRO TO ART should be present in the design.
Materials:
Pencils, crayons, markers, oil pastels
watercolor paint, cut paper