I don't do New Year's Resolutions. It's just one more thing that can make me feel like a failure. Instead, I choose to reflect on the last year at everything I've done, especially as an artist. I want to chronicle and document things I made, thoughts I had, ideas that were born, and all I accomplished. EVIDENCE. Evidence that I existed in 2007. It's very empowering to look back over a whole year and realize everything you've done. It motivates you to keep moving forward in the next year.
I'm sure you feel like I do - we love blogs. But do you ever feel like your effort to make posts online results in less work in your real journal sitting dusty under a pile of stuff on your work table? What? You don't have a visual journal? *Puts hands over ears* I don't want to hear that. If that's the case, use this Crusade to start one! If you have been a good artist and have a journal, but you have been lacking in making pages, take this month to print out some of your favorite blog entries and paste them in your journal. You've already done the work.....give yourself some credit and replicate a blog post on a real page. I often wonder, especially when blogs go down for maintenance, if they will evaporate into the ether. How sad would that be?
I love to make Evidence pages in my journal. You know what I'm talking about - documenting a process of an art piece, or simply attaching remnants from a memorable day onto your page. Why not make Evidence pages about your blog? Easy!
This month show us one blog post (or more) that has been transformed onto a page in your visual journal. If you're new to making journal pages this is an easy way to jump start a new habit. Print your photos and text, and maybe even a favorite comment, then paste in your journal. You don't have to do anything else.....but I'll bet you'll want to paint the page and add extra stuff, and maybe even handwrite a note or two about why you made that post and how it made you feel to put it out there on your blog. The post can be anything you choose.
Once you've made a page, scan or take a photo and share it on your blog with a link to here. Leave a comment below with a link to your site and I'll add it to the list. You are invited to make more than one entry in this Crusade.
Crusade No. 16 ~ Journal Your Blog DUE DATE: February 1.
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EDIT: A reminder that links are posted to the list on the left, with newest at the top for easy navigation to visit your fellow teamers. Archived Crusades are revised to alphabetical.
Archived links moved from sidebar to here - not all may be active.
CRUSADE No. 16
- Ariel Gill
- Becky New
- Belinda Schneider
- Cath Sheard
- Caty
- Chris Miser
- Colette
- Colette (more)
- Diane Knauff
- Elizabeth Bunsen
- Elizabeth Bunsen (more)
- Elizabeth Bunsen (more)
- Fiona Scharlau
- Hanna Andersson
- Heather Bradley
- Heather Bradley (bigger)
- Jeri Ann
- Jill Assman
- Jill Assman (more)
- Jodi Barone
- Jodi Barone (more)
- Julie Prichard
- Kate Iredale
- Kate Iredale (more)
- Kathy McCreedy Hall
- Kathy McCreedy Hall
- Kathy McCreedy Hall (more)
- Laurie Blau-Marshall
- Laurie Blau-Marshall (more)
- Lay Hoon
- Leslie Marsh
- Maj Carita Hoenborg
- Marilyn Weyman Kegg
- Megan Warren
- Megan Warren (more)
- Michelle Infantino
- Michelle Ward
- Monica Magness
- Pam McClung
- Pam McClung (more)
- Patricia Hine-Stewart
- Paula Long
- Penny Stuart
- Robin Mayberry
- Sandy (ArtTeaLife)
- Sondra Caserio
- Sondra Caserio
- Stephanie Hilvitz
- Sue Pieper
- Susan Warder
- Susan Warder (more)
- Susan Warder (more)
- Tally Oliveau