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Art Supply Sunday - Art Journal Books

by Katelyn on December 30th, 2007

Today, I thought I’d highlight two wonderful new art journal books I’ve received. The first is Art Journals and Creative Healing: Restoring the Spirit Through Self-Expression by Sharon Soneff. This book is filled with wonderful photos of art journal pages from a wide range of artists who use their journals as a place to de-stress or a way to work through problems and pain. Each artist also tells his or her story. If you want to make an art journal because of health related reasons, you’ll definitely want to take a look at it.

I personally think this book should be a must for health care workers to read and use with patients that are fighting a major illness or that need prolonged therapy. I got right up from reading it and checked to see if my local hospital had some sort of art therapy program so I could tell whoever was running it about the book, but didn’t see anything about one online. I’ll have to give them a call and check to make sure I’m not missing something, because I thought it was kind of standard anymore.

The second book is THE DECORATED JOURNAL by Gwen Diehn. If you are a newbie to the world of art journaling, this is a fantastic resource. Diehn is very thorough and covers everything from how to make a simple journal to the materials that work best. For more advanced artists, it may be a bit on the basic side, but I still enjoyed flipping through it.

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