The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Book of Days 2015

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Book of Days 2015

I recently purchased another 12 weeks of Book of Days. It begins tomorrow and I'm excited to get started in my journal. I painted a plain black journal to my liking for this session. Photo above. The second photo is the inside cover. I've been involved in Book of Days since 2012, but missed a few sessions along the way. I find it to be very rewarding.
Book of Days is an art journaling and memory keep class that includes start-to-finish video instruction every week for the duration of the 12 week class, full color printable PDF walkthroughs, journal prompts, support, feedback, and face time videos.
In this first volume of Book of Days this year, we will be exploring ordinary beauty ~ the beauty that exists around us and within us that we might not notice unless we pay attention. This practice is meant to foster gratitude and a kind of artist's seeing that will keep us inspired all year. This BOD session will include a lot of optional sketching.
I will share my journal spreads with you as I finish them each week.

1 comment:

Debbie said...: Beautiful journal. I look forward to seeing your work.; January 5, 2015 at 11:01 AM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.