Why do I need a sketchbook?

Visual Verbal Journals

What is a Visual
Journal?

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Text as Art: Writing as a form of

drawing.

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It is similar to a sketchbook, yet different.

Visual Verbal Journals

- It is a type of
journal showing
visual thinking
-Words are an
important part of
the Journal.
- Journals are
personally
meaningful

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What does a Visual Journal include?

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CONTENT:
SKETCHES

DRAWINGS

WORDS:
describe and
support depictions
and become
graphic devices
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CONTENT:
PHOTOGRAPHS

PERSONALLY
MEANINGFUL
SYMBOLS

WORDS:
describe and support
depictions and become
graphic devices

Visual Verbal Journals

CONTENT:

WORDS:
describe and support
depictions and become
graphic devices

COLLAGES

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What are the uses of Visual Journals?

Visual Verbal Journals

-Practice skills

-Research/note taking
-Source of ideas for future
artworks

-Reflection
-Exploring new ideas
-Exploring new medias

Visual Verbal Journals

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)

Visual Verbal Journals

Benefits to students:
-Realize how daily life influences art
-Develop skills
-Become a source for future artworks

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Artists Journals

Visual Verbal Journals

 Eric Fischl
Journaling began as sketchbook and grew into
large-format glassine drawings of journal pages

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Leonardo da Vinci
recorded questions and daily observations visually
and verbally in a sketchbook

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 Edward Munch
Used visual journal to develop ideas and record
daily observation and reflections

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How do
Visual
Journals/Sketchbooks
influence how you create?

Visual Verbal Journals

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.

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-For some, the visual supports the verbal -

- For some the verbal supports the visual -

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Journals are low risk places to experiment :

- Multiple
solutions can
be explored--Fluency
- Ideas can be
embellished--Elaboration

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Suggestions for New Journals:

-Tear random pages
-Paint washes
-Gesso pages
-Glue in tissue paper
-Cut and fold pages to hid or reveal areas
-Do rubbings on parts of pages

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Composition Variations:
Full Page Design

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Bleeds

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Borders

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Grids

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Mandala= Radial Design

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Diagonals

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Organic Shapes

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Resources:
-The Journey is the Destination, The Journals of Dan
Eldon, Dan Eldon, Chronicle Books
-The Diary of Frieda Kahlo, Abradale Pess
-The Decorated Page, Gwen Diehn, Lark Books
-www.visualjournaling.com

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