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Welcome!
These days it seems that everyone has some kind of online journal or weblog. For the last 10 years, amateur and professional artists Christina Lopp and Gay Kraeger have been teaching how to create a journal of your own, but on paper with drawings in pen and watercolors. Teaching in their one-day workshop and 6-week long classes, they have been introducing students to the basics of drawing & watercoloring in a format that is well-suited for personal journals.
As the world gets more immediate, more online and easy to delete, the journal is a low tech, highly tactile method of capturing aspects of your world. A variation on the written journal is an illustrated journal -- adding the richness of hand drawn images to words.
In the class, Illustrated Watercolor Journaling students learn how to pay attention to their world and see -- then draw -- things that are important to them. Anything might strike fancies – a child’s soccer game, the first tomato of the season, or images from vacations. Life won't be boring again.
After more than three years of work, Gay and Christina, along with their producer/director/editor Jerome Domurat, have completed and released their first instructional DVD Beginning Watercolor Journaling. Take a look here for more information about the disc.
Recently they added a Collage and Journaling workshop to their class list. Take a look at the upcoming classes for dates.
Gay and Christina set up Illustrated Watercolor Journaling excursions where you can get out into the world, draw, paint and get some extra personal instruction. Check out the latest trips on the Field Trips page.
Taught by Christina Lopp and Gay Kraeger, the all of the workshops are recommended for artists and non-artists alike. It is a non-threatening, easy-going class that covers the basics of drawing, writing, watercoloring and journaling.
Looking to connect with other members of the Watercolor Journaling community? Click here to learn more about communicating with each other!
The comment they hear most upon showing their journals is:
"I wish I could do that!"
Their answer is a resounding:
"You can!"
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Our first DVD, Beginning Watercolor Journaling has been released! Click here
Interested in our Channel Islands trip featured in July/August 2006 Somerset Studio? click here
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