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Welcome to the new Journals message board at BellaOnline! I would love if you would drop a note and introduce yourself! If you have any ideas for articles you would like to see at the site please let me know!!

Hi Faith,
I just found this delightful site. As an artist, my journals are more images than words. What about an article on art in journals or artists journals? I would be happy to contribute in any way.

Great ideas and that has been my big focus for the site. I'm currently doing a series on altered book journals and I've got links to artist's journals and artists's blogs as well as some other multimedia journaling articles, but I would love to have some more input on other article ideas and suggestions. I adore Hannah Hinchman style nature journals and would love to do some more of that.

I noticed your teaching in Humble this fall. I just moved from there in May, I lived out there for four years!

hi faith & cynthia,

i also just found this spot. i love alt books, but have been wading thru alterer's block forever. but any day now,
look out !! i am about to go out and read all your articles about the alt book journal-thanks for having it here and

God Bless,
kathy in texarkana, tx

Thanks for dropping in Kathy! I haven't done a whole lot with altered books yet, but I did the series of articles covering the altered journal I helped my brother put together for a school project. The project went over BIG with his teachers and I learned alot about altered books in the process!

My current project (though going slowly with everything I have on my plate) is a fabric book about Frida Kahlo for my daughter who is a big Frida fan!

Hello Faith...

thanks to you for this part of Bella! It sounds so interesting just reading the Titles for the Threads.... I can feel my hands and energy just wanting to bust out!

I am such a procrastinator though!!! I cannot get my fingers off these keys long enough to even THINK about doing something Creative that I would love so much to do! ha!

Panilla... I am curious as to how your classes have been going?? That must be Great you get to Travel & Teach - Teach something you EnJoY so WeLL!

I am thinking about the areas both of you are in! Panilla you say "South" so I am hoping you are alright --- and Faith, I am curious and really wanting to know about Life in Houston through a Residents Eyes with all the Evacuees taking Residents there now/or for now??

THERE YOU GO FAITH --- That is my Suggestion of Sorts! I have been wanting to find someone (or more than one) that I can correspond with that has been affected by Katrina -- both being the person forced to evacuate and the person (Faith living in Houston) that has so many more residents in town.

I mean no harm by asking this.... I just want to correspond to be able to offer HOPE and Prayers.... some Encouragement and some Kindness.

Didn't mean to carry on for so long....

Actually I moved to San Antonio in May. But we have alot of evacuees hear too. In fact, with my counseling background, I have been doing volunteer counseling at one of the evacuees special needs shelter!

What a small world! I had never heard of Humble, TX and I have lived here in the (big) state of Texas 15 years.

Don't know the nature journaler you mentioned, do you have links to her work? I always want to look at other artists' journals and sketchs even more so than their more finished work.
You mentioned you had links to artists journals and blogs? You did not say where.
Cynthia Padilla
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Botanicalart. Forum for artists dedicated to the realistic portrayal of plants, flowers and natural science subjects.

Yes, It is a blessing to enjoy ones work. I love traveling, art, and teaching and somehow figured out a way to do all at the same time.
It is a joy to get others as enthused about a subject as I am.
[Faith, I hope this following is OK to direct to. Delete if not]
Susan Taylor, Editor of Orchids at Bellaonline, participated in my Botanical Arts and Naturalist Illustration workshop last month,in Humble, TX and wrote about her experience drawing an orchid. What an honor that was for me, an avid reader of Bellaonline, to be spotlighted at Bellaonline!
Here's the link to the article: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art37416.asp
Cynthia

"Padilla... I am curious as to how your classes have been going?? That must be Great you get to Travel & Teach - Teach something you EnJoY so WeLL!"

Hi,
I love journaling, I like combining writing and artwork, a mix between a scrapbook and a journal. I'm so glad there is a site for it here <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Faith, you mentioned Frida Kahlo--her journal is a great representation of biogaphy/scrapbook/journal. She's got poems, quotes, artwork, and journal entries in there.

My first trip into this area of the forums.

I've always wanted to journal but never got started.

Now I can't write for very long without a lot of pain and at times typing does the same thing.

All that said, are there any articles for beginners?

Welcome,

I'm the new moderator for this topic. Usually when a topic is taken over the site has to be built up again from scratch so there really isn't any beginning articles.

What kind of journaling do you want to do?

Maureen

Thanks for the welcome Maureen!

I have no idea what kind of journaling I want to do since I'm not clear on all the terms.

I'd like to get some clutter out of my head, work out some long standing relationship issues, things like that.

I am a visual artist, so of course my interest here is the ART of the journal...illustrated travel journals, field journals with sketches, illuminated nature journals are specific areas of interest.

Good luck with the forum Maureen. Do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance to you here.

Cynthia
Travel Sketches: http://www.botanicalart.50megs.com/photo3.html

Thanks! I notice you're going to be in Ontario, Canada in July. Where abouts?

I'm interested in garden journaling--I got into this when reading Bella Tuscany-- Frances Mayes sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun, in which she had drawn out blue prints of her prospective garden--kind of a visual wish list. This is a nice combination of art, creativity, nature, and writing.

If you have any interest in writing about that, that would be cool. There are some fascinating writings and drawings on the evolution of the garden, like the old palatial English Gardens and the French Gardens.

I'm closing this topic because it's been started by a old editor.

Please start a new thread for your different topics.

Thanks for your help.