Editorial Review
Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color bookJournals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.
This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium.
Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.
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Customer Reviews
Ahhhh-mazing 
2008-09-25
Even if I didn't have 3 of my own jouranl quilts in this book I would still give it a 5 star rating! I see something new every time I pick it up. It's been a huge inspiration to me and my on-line yahoo group, Fiber Art Traders, [...]. Bravo Dawn for a job well done!
Normajean Brevik, Fiber Artist and Writer
Beautiful Book 2008-09-07
I've really enjoyed this book so far, and will be using it for the examples when I teach a Art Journaling workshop coming up. It's mostly pages straight out of artist's journals, but at the beginning has a few pages of questions and inspirations to get you started in your journaling process.
Art journaling teacher's dream!!!! 2008-09-06
I teach art journaling to middle school children of many abilities. I cannot tell you how wonderful this book is, so delicious with the variety of entries. They were so excited to see it.... I found each group gathered around me to get a better look.
I know the artwork, writings, styles of presentation, colors, and excitement from this book have influenced the young writers/artists I teach.
The children love it.
How does one evaluate a person's soul? 2008-08-13
How does a reviewer "Rate" or "Review" another artists' ART?
This was a difficult task for me, because as my 1st sentence stated, it's quite difficult to rate an Artists' personal Art.
Basically, it's like trying to evaluate a person's inner soul!
This book is so well photographed & so detailed and colorful! Dawn DeVries Sokol has done a beautiful job at displaying all the entries that she received while organizing this book of 1000 Journal entries.
The other amazing thing is that the entries that Dawn received were from all over the World! Therefore, it is so interesting to see how a journal writer is different from all others, and yet also the same, in that "we" (as a community of human beings) express ourselves in common ways as people! This book expresses this point very well---the soul of a person.
Dawn stated in her Preface that she chose not to categorize each Chapter by theme. But rather, Dawn chose to show the Journal entries as a continuum. In this way, Dawn has displayed the worldwide entries in a spiral fashion, rather than in a linear fashion...thus, each entry spiraled from one to the other.
Some Journal entries are sometimes "dark", sometimes sad, and sometimes happy. Such is life.
All are introspective.
When I read this book, I first of all went through each entry to look at the colors and artistic points. Then, the second time I went through this book, I looked at each Journal entry more specifically (often with a magnifying glass) in order to absorb the pages more thoroughly.
All in all, this was a very insightful experience, not only into the souls of the Artists and writers, but also into my own soul.
You can look at it again and again 2008-08-05
...and you will see different things in the pages each time. I am one of the lucky artists in this book and I am amazed at the results. To put this much work together from so many artists had to be tough. My favorite aspect is the fact that there is so much diversity. Each artist bring their own voice to their work and it bounces off the other artist's work to create a harmony of color, shapes, images and words. ... Wow maybe that was a little too tooooo....but I want to convey that this lively book is a real treat to look at and a good source of inspiration for what ever art you do or enjoy. Great job Dawn. Thanks for including my work.
Incredible inspiration 
2008-08-04
Over 1,000 journal pages presented in one beautiful full-color bookJournals offer their makers a safe place to dream, doodle, rant, and reinvent themselves. They offer viewers rich, visual inspiration. There is a fascination with these revealing and often beautiful pages of self-exploration and personal expression. Journals offer a tantalizing, voyeuristic view of an interior life.
This would be the first book to offer examples of over 1000 journal pages in one eye-catching, visual format, and would attract a wide swathe of artists who fully embrace or experiment with this medium.
Journaling has seeped into popular culture in a big way and this collection provides a wide array of ideas, techniques and themes to inspire and inform mixed media and journaling enthusiasts.
great inspiration 2008-08-03
This book is wonderful. As I leafed thru the pages I had amazing inspiration to grab various art supplies and try something new. A great book for when you're stuck in a non-creative but want to be creative moment. This is an art journaling book you won't regret buying.
An Indespensible Work of Passion 2008-07-31
Huge, colorful, and important. Open to any two-page spread and you will find yourself getting lost in the creativity and playfulness (images, words, ephemera, and montages) of hundreds of brilliant people. Thank the Good Lord for all of them, but especially for "author/assembler" Dawn DeVries Sokol and her passionate work. As a life-long sketcher, doodler, cartoonist, journaler, and collector of "beautiful scraps" I am inspired beyond imagining with the turn of each giant page in this book. It will be a long time (if ever) before it gets slid into my studio bookshelves for I will be pouring over it daily. This is a portable library, a floating museum, a veritable mountain of inspiration. THIS is the "movable feast!" I have already added it to my list of books that inspire me on my blog: www.TeaWithMcNair.typepad.com. I am eager to meet Dawn at the ZNE Convenzione here in the Bay area (Aug. 22-24, 2008) Meanwhile, I have ONE THOUSAND pages of creativity to sit with at Cafe Zoetrope and make me giggle, tear up, and want to crack open my sketchbook many more minutes each day.
Call your local independent bookshop and get it today. Mine came in two days--it is well-worth the cover price.
Fabulous 2008-07-26
Fabulous book! The entries are wonderful. This book shows the way various artists around the world create pages in their journals. The diversity is amazing. The insipation is limitless. I look at this book every day. My non-artist, non-writing friends find the book fascinating as well. It's like having a journaling museum in miniature. Buy it if you're interested in art, journals, writing, illustrated reading material, or interesting, different books.
Rev. Ruth
Fabulous 2008-07-25
This is NOT a how-to book, but an amazing collection of artists' creative visions. It's vivid, busy, colorful, wild, insightful, rambunctious, iconic, inspiring, rich, lively, clear, fresh, stark, intimidating... wonderful.
There is a little bit of every kind of style and medium. Wonderful eye candy for people who journal, scrapbook, and artists of all types.
