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This workshop is available online or can be attended in person at Upside Down Abundance Studio in Seaside, CA. This class focuses on process and complements all creative practices. 

A junk journal is a one-stop-shop for creative practice! In junk journaling, anything goes. A junk journal is a place to capture your ideas and value what inspires you. One of the perks to practicing creative decisions in a small book is getting to learn about composition and how to bring balance to a spread. You will get to play with color, perspective and mark making. Using a junk journal is a playful and accessible way to get to know your creative self. 

The first session will focus on choosing the right book and prepping book pages, collecting and creating collage papers, and adding the first layers of collage and paint to our journals. This session will inspire you to collect more treasures and to brainstorm what to do next. 

The second session will expand on the previous session’s work. We will add complementary collage and paint layers, and focus on finishing details. This session will invite you to find a creative flow and feel accomplished by finishing a spread. 

Materials Needed (Zoom)

Inexpensive, small (preferrably under 8”) book for repurposing

Adhesives such as glue stick, matte medium, and/or tape

Mixed collage papers, embellishments, small trinkets, junk mail, stickers…

Inexpensive brush(es) and/or palette knife or plastic card

Acrylic and/or watercolor paint

Mixed mark making tools such as ink pens, pencils, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, pastels, markers…

Materials Needed (In person)

Inexpensive, small book for repurposing (*ready to use journals available for purchase)

Mixed collage papers, embellishments, small trinkets, junk mail, stickers, etc…

*Adhesives, mark making tools and collage papers provided in studio