Category: Creative Toolbox

  • Art Journal Inspiration: Mixed Media

    Art Journal Inspiration: Mixed Media

    I have a deep love of mixed media in art journaling. Check out these fabulous artists and their incredibly rich pages.

  • My Toolbox: Birch Panels

    My Toolbox: Birch Panels

    A few weeks ago, though, I decided to try out wooden panels. They don’t come in as wide a variety of sizes as canvas, but is a good place to start broadening my horizons while working on a surface that retains some of paper’s characteristics.

  • How to Use Structure to Inspire Creativity

    How to Use Structure to Inspire Creativity

    I wonder about the relationship between structure and creativity, right-brain and left-brain thinking, and the spontaneity of creation and the reliability of planning.

  • 8 Myths about Art Journaling

    8 Myths about Art Journaling

    One of the most wonderful things about art journaling – and one of the hardest to become comfortable with – is that there is no wrong way to do it.

  • You vs. That Beautiful White Page

    You vs. That Beautiful White Page

    Behold the dreaded First Page above! It is white, beautiful, smooth, clean, and unmarked – but it is also ordinary, silent, with nothing to say, waiting for you to transform it into something only your mind can imagine and only your hands can create.