Written on
November 30, 2010 by
andrea
last week i shared some of my student’s work from the art journal playground.
this week i am sharing the work of a student and fellow teacher, hanna anderson, or iHanna. how adorable is this?
iHanna said:
My magic place was a pink glittery cave that sparkled of magic. I smiled as I entered, it was beautiful and I must say: kind of magic! I’ve done visualizations before but I usually don’t see anything or get lost somewhere, but this time with your talk it was quite clear and vivid. Thank you Andrea!
combining creativity and visualisation and spirituality does create some crazy special magic.
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Written on
November 23, 2010 by
andrea
since october, i have been one of the 21 teachers over at the 21 secrets art journal playground.
we are having so much fun!
it’s a really amazing thing to have so many different teachers and styles and approaches and techniques all brought together into one space filled with the most amazing students i have ever seen.
for my part in 21 secrets, i am sharing an art journal project called “i am magic.“ i’ve got a video with a guided meditation and a small workbook to guide you through the i am magic process.
i have been quite consistently blown away by what the students are doing with it. the stories they are sharing about meeting their magic creative selves in the guided visualisation are amazing and inspiring. i am blown away by the the way they describe the rooms that their magic selves live in. pure amazing sparkletastic magic.
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Written on
July 15, 2010 by
andrea
a peek inside what’s happening in my journal this week:
art journal page: willing to let it fall apart
she is showing me – letting go is beautiful and being willing to let it fall apart is not about giving up.
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Written on
June 23, 2010 by
andrea
i talk a lot about comfort zones. they are so fascinating to me. it’s like we build these little boxes to live in to stay small and safe but then we slowly discover that when we make our lives small and safe we are not just keeping danger out – we are keeping our dreams and our heart’s desires out. and then the comfort zone starts to become less comfortable.
right now i’m at the part where my comfort zone is actually miserably uncomfortable. i feel like i have outgrown it in every way that it can be outgrown. like alice in wonderland (omg i loved the movie and her clothes especially!) this room is too damn small and my muscles are aching from being cramped in here. literally. i am sore. so i booked some time at my favourite spa – but i couldn’t get in until friday. what to do until ten?
so i painted it:
messy art journal page
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Written on
January 5, 2010 by
andrea
i have realised that a lot of what i have been sharing here with my art journal was confusing, irrelevant and maybe even annoying to some people! oops! because i’m so into art i forget that everyone else isn’t as into it as i am. because i believe that everyone is an artist, i forget that some people just don’t want to be artists.
what i had originally intended to do here was share the creative journaling exericses that i’d developed through my creative journaling workshops. the focus of these exericses is on self-discovery, healing and transformation. the journaling gets creative through different prompts and exercises but we do not make “art” in the workshops.
personally, my focus last year was on exploring and making more art and it seems like that leaked out into the creative journaling i was sharing here, causing it to turn into more of an art journaling focus.
i’d like to shift that back now.
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