Art Journaling Workshop | September Prompts

We’re rolling on to month two of our new Art Journaling Workshop. Each month we plan to throw out a few topics/ideas/suggestions for those of you (like me) who sometimes need a nudge or a bit of inspiration to get a page started. We’ll offer up prompts in the following categories: element, technique, quote, question, list and color. Here are September’s prompts.

Feel free to pick and choose what applies to you and leave what doesn’t. And you don’t ever have to use any of the prompts. It is entirely up to you. We don’t want to have people feel restricted by topics/prompts that don’t inspire them.

• Element: Numbers
• Quote: Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi
• Question: Did you pay it forward?
• List Ideas: (by Andrea — aka mrsaboyer) Something you don’t want anybody to know-deep dark secret. Something you are letting go of, or burying. A secret hope or dream that you want to plant and watch it grow.
• Color Swatch:

  Swatch from Sissy Sparrows

• Technique: Hidden journaling — Tips from Andrea (aka mrsaboyer) - Either totally or mostly obscured journaling. You can put it underneath a layer and then flatten it, or put a mask over it, or just in some way obscure it until it’s totally or very very nearly unrecognizable. Here is an example from Andrea.

Come on and play along! Share your interpretation or pages in our Art Journaling threads. Also, if you have ideas for prompts or techniques, please feel free to share and you may see them featured in an upcoming post.