Making a Junk Journal

  • Art Journal & Mixed Media
  • Just For Fun

Turn everyday items into your very own masterpiece! In Making a Junk Journal, Tanyalee Kahler shares how to collect items from around your home—aka junk—and bind it together to create a home for your art journal spreads. Recycle a shopping bag into a cover, assemble your own signatures, and bind it all together. Then add your artistic touch and create several spreads with Tanyalee using ephemera, paint, illustrations, image transfers, and more. Whether your junk journal is a place for memory keeping or simply a creative outlet, at the end of this class, you'll have the skills to turn any found item into a personalized piece of art.

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to construct a junk journal out of everyday supplies you can find around your home
    • How to make a cover from a gift bag, make signatures of pages, and then bind them all together
    • How I approach turning my junk journal pages into detailed, yet simple art journal pages

Lessons

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Gather Your Supplies
  3. 3. Constructing Your Journal
  4. 4. Making a Background in Your Junk Journal
  5. 5. Let's Add Some Paint
  6. 6. Adding Illustrations
  7. 7. More Art Pages
  8. 8. A Junk Journal Flip-Through and Conclusion

Related Classes

Making a Junk Journal

  • Art Journal & Mixed Media
  • Just For Fun

Turn everyday items into your very own masterpiece! In Making a Junk Journal, Tanyalee Kahler shares how to collect items from around your home—aka junk—and bind it together to create a home for your art journal spreads. Recycle a shopping bag into a cover, assemble your own signatures, and bind it all together. Then add your artistic touch and create several spreads with Tanyalee using ephemera, paint, illustrations, image transfers, and more. Whether your junk journal is a place for memory keeping or simply a creative outlet, at the end of this class, you'll have the skills to turn any found item into a personalized piece of art.

  • What you'll learn +
    • How to construct a junk journal out of everyday supplies you can find around your home
    • How to make a cover from a gift bag, make signatures of pages, and then bind them all together
    • How I approach turning my junk journal pages into detailed, yet simple art journal pages
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