Today I have a flip through of my latest illustrated journal, a visual travel diary of a recent trip to Italy where I was lucky enough to take in Bologna, Ravenna, Modena, Padua, and more. This journal is a collection of found papers, sketches, post cards, photos, hand lettering, and writing that give voice to memories and experience.

Join me as I go through page by page and talk about the techniques used throughout. I hope they will give you some ideas about ways to make your own pages whether it is for travel or for your everyday life in your own back yard (which is, after all, the most important journey any of us take).

If you want to find my online class about how to make and keep an illustrated journal, the link is here:
https://kellysschoolb1d1.thinkific...

And here is the Youtube video where I made the original blank book from mixed papers. Easy, cheap, and fun:
   • Easy Handmade Art Journal: Step by St...  

In the video linked here I talk about ways to draw our every day, the (socalled) ordinary objects that we might take for granted but that actually tell stories about how we live:
   • How to Make Pages of Everyday Items i...  

Here's another!
   • Journal the Ordinary: Make Illustrate...  

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