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Summary: On being paged.
Comment: Socrates said "Know thyself" and artistic journaling is one approach towards personal discovery. "Artists' Journal and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages" gives non-artists tips on how to begin creative and self-revelatory journaling.
Diaries are not just about words and Perrella encourages the use of paper that's painted, glued, stitched, scratched, bleached and in any other way manipulated. Standardization is out and replaced by the act of altering what's already around to make something new as women, the true bricoleurs, often do.
From the examples given of various artists' journals comes the confirmation that women are generally the family historians documenting via foto albums, scrapbooks, journals and keepsakes.
Perrella, of rubber stamp fame, is part of an internet salotto specializing in "self-exploratory" art making. This artistic trend is reinforced and propagated by numerous workshops organized via internet.
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Summary: I Love Lynne Perrella
Comment: This is my biggest mistake, not purchasing it the day i first saw it. This book is just "wow". Its packed full of inspiration, techniques, just about everything a design student would want. I purchased this because i wanted to start a graphic design journal on typography, and graphic design that interests me, but not in the style of your standard scrapbooking. This book fufilled that request no problems. A must for anyone who loves unique ways of expressing themselves
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Summary: A triumph of decoration over content
Comment: I ordered this book on the strength of the rave reviews on Amazon and was rather disappointed. Although several artists are represented, there is basically only one style: that on the front of the book. If you like this, you'll love the book, and I won't deny it is beautifully produced. However, all it seems to be about is cramming as much decoration onto one page as possible: ribbons, buttons, stencils, washes, poems, individual letters etc. This is all in the contemporary scrapbooking style, and to me seems to be more about decoration than exploring different artistic ideas or keeping a real journal. The pages scream: "Look, I'm a really creative, funky person." But what have vintage photos and shreds of old sheet music really got to do with keeping a journal or sketchbook? I thought a sketchbook was about recording what we see around us. Evidently not. Interestingly, like the scrapbooking genre, this seems to be by and for women only; not that I'm against such things in principal (I'm into patchwork), but it does seem somehow very girly and overly pretty.
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Summary: Luscious book
Comment: A gorgeous book that you can look at again and again. Full of inspiration both visually and in it's supporting text. Perfect for inspiring students, pages of exciting exempar material.
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Summary: I can't rave on about this book enough!
Comment: This book is top of its class! This a book that you'll want to digest inside and out! It is full of inspiration, colour, techniques, and a wow factor it will just inspire you each time you open and flick through it time after time after time! I love this book, I have quite a number of books on art journals and book art and this is the winning one! You will want to dig your teeth deep into a project the moment you put this book down! Every time I flick through this book I find a new 'discovery' every single time. Go do yourself a favour now go beg, borrow or steal this book because you will need to have it! :)
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