Author Description

Whether you are a seasoned visual journaler or new to the concept, Journal Starters is a unique book and useful tool for your journaling adventure. Writers will also ascertain, journaling in response to images helps to jump-start their ideas. Journal Starters features: 100 pages of photographic images Visual and written prompts Sample images for each visual prompt Inspiration Gallery. NATURE - Backgrounds, Textures and Collaborations features images that reflect a variety of subject matter, styles and tastes. Close-ups of bark, rocks, and plant matter provide unique backgrounds to start your journaling adventure.BONUS how-to section on Pareidolia art included. To spark your journaling ideas, visual and written prompts are included as well as a sample image for each visual prompt. An "Inspiration Gallery" of finished journal pages using the "journal starters" images, by author Kim Rae Nugent and 13 contributing artists including Jill K. Berry and Kim Geiser, are sure to give you many ideas to apply to your own pages. The 60-pound paper is the ideal substrate for mixed media applications including collage and paint. For expanded mixed media techniques, the author recommends prepping pages with a thin coat of fluid matte medium first. Pages are printed double-sided to give twice as many image choices for the same manufacturing cost as single-side. For online camaraderie, artistic techniques and support, the author offers a Facebook group to owners of the book.