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Art Journaling With Lois Bender

By Renee Phillips 1 Comment

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Art journaling has a long-standing artistic tradition. Artists have kept notebooks in which they sketched, practiced, experimented, and recorded their ideas. Visual journaling has been a way for them to resolve questions, save daily observations, and serve as a starting point for more finished works of art to evolve. The most famous of all art journalists was Leonardo da … [Read more...]

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