- What's coming up is one of my absolute favorite things.

It's journaling.

We've been working on, basically, the illustration part, but what happens when you add words?

When you add words, you double the meaning and suddenly you've got a bigger impact.

Right here you see the illustration.

Here come the words, and there's another little illustration down there.

You can put as many illustrations on a page as you can fit in, and then the words tell about it.

And people wanna read the words because it's a double message.

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- Today, I wanna show you something I really, really enjoy, and it's really only a slight step different and doesn't require a lot of equipment.

It's journaling.

All journaling is is an illustration with words.

Some people journal in a notebook every morning, strictly writing, but it's a lot more interesting if you add pictures.

And when you have the pictures, it's more interesting if you add a few words.

I'm gonna show you my absolute all-time favorite of journaling.

This is from the sketchbook of Eugene Delacroix.

About the late 1800s, when artists did not have access to cameras.

So if they went along on a trip as an artist, they had to be able to sketch from life.

And if you notice, some of the illustrations are excellent.

That part's a little bit not so good.

That's off the page.

And that one pass as a stick figure.

This one is actually saying something.

That horse is terrific.

Those, whatever the images are, they're lost.

They all appear on a page.

It doesn't matter.

But the words that carry on, carry on the story of whatever you saw.

It's absolutely complete.

The one that's in the picture with me, that is the recipe so I can make what was served at that restaurant.

I mean, what fun?

Then you have the recipe right on the page.

You can have wine, the name of a friend, an address, anything that's pertinent to that day and that instance.

Now I'm gonna show you a few things that this is not, because they're kind of fun.

There is a craft called scrapbooking.

This is typical.

You bring suitcases of stuff and you assemble them.

This means suitcases of stuff.

And this is not done in the field.

This is definitely done on a table with glue, scissors, staples, who knows?

But lots and lots of things.

I did one just for the fun of it for a Valentine's Day card for my husband.

So it involved a doily, a kid stamp, a picture with, and I love this, gotta see words, got a cataract removed, looked like this.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Then this folds down.

Aha, and then there's a postage stamp, just because I liked it.

And that says love dragons.

That's not where I'm going, but this is considered as journaling by some folks.

Let me show you some other things you don't want.

You don't want something that's so beautiful you won't use it.

This book was totally handmade by Lois Jet for me.

It's dedicated to me.

The entire book is handmade.

She used five different papers and when she started another paper, she said what paper it is.

I can't use that.

It's too beautiful.

I'm not gonna wreck that carrying it around.

It travels in a plastic bag.

Here's another one.

This is typical of books that many people carry.

Please notice that there's no way to keep from having this flip out in the distance and you've just ruined not being seen in public, because you've got this big piece cantilevered out.

If you do it this way, it's cantilevered out there.

In this case, it's not a heavy book.

It's got a paper binding that doesn't have a hard binding, so that's not gonna kill you.

But the fact that it's sticking out there is very, very inconvenient.

The next one, nice book, nice paper.

It's spiral bound so that you can take this and wrap it around like that.

Extremely nice paper.

But those covers make it heavy.

And there's a lot of paper in this book, a lot of paper.

That makes it heavy.

You wanna get the weight down and you wanna have the convenience.

Now, in this case, because it's spiral bound, it's not gonna stick out in the distance, but it's heavy.

It's gonna wear you out and you're not gonna do much.

And then there are people who take something like this journaling.

It's again, it's beautiful paper.

The only reason I bought this is I plan to cut the paper down the sizes I like, and put 'em together with a bulldog clip so that I can take a page off and put it on the bottom.

This is hugely heavy.

There's no way you can hold this on the top of your paint set.

I mean, really?

I mean, I can hold my sketch pad on the top of this paint set.

Go ahead and try it.

You're good for about, no you're not even good for a second.

This is tremendous weight, and it sticks way, way, way, way out.

So now let's get to something that does work.

So bring up a few that work beautifully, and get rid of these that are just cumbersome one way or another, or too nice to use or too much stuff.

So you won't use it.

This works.

This is simply a greeting card and that turns it into journaling.

And you can write anything you want on it.

And it can be the original or copies.

This actually is journaling from my notebook.

It's from Catalina Island in California.

Waiting 20 minutes for a table at Jack's.

Catalina Island, Avalon.

So looking up the street while standing there, you can hold our little pad endlessly on the lid of the paint set in private, not be seen while you're sketching.

And it's not heavy, it's not cumbersome, it works.

Then you can write anything you want with any pen on the bottom of it.

This one has almost nothing, but I wanted to record this.

Ah, the alligator bag.

Alligator bags are ridiculously expensive.

I had a person in the class who had one.

Well, those, I'm not gonna buy one so why wouldn't you sketch it?

It's a heck of a lot more fun.

Sketch it and you've got the sketch.

It was a beautiful alligator bag.

This was the announcement for our wedding party.

And again, it's a form of journaling.

It was done earlier than the wedding.

And you simply wrote that on the top.

Dale had it reproduced on beige.

Oh, here it is in white.

And in fact, this is the original.

And you can see how effective it is.

The words tell a lot more.

And then of course the inside had the invitation in it.

A greeting card and an envelope.

What a pair.

The envelope is also decorated.

The greeting card is decorated.

These will go right on top of your pad, no problem.

And then you write whatever you want on the inside.

Postcards.

There are some brands that work beautifully with our pen.

And then the back of the postcard, it just tears off.

Well, it really tears off very easily.

But there's the greeting, you put the image here, put the address there, and you've got it.

And now I'm gonna get to one I am going to use and put something on it so you get the idea.

This is from the Ojo Caliente pond in Tucson.

I'm going to use a calligraphic pen because it's fun, and it has two tips.

You can get these very inexpensively or very expensively.

But this is one tip.

And it looks like you know how to calligraph, but you don't.

And then the other tip is great big, probably too big for this use.

But we'll just do the same word.

See how beautiful that looks?

But I can't calligraph, and this will fit in the bag.

It's not a big deal.

The paper is the same paper I usually use in a bigger format.

That's all.

And it allows little images or larger images.

Not too many pages.

Spiral bound, will only stick out this far.

Will go in my bag, put it over here so you can see it.

It goes in the bag vertically.

I can't zip the bag, but I still have both hands free.

And when this paper buckles, because it gets too wet you can put a weight on it or sit on it when it's dry and it'll flatten right out.

If you go bigger than this, you're cantilevering out further.

It's very hard to hold it up.

I've done it a much larger pad, same paper, bigger pad, it cantilevers out farther, it really wears you out.

And then when the paper buckles, it's hard to manage afterwards.

Go to a heavier weight.

And I'd say you're not portable anymore.

That's the other problem.

Portability in my book is king.

So if I wanted to write on this, you get the idea.

Okay, sunny, and oh, you don't have to write in any particular place.

You can write around, as in sunny.

Hmm, actually about, hmm, 105.

That'd be a Tucson summer temperature, but dry.

Dry.

And no bugs.

(Kath chuckles) Well, why not?

Why not?

Why not?

And no bugs.

There you go.

There's another little illustration, and it was done with the calligraphic pen.

Or you can add another one down here.

Fat dog in way.

Okay?

Again, you probably probably have to put the lid on this.

I'm sure it dries out.

I've never dried one out.

And then if you want to, and remember, all of this you can be holding the whole thing.

No problem.

You can be holding and standing there.

And we will, at one point, do a couple outside sketches so you can see how easy that is.

But let's say I want a little fat dog.

Fat, fat dog.

Fat dog.

Just a little fat dog.

Why not?

It's got a head.

It's got mm, stick up ears.

It doesn't have to be good.

It's an illustration.

And he's got a tail and it's got front legs but they're very short.

And hind legs, they're very short, too.

But there's another illustration.

You can put these with words anywhere.

So, and it's portable and it flips over.

It doesn't weigh a ton.

It isn't too pretty to use.

(Kath chuckles) The whole thing is about you wanna be able to go places and do things, not be stuck having to go to a table, not leaving your sketchbook behind because you didn't notice and didn't pick it up, not leaving your equipment behind.

You want to be able to be mobile.

So if I were to do something in my sketch pad, now you think, hey, this is small.

Mm, not that small.

What if?

And in my case, hmm.

I could have anything on this, absolutely anything.

Here, hmm mm.

Let's have a sketch.

Remember the pen?

And by the way, this is one of the neat things.

This does not have to be perfect.

If you think it's gotta be perfect, you're just giving yourself an awful lot of work.

So this bottle is not perfect.

Okay?

What if there were a whole bunch of them?

What if there were a whole bunch of them?

There's another one and another one.

And put a label on it.

There.

And what else would be there?

This might not work.

Can't think of how to do a fancy corkscrew.

So there's a bottle opener.

It's probably gonna be shady down here.

And that end might be more of a tab.

Okay.

And what else would be there?

A glass.

Of course, a glass.

And little lips there.

Okay, hmm.

Spent the afternoon at Joe's with Dale and vegged out.

Could he get peanuts in here?

(chuckles) Why not?

Oh, it would be a bowl.

How about a bowl of peanuts?

Well then I've hidden the peanuts.

You see how flexible this is?

And then of course it's gonna have a little color.

So you just get, you whip out your paint set.

Stick this on the lid.

You're in a bar.

The bottle.

Mm, let's try green.

But this basically is how it works.

Ooh, good opportunity for highlights.

Good opportunity for highlights.

There's one, there's probably one over there but I can't get it there now.

And right there.

Okay.

Green bottle.

Note, I don't even have to stay in the lines if I don't want to.

The bottom of it's gonna be darker, like that.

That's okay, that works.

The wax didn't stay, I'm surprised.

Did I put it on that side?

No, it's on this side.

It did stay.

You can include the lines if you want to.

Perhaps it got a little darker down there.

There you go.

Then the next one, different color bottle.

Just bring that down like that.

Oh, well the gray works perfectly.

Use the line.

Why not?

That's all I need.

And I bet it picks up some ink if I touch that.

And the last one.

Mm, right out of the lid of the box, there and quit there.

Oh, there might be a little line on the, does it matter?

The ellipse and pull that line down a bit.

Something on the label.

There's a label.

Peanuts, nope.

Turned out to be a bowl.

You can see that this can be done while you're chatting with a friend, having an extremely good time just discussing anything.

And meanwhile, you can write notes.

This should be a silver opener.

Does that work pretty well?

Well enough.

And then is there a table?

Is there a table?

Just go right, see, right through.

There's your table.

But he probably didn't finish the note.

Hmm.

The wine was, and I can't think of a brand.

Oh, oh, just make up a brand.

Alamosa malbec.

Get it!

Okay, so now you've got a note that's relevant to you.

I've got myself something to do next.

It's different writing.

It says where I was, who I was with, and it's journaling.

It is all that simple.

Wherever you go, there might be things like, I'm very likely to put a recipe on something, put a note.

Let's say the food was just incredible as it was in split.

That was the first time I ever went to Europe.

We ate at this unbelievable little family restaurant.

People kept going, oh, the ownership?

Three generations.

Grandpa had started it.

He was there, son and grandson were all there.

Son is a cook.

Grandson's a waiter.

And the place, everybody knew him.

Now you've got to write something down.

A photograph is cold.

So instead it's really fun to be able to write it down and put it on a piece of paper, so there it is.

And you could do, while you're having dinner, you could do two or three.

The food, sketching food is delightful.

Sketch the food and tell about it.

That's a journal entry.

I mean like you got nothing to say?

Well, why are you there?

I mean, don't you see something that is really, really, really memorable?

The herds of people going through?

All the people sitting down and how they sit.

The sunny, warm day, they slouch, they're in the sun.

Oh, when we were in, we went to Paris.

The women are all skinny and they all move fast.

And most of them are beautiful.

And there didn't seem to be anybody overweight, nobody.

Well, this is kind of fun to put in a sketch and then remark.

They're all skinny.

They all walk twice our speed, and they're not, they can even do it in the high heels.

That was amazing.

Then we get to Croatia and they're all overweight, and they're totally comfortable overweight.

And the food is heavier, you know?

I mean like you're gonna eat something and you're gonna get heavier, more solid kind of food.

None of this little picky things.

Well, this all goes in a journal.

And if you put it in when your camera takes pictures, your camera doesn't write notes.

You don't have anything that's gonna tell you what was there.

And when you see the photos, a couple things happen.

First place, you remember it as being more fantastic than the photos.

That's because you brought your brain when you were there.

And if you sketch it, you sketch what you think is there or what you think ought to be there.

It's your sketch.

The camera gets what's there.

What you have brought to that moment in time is your entire lifespan.

Everything that's happened on that trip, the people you are with, the day you are having, and you put it all on the paper.

When you look at your sketch, you remember everything.

When you look at the photos you can't even remember where you were because you took 500 of them in a single day and may not have had the time to edit them.

This is totally different.

This is immersion.

And when you start writing things down and remembering what you saw, it's complete immersion and you are there.

You don't have to go very far.

You only have to go a little ways, and you'll be surprised what you can write in and how much more meaning it has.

To me, it's been just amazing.

I don't often journal, because I do a lot of simply sketching, but this next year I'm gonna be working on, and my years start in the fall.

(chuckles) It goes back to grade school, high school, college, they start in the fall.

They don't start in January.

So my year starts in the fall and I'm in the fall right now, the beginning of it.

And I'm going to pick up more and more journaling, just because it's so much fun to read the journal afterwards and you can share it.

One family I know, and I might have mentioned this before, the parents got into this.

Took three kids on a long car trip.

You know how bad they are in a car, or they're all on electronic gadgets.

Well, they furnished the kids with sketching stuff and told them to journal.

And at night, at dinner in a restaurant, they would go over everybody's journals and what everybody remembered.

It became a fabulous thing for the kids.

And as they got to college, they were still doing it.

And they would remember, they'd pull out journals and remember trips because they had it all written down.

They had it all illustrated, and they got to compare with each other.

It gave them conversation at dinner.

The parents can't really converse with what the kids saw on an electronic device.

While they're riding in a car, they really can't.

Nor are the parents probably into the games.

But in this case, they got to total conversation built on this.

So I hope you really enjoy journaling.

I love it.

I think it adds so much to a trip and it's so easy to take along.

It's all portable, that goes wherever you go.

So have fun journaling.

What are we going to do next?

Next we're gonna get to another part of illustration, outdoors.

It's distance and focal point.

How do you make distance?

How do you make something go away on the piece of paper?

How do you make something come towards you?

And then how do you make something truly important?

It's all what you do.

It's not what's out there.

What's out there, the camera can catch, but the camera cannot move things in and out the way you see them.

The camera cannot, unless you're a really good photographer, pick a focal point that you like that's a little ways away and bring it toward you.

You can do that.

You can put that all in your sketch and you have absolute control.

And what's more, you can do it quickly, and then you can move on and do something else.

If it doesn't work at 20 minutes, you can do another one.

Second one probably works very well.

But my max is three.

But what I've found is by the time I get to the third one if I have to do it, the third one's much better.

First one may be bad, second one's gonna be much better.

The third one, by then you've learned and you can do the distance.

You can make distance happen on something as tiny as a four inch bowl of flowers, or something that's, hmm, quarter mile away.

You're in control.

So we'll show you next time how to do this.

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