ART JOURNAL FLIP-THROUGH - Tour of my Moleskine Mixed-media sketchbook
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2021
- Art journal flip through with a thorough tour of my Mixed media Moleskine sketchbook. I did something drastic by combining two journals, ripping one apart and making one big, fat monster art journal! I am so happy with how it turned out I couldn't wait to share it with you on here. I talk through all the pages and spreads with a little (but not too much Wendy waffle,) on each. Just a bit of background into the emotions and meanings behind the making of the pages. There is a variety of approaches in this journal as it spans over a long period of time. It has become a best friend and a safe & sacred space for me to express myself and process difficult emotions. I hope you enjoy the flip through.
Thanks so much for watching and all the lovely comments and connections.
Love & big soft virtual hugs, Wendy Xx
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It's really beautiful! And some of the pages you call unfinished are some of my favourites, it's funny how different we think about our art, isn't it?
I also wanted to ask if you ever took SuziBlue's classes? Some of your girls are very similar to hers. She is on youtube as well, and also wrote a book about it. ☺☺
Take care!
i’ve been going through some really tough times recently and have been trying to journal as a way of healing. this video is so inspiring for me, thank you so much! your channel has been a very lovely light in the middle of all this darkness✨
Thank you for sharing that with me Amelie, I'm so glad you are enjoying these videos, believe me, making them is helping me so much too to navigate through what you say, some really tough times... xx soft hugs and hope you feel better soon x
Same. I got inspired which is a rare thing these days. I'm wondering where she gets her journals. I want to start a collection and do this in my spare time now. It's a beautiful way to heal. She makes it look easy
That was a rather emotional experience for me Wendy,
I’m honoured that you could share your journal with your followers.
Thank you very much indeed.
By the way, you don’t waffle 💐💐💐
Thank you Sheilagh, I'm honoured that you watched it, x
Thank you for the comfort your videos bring for us mental health patients 💗
Xx Well, making them helps mine too... so believe me, it is a circle... Thank you for being here and loads of love xxx
@@theunexpectedgypsy 🙏🏼🌻💫
I needed this peaceful video. My boyfriend is currently in the mental hospital, and it’s been a very stressful situation. This helped me calm down and brightened my day ☀️ thanks for everything you do
I hope everything stays calm for you in these challenging times x soft hugs
Hello! I am very much transitioning in every aspect- financially, emotionally, mentally, physically, just got dx with ADHD, depression, and anxiety at 41 years old. I've learned very harsh loss for the first time (times 4) in my "charmed" life. I feel like I've aged a decade in the past 24 months. Literally nothing is the same and I am having a hard time "staying alive." This video touched me in a way that I haven't felt for over two years. I'm not a sappy person and it's usually all jokes with me, but I can say honestly that I think finding this video is going to help me find myself again. It seems a little irrational to my logical brain, but there's something here for me and I think I just wanted to say thank you for putting yourself out here.
An invited peek into an artist’s mind is strangely comforting. Thank you for sharing this journal tour with us. It was just what I needed to start to balance out a very stressful week.
Glad it helped xxxx soft hugs and may your next week be more peaceful xx
Well done and thank you for being honest Wendy that's what we love about you and your courage 😃🦋
Thank you xxx So glad you enjoyed it... x
I think that your “ugly” page is beautiful and ethereal!❤❤❤
The page you called one of your ugly pages, I found to be quite beautiful. I was surprised when you said 'ugly pages'. I have those pages as well, and I understand that somethings just don't happen they way we like, or want. I just wanted to let you know that I found beauty in that onion layer. ;)
Wendy have you ever thought of makeing tarot cards with your art, just ones for midness relaxation.
yes I have dear Carol, maybe one day!! xx
Uhhhhh! That would be wonderful!
I would totally purchase tarot cards from you ! New here and love love your art! Thanks so much for sharing 😊🌟
what a great idea!
Why would anyone voluntarily let demons in their life by messing around with New Age practices?
Thank you dear Wendy for showing us all these pages of your heart! So much beauty & purpose. You are a bright & shining light helping us all get through this time of sometimes bleak days.
I think you draw fairies so much because they are 'self portraits'. You just don't show your wings to everyone.💖
Tyfs.💚💚💚
Your Journal 📓 is Beautiful! 💗 I Love to look at peoples Journals!! It’s like having a intimate chat with someone!!! Thanks for Sharing!!!! 💞
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Thank you for sharing your art.
Thank you for showing a peek into your journal. You sent out courage to just be yourself in a journal. I am definitely going to get back at it.
yay! pleased to hear this Sheila xx
Your courage is shining very bright today, thank you for sharing🌟you are like those string of twinkling lights you put up, soft and sweet. I’m always looking forward to spending a bit of time with you, you always inspire. Last wk when you ask’d for requests I did not submit one in txt but my first thought was.. I would really love to go on a walk to that beautiful fairy tale castle ive got a glimpse of in another video, and O wow wee I got more than I could ask for! Birds, swans, water, castle, ur handsome prince on a bench, a gorgeous tree..and best of all.. you with such a cute and sweet twinkle in your voice this week, ✨keep shining your beautiful light💕Aloha from Kauai🌺
I think I totally love you! Thank you so much for this... much loves and Aloha to you xxxxxx
This is a wonderful journal. I love the faces of the girls and women, you got so much talent. TFS
The ways in which you continue to update the pages and don't follow the journal chronologically are so great. Thank you so much for so vulnerably sharing this with us. It was so beautiful and calming to watch.
Thank you Michelle, glad it brought you something xx
Its so funny...what you called your ugly pages were my favorites! The faces are so evocative...so much more loose and raw. This makes me rethink my own journals and how I see them
Hey Wendy Wendy, so funny! That's why it's so helpful to get others' perspectives on our pages... thank you for this! xxx
I agree! I was sad almost every time she said she was going to paint or gesso over a page.
Another wonderful video. Your journal is beautiful. I am struggling with my mental health and have recently started to keep a written journal. It's wonderful how cathartic it is. Thank you Wendy xox
Hey Wendy and James!
Your art and journals are absolutely stunning. You've got such a gift and you're so talented! I'm so glad I found you. 🥰
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL JOURNAL
I'm feeling more free to layer in my journal since I've discovered your channel a few months ago. I've reached the end of my big newish journal I started and am now making a second pass through gluing, painting, drawing, writing and it's getting so rich! Wow! Re-reading my ideas I forgot about and now deciding to actually do some of those ideas! I'm learning so much in this new focus on art and everything journalling! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Really happy to hear this Terry xxx Thank you for being here x
@@theunexpectedgypsy Thanks!
Thank you for sharing. This was such a treat. What a beautiful journal.
Your so wholesome and calm,love your vibes❤🎨
I could listen to you all day.
Lovely to wake up and spend the morning (with coffee) listening to your journalling processing... motivates me.
Thank you❣️
Yay loved having coffee with you! xxx Glad you got something out of it x
Thank you for sharing something so precious.
Oh Wendy you have a Huge Voice and I love it. Nobody listens or hears my voice. Not very talkative. But when I do say something nobody hears it. Pretty used to it by now. Anyways, love your art Journaling and artwork. 💜
One of the reasons I love my youtube is exactly that Anita, it gives me a space for my voice... I’ve often been unheard in real life. Keep trying anyway, and journaling is a useful tooL here.... loads of soft hugs, xx🌷🌷
I hope you are heard more often. You are today 🤗✨🐶
@@allisonjames2923 Thank you Allison. 💐
I hear you. I am the same way. So I’m a listener and observer and thinker, and sometimes I get to paint. Lots of hugs!!!💜🌞🌸
I heard you. Saying a prayer for you. I hope you are free to notice all the many times that people do hear you.
Cup of tea and Wendy on a Saturday morning, a special treat! Thank you for sharing your private, happy place, Wendy. Loads of inspiration. I am trying to free myself up a bit with my art process so permission to play given! Blessings! Hugs x
Yes me too enjoy your Saturday. Its nice and sunny south coast NSW
@@jackygann594 Same sunny up here in Northern NSW Enjoy creating!
Country NSW here with my coffee! Cheers girls! ☕💕
Yay! I love having tea with you all xxxxxx Happy weekends xxxx
such beautiful buildings and water and winged ones ahhhh.
Not sure if my original comment went through... if not here it is again! Your beautiful video, showing us your journal whilst speaking to us with your soft voice, sent me to sleep, sitting up... no, this is a good thing!! At 54 I get really tired at the moment with wakeful dreams. Your video was a great 🧘♀️ meditation! I will have to make sure I watch it again and do more to my journal...awake this time! Keep doing what you do please. It is helping so many of us. Ros. xx 🌈
So much love to you Ros, xxxx
Hi thank you for sharing such a personal journal I loved the video your journal has given me so much inspiration to actually start one. The fear of the blank page and or making a mess has finally been eradicated . Blessed be and shine bright 🌞
Thank you so much for sharing Wendy - it was a pleasure and an inspiration....it is awesome to know that I'm not the only one out there that picks random pages through my journal to be artistic with instead of going page by page from the front!just to be different and be me 💙
Your art journal is lovely. Thank you for sharing it. You have shown me that I only need to be myself on my journal pages...I don't have to create to impress anybody...not even me... I can love and trust whatever comes out onto the pages from my soul.
Lovely journal, every layer has energy and feeling.
You are so inspiring to me right now, I cannot tell you how grateful I am. As a recently recovering perfectionist (which is the antithesis of self care,) you have given me permission to jump around from page to page, to revisit past pages and to ALLOW a flow...thank you, Wendy. You're my new best friend.
Thank you for sharing your journal. I really appreciate your “no judgement” reminders. They have helped me work through projects I previously would have given up on. Have a great week. ❤️
Lovely, Wendy. Thanks so much! :)
xx.
A pleasure to see❤
Watched again, in a place of pain myself and found this! Lifted me up and streamed me into another realm! Blessed and safe days!
Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. 💜
Loved the journal look-see. Thanks for sharing more of yourself. I always look for you with pleasure on Friday!
What a treat, lovely tour thanks darlin 💕 inspirational ❤🤩 huge love n hugs xxxxx
I loved this video. Thank you for sharing with us.
Love this... especially what you said at the end. Thank you
The angle tip at 4:36 is very helpful, thank you!
Love your pencil drawings.
Really love your art -I wish we could inspire more teenagers to make art journals like these-apart from allowing you to express your feelings, they could be so therapeutic and a way to find your voice
What a beautiful visual experience. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful! I really enjoyed that look at your journal. Thank you.💚
Beautiful, thank you so much for sharing ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜☯️🙏 xx
It's a beautiful journal, thank you for sharing.
"tore some pages out a magazine at a camp site bit naughty" so rebellious lol!
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haahha! tee hee!!
Heheh.. love it! I’ve done the same.
@@cookievf I once took a whole magazine from a dentist's waiting room
Thank you so much for taking the time to share! ❤️🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing this. I think I will try to do some of the things you have in my new journal!
hahaha love it ,.....you were deconstructing to put into another one ,...love it,.......I change my mind after a few years and deconstruct . Love your work
Hugs xox
Such a fascinating visual journal and very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
You are so talented, it is trully mesmerising... Thank you for sharing this Beauty with us...
i love that you quickly admitted to not being a "clean" artist. I, too, have glue and paint on my hands and clothes!!
Lovely. Thank you 🥰
Hola Wendy, ese diario es todo un tesoro 💜💛💚💙♥️
Catching up with your videos. Love 💘 your channel.
Yes I've been waiting for this!
🌻'Wendy waffles' sprinkled with fairy dust on top.."Oh what a deliciously, fun treat !" 😊
Ah! I recognise that town! It’s one of our favourite places in the South West. The Cathedral is stunning! Thanks for sharing your work. Recently subscribed and really enjoying your videos! 😊
Thanks so much Nina, yes the cathedral is awesome! xx
So beautiful❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love how you make up your own rules for your art. I am going to have to practice that. Such freedom at the thought xo
This is incredibly inspiring and so emotionally beautiful, thank you for sharing your amazing work. 💗
Thank you for inviting us into your journal 💕I’m sitting here with my coffee feeling warm and inspired now.
What a lovely outdoor. Beautiful mixed media journal 🦋
Nice job! I've been watching you for about a year, watching your transition. You are a lovely woman to share your journey with us! Thank you!
Love this. Such beautiful art work ❤️
Just wanted to voice that I see you and I hear you. And I so appreciate all your gifts, no matter what paper they are wrapped in.
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Spring cleaning the journals! 😁🌷 A cool idea.
Yay! exactly!!! Soooo theraputic!! x
Thank you for sharing Wendy ❤️
It is a treasure, and thanks for sharing it with us! I loved the abstract and planetary pieces of the journal and also the Chagally
stuff too. It was so fun to take the journey with you! x
What a gorgeous area you showed at the beginning of the video.
Thanks for sharing your process ❤️🌻✨
This video encouraged me on in my own art journey. I notice I respond well to bein given permission to express what is inside. As I watched you take us through your art journal, I experienced a huge YES!, to be myself and expressing what needs to come out of me, in my own art journal. Thank you!
I love your journal Wendy, wish I could make mine like that! Thank you for sharing 😘
I am glad I am not the only "messy" artist.
Loved the tour, gives me inspiration x
Thank you for sharing something so personal. Ever since finding your channel last year I have repeatedly said I will start to journal...... I will!!! I love dipping in to books randomly too x
Omg your work is exquisite. I've made 2 now, but yours is great because it's all your work. Well done. 🙂
Lovely.. thanks for sharing 👏❤️
I love watching your art journaling videos. Always inspires me to dive in again.
Happy creating dear Laurie 🌷😚😚
You have inspired me to go and paint something. Thank you!
I definaty enjoyed this video. Thank you,
I enjoyed your journal tour! Lovely drawings.
Thank you Wendy for sharing some of your very personal drawings within your journal. I find your creativity so refreshing and life affirming. ' Til next week...XO
Thank you so much for showing us through your journal! It’s absolutely beautiful & I love the unique style which you have developed. I really like the girl you’ve created opposite the bad dream page & think she would look super lovely as a print! ...All the pages are beautiful however...I always look forward to Fridays for your videos xxxx
Thank you for showing us your beautiful journal! Just absolutely loved it!!! 😍
Oh well thank you so much, so happy you got something from it xx
Thank you Wendy for sharing your journal. You have beautiful colors on your cheeks. I think you are doing better. Spring gives you energy. Good creation beautiful soul. Louise xx from Québec.
Yes, I do love spring x Loads of love and thank you x
I love it that your journals don't have rules or time frames . Thanks for sharing.
You collaborated with yourself, I love it - so healing. Thank you so much for sharing this, of all the art journaling artists, i feel most inspired by your quiet humble and whimsical voice and way of being- keep speaking to us!!!!
I did yes! I love that! Thank you xxxx
I totally understand that feeling of not liking one of the pages and not wanting to look it, but I think that spread is beautiful ❤️ it seemed very raw and real. Once you flipped to that pages, it just reached out and captivated me right away! I am sure you will get it to a place you are happy with as well though. Beautiful work