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Gluebook Journals
By Zura | June 23, 2008
In the Fun Journaling yahoo group, we have been discussing gluebooks. Gluebooks are a certain style of visual journal. They are fun and take away the pressure to create “pretty” pages. So, if you’re struggling with that inner critic in your art journal you might want to try a few gluebook type pages.
The idea is to use the items that cross your path during the day. By using ordinary items from your daily activities, you create a page in your journal that tells about your life but isn’t necessarily colorful or well constructed.
This image is a page out of one of my gluebooks. You’ll see some torn papers from some bills I got that day. THe brown sack is from Cracker Barrell where I bought a candle (the drawing). In a catalog I got that day was an advertisement for a book (?) called The Wilder Sister (the image in the lower left) and I identified with that title. The other words and images are things that I came across somewhere during the day that resonated with me.
If you’d like to look at some more professional gluebook artists, check out these sites:
http://www.squidoo.com/gluebooks
http://www.flickr.com/groups/gluebooks/
http://www.gluebooks.com/index.html
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/gluebook-2002/50481
Go glue something! 
Topics: Art |