Is raw art journaling different from art journals?
I’m not fussy about titles. Raw art journaling is for people who think they can’t draw or write, so they wind up not expressing themselves. Raw art journaling is about letting go of the fear and making marks. Doodling. Sketching. Creating symbols of your own. Backgrounds and edge designs. Q: How do you do it? A: I look carefully. I notice. You already know a lot of symbols: A Yield sign is a triangle, a Stop sign is an octagon. A circle with a line through it means No or Not. Letters and numbers are also symbols. Here’s an example. I saw this illustration of googly plastic eyes in the New York Times. [Week in Review, 3/22/09, illustration by Tamara Shopsin] Months ago, I noticed an interesting pattern on one of the freeways where I live. It was a background that looked like fitted stones in various sizes. It’s here: http://tinyurl.com/dea32s if you want to look at it. Being a fan or organic shapes, I created the idea below.
