This is a journal entry from the visual journal I kept during a season of upheaval, loss and grief (more of this story, below).

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The backstory of today's video: Visual Art Journaling Through Grief and Loss:

Vulnerability alert! Since my visual art journals are journals, I keep them private, like you would a written diary.

The writing is something I don't usually share with people, especially EVERYONE on Youtube!

But when I have shared writings and images like this from my visual journals in my classes and with artist friends, they always encourage me to share more, and share publicly. This is an experiment that may stop at anytime. LOL.

You can let me know in the comments if this type of video resonates with you, if it’s helpful and what else you’d like to see more of on my channel. I LOVE reading your comments and do my best to respond to all of your questions.

What is visual journaling? Why keep a sketchbook? How is that the same or different from keeping an art journal?

Keeping a visual journal is vital to my creative process, but first, it was always the way I processed my feelings, made sense out of the senseless, and found meaning in my challenges.

This is what it means to put your creative process before the outcome. What ends up on the pages of my visual journals are a result of digging deep and being willing to tell the truth about my own experience. The images and words that appear flow from the creative reservoir that is inside all of us.

This is what I share and teach in my visual journaling classes and workshops. Below are suggested videos for you to watch next, as well as links to my upcoming workshops, including the Creativity Workshop Facilitator Training.

Thanks so much for being here, and I hope you take away something that helps you make art and feel better.

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Hi! I’m Lisa Sonora, a visual artist, former art therapist, and author of eight books, including The Creative Entrepreneur and 100 Portraits in 100 Days: A Quarantine Diary.

Creating art can transform your life, but self-doubt and judgment make it hard to get started — and that’s why I teach Visual Journaling — a powerful creative practice that can disarm your inner critic and free you to create meaningfully, and with confidence.

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🍿 VIDEOS to watch next 🍿

🎥 Learn more about how to structure your visual journal in this video:
How Making Art Helps You Find Your Purpose
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If you want to see how I use a visual journal to support my creative practice as a painter, and hear me read another written journal entry about the benefit to my art practice of keeping visual journals, then watch this video:
Sketchbook Tour — From Word to Image: My Layered Visual Journal for Painting Practice    • From Word to Image: My Layered Visual...  

🎥 How I Visual Journal in a Daily Agenda:    • How I Visual Journal in a Daily Agenda  
🎥 So Many Ways to Keep a Travel Journal:    • So Many Ways to Keep a Travel Journal  

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