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The Visual Journal - Linda Passman

The Visual Journal

Linda Passman will lead you in a workshop of artistic adventure combining writing, drawing and

photography, using watercolor and collage to create a unique personal book to keep and

treasure.

Passman is an experienced teacher and artist proficient in drawing, printmaking, painting, and

work in mixed media. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and shows in North Carolina and

the New York area. She has created Journals from travels all over the world; from a chateau in

France, through cities of Europe to the mountains of Equador, the ancient cultures of Turkey and

Egypt and the American East and West coasts.

Linda invites you to, “Describe something. . . . someone: a conversation, a memory, a place and

use it as the theme in your journal. Once something is on the page, your relationship to it shifts. It’s

a magical process. Suddenly experience can be revised, enriched, expanded, transformed. By

combining writing and visual imagery, meaning grows on the page. The journal, as poet Billy

Collins says, “holds whatever I uncap my pen to save.” Your imagination is your limit.

The workshop is a rare opportunity to merge the word and the image into a permanent treasure.

Curriculum

2 Day session (One 2 hour day and second 6 hour day broken up by lunch)

Objective: Build a Travel Journal

We will each create a personal journal based on a place. It could be right here about your home

environment, a place you have visited or even of an imaginary place.

Day 1

1. Introductions and examples of Visual Journaling

2. Getting Started . . . get acquainted with materials

3. Make a Plan - Decide on a theme,

4. Layout, - Table of Contents, Introduction, Paging

Map the beginning, development, conclusions

Day 2

1. 9 AM - Day 2 - Studio Work - dig in

12 Noon - 1 hour - Lunch and Feedback, Questions

1:00 - Studio Work

3:00 - 3:30 . . . make plan for what is incomplete - gaps and spaces

3:30 - 4:00 Conclusion and contacts

Bring an unlined Journal 6 x 9 “ or larger. I recommend paper weight of 75 lb. or heavier to

accommodate water media. I use, Exacompta #1608Edged Sketch Book from Writer's Bloc www.

shopwritersbloc.com

Assorted pens to draw and write with, at least one that is waterproof and will not bleed when wet,

any favorite drawing tool – marker, pen, pencils, etc.

Favorite brushes and watercolor paints, preferably pan watercolors but do not go out and buy

when you have materials at home.

Sobo glue, Matte Medium (I like Golden, but others are fine), scissors, razor blade, paper towels,

water container, small kitchen sponge

Bring envelopes that will fit in the front and back of your journal – plain or colored - for end pockets

Paper or Fabric to cover your Journal

Several photo prints of people, places and things you care about. They may be on copier paper or

glossy. Multiple copies are good to have.

Optional; Tickets, receipts, maps of favorite places, stamps and post cards, Decorative papers –

printed or plain, pressed leaves or flowers, old labels