To Thine Own Self be True! A Journaling Page in the Sketchbook.

I'm trying to choose different ideas and applications that I wouldn't normally do...Affirmations is something 

I DON'T DO. ?

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So, I viewed this tutorial titled under affirmations titled 

Alphabet Pocket Book with artist/instructor Rachel Hazel 

listed in the 

Sketchbook Revival BingeFEST tutorials.

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First thing we did was make a small envelope after we scribbled words/thoughts/affirmations on an entire piece of paper. We used a portion of the paper to make a small envelope.

I used a thick grease pencil on my sketchbook paper and covered it with words loosely written in cursive. Grease pencils glide across smooth paper, and I knew I could use any medium on top of it if I needed to.

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Then, I made a folded book or sheave of small pages to go into the envelope from that first page.

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I was thinking all the time, how in 20 years time, very few people under the age of 40 would be able to read this...hmmmm? 

I enhanced the lines with some colors and scribbles with some pastel alcohol markers.

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The envelope was centered and glued on the page and the 'book' sheave inserted in the envelope. 

Next for some free expressive writing, also called automatic writing. I really don't know what I had written on the first page and it was all chopped and folded up---so, we will never know. 

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 I started thinking...um, I'm always thinking, I have a brain that doesn't shut off. I did a few deep centering breaths and started on the outside of the page and wrote about my art. Outside and around, by now I was thinking of all my relatives who wrote letters going around the edges of the airmail pages to communicate their last little thoughts and best wishes, and how that sort of writing would center around the little message envelope...so I kept going around and around.

By the time I was done I had no idea of what I had written...true automatic writing, letting the movement and the action take over your words.
 

I remembered the first few words and then my brain took over leaving the experience behind.  Here are my words...scribbled around the page, I had to go back and see what I wrote.

I had a painting teacher in college that was fond of saying, "To Thine own Self be True." That was the 60's when people were trying to experience everything, whether it was something they wanted to do or not. 

It was a time of doing New for the sake of new, of brilliance and fake brilliance, when you look back.

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At this point I added more color...and some doodles around the small envelope. 

So this was my journaling, affirmations and scribbling.

This entire exercise took about 20 minutes, really a quick project.

Somehow I don't think I would have the same result if I started out with any sort of  

INTENTION!

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