Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls [Paperback]

Dawn DeVries Sokol (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2010 | Series: Journal

Doodle Diary is an interactive guide to doodling that teaches girls how to combine images with words and art journaling techniques. In the tradition of Keri Smith (Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book), Dawn DeVries Sokol has created a fun, easy artist's journal to get kids started with the basics.

Beautifully illustrated in full color, Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls provides clear explanations, instructions, and inspirations. Every page prompts a different project using a different artistic medium. For example, the Extreme School Makeover page directs you to paste a photo of your school on the page and then doodle over the image to remake it. Another page is for your movie reviews, but don't forget to add your recent movie stubs or photos from ads to enhance the page. Whether you want to doodle about your day, make lists of your favorite things, or just write down goals and daydream, Doodle Diary is a great way to learn about art while having fun.

Try different mediums:

• Pens
• Watercolors
• Markers
• Stamps

Add in:

• Family photos
• Ticket stubs
• Found art
• Xerox transfers

Dawn DeVries Sokol provides an engaging way for budding artists to learn and practice their artistic skills. Whether it's used for practice or daydreams, this book is sure to delight artists of all ages. Dawn DeVries Sokol is an art journaler and doodler. Her blog (www.dblogala.com) provides ideas and discussions on materials, overcoming creative blocks, and prompts. She currently resides in Tempe, Arizona.

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From the Back Cover

Learn to doodle your heart out using creative tips and prompts and all sorts of materials, from regular old crayons and pens to oil pastels, gel pens, Wite-Out, collage, found art, Xeroxes and photographs, stickers, outlining, and more.

Journal your days in fun, easy, and creative ways!

About the Author

Dawn DeVries Sokol is an avid art journaler and doodler. Her blog (www.dblogala.com) focuses on art journaling, with ideas and discussions on materials, overcoming creative blocks, prompts, and more. Dawn is the author and designer of 1000 Artist Journal Pages, which has sold 16,000 copies since it released in 2008. She lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith (August 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423605292
• ISBN-13: 978-1423605294
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > Children's Books > Arts, Crafts & Music > Art

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an amazing journal for all ages!, July 9, 2010

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S. Kira Harding - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls (Paperback)

Looking at the preview for this book, I didn't know what to expect; many books on journaling include some sort of materials section at the beginning, and I was looking for something more. Wanting to learn to doodle better myself, I ordered a copy and jumped for joy when it arrived.

When it came out of the package, I was surprised! It's a great size -- small enough to fit in a purse or backpack -- and is THICK.

Past the recommended materials, there are pages and pages of prompts, ideas, and collaged backgrounds for you to work on. The prompts are diverse, and many have "tips" for how you can expand and enhance your journaling. They range from ways to use materials to cutting "out a photo of a friend -- paste it on the page and start dooodling in the Mehndi style around it," to "What do I want to be? Happy, adventurous, fun? Either write these words or find them in magazines and paste them onto the page. Doodle around them."

The pages are great for girls just discovering who they are. There are bits for favorite jewelry, your favorite and least favorite classes, a school makeover, and "I can't wait to be an adult because..." But there are deeper prompts as well. Dawn Sokol has girls exploring who they are and want to be, what they value, who they look up to, what quotes guide them. Working through this doodle diary will help girls grow and foster strong self-esteem and figure out who they are.

If you're an adult, you, too, can work through this diary! Many of the prompts will take you back to childhood, where you can re-examine what you loved (and didn't love!) back then, bringing those school years into clear focus. And many are fun prompts -- Dawn has you exploring new materials and gives you tips on how to use them in different ways. Journal about an embarrassing moment, what you said today. Use junk mail or combine words. What is on your iPod? What inspires you?

'Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls' is up there with Keri Smith's 'Wreck This Journal' for the pure creative genius of its writer; there is passion and fun in this book that you can't help but giggle with glee when you pick it up and start playing on its pages.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creativity Abounds!, July 11, 2010

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Kimberly Santini (Lake Orion, MI United States) - See all my reviews

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I'm an artist and journalling teacher - and this book has tickled me on both levels. The prompts are perfect jumping points for all sorts of creative thought and the pages are delightfully designed, yet not so perfect/prescious that they scare a child off from marking on them/journalling. I put it immediately on my journalling bibliography that I hand out to my student's parents - and based on the kids' reactions at today's class, it'll soon be in each of their backpacks! Furthermore, my daughter begged me to give her my copy. Solution? I bought another one!! Wonderful book, Dawn - and thank you!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for on the go art moments!, September 21, 2010

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Kelly Kilmer "artist and instructor" (West Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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Who says that doodling has to be just for kids, or even just for girls? Dawn Sokol's new book, Doodle Diary is the perfect size book for your on the go art moments. It's fresh. It's colorful. It's inspiring. It's inexpensive. It's a fun little book that you can toss in your purse with a small handful of favorite pens and work on it while you are in line at the post office, at lunch, waiting for a movie to start, etc... I know what my nieces will be receiving for Christmas!

In the meantime, my copy is in my purse along with a tiny set of $2 gel pens from Dick Blick. Guess who's been having fun with art on the go? My plan is to use the book now as is and then cut it up later to reuse it later in my regular art journal!