Journal Bliss: Creative Prompts to Unleash Your Inner Eccentric [Paperback]

Violette (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 2009

Follow Your Bliss

Whether you're looking to express yourself creatively for the first time or have found yourself in a creative rut, you'll soon be following your inspired voice with the help of Journal Bliss.

With the guidance of author, Violette, you'll learn to express your thoughts and feelings like never before in your own art journal. Not only will Violette inspire you with her own journal pages, she'll teach you techniques for creating your own unique pages.

You'll learn to:

• Create juicy backgrounds and whimsical borders for your pages to help get the ideas flowing
• Love doodling, even if you think you can't draw
• Make image transfers of photos or even your own artwork
• Develop your own fanciful lettering and so much more!

Create freely, express yourself and enjoy the journey with Journal Bliss!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Violette's work can be found in North Light's Living the Creative Life and Kaleidoscope, and she is frequently featured in magazines including Creative Home, Cloth Paper Scissors, Somerset Studio Stamp It, Artella and many more. She teaches art-journaling workshops and has an active Web site, www.violette.ca.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (April 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600611893
• ISBN-13: 978-1600611896
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.4 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Violette was born in Casablanca Morocco under a full moon in 1954. Her parents immigrated to Canada a few years later taking with them their adventurous spirit. Violette's creative spirit and eccentric ways have been featured on Weird Homes TV show as well as many others. She has always been drawn to imagery and pallets infused with juicy sunshine, positivity and glitter! Violette uses her art as a vehicle to spread her message of joy and creative freedom. Her passion is to inspire others to embrace their creativity.

Journal Bliss is Violette's first book. She appeared in Rice Freeman Zachary's popular book "Living the Creative Life"

She lives in British Columbia Canada with Mr. G in a purple magic cottage. She has two grown children Jessica and Ryan both highly creative individuals.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 48 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding! April 2, 2009

By Susan Bleiweiss VINE™ VOICE

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There are a lot of journaling how to books out on the shelves these days but this new book by Violette stands out above them all. Page after page of Violette's wonderful, whimsical and engaging artwork along with prompts, tips and creative techniques to get you started on creating your own art journals. Even if you're a practiced art journaler you'll enjoy this book because it's impossible to flip through it and not be inspired by the imagery. But there's more here to be inspired by than just the artwork. Violette covers a ton of techniques starting with silencing your inner critic and then moves into creating groovy backgrounds, image transfers and fanciful lettering as well as doodling and bodacious borders. I highly recommend this book, it's a must have for anyone interested in art journaling.

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A Little Disappointing March 17, 2010

By justasking

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This isn't going to be popular with Violette's fans, but after reading the reviews, I was excited to buy this book. All I can say is, take a look at the author's artwork very carefully, because the whole thing is full of the same exact style, page after page. I respect that every artist has a particular and unique style, but I thought that there would be more instruction, or prompts for writing, etc. And admittedly I don't care for this particular look, so I maybe shouldn't have purchased the book, but it seemed like there would be more to it that I would have a good time with--like maybe Violette would have given us some more ideas about what to write, or shown us how to draw particular things. I'm keeping the book anyway, and maybe I'll find my own style out of what I like and don't like in her artwork. I would have liked this book so much more if the "look" of the pages had some contrast. I appreciate that she makes everyone feel like they, too, can create and be an artist, but some of the "imperfections" in the handwriting just seemed a little too beginner (or perhaps repetative, or purposely sloppy) for me.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have!! April 17, 2009

By Sunshine

Format:Paperback

I was so inspired after my first time through this, I worked on my art journal non-stop for HOURS (normally my attention span doesn't allow that). The art is beautiful and full of spirit, this will be one that stays on my art table!