Journalling for Healing

Whilst I am off work on sick leave - I have just started a free journalling course Art, Heart & Healing run by Tamara Laporte, before I embark on her course Life Book 2015 (obviously in 2015) - I wanted to get a feel for the way Tamara works - see her website here - it is lovely.

So far I have worked in two books (at once) - an A5 sketchbook - the one which I started some time ago and showed you work in the last posts (its also the one which has my blog border designs in) and an A4 old work diary - where I glued and painted the pages to cover up the old notes. Both books were started some years ago one in 2007 and the other in 2009 - but I have not done much in either.

Here are the first two pieces - my first faces....  we started by writing stuff and then covering it up - this is a very useful exercise - letting go. The first is the big journal and then the small