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Art Journal

This document provides 50 prompts for creative journaling in an art journal. The prompts are intended to spark creativity and self-expression through drawing, painting, writing, and other art forms. Some example prompts include connecting with feelings and illustrating them, doodling to fill a page, responding to quotes or lyrics, expressing gratitude, and working through fears or unhealthy habits. The overall message is that an art journal provides freedom for uninhibited creativity and a way to reduce stress and inner criticism.

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Art Journal

This document provides 50 prompts for creative journaling in an art journal. The prompts are intended to spark creativity and self-expression through drawing, painting, writing, and other art forms. Some example prompts include connecting with feelings and illustrating them, doodling to fill a page, responding to quotes or lyrics, expressing gratitude, and working through fears or unhealthy habits. The overall message is that an art journal provides freedom for uninhibited creativity and a way to reduce stress and inner criticism.

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50 Art Journal Prompts

BY APRIL ON OCTOBER 18, 2010 IN CREATIVITY


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If I"m in a fun#, I can usually get out of it by laying in my art $ournal for an hour or two!
%y art $ournal gives me freedom to exress my creativity without bounds, because I #now that I don"t have to share it
with anyone! I #now that whatever I roduce, whether it"s good or bad, is for my eyes only!
If I"m wor#ing on a canvas and my inner critic starts moc#ing me, telling me that I"m not good enough, that no one
will areciate my art, I simly wor# in my art $ournal for a little while! %y inner critic isn"t allowed near that $ournal!
&ecause I believe that every artist should have their own art $ournal to lay in, to ractice in, and to exress their
authentic selves, I"ve ut together '( art $ournal romts for you to use when you $ust need to remove yourself from
life and let go! )ou can rint this list, ut it in your art $ournal, and use these romts whenever you want to sar#
your creativity!
*! +a#e a minute to connect with your feelings! ,lose your eyes and imagine what your feelings would loo# li#e, and
then draw or aint them!
-! .rab your favorite novel and randomly oen it to any age! Read the first aragrah on that age and illustrate it!
/! Remember in high school when you"d doodle on your notes0 1ust doodle until you fill an entire age!
2! 3oo# outside and let the weather and your surroundings insire your next art $ournal age!
'! 4ic# an ob$ect in your house! 5hile loo#ing only at the ob$ect, ut your en to aer and draw it without ic#ing u
your en! 6ow add some color to your crazy drawing!
7! Find a beautiful icture in a magazine, cut it out, and ma#e that the center of your art $ournal age!
8! Fill a blan# age with shaes! 4aint or color them in!
9! Imagine your inner critic as a monster! :raw or aint him!
;! 4ic# a <uote and design an art $ournal age around it!
*(! 5rite down five of your core beliefs! 4ic# one and illustrate it!
**! 1ournal about things that you love!
*-! 5hat"s your favorite fairy tale0 :raw or aint your favorite scene!
*/! +hin# about someone who insires you! 5hat characteristics of that erson ma#e her so insirational0 =se those
characteristics to insire your $ournal age!
*2! 3ive in the moment! 1ournal about whatever"s on your mind!
*'! ,onstruct a $ournal age around the last time that you traveled!
*7! 5rite down some of your life mantras such as, >,hoose love! Follow your heart! 3ive in the moment!? 5rite them
over and over again on your $ournal age, but use different lettering styles each time!
*8! +a#e your art $ournal outside and document what you see! 5rite it, draw it, or aint it!
*9! If you had one suerower what would it be0 1ournal about that!
*;! .rab some $un# mail and use it as the bac#ground of your art age! 4aint or color over it!
-(! 5rite down *( things that you"re grateful for, and use them to insire your next art $ournal age!
-*! If you only had one more day to live, what would you do0 1ournal about it!
--! 4ic# a lyric from one of favorite songs and illustrate it!
-/! 4retend it"s the 6ew )ear! Set a goal and $ournal about what would haen if you reached that goal!
-2! Find a oem and let it insire your next art $ournal age!
-'! 4retend you"re a goddess! :raw her!
-7! +hin# about something you"ve always wanted to do but you"ve been too afraid to do! :raw a mountain and write
your fear on one side and then what your life would be li#e if you could overcome that fear on the other side!
-8! Illustrate your favorite moment from the ast wee#!
-9! 5rite a comliment to yourself for something you accomlished recently! ,enter a $ournal age around that
comliment!
-;! 5rite yourself a ermission sli to sto doing things that you thin# you"re suosed to do, but you don"t want to
do! For examle, >)ou have ermission to sto reading a boo# that you"re not en$oying! )ou have ermission to buy
coo#ies instead of ba#ing them for the next ba#e sale!?
/(! 1ournal about your unhealthy habits!
/*! :raw yourself in a beautiful ball gown!
/-! 1ournal about things that you thin# are lovely!
//! +hin# about something in your everyday life that you ta#e for granted, and devote your next art $ournal age to it!
/2! :raw a ma from wherever you are to where you want to be!
/'! 4aint or illustrate how you feel when you"re at your favorite lace!
/7! :raw a large heart in the middle of a age and fill it with things that ma#e your heart smile!
/8! +hin# bac# to your favorite childhood memory and use that to insire your next art $ournal age!
/9! 1ournal about heartbrea#!
/;! 1ournal about eace!
2(! Fill your art $ournal age with all the things your inner critic says such as, >)ou"re not good enough! )ou"ll never
be anybody secial!? +hen aint over the words until they"re not visible!
2*! =se %od 4odge to adhere boo# ages to a $ournal age! =se that as your bac#ground and aint or draw on to of
them!
2-! 4ic# three colors! :raw an animal using a en, and then use only those three colors to fill it in!
2/! 1ournal about magic!
22! +hin# about the last movie that you watched! 5hat did it leave you feeling0 Illustrate it!
2'! If you could have lunch with anyone, who would it be0 1ournal about that erson!
27! If you could tell your younger self one thing, what would it be0 1ournal about it!
28! :raw a staircase, and thin# about your biggest dream! :raw it at the to of the staircase and then fill each ste
with the >stes? you"d have to ta#e to ma#e your biggest dream a reality!
29! 1ournal about hoe!
2;! +hin# about a child in your life! It could be your own child, a neighbor"s child, your sister"s child, or any other
child who see regularly! 5hat do you want for that child0 1ournal about it!
'(! 1ournal about things that ma#e you laugh out loud!

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