Art Journalling is a great way to get out of your head.

Spontaneous gestural drawing is one of my favourite things to fill my art journal pages with.

That’s a lot of big words - what do they mean?

It's a way of making an image that encourages stepping away from our thinking mind and letting a different part of us choose colours and marks.

Instead of thinking about what colours, and what shapes, I like to let my eyes go a bit soft, a bit blurred, and instead FEEL the colours and shapes. What colour jumps out at me? Start with that. What shape feels nice to draw? Draw that.

The ‘feeling’ bit is different for everyone - for some, it’s a sensation that feels like a ‘yes’, for others it’s more of an intuition or inner knowing. For others it’s a bit of everything.

And when the image feels complete, the result can often tell us things about how we're doing and what we're feeling that maybe we're not consciously aware of yet, giving us new insight and understanding of ourselves and what we might need to feel supported and happy in our lives.

What words come up as you look at your image? What might its title be? If it had something to tell you, what might that something be?

It’s fun to see something that was hovering in your subconscious out there in front of you on your journal page (at least, I find it fun!).

Maybe you’d like to give it a try :)

And if you're in Cairns, I'm now running in person art journalling classes twice a month, on the first and third Wednesday. Click here to sign up if you’d like to join in - no experience necessary, and I’ll provide all the drawing material, just bring your journal (I also have paper if you forget your journal, and can supply journals if you need one).

And if you're not in Cairns, my next online art journalling workshop series is coming up soonish - click here to send me a message if you’d like me to let you know when registration is open :)