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Into The Wild/Book Of Days 2023 - Fall Session
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Book Of Days 2023 - Fall Session

Spend 12 weeks with me, Effy Wild, as we work in our art journals! Each week includes a main spread and a spread we build over the course of the week with little bits and bobs of things! Packed with techniques, inspiration, and bonuses, this course includes all new content + content from "the vault" of ten years worth of Book Of Days! Course begins on September 4th with new lessons being released every Monday!
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About The Course

Way back in 2011, I started art journaling in a structured way that helped me maintain a creative practice that became absolutely necessary for my emotional well-being. Every week started with a "main painting" on the left hand facing page that was inspired by whatever was alive in me in the moment and then I'd flow into the journal day by day over the course of the week to complete the right hand facing page. 

Over time, Book Of Days morphed into a collaborative e-course that included guest artists, but it became too big for one woman to handle, so I discontinued it at the end of 2022. I've been craving it, though - especially the way I originally taught it - so it returns revamped and in sessions of twelve weeks with each week absolutely PACKED with content. 

Lessons will be comprised of video instruction and printable PDFs. Everything included will be downloadable and yours to keep. 

AND...

The course never expires, so if you get started and then life happens, no worries! We'll be here when you get back!!

Here's What A Week In My Journal Looks Like

On the left hand side was a spread completed on a Monday + a tip in of an affirmation card I created live in my Facebook Group. The right hand side includes bits and bobs I painted or glued in over the course of the rest of the week. Techniques featured: How to paint a lip up girl, and using homemade masks in your art journal. 

Here's Week Two

In week two, I did the main spread over the course of the week while I also did the bits and bobs on the right hand facing side, because some Monday's I have more time than others. I love the way this came together! Techniques featured: Building a page in stages, and paint over portraits. 

On A Personal Note

I began my healing journey in earnest in a journal, free writing my heart out every day. That eventually shifted so that I poured my heart out every day in an *on line* journal, though I still kept a written journal on and off throughout the years. Then, I started writing poetry. Then, I got a wicked case of writer's block and I found art journaling. 

Somewhere over the course of the last few years, I've lost touch with art journaling as my primary mode of self-expression. I've shifted to "mixed media artist", and that, my loves, has not served me well. It *could* serve me well *if* it were secondary to art journaling, but over the last several years, it's been front and centre. I even stopped working in a journal just in case someone saw a painting they liked and wanted to buy it. 

As soon as I started thinking about that, my whole practice changed. I stopped painting about my life and started painting more universal themes. I started censoring what I include in my paintings. I shifted focus to painting only in response to certain inputs - new moon, full moon. My practice stopped being therapeutic and became stressful. 

It was still fun, don't get me wrong, but I was way less inclined to do it because I wasn't engaging it the way my soul yearned to engage it. 

In response to this newly arising awareness, I'm going back to basics. I need a journaling practice to support my healing journey. I need a place where I paint without caring about anyone's gaze but my own. I need to paint from my guts as well as my heart. I need to paint my reality as well as my wishes. 

And so, I'm going back to Book Of Days. Back to an art journal (simpler this time - a basic sketch book, though you will have the option to bind your own and a tutorial in that is offered). Back to the near daily habit of touching in with a bit of colour, symbolism, words. WORDS. Back to JOURNALING in my art journal. 

When I made this decision and started to plan how I'd do it, what iteration I would like for it to take, I had a few revelations:

I don't want to identify as a "mixed media artist". Too much pressure. I want to identify as a JOURNAL ARTIST. I want art journaling to be my focus - especially the self-soothing, healing modality, "meeting myself on the page" part. 

Realizing that I'd "lost my way", or "gone off course" has been such a relief, y'all, because now I can course correct. 

Anyway, if you miss *art journaling*, as much as I do, I welcome you to join me. 

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Book Of Days 2023 - Fall Session

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I used to work in handmade journals and there will be a pre-recorded tutorial included in how to create one, but this year, because EASE is my new love language, I'm working in a sketchbook that I picked up at my local art supply store. Here's the final cover design!
This was the first cover design which I *loved* when I first created it, but I grew out of it within a month! OPE! PAINT OVER TO THE RESCUE!!

The course includes video tutorials of the process of creating BOTH covers, and each cover tutorial features different mediums and techniques so this will get you off to an amazing start.

Bringing Journaling Back To Art Journaling

One of the things I've been missing in my own practice is the *journaling* part of art journaling. Since I started teaching, my practice started to shift so that the emphasis was on the *art* more than life documentation or recording what was going on with me. I'm shifting back to including way more journaling in my journals so we will be talking about all kinds of ways to get text into your spreads. 

I am craving deeply personal spreads with more of *me* in them, so that will be my focus as we journey together throughout this session. My hope is that by the end of this session, you'll have a fully formed creative HABIT that gets you into your journal every week. 

That Being Said...

This program is designed to be super flexible so that you can adjust it to suit you. You could easily spread this course out so that you dip in once a month instead of every week. Each bit of art journaling could easily be expanded into a full spread if that's your preference, or you could skip the main spreads and do nothing but the bits and bobs! 

Includes Three Live Calls

Registered students will be invited to join me live for three play parties - one in September, one in October, and one in November, where we'll hang out, do Q & A and splash some paint around together! These will be a few hours long and replays will be offered. These will be a fabulous opportunity to get to know one another and make artsy friends!

A Dedicated Facebook Group

You will also be invited to a dedicated private Facebook Group where you can share your work and get support, even between sessions of Book Of Days! Don't love Facebook? I also have a private Discord server, so I've got you covered!

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Spend 12 weeks with me, Effy Wild, as we work in our art journals! Each week includes a main spread and a spread we build over the course of the week with little bits and bobs of things! Packed with techniques, inspiration, and bonuses, this course includes all new content + content from "the vault" of ten years worth of Book Of Days! Course begins on September 4th with new lessons being released every Monday!
Buy now