MessyJessyCreatesArt

Image from Liz's blog    Image from Liz's blog For the past two years, Liz Lamoreux  has had something special, and free, to offer to her readers.  I had participated, along with  Effy Wild , to explore some art journaling in response to Liz's book "Inner Excavation".  I had also participated last year in Liz's free minicourse called "Yes, This" and VERY much enjoyed it.  You can search my blog posts on each of these or follow this link and look at my tags for inner excavation and yes this. http://www.messyjessycreates.blogspot.com/search/label/inner%20excavation Liz is getting ready to offer her FREE online   Inner Excavate Along with Liz  on July 6th!  Did I mention it's FREE and FUN!  Her book is amazing and she has it on sale on her website, or you can get a copy for your kindle on Amazon. I will be Inner Excavating Along with her again this year and posting my art journal pages.  Won't you join us? ...

http://www.lizlamoreux.com/yes-this/?mc_cid=ea34fdbdda&mc_eid=b1a9fe0ee6 Today's prompt was short and sweet and something that I have been trying to incorporate into my daily schedule for a little while now.

http://www.lizlamoreux.com/yes-this/?mc_cid=ea34fdbdda&mc_eid=b1a9fe0ee6 So I went a little overboard with the prompt for day 2 (it really hit home with me where I'm at right now).  I journaled about my new MAJOR health issues and how it affects my outlook on life right now.  Then I made pages about things I find beauty in and that make me happy :-)

Like most people today, I don't have much time.  Life is hectic and ANYTHING can happen at ANYTIME.  I love to paint and create things, I actually like housework, and I love spending time with my family. A while back, Liz Lamoreux had an Inner Excavate Along based on her book. http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Excavation-Exploring-Through-Photography/dp/1440303096 http://www.lizlamoreux.com/inner-excavate-along/  I was introduced to this through Effy Wild. www.effywild.com  and we all played along.  It was great fun and I learned a lot about myself. This week, Liz started another free 10 day adventure called Yes, This. http://www.lizlamoreux.com/yes-this/?mc_cid=ea34fdbdda&mc_eid=b1a9fe0ee6 In my very limited time with kids and art and cleaning and health issues and costume making https://www.etsy.com/shop/messyjessycreatesart , I have found a few minutes here and there to participate.  Here are the day 1 journal prompt pages..... quick and easy! ...

Chapter 2 still looks at photos to tell a story but we look in the past.  The writing focused on the senses.  I chose my favorite photo of myself as a child and wrote about what I imagine using all of my 5 senses plus the 6th sense of "knowing" to write my piece of poetry. I will try to post close up photos of the pic and the poem when my computer and internet decide to behave  :-)

The overall question is "Who are you?"  The first thing I did was answer the questions on paper.  Then I started thinking about my art journal spread......hmmmmm The first thing that popped into my mind was Horton who is listening for the answers...... So here is my spread :-)

currently at  https://effy-wild.squarespace.com/inner-excavate-along-with-effy/  Effy has a wonderful FREE art journaling project that she is doing with anyone who wants to participate.  It is based on the book "Inner Excavation" and you can find out more about that here  http://www.lizlamoreux.com/inner-excavation/ The first journaling prompts were about using pictures to document your daily life, writing a poem about "I am...", and other things that you can read up on if you are interested.  The book is available for download on Amazon (that's what I did for my Kindle Fire). Here is my cover and my first art journal page.