"Wreck This Journal", by Keri Smith Options

[*Michelle*]

I'm not sure of any of you artists have ever heard of or seen this book, but it is absolutely wonderful!!!

Wreck This Journal is basically a journal that has many, many different mini "art" projects that teach you how to broaden your creativity.

Let me flip through a few pages and find some examples:

"Pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here."

"Collect your pocket lint. Glue it here."

"Glue in a page from a magazine. Circle words you like."


There's even one where you make a tongue painting using colorful candy and your wet tongue! :D

This book was created for anyone who has ever had trouble starting/keeping or finishing a journal/sketchbook. By forcing ourselves to wreck it on purpose, the "journal as an object" loses it's preciousness, and allows us the feeling of completion. This book was created for every person who has looked at other artist's journals and said, "I wish I could do that. I've started dozens of them but didn't stick with it." or, "But the journal itself is so beautiful, I don't want to wreck it with my ideas/handwriting/drawings." Or, "I feel pressured to write something good."

In this book good does not exist. The goal is to fill it up, to shift your perception of the blank page and the journal itself into a place for experimentation. Into a place where you just get stuff out onto the page. A place to start working against your better judgment. To do those things you were taught to never do (make a mess, destroy, fold down pages, write in books, play with dirt). This book IS the place.

Each page of Wreck This Journal is filled with prompts telling you how to systematically 'destroy' the entire book.

http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/?page_id=6

http://www.wreckthisjournal.com/


You can buy this book on Amazon, or you can follow their website and make your own!

I will post up a few pages from my journal when I'm done with it! :]