Based on her own 40 years' experience in keeping an artist's journal, Cathy Johnson knows that an artist's creative life can benefit from written and visual explanations and experiments. Over the course of this book, readers benefit from the tips, techniques and exercises that will make their artist's journals their own. Readers learn how to use their journals to celebrate any occasion or milestone, work through a problem or creative block, plan future works, sketch from life and experiment with new materials or techniques.

About the Author

Cathy Johnson has written 35 books, many on art and natural history. She has been a contributing editor, writer and illustrator for The Artist's Magazine, Watercolor Artist and Country Living for over a decade. She started a popular group blog called Sketching in Nature, http://naturesketchers.blogspot.com/. She also teaches online workshops at http://www.cathyjohnson.info.