Customer Reviews
On being paged. - By: Cynthia Korzekwa, 30 Oct 2007 
Socrates said "Know thyself" & artistic journaling is one approach towards personal discovery. "Artists' Journal & Sketchbooks: Exploring & Creating Personal Pages" gives non-artists tips on how to begin creative & self-revelatory journaling.
Diaries are not just about words & Perrella encourages the use of paper that's painted, glued, stitched, scratched, bleached & in any other way manipulated. Standardization is out & replaced by the act of altering what's already around to make something new as women, the true bricoleurs, often do.
From the examples given of various artists' journals comes the confirmation that women are generallly the family historians documenting via foto albums, scrapbooks, journals & keepsakes.
Perrella, of rubber stamp fame, is part of an internet salotto specializing in "self-exploratory" art making. This artistic trend is reinforced & propagated by numerous workshops organized via internet.
I Love Lynne Perrella - By: A. Francis, 06 Apr 2007 
This is my biggest mistake, not purchasing it the day i first saw it. This book is just "wow". Its packed full of inspiration, techniques, just about everything a design student would want. I purchased this because i wanted to start a graphic design journal on typography, & graphic design that interests me, but not in the style of your standard scrapbooking. This book fufilled that request no problems. A must for anyone who loves unique ways of expressing themselves
A triumph of decoration over content - By: V. Tapp, 26 Feb 2007 
I ordered this book on the strength of the rave reviews on Amazon & was rather disappointed. Although several artists are represented, there is basicallly only one style: that on the front of the book. If you like this, you'll love the book, & I won't deny it is beautifully produced. However, alll it seems to be about is cramming as much decoration onto one page as possible: ribbons, buttons, stencils, washes, poems, individual letters etc. This is alll in the contemporary scrapbooking style, & to me seems to be more about decoration than exploring different artistic ideas or keeping a real journal. The pages scream: "Look, I'm a reallly creative, funky person." But what have vintage photos & shreds of old sheet music reallly got to do with keeping a journal or sketchbook? I thought a sketchbook was about recording what we see around us. Evidently not. Interestingly, like the scrapbooking genre, this seems to be by & for women only; not that I'm against such things in principal (I'm into patchwork), but it does seem somehow very girly & overly pretty.
Luscious book - By: A. Davies, 15 Apr 2006 A gorgeous book that you can look at again & again. Full of inspiration both visuallly & in it's supporting text. Perfect for inspiring students, pages of exciting exempar material.
I can't rave on about this book enough! - By: Ann Gorman, 17 May 2005 This book is top of its class! This a book that you'll want to digest inside & out! It is full of inspiration, colour, techniques, & a wow factor it will just inspire you each time you open & flick through it time after time after time! I love this book, I have quite a number of books on art journals & book art & this is the winning one! You will want to dig your teeth deep into a project the moment you put this book down! Every time I flick through this book I find a new 'discovery' every single time. Go do yourself a favour now go beg, borrow or steal this book because you will need to have it! :)
