Make your own Messy Journal!
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Step by Step Video Tuition
A 12 part video course guiding you through every stage
Unlimited Access
Watch as many times as you like...rewind, pause... it's a great way to learn!
Materials and Instructions
Includes a printable Materials list and full detailed instructions throughout the course
Learn how to make your own Sketchbook!
Includes Step-By-Step Instructions and Tips & Tricks
During the workshop videos, you will learn how to bind your own book but this isn't a precise class and messy imperfection is encouraged and embraced!
Together we will choose paper for your pages, fix up old books covers and learn some binding techniques which will hopefully hold everything together!
With gentle encouragement, I teach you how to look at your journal construction as a process lead experience and trust in your ideas and the decisions you make along the way.
The great thing about making your own journal is that you can personalise and adapt it to how you like to use it whether that's a sketchbook, scrapbook, diary, nature journal, commonplace book...the options are endless!
Guided and Friendly Tuition
These lovely artist books are such a great starting point for any project and could be used in so many ways. I like to add sketches, notes and collage to my sketchbooks which record family life, wonky old buildings and the natural world.
Throughout the workshop, I’ll share loads of inspiring ideas and pathways to explore in the binding process which may set you off on another creative adventure!
Making your own journals is a fantastic gateway into other explorative projects. Through making my sketchbooks I have learnt about what materials and paper I like to use and the subjects which inspire me.
I wonder where will it lead you, my friend?
Catherine
Fabulous class. You share your knowledge with such generosity, Lucia. Many thanks!
Alma
I still can't believe I made this! You make everything so simple and achievable. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion with us. I couldn't sleep without finishing it! Sending loads of love your way!
Lucia Leyfield
Lucia is an artist, letterer and teacher who loves creating illustrated journals and artist books. She has become known for a unique and creative approach to her work which has been described as 'quietly joyful...a nostalgic, moving and profound ...a treasure chest of creativity and inspiration'
Her journals and sketchbooks, which record life as it happens, conversations, inspirations and experiments, have become works of art in their own right. Many of Lucia's sketchbooks are handmade with a range of papers and combine traditional and experimental hand lettering with watercolour, collage and mixed media sketches.
She is inspired by a diverse range of things: the old, rusty and wonky, worn architectural patinas, ancient diagrams, aged buildings, old books and ephemera, explorers' sketchbooks and vintage field guides.
