Creating a Visual Verbal Journal!

What is a Visual Verbal Journal?

Text as Art : Writing As a form of drawing.

It is similar to a sketchbook, yet different.

- It is a type of journal showing visual thinking
Words are an important part of the Journal.
Journals are personally meaningful

What does a Visual Verbal Journal include?

DRAWINGS WORDS: describe and support depictions and become graphic devices SKETCHES CONTENT:

PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL SYMBOLS PHOTOGRAPHS WORDS: describe and support depictions and become graphic devices CONTENT:

COLLAGES WORDS: describe and support depictions and become graphic devices Visual Verbal Journals CONTENT:

What are the uses of Visual Verbal Journals?

Research
Source of ideas for future artworks
Reflection
Exploring new ideas
Exploring new medias

Benefits to teachers:
Provide insight into students’ emotional and cognitive experiences
Can show teaching style students’ are most responsive to
Can be used as authentic assessment (Zimmerman 1994)

Benefits to students:
Realize how daily life influences art work
Identify significant events
Become a source for future artworks

Artists Visual Verbal Journals

- Artists using Visual Journals: • Eric Fischl Journaling began as sketchbook and grew into large-format glassine drawings of journal pages

• Leonardo da Vinci recorded questions and daily observations visually and verbally in a sketchbook - Artists using Visual Journals:

• Edvard Munch Used visual journal to develop ideas and record daily observation and reflections - Artists using Visual Journals:

How do Visual Verbal Journals influence how you Create?

Writing helps develop ideas: "I write so I can find out what I am thinking" Jerome Bruner Drawing helps develop ideas: Visual imagery offers a freedom that words do not.

For some, the visual supports the verbal -
For some the verbal supports the visual -

How do Visual Verbal Journals influence creativity?

- Multiple solutions can be explored---Fluency Journals are low risk places to experiment : - Ideas can be embellished---Elaboration

Assessments:
Methods:
Checklist
Rating scale
Teacher/parent/peer interviews
Student self-assessment

Assessments:
Criteria:
Composition
Development of ideas and media experimentation: demonstrate progression
Craftsmanship: although not every entry must be complete, all should be readable, executed with care, and presented in an orderly manner

Sample Assignments:
Start Journal by requiring 10 pages about the student and their connection to art
Create a work of art that is composed only of writing
List three things you believe in and design symbols or images for these things
Make a page using one word as inspiration
Research an artist and create a 2 page report in the journal using both images and words to convey information

Suggestions for New Journals:
Tear random pages
Burn parts of pages
Paint washes
Gesso pages
Glue in tissue paper, found objects, leaves
Cut holes through several pages
Cut and fold pages to hid or reveal areas
Do rubbings on parts of pages

Creating your own Visual Verbal Journal: Your First Steps are to choose a: 1.Composition 2. Medium 3. Subject Matter

Composition Variations: Full Page Design

Bleeds

Borders

Mandala= Radial Design

Columns

Diagonals

Organic Shapes

Cut Outs and Windows

Resources:
The Journey is the Destination, The Journals of Dan Eldon , Dan Eldon, Chronicle Books
The Diary of Frieda Kahlo , Abradale Pess
The Decorated Page , Gwen Diehn, Lark Books
www.visualjournaling.com

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