Why do I privately Art Journal
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- In 2022 I was asked many times why I no longer create art journal pages in my videos, and there's a reason. In this video I offer the reasons why and flip through all of my Art Journals to share my personal evolution in art journalling.
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Ceri
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Oh Ceri, I appreciate what you share but you don't owe us your whole creative life! It's healthy to maintain privacy. Give us what you want to and it will be more than enough!
I agree
Thank you Cass I’m only just realising there needs to be a balance between camera and private, this year there’ll be a little more of each.
Thank you Shelly.
I am so enjoying your channel. That being said, share what you feel led to share and keep private what you need to keep private. You don’t owe anyone more than that. You make me want to start crafting again. Thank you for that.❤
Your talk on stumbling blocks in life was appreciated.
Thank you so much for generously sharing your art journals with us. Being invited to look over your shoulder, and sharing your journey and your exploration is truly a gift for us. It is difficult to allow oneself to be vulnerable. Thank you for being so brave. I enjoy seeing each page, its energy, and the thoughts and feelings you have shared. You and your work are an inspiration. Happy New Year - wishing you a joyous and fulfilling journey.
Thank you Sue, yes it was hard to turn the camera on my art journals but I’m glad I did as it’s helped others understand the journey.
I loved that comment "just have fun with the journey"! You have inspired me so much these past few years since I found your channel. Looking forward to all the "exploring" in 2023.😊
Thank you Linda, yes the journey is where you learn, I’m love to create a finished piece but i enjoy the experimentation along the way
Happy New Year Ceri. You (me, everyone) deserves their "private space". Share what you want, and keep private what you want.
Thank you Belinda and happy new year.
Oh my goodness, Ceri, so much of what you shared spoke to me! I've thrown away loads of my art because, in my opinion, it wasn't good enough. I've toyed around with the idea of an art journal for a few months but couldn't bring myself to start. I really want to start this year with something that brings me joy. I am ready to start an art journal just for me. I can't think of any way to express my gratitude for sharing yourself/ your art journals. There are no words.
Your are so very welcome, do it, create that art journal but its important to mention don’t try to make your art journal look like other peoples art journals, give yourself permission to just create….anything. I made the mistake of trying to make my art look like those whom, I’d watch or admire and it was a mistake, i was never happy until I just did my own thing. Have fun creating.
Looking forward to seeing and enjoying your videos in 2023 ❤🎉🍾🇺🇸
Thank you Sharon.
Happy New Year, thank you for your videos, you helped me realize that I can do so much even if I am not perfect. What you do is amazing and a great inspiration to me. You have given me an opportunity to try art, I am 66 and was always afraid because I could not do anything perfect so I never tried. Now I am trying to do many things art. You have helped me immensely. Here’s to another year watching you create and me trying new arts and crafts. Your journals are wonderful
Karen as I’ve said manny times its the journey thats important and not the destination, just have fun creating, its good for the mind and the soul to create beautiful in any format. Happy new year.
Wow! When you said listening to a thunderstorm or music & needing a calm place to do art. Yes, I need that too.
Wonderful
So often we are unaware of our impacts on others and your humbleness and pure artistry is so very much inspiring. You really are one of the best positive influences in my life now, with absolutely no strings attached! Please, keep being you - change only if or when you want to change - none of us stay the same for long. Simply - thank you.
Thank you Gillian, I’m so happy that what I produce gives you joy. Happy new year.
Ceri, I appreciate you sharing your art journals! I’m on my art journal journey and practicing progress, not perfection. Your work is magical! Enjoy your creative journey in 2023, and I am looking forward to seeing all of your ideas! 💜💜💜
Thank you, I’m having fun on my art journal journey and at the end of the year will share what I’ve achieved in this years journal.
Thank you, Ceri, for being so open about your art journaling journey. And for sharing your art journals, which are beautiful!
Thank you so much Janny.
Thank you so much, Ceri. I hope that art journalling gives you so much joy and I look forward to seeing it in December (if you would like to share it). All the best and Happy New Year.
Thank you Karen and I intend sharing my years art journal after Christmas each year as I start a new one.
Ceri, your gifted in so many facets of seeing and creating . Including the dark parts you keep guarded maybe even from yourself? Don't hesitate to make your art journal into a writing journal. Leave what you like and cover the rest with what dose work now, when your ready ~ it will wait for you. And you will know what to do when its time. Happy New Year !!!
Thank you for sharing your heart on canvas...
Thank you and your right I don’t force anything I wait for it to develop in its time.
Thank you for sharing your personal art. It's very inspiring and I love the message you're sharing that we don't need to be perfect! All the best for 2023!
Susan its so important to let yourself just create and allowing yourself to make mistakes is a great way to develop also just because you start a project doesn’t mean you have to finish it immediately, I often come back to projects a year later to finish time when the muse takes me.
It's amazing how you put yourself out there in so appreciate you so so much. ❤️💃🙏
You are so welcome, thank you Nancy
Ceri, Thanks for sharing these! I don't art journal, but have started sketchbooks with drawing and watercolor. I love them because I can try new things in them, and if it isn't great art it doesn't matter. It is where I learn, and yes, I'm proud of them, and share them with a very few people, but only who I want to. Love that freedom.
I love the freedom of art journaling alone as well.
Thank you for sharing your art. The faces are beautiful that you drew. I wouldn't know where to start. Can't wait for your next book. Xx
Thank you very much Angie.
Happy New Year and thank you for sharing your multi talents with us. You are truly an inspiration!
Thank you Phyllis.
Just loved every moment with you on this trip down memory lane Ceri
You are my sunshine 🌞
You are my inspiration ❤️
Thank you for sharing so much of the person behind the artwork. Happy 2023.
Thank you and happy 2023 Elizabeth.
Thank you
Looking at your journals was a gift. I will watch this video many times. The pages that you think are not great I think they are fantastic. It is a lesson on it self. I found you a few weeks ago and I have learn so much. Specially I’m learning about myself. Understanding that not everyone will like what we call art is a great lesson. Our journals are about us and not about others. You are an artistic blessing. Thank you so much! ❤
Thank you so much for your kind words.
Your videos give me joy.
Wonderful, thank you
Amazing, I love your journey. I like that you show your good days and dark days. We all have them and have to continue to push through them. Your work is beautiful.
Thank you Pam
Ceri, I think sharing ones art is a very personal thing and I commend you for your ability to share with the public. It leaves one vulnerable to others which is some thing I have struggled with my entire life. It is very personal and I am reluctant to expose myself to that kind of scrutiny. Your willingness to share shows, in my opinion, great growth in your development as a person and an artist. Thank you
Thank you Colleen, you do need a tough skin if you’re going to put your work into the public domain for scrutiny, I do it because it helps others and helps me develop but I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone.
Just found this video and I am so glad I did. I am fairly new in discovering my art journey. I do mostly collage art and am very self critical. If a piece wasn't perfect I would tucked it away. Your video had me pull out my incomplete journals and put them in a place of honor in my art studio to be enjoyed and learned from. I have never been brave enough to share my work so it meant a lot to hear you talk through your art with such love and acceptance. They were all beautiful.
Art is personal and uniquely yours, I’m pleased my video helped.
Oh Ceri, I have a lot of days where I can't create! Total mental block and then someone like you inspired me and I'm on a mass-making roll! Often I go back and add or even cover up the previous. You're a fabulous artist and we all look forward to your next post! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Linda and may you enjoy many creative days this year and beyond.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful and inspiring journals. You are such a joy to follow along, I cannot imagine you being insecure in your art. Such an inspiring journey through your journals. I have a small piece of art that I purchased, the words spoke to me and it has a special place in my craft room. It says “you can be perfect or you can create ART”. I remind myself that it’s ok not to be perfect, and that it IS OK to create joy in my art and the creative process.
I totally agree Kathy, happy new year.
Great to see your journey. Beautiful work in there. I might even manage to start a journal after 2 years of no inspiration. Thanks.
Elizabeth just do it, get an inexpensive journal and open a page at random and just have fun creating you’ll be glad you did.
You are inspiring in many, many ways Ceri, sharing your art is only the platform -- so grateful you have found your way to YT ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Thank you so much, and thank you for your support along the way.
I appreciate your willingness to share your thoughts.. thank you
You are so welcome Barb
What a lovely surprise to see your name pop up on my phone's TH-cam. Thank you for sharing your art journals. You are such an inspiration to me and I find joy in my creations because of your encouragement.
Happy 2023❤️
Fabulous news Brooke, have a joyous 2023.
Thank you for sharing about your life. Everyone has a private life and you are not any different just because you share your art with others. With everything being so instantly accessed, people have lost all decorum on how to behave. People are allowed to have private lives and personal moments without shouting to the world what is going on in their lives. I thought you dealt with the question very eloquently. Blessings to you, Ceri. Peace be with you.
Thank you Lenella
Loved seeing your journals and how you are evolving as an artists. I agree that the camera can hinder your process. I love creating in journals and experimenting. It's my safe place to learn by messing up. Enjoy your creative journey!
So true, thank you Kathy
You are inspiring to me. You should be able to have privacy. Thank you for sharing your art. Happy New Year!
Thank you and happy new year.
Hello Ceri, thanks for sharing. Many of Your pages spoke to me. I especially like the ones with butterflies 🦋 and flowers 💐 I enjoyed going through them with You. Thanks Ceri. Have a great day.
Thank you so much Cathy.
Hi Ceri! Happy 2023! ❤ You never need to apologize for needing a private space and time to explore your creativity. Not everything has to be shared. Having said that, Thank you for sharing your personal journeys. It was like opening your souls and exploring your private moments. And fir a while, the blank pages spoke volumes about where you and the world were at for a very long time. In fact, I don't know how others feel but I'm actually afraid of what lies ahead for this coming cold and flu time. And I wandered off again...
I appreciate looking at your journals. As a long time viewer, I can recognize things, like when you found P&M, Gayle's challenged you to do the crazy squiggly thing. And when you started to incorporate more gel prints in your work. Have a great week and stay crafty!
Thank you Laura and I’m with you in that I don’t think its safe yet but others seem to have already forgetting what we’ve been through, have a great 2023 and thank you for your continued support.
Thank you. How very interesting watching and listening as you shared your journal experiences. Well done you.
I think your first journal was AMAZING!
Thank you
Thanks for sharing. I certainly understand keeping some of your art and creative time private. It actually seems only natural. Take care. 😃
Thank you Elaine.
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing this journey with us and for the thoughts provoked. Art journalling is a very private thing even if we are willing to show others the finished works. xoxo
I totally agree
Love love love this - thank you for sharing - very inspiring and you are endlessly talented !
Thank you so much
Thank you ever so much for sharing your personal art journals. They are all beautiful. You are an amazing and inspiring artist.
Thank you so much Judith
Prachtig! Alles! Gewoon lekker bezig zijn met wat je leuk vindt. Bedankt dat ik mee mocht kijken en genieten. ❤😊
Thank you and have fun creating.
Well done Ceri - your first freehand face is beautiful! Absolutely lovely, keep going with this, you'll love it x
Thank you Maria I do love it.
Ceri, I love your creativity! May 2023 bring you health, joy and prosperity!
Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing you art, vulnerability and all.
Thanks for listening Berlinda I like to keep things real.
Thank you so much for the retrospective of your art journey. I love your work in all its variety.
Thank you so much Barbara
I love the idea of spending a year to do an art journal and popping in and out. New Year's resolution = Begin my Dylusions journal !!! Happy and healthy New Year to you, Ceri. You have enriched my life this past year and made me smile. Thank you for sharing your journal journey.
Me too
Ricki thank you so much for your kind comment, please just have fun creating and allow yourself to just do you.
Thank you Robin.
Wow! How exciting seeing all of your journals and how your techniques have changed over time. Very exciting! Love the "23 journal and what you did with the face! Please share more as you go through this journal!!! Happy New Year Ceri!!!!!
Betty i will when they’re done, thank you.
I love the brass door knobs
Funny you should say that, I don’t know why I created that page but it certainly does have impact.
I fully understand your decision to create your Art Journal privately. With that said, I want you to know that this new subscriber watched every minute of the Art Journal videos you made before making this decision. Being new to collage, and fascinated by it, I learned so much from watching your process. So, thank you for that. By the time you filmed the Pink Roses and Cream Wings, it was becoming obvious that the video aspect was probably becoming stressful and inhibiting your ability to think freely as you created these pieces. Please know how much your efforts are appreciated, and should you attempt another On-camera Art Journal Creation, I will be watching most attentively. Thanks again, Elizabeth
Thank you Elizabeth
Thanks for sharing your journals. I remember watching you make several of those pages. It’s courageous to let us into your creative process.
Thank you so much
Your journalling and drawing is fantastic I wished I was as good as you drawing
Dawn for me its been practice, practice, practice, learn, learn, learn.
I just found you by happenstance and I am SO glad that I did!! I love your explanation of how, why and when you journal and also showing us your pages! And the permission you give to just experiment! After all, they are our individual journals!! That was very freeing for me!! Happy New Year and I am SO excited to follow you into the new year!! :)
Thank you Shannon and welcome to my channel, I think many people feel a journal has to be a certain thing or laid out in a certain way when in fact it can be anything that gives you joy and suites the purpose for which it is created.
Oh my Ceri, you are such a wonderfull person! Thank you for sharing your art journals. It made me emotional because I suddenly realised that I had been working on a journal in 1970. I have saved this "journal" but never knew what to do with it. And it is al full with beautiful ladies. I wish I could show you. Anyway, I know now that I am going to work in this journal. I'm going to use all different technics that I learned from you and also from your friend Gaile A. Thank you so much for every thing you share with us! Happy new year!
Oh that is a treasure and you’re going to get so much pleasure from revisiting those art pieces and developing them further. Thank you
Ceri THANK YOU you are so straight on. Love you.
Thank you so much.
So delightful! I was cheering for the wheaten butterfly-I so adore the blues as well however the other did speak 💓 blessings from 🇨🇦 …
Wonderful. Thank you Sonya
Ceri here’s wishing you a wonderful, healthy and prosperous New Year. I love your honesty and your art. Just like you, it’s not all to my taste but I love the processes you present. They inspire me in other ways. I’m so grateful you are willing to share your art and life with us. Plus I purchased some of your PM stencils and love them. I love the ocean too as my ocean scene shows. 😎 Your “ladies” are amazing! Excited to see more. Your kindness is so appreciated. Sending best wishes for all you dream for. Debe☀️
Thank you so much for your kind words, yes the ocean has my heart and is the place I’m most at peace. We don’t have to love everything but being inspirational to others is a fabulous reward, thank you once again.
Happy New Year! I actually finished 2022 watching your video as I am in the US and it’s not midnight quite yet. Thank you so much for reminding us that we don’t have to be perfect, and that play is important. Keep creating, share what you want and continue to enjoy doing what you do best.
Thank you Melissa and happy new year.
This was lovely and I think you’re very brave to share your journals. I love how you learned so much for yourself! Excellent advice too!
Thank you so much
Happy New Year to you Ceri. I just found your channel a couple months ago and I have really enjoyed it. I can truly understand your comments about being on stage, needing perfection, etc. and I'm glad you take care of yourself by doing private things you don't share. May you be blessed in 2023 above and beyond your imagination.
Thank you so much Pam and may you have a fabulous new year.
Happy New Year. So, so interesting, loved it. You made me feel ok about my unfinished art journals and the hodgepodge of different ideas in them. Thank you, loved it. I hope 2023 is a great ear for you.
Thank you Helen and have a great new year.
Thank you so so much for sharing. It’s funny, but you are so critical of yourself. I think some of the first pages you ever created are lovely. I love working in my art journal. I haven’t done a whole lot, but that’s only because I don’t always have my own quiet time. Really enjoyed watching this video. 😊
Thank you, I intend art journaling more this year as I enjoy it.
Happy New Year, Ceri! 🎆🥂🎉🥳Your drawn ladies are fabulous. I love your idea of cataloging your art by year, which keeps it all in one place, and wish I had tried that years ago. Thanks for sharing your inspiration and creations with us. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
Thank you, its never to late to start.
So very interesting to have you take us through your journey in art journaling. I'm tempted to do a bit, but I like isolating an image, say an eye, and writing around it. For that, my stamps will do. I would have to do a 100 day project to draw faces, eyes, hands, etc. Thank you for sharing.
Thats a great idea Lynnea you should do it.
Thank you, Ceri, for sharing your wonderful art. I'm commenting because I TOTALLY see what you mean about the Save the World page!! That is art which deserves to be framed and displayed! Maybe you could make a digital out of it and kind of camouflage the line down the middle and then re-copy it? Or then print it on canvas!
Good idea but I think what I may do is photograph it and then clear up the central seam in photoshop and then get it printed onto matt photo paper.
First off, Happy New Year! I learned so much from your video. I tend to be a perfectionist, too. As a nurse, there is not a lot of leeway for imperfection! And I'm learning art since I have retired. What I've learned is that it's more important to be willing to change or fix things than to be perfect to begin with. I love your videos that emphasize that - it's only paper - and you can always start over. Or leave it and come back. In my case, before I scrap it, I walk away for sometimes several days and when I come back, it always seems to look better. So I really like that a true and real artist (you) does the same thing. And in my book you are perfectly you. And that IS perfect. God bless you with a wonderful, happy, and healthy 2023. I'm looking forward to following all your videos. 🙏💝💖
Thank you Susan and yes walking away for a while and coming back always takes the emotion out of the situation and gives you a realistic view of your art upon return.
اعمالك الفنية رائعة للغاية تحياتي لك من الخليج العربي 🥰🌹🌹🌹🌹
Thank you
You are so talented. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
So nice of you, thank you Denise.
Absolutely loved your journey through your art journals and 2022 journal was amazing. The first page of 2023 is stunning and if this is the start to this journal, it will be really special to see this at the end of the year. Maybe after 6 months we can have a preview. Happy New Year and look forward to when I get a notification that there is another video by Ceri Griffiths. They make my day.
Thank you Susan but I think you’ll all have to wait until the end of the year for me to share this years journal.
I just saw your channel and I loved your Journey of Art Journaling! I'm just starting mine with a repurposed book. It will be a lot of playing with paints, textures etc. I loved that end page. And in your voice I could hear the confidence of finding what your truly like. I just subscribed.
Thank you, be aware that if you’re art journaling in a repurposed book that the paper may not be suitable for all mediums and depending on the amount of pages you create the spine could stress and crack.
Love the processes you have gone through and the journey it has taken you. The 2023 journal will be so fun...great start! There are a lot of poems about Harlequins if you Google that. It might be fun to have that on the opposite page of your Harlequin girl. You could incorporate a pocket in that page and include the date and ideas and process that went in to making it?? Looking forward to your creativity in 2023!
Sounds a great idea I’ll check it out thank you.
Happy New Year Ceri. I want to start the New Year by thanking the TH-camrs who have taught me so much by sharing their creative talent and knowledge thru their videos. Ceri you are one of those people who have taught me so much this past year. You are extremely talented and I am very grateful for all the knowledge I have gained by watching your videos. So thank you so much Ceri. I want to wish you again a Very Happy New Year that is filled with happiness and good health.
Debbie happy new year, sharing skills and knowledge gives me great joy. Thank you.
Happy New Year, Ceri!! As a fellow TH-camr, I can totally relate to the freedom of not recording everything you create. I am definitely a perfectionist and create most authentically when doing so privately. Your work is lovely and so inspirational! Thank you so much for sharing your heart while encouraging us to exercise grace in our own private endeavors. Hugs!! 👍🏼👏🏼😍
Theresa thank you and thank you for being part of this community which has helped me through some tough times.
Simply said…..you are amazing!
Wow, thank you!
Ceri, you have been, are, such an important part of my artistic recovery. My fear of art stems from a middle school art teacher who refused to let me take any art classes because I couldn’t reproduce a realistic still life in a timed test. Never taken an art class. Became a writer and photographer. But, I ached to create. And suffered from perfectionism. Healing all that started when I found you and other artists who share their talents and inspiration with us. Thank you!!! 🦋🦋🦋
I so understand. when I was in school I had a cookery teacher who decided a boys place was never in the kitchen, I was the only boy in the school who wanted to do cookery classes so she put up with me and humiliated my makes in front of the girls in the class. Years later I became a chef and then onto a world renowned baker and confectioner. People who stifle and not nurture should not be teaching.
I just want to thank you so much for sharing your journey with all of us. Absolutely loved seeing all of your journals for the past 3+/- years and your new adventure with the altered faces is fabulous!🎉🤩🎊 Brilliant✨ Can’t wait to see more! Wishing you and your’s an wonderful, happy, healthy and safe new year! 🤗❤️
Thank you Maria and happy new year.
No pressure creative time is essential. Thanks so much for sharing your art. Happy New Year! Love&hugs to you and Biscuit.
Happy new year Darcy, you’re right time away from the camera is important.
Happy New Year Ceri!! Thanks for sharing your journals, I found it very interesting. One of the things that struck me is that some of the pages you didn't like much I loved and vice versa. I think that there is something in that for everyone. 😄 Anyway, I respect your privacy and your 'right' (for the want of a better word) to create in a safe and private space. From what I've read that is mostly the point of art journaling anyway. BTW, your recent harlequin page reminds me of work by a lady called Tara Jacobsen who has a channel called Artsy Fartsy Life. I don't think she's going to be doing much this year, but her magazine collages from last year were fabulous. One other thing that occurred to me was that you might enjoy Jane Davenport (Australian MM artist)'s work on faces.
Thank you Heather and happy new year, I’m familiar with Jane Davenport but not heard of Tara Jacobson, I’ll have to look her up. I don’t mind sharing my art journals at the end of every year but the process has to be private for me to be at my most creative in them.
Thank you for sharing. That was so inspirational. Loved looking through your beautiful journals with you.
Thank you so much Carol
Ceri, such a ginormous Thank You for sharing your Art Journals!! Your talent is amazing both in your creativity and the depth of your knowledge about color. My favorite journal was 2022, it was a hopeful journal as the world is emerging from the pandemic your work is also emerging into what you really want to do/express - especially through your portraits. I am a quilter/seamstress from Birmingham, Alabama but recently I've discovered making journals. I suffer from the 'perfectionist syndrome' also with my sewing, and I have become bored with regular quilting fabrics and just love Kaffee Fasset's fabric lines - he is a British artist also, maybe you have heard of him? I haven't made the first journal yet, but I've gone down several rabbit holes in the past 2 months! I just love making something new! First I watched TH-cam videos of different artist but since I've found your channel I only enjoy watching your presentations about journals! I've explored organic dying of my papers and even went to a restaurant supply thrift store to buy large pans for all the different things and bits of stuff that I will dye for my journals. I've bought punches, some stencils and dry-wall plaster to use as my modeling medium and even some Modge Poge - all of these things are expensive so I've been accumulating slowly. Well, I apologize for rambling on for so long. Thank You for being so generous with sharing and teaching us all the techniques of journaling! I hope you can give up the perfectionism and just dive in with abandom and create your art! All the Best to You!
Melanie you sound as if you’re in an exciting journey and I wish you all the best, I’ve not heard of Kaffee Fasset but I’ll try to remember to look him up. If there’s one piece of advice I’d give you with your exploration of paper it is to be flexible and adapt, let your materials dictate the direction in which they wish to be used. It’s exciting to make unique items knowing you hold in your hands the only one on the whole planet.
Thanks for sharing Ceri. So inspiring.
Thanks for watching
Hello Ceri, first the best wishes for 2023 and a lot of creativity and freedom to do that (even fiscal or mental). I love your art journals especially the first and the last(the completed one of 2022) but in the other journals are also beautiful pages. You don't have to film everything, these are your moments, moments you can explore end learn al the way. End the knowledge out of that you can take into your you tube videos so we can learn en explore from you. (I hope my English is correctly) I am curious what 2023 brings but please don't put to muts pressure one your self. Greetings Simone
Simone thank you and your English is good, I’m learning to take the pressure off myself a little and enjoy the creative process even more, thank you for your support and encouragement.
Was a pleasure to see your art work once more ( some for the first time) we all have the right of privacy '. Specially public figures
Continue your own journey, we just will enjoy with what you want to share
Happy, creative, productive year:
Thank you Rhonda
I love the faces you made. I can only do stick people. It doesn’t bother me that I am not an artist because I just love doing what I am able to do. We all have different talents that make us happy. Also your sense of humour makes me laugh. So THANKYOU for sharing your talents and your life. I’m sure many people feel the same.
Thank you Ginny.
Happy new year Ceri! Thankyou for sharing your journals.
Happy new year Heather and thank you.
I think it is so important to have private creative time. That is when you grow most and expand your horizons without others judging your work and stunting that growth by making you question yourself instead of just going with it. Thanks for sharing Ceri. Xx
Thank you and I’m planning a better camera vs. private creative time this year.
Happy 2023! You are an awesome individual who inspires me!
Thank you Mary and happy new year.
Thank you!💃❤️🙏
You are so welcome
Of course I would love to see working on your art journal but I get it. Just so you know...I too have the unfinished projects...I too want to throw away the stuff I don't like. Seeing your journals makes me think "Ceri is just like the rest of us." And that's good if you ask me. How imperfect am I...my motto is "Strive for perfection and settle for mediocre". 😁 It's the journey that counts. And I enjoy the journey. Who cares if it turns out to be a hot mess. TFS Ceri. Wishing you a very Happy New Year.🎉
Donna you’ve nailed it and totally understand, the joy is in the creating. Happy new year.
Hi Ceri. Beautiful art journal pages! You really are very creative! TFS 💕
Thank you so much Gail
Hello Ceri. I really enjoyed watching this video. You always inspire me. I've been learning to make junk journals but I really want to create an art journal this year. I think I will just dive in and see where it goes. Thank you for all that you share with us. Happy New Year!!!!!🥳
Tamela, you should just dive in, an art journal is a journey of artistic exploration…..have fun with it. Happy new year.
I do miss you doing the very large collages. Those were so inspiring and just fun.
The large collages will still happen.
@@CeriGriffiths You seem to be the only one that uses magazine images. You take the time to fussy cut and see the potential. Others all seem to be using digital kits and I believe it takes away their own imagination and creativity. So, Yippee! The big collages will be back😊 Thank You.
Hi, Ceri. Happy New Year!! I hope 2023 is a very happy, healthy and rewarding year for you.
You know, Cari, life is like an art project. At the beginning of each year we are given a blank canvas upon which to draw. Each year we are given different tools with which we can create the picture of our lives. The final result of our yearly life project is determined by how we utilize the tools we have been given.
I've watched your videos for over a year now. You are a very creative person and a wonderful teacher. Recently, however, I have noticed more talking head moments on your channel. Each person has interior dialogs with themselves. From those dialogs can come growth. Yet, I know from psychological studies I did in the mid-nineties that dialogues can easily become rationalizations steered by the ego that keep us stuck in our lives. The whole concept of journaling, to me, is a means by which we feed our egos. When I first started making my books, I had a desire to show what I made with others. I quickly learned that no one cared about them. A quick nod of the head and a mumbled "yeah" was the extent of their attention. It sort of hurt my feelings at first until I learned that my life is of more importance to me than it is to others. In wanting to share my books, I was indulging in an egotistical need for the approval of others. When we do this, we arrest the process of growth.
Back in 1991 I discovered the writings of the mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Throughout his writings he emphasized an Eastern concept of dying to one's ego. What this means is we should strive to discover the reality of who we are, who we can be rather than in learning how to mold our actions into a presentation of how we want the rest of the world to see us. This presentation of the self is a false persona we construct that fulfills the needs of our ego. This obeisance to the ego destroys personal authenticity. We become representations of ourselves rather than entities that honestly work towards making the world a better place. You see, Ceri, until such time that we turn our attention from our own needs and desires and consider the needs and desires of others, we can fall prey to a vision of the world through self as opposed to through compassion. Compassion does not mean feeling sorrow for others. Compassion means participating in the sorrow of others. Journaling is focused on the self rather than on others. There is a danger of allowing control to pass to one's ego when one is self-oriented. Most people are not aware of this. Their awareness is too concentrated on the self.
I demand of myself a sense of perspective in the things I say, do and create. I do not art journal nor do I make junk journals. I utilize graphics (pictures) to support stories I write to express my feelings. Why do I need to create a diary of events spaced throughout pages of collages made from items determined to be junk? I can tell you, no one else would read anything of this nature. I can also tell you quite honestly that I would not even be interested in reading what I create in this manner. As for the historical nature of recording a life, who among us is so important that what we have to say is of any historical value? I have even heard Gayle Agostinelli remark on more than one occasion that she wonders if her children will do anything with her journals when she is gone.
What I am saying here is we have a tendency to see what we create as being more profound than it actually is. What is being created is paper crafting. None of it will end up in a museum somewhere to be viewed by future generations. Why place any more attention upon it other than a desire to do the best job we can do?
What I write for my books comes from my heart. My point of view is my connection to the world around me. I could care less about creating an image of who I am, of what I do. It is important to me that I am honest and considerate. I view my life not as an individual entity as much as I regard it as one part of a vast connection with all that comprises the universe. Here is a small segment of what I wrote for one of my books. I include it here as an example of what can be done when one does not write from a sense of ego but from a sense of connection.
*** “We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed-begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand-it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I’ve never mastered it-I only know how true it is-that love is a chain of love, as nature is
a chain of life.”
This is a quote by Truman Capote where a character says love is a chain. We oftentimes think of a chain as a mode of imprisoning someone. Someone is “chained up” which restricts their freedom. In Capote’s book, however, he did not mean to suggest that love is a way in which we lose our freedom. To consider the word chain in this context, we must consider what a chain is made up of: links. Links are connections, ways in which one thing is joined to another. Love is a chain means that love is the link that connects us with others. Love is the link connecting one person to another which, in turn, gives us the ability to experience the humanity of the other in intimate ways. It is this linking through love that allows an experience to occur whereby we live outside our individual needs and desires in order to care about those things in another being. This caring is the seed that bears the fruit of compassion. ***
I believe each of us has the capacity to grow. I refuse to halt my growth by maintaining the status quo. Growth requires movement which, in turn, requires effort. I see TH-cam junk journalists who seem to rejoice in the concept of minimum of effort. There is one content provider in particular that seems to never be prepared, is always in a mess and yet these things do not bother her. From what I see of what she creates, the end result is slap dashed. I stink at design. I do OK with the mechanics of what I create. But, no one will ever remark that what I create is a product of mass making or a lack of effort. There are major faults in each of my projects. But, those faults are not the result of a lack of trying. I maintain effort in what I do because I strive towards the goal of getting better with each project I complete. I aim towards touching others even if they have no interest in what I do. I do not consider what I create in terms of privacy. I do not fear what others may think of what I do. The only person I fear is myself. I fear I will not give my best effort in all that I do. If I do that, I know I have achieved the true reason for creation in the first place.
My dear, success is not a destination or perfection. It is enjoyment in the journey. And I am grateful Ceri is willing to be vulnerable and courageous enough to share his journey. If we are not challenged we do not change. Ceri challenges himself and is a mentor for us to challenge ourselves!
Firstly happy new year to you may 2023 be fruitful and joyous. You’re correct in your observation that there’s more of my face in videos nowadays and that is a product of studies by TH-cam who have said that subscribers want more human interaction and less hands only viewing, they wish to look into the TH-camrs eyes and know who they’re listening to. I’ve never tried to be anything except the real me with all of my faults and flaws, the one thing I try to achieve in my videos is a level of honesty and real time creating. I’m somewhat in a agreement with you about your observations on journalling however I created my journals for myself with the focus that if in my older years I begin to loose my memories then the journals will be a trigger point for recalling those memories, the only other family member I have is my sister and I’m in no doubts when I pass away my journals and art work will go straight in the trash. My legacy has already been set, I’ve had many cake decorating and baking students who have learnt from me and gone on to be successful business people, I’ve had five instructional books published over the years one of which even won a literature award in New York, when I pass away I know I have left behind something of value for those who are just starting their creative journeys. My art is never intended for museums or galleries, I create because it gives me joy and if I video them hopefully it helps inspire others. Evolving and moving forward is key to my existence, life has thrown many obstacles in my path and if I didn’t adapt and move with the changes then I wouldn’t be here today.
I've really enjoyed your art journals. I watch all your videos but don't comment very often but just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed this one. Happy New Year.
Cathy, thank you for you support and if you’re enjoying my content then thats reward enough. Thank you for your comment but know there’s no expectations or pressure to comment. Thank you once again.
Thank you for sharing your Art journal’s and your Creativity. It was very enjoyable to watch Ceri.
Looking forward to 2023, Happy New Year🎉🥳❤️🥰
Thank you Ann, and happy new year to you too.
Thank you! Happy New Year. Beautiful, just beautiful....
Thank you and happy new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉. I enjoy your videos so much. Watching you create is so inspiring. I have to say the Queen Elizabeth II page was stunning as is the harlequin page. Thank you for sharing your journey through your journals. Most enjoyable to see. And I pray that 2023 Isa better year for us all!!!
Thank you Sarah I think the planet definitely needs a better year because we’ve all had a hard few years.
Thank you for sharing. I am 81 and hopng to do an art journal for the first time this year. It's funny, but most of the pages you really like so do I and most of the pages you don't neither do I. 🙂
Funny Connie, maybe we’re connected in some way, have fun doing your art journal but remember to do what makes you happy and not try to make your journal looks like anyone else’s, it should be a reflection of your own creativity so allow yourself to just have fun with it.
@@CeriGriffiths Maybe we are connected in some way. I pray for you. I am hoping to start a TH-cam channel also. At least thinking about it.
I loved your journals. I have tried to make an art journal, but no such luck for me. I have a journal, I make backgrounds and put quotes or poems or statements or just words I like. It's mine and I love it, but it's private and it will remain that way! I love to create but have not reached a point where I share much. I am not ready to take that step, when I am ready I will. I'm on a design team, and I share that but am always so nervous doing that. Again thank you for sharing this, I loved it!!
Paula sharing your art is a step only you can make, its a harsh world out there and people feel they have a right to have an opinion even when they don’t know what they’re taking about. Creative people have sensitive souls and can easily be hurt or discouraged by thoughtless criticism. Just remember you wouldn’t be on a design team if your work was not of a certain standard, but creating and keeping it private is the best way to get joy from your art.
Paula sharing our art is hard because we’re vulnerable to peoples opinions, some of which have no appreciation of what it takes to create.