Art Journal-Dream Board

In Monday’s post, “What do I Want? What do You Want?” I invited you to join me in creating an art journal/dream board.

I have reflected and journaled on the question “what do I want?” for years and have a pretty solid understanding of what I want. But, after watching the movie “The Women” I wanted to try something different.

I am curious. By approaching the question What do I want? from a visual perspective, a way of processing information that is not normal for me, I am wondering if I will discover something new. Will I undercover some hidden desire that I have yet to acknowledge?

This afternoon, ‘create vision board’ was number three on my to-do list. I don’t know why I called it a vision board when on Monday I called it a dream board. But, I think I like vision board better.

When I first started, I admit, I was a little intimidated by that giant, white sheet of poster paper.

So, I tried to think of it like a giant mind-map and approached it the same way.

I began by writing the question “what do I want?” right in the middle of the page along with a little red stick figure that I normally draw to represent me. Since I am trying to approach this process with an open mind and not just replace the words in my journal with pictures, I got out my paintbrushes and watercolors and painted the question instead of writing it with markers.

A picture of my new vision board is at the end of this post. It is a little empty and white right now. Over the following weeks I will begin gathering images and anything else that calls to me and answers the question what do I want?. I’ll use tape and glue to attach the images and I may even attempt to paint a few pictures.

If you want to share a picture of your dream/vision/art journal board and share your thoughts on this process, email me at Sandy@TheDreamingCafe.com and I’ll post them right along with mine each Wednesday over the next few weeks.