Garden Art Journal Week One

Okay...you have had four weeks to get your journal, gather your supplies and get yourself psyched up for the class. Now the moment you have been waiting for. Your first set of prompts. Please remember that you can change or alter the prompts at any time to suit you. The techniques, questions, and things to include on the page are just suggestions. You may do the prompts for the week in any order, single or double page layouts. Also note...if you can not keep up the pace of three pages a week...do two or one...whatever suits you and your lifestyle BUT the goal is to get something done in the journal every week! Another key point: This is an ART JOURNAL so experiment with art techniques and try new creative things. AND be sure and write something, express yourself with poems, your own notes, or journal entries.

Prompt One: Favorite Flowers/Colors Main Idea: Experiment with Color

• Create a page about your favorite colors in the plant world. Are you in love with roses or do you drool over Gerber Daisies? Do you like sunshine yellow or deep red?
• What colors, shapes, and sizes catch your eye the most? You may use clippings from magazines or seed catalogues. You can sketch or use water colors. You can use paper to cut or tear your flowers. Or try creating one from ribbon.
• Use actual photos if you like or leave a space to add one later.
• Write or find a poem about your favorite plant and use it as your journaling.
• Use color swatches instead of actual plant pictures...detailing the colors you love most!

REMINDER: These are just ideas to get you thinking...use one or two of them...or pick something of your own! I have my page almost done and hope to get a photo up later tonight!!

Prompt Two: The Palette of My Garden Main Idea: Examine Visual Appeal Create a page of the layout of your beds or pick just one bed to feature on this page.

• Sketch, use ribbon, or other materials to represent the flowers and bed.
• If you have pictures of your beds in full bloom include them or leave spaces for photos taken later in the season.
• For ideas about bed design: Flower Garden Design Tips or The Kitchen Flower Bed
• Journal about the kinds of layouts you like....all one kind of flower, mixed, sizes etc.

Prompt Three: Mary Mary Quite Contrary How Does Your Garden Grow? Main Idea: Journal About Your Experiences This page will focus on a success or failure in gardening. that wheel barrow full of dead plants that never got in the ground or that award winning rose bush. Your choice but this page needs to contain the story of the success or failure...either in words, pictures, or both.

• This might be a good two page layout...one side a success....the other a failure!
• As an added challenge...find words or a sentence in a magazine to include in your layout.
• OR use the nursery rhyme Mary Mary and reword it to make a statement about a success or failure!

Okay...that's it for week one...but check back in because I will be adding photos throughout the week.