Get Creative. Find Courage. Have Fun!
Get past your inner critic that says you’re not creative.
Find the courage to express yourself.
Have some fun!
Life is intense right now. It’s uncertain and a bit scary. We have learned that there is only this moment, now. It’s time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do, like exploring your creativity. Why wait?
Ready to get creative?
Let me be your guide. I’ve spent years painting, writing, playing, getting curious. I can guide you to connect with your creativity, experience play and find joy! Currently I have my two, ongoing online workshops available for you anytime you want to sign up and join.
Ongoing online workshops:
Zen to Paper
Zen to Paper is a great way to start a fun, accessible art journaling practice with 21 days of instruction in pre-recorded video format that arrives in your inbox starting the day you sign up. You will receive the Day 1 Welcome email and video the day you sign up and every day for the next 20 days going forward. This is a self-paced class, so you can follow through at your leisure.
Journaling HeART
Journaling HeART is all about discovering the playful process through art journaling. It is an online class with 7 modules filled with videos and downloadable PDFs giving art instruction and self-inquiry guidance along with poetry for inspiration. You will receive access details for the course when you register. There is also Facebook Group for inspiration, community and sharing. You can join this course anytime during the year.
Art Journaling 101
$75.00
Students in Art Journaling Class, 2019
““One of the reasons to express yourself is to stay true to the moment.”
Mark Nepo”
The Journal is the “room” in which we have an intimate dialogue with ourselves in words, color, marks, lines, and bits of ephemera pasted into the pages.
It is the outward expression of the inner world.
The joys.
The pains.
The curiosities.
The experiments.
The emotions.
The insights.
It is a way we know ourselves and understand our unique ways of seeing, to explore, to dialogue with the inner landscape, and understand our relationship with the world.
Through journaling, we explore our unique ways of seeing, and begin to know ourselves as we dialogue with the inner landscape, in order to understand our relationship to the world.
The Journal is, literally, a friend.
The best friend.
One who listens.
One who is non-judgmental.
One who is spacious, kind, open, accepting.
The art journal becomes the creative document of our lives, reminding us where we’ve come from and the dreams we have yet to explore.
Words from former students…
“Diane Sherman is a creative, healing force in our world. Her art journaling courses have allowed me to express a creative muse in a fun, safe and profound way. Before I embarked on Diane’s classes, I did not take time to play with art. This online workshop created a habit of artistic expression in my life that I will continue to explore. The combination of poetry, doodling, collage, and drawing awoke a form of expression that has been dormant for too long.
Thank you Diane for your wonderful teaching! ”
“Being a self-labeled completely non-creative type, this class was awesome for me. I have avoided the concept of art, creativity, drawing, painting, colors, etc. for virtually my entire life. Diane made this whole arena approachable, fun and interesting. I learned so much about the use of artistic tools for creativity, reaching my “inner self,” and honoring the talent within.
I highly recommend EVERYONE to take this class,
but particularly those of us who have these negative self-labels regarding art.”
“ My Art Journaling experience was two-fold: As a beginner, I learned about art supplies, tools
and techniques. At the same time, Diane took us on a gentle, supportive, fun and laughter-filled inner journey of exploration. I highly recommend her classes!
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“If one of my oldest doubts could speak, it would say, “Julia, you can’t draw.
Face it sweetie, painting just isn’t your thing.”
Decades I’ve wanted to feel liberated to draw and paint. Decades I’ve been inhibited until being privileged enough to befriend Diane Sherman, who teaches Art Journaling. She’s passionate and playful about it. In some ways she is an Art Journal. With her gentle coaxing way I found myself signed up for her first Art Journaling class.
I allowed myself to fall under the spell of Diane—her music, her dance, her energy. Then I followed her playful instruction. We wiggled and diddly-doo’d with squiggles on the page. Each classmate doing her own thing with nervous giggling and laughing doubts. Words of encouragement came. Colors splashed against the page and then a bit of magic I didn’t expect and won’t tell you now because you’ll just have to find out for yourself.
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