Saturday

LK Ludwig

Parts of a Whole





Do you find yourself seeing images to shoot everywhere you go? on your commute, at the grocery, in your yard, with your family... Does your head get turned by the color of the light? Ever get the sense that your visual journals could be more you than they are?

And that desire--the strong desire to take pictures--is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully... that keeps us taking pictures. - Sam Abell

I think the place where we cannot completely capture the full expression of our vision is what brings us to visual journaling with photographs.  Whether we write out our hearts to fill in what is absent, we physically manipulate the image to add more, or we use other art media to create a complete piece on a journal page, working in a  journal gives us a way to more fully reveal our intended vision. For someone who takes a lot of photos, using them on journal pages is a natural expression of your artistic voice.

Think of your photographs and your journal as two parts of one whole. Two parts of your artistic voice, your vision. Come spend the day learning a variety of techniques to work into, onto, and with your photos on the pages of your journal... ways of creating a complete expression using them together. We’ll take on five doable techniques for working into and onto images, learn about composition, integrating the images onto pages, and be prompted to write around what might be missing. You can view more of my journal work by going to youtube.com/user/ludwiglk and clicking on the video “ a look inside my visual journals.”


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