Journal Gallery ...
Journals are an end in themselves, offering a place to play, to experiment, to create freely with no one looking my shoulders. On the pages of machine bound pages I can freely rant, color, doodle, sketch, paint, write my memoirs in code language. I have discovered that the most authentic art I make appears in my journals.

The following images include pages from several journals created between 1999 and the present, 2009.

Black Journal and Red Journal evolved over several years. I worked (played?) intuitively, improvisationally, my intention being to discover what my own artistic voice is.

Red Journal

Black Journal
The South Padre (Island) Journal began as blank pages of arches textwove paper gathered in an unbound single section. I had brought derwent watercolor pencils and micron pens to the beach and decided I wanted to draw a hibiscus flower. I plucked a flower, parked myself at my mother-in-law’s large dining room table which faces the beach, and started to draw. I completed the rest of the section over the course of several months, and added two more sections as well. It is stitched and waiting to be bound!


Song of Sharon  
The Desert knows what I
seek in eternity,
I feel my body in the
face of the rocks 
Landscape carved by
ancient storms, wind and river,
AWAKEN!
Canyon sunrise
breath, spirit, light,
a peace of my day 
I sing to sage and catcus flowers
and dance the sky in my own time,
a Cholla rose of the valley,
 Sharon.

 (S. Zeugin, 04)

Handmade Journal

Color Exp Black Journal