Journalong and Reclaiming

As you travel through your CoW Quest, if you're like me, you likely have been filling journals with your process and progress! I use spiral bound art journals for sketches and Metacognative drawings, and covered and repurposed a bunch of composition books following Catt Geller's lead. 
I have a page on my blog with some tips on journaling, and recently wrote about continuing process journaling on their own for my students. I intend to print this and offer it as a handout, or email it as a PDF after the class.

Star codes

When I'm teaching, one of the things I find hardest to do is my own journaling during class! I give the prompt for my students, and may jot a few notes, but rarely do as much as I might on my own. I may also have done a trial painting on my theme before the class, to work out the kinks. It's helpful to leave some of these unfinished, and include them in the "Ladies" I bring as examples to the class. It is especially helpful for new painters and for those in shorter classes to see simpler work.

Soo... 

I try to take time after class to connect with my painting and journal. I also make notes on what came up for students, insights, sketch symbols, flesh out ideas for the next class, and ways to improve the teaching, set up, etc. When I co-facilitate classes, we try to meet for tea and debrief a few days later! 

Muse -2016 with Livestream

You may wish to dedicate a new journal for your class notes and insights, and include a section for messages from your demo paintings. This is a great place to record new class ideas, the journey and poem you plan to include, etc. Revisit it after the class, to add notes, sketches and do some journaling with your new muse.

A delightful suggestion from Shiloh on reclaiming that demo painting after class is to spray the canvas, run a swath of white paint along the top, spray again, then sit back with your journal as you watch the drips! What's going into the Fog? What came up during class you're ready to process/release? What new insights are emerging?

Same canvas, flipped for Muse 2018

This is a canvas I began supporting the Livestream for muse in 2016, when my friend Sepha was in CoW. I didn't really connect with it, and it sat for a couple of years ... 
I rarely gesso over a canvas, so I likely did a glaze or two, and I think used the white glaze tip, then flipped it and used it for the 2018 Muse. 

Soul Spark

Like Shiloh, I often have several canvases in process at one time, and use left over paint on different ones ... Soul Spark now has Star codes and I've been adding to her recently.

Do you have any favorite tips on journaling or your process work your demo painting? 
Share in the comments!