Celebrate Autumn, the time of turning inward, and learn to combine journal writing exercises with mixed media raw expression in a mysterious and possibly haunted book of dark and shadowy pages!

Though I created this online Visual Journaling course in 2010 the assignments remain relevant. This year I have created all new videos to update for each exercise so it’s like having two workshops in one!

Welcome Princes of Darkness and Queens of the Underworld: it is Autumn, the time when the veil between this world and the next is thinnest. Let us experiment with various techniques and textures to prepare black pages in a Book of the Night. This is a magical and wounded book of blackened pages and dark nights of the soul reaching out for the light by combining cryptic tales with potent imagery, valuable tools for self-expression. In these frightfully beautiful and haunted pages, your Book will reflect a night of the dead, of spirits calling, of witchery, mysterious dark cloaked figures beneath a full moon.

Imagine a haunted gothic mansion beside an old cemetery where we are told of an ancient manuscript in a moth-eaten velvet lined wooden trunk: A Book of the Night. The raven, a messenger from the spirit world, has powerful information for you that can only be scribbled, painted, written, drawn or glued in the safety of these tender dark pages. Spirits of the dead and long forgotten tales of you begin to clang chains and moan and reach out for an authentic life. Bring your creatures of the night to light in the pages of your Visual Journal. Like the Bride of Frankenstein, we’ll piece ourselves together from the long-discarded remnants of self. You call that darkness? It’s beautiful.

No experience Necessary. Peer inside your tattered book covers; the beauty is within.

Register at any time and work at your own pace. Teaching platform is currently at www.extremejournalism.ning.com. “Book of the Night” is easy to follow in 4 chapters with full color eBooks, plenty of supportive video and optional group forum questions with a place to share your work and receive valuable feedback from instructor! Course materials are available for ten years.

REGISTRATION:

Registration for “Book of the Night” is open and ongoing. You may register at any time and work at your own pace. If you need help navigating the extremejournalism.ning site I am happy to walk you through it. I am here to make the visual journaling experience work for you.

After you make payment you will receive an evite from extremejournalism.ning, the workshop homepage, to access PDF files and video. You will need to sign up or sign in. The email address associated with your registration payment is the email address I use for your membership so this is where you will receive your evite to the workshop. If you need me to send your evites to a different email address, inform me at meandpete08@gmail.com. Always use your same membership email address when signing in to either site. INVITATIONS ARE ALL DONE MANUALLY, so please be patient and give me a day or two. If you do not receive your evites, check your spam and trash folders before messaging me! meandpete08@gmail.com

Once I receive payment and send out evites, there are no refunds.

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