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Layer by Layer is a gentle companion for the artist who is ready to go deeper—beyond getting started and into the rich inner terrain where memory, texture, color, and intuition quietly meet.
This printable workbook is not about learning techniques alone. It is about listening. About letting your marks speak. About allowing layers—of paper, paint, time, and feeling—to reveal what words sometimes cannot.
Through reflection, intuitive prompts, and thoughtful layering practices, Layer by Layer guides you into a slower, more interior style of art journaling—one that honors imperfection, emotional truth, and personal mythology.
This is where your pages become living archives.
This is where the story beneath the surface begins to rise.
Inside This Companion Guide:
Each section includes a Reflection, a Creative Prompt, and Layering / Color / Mark-Making Ideas:
Foundations & Gathering – Working with ordinary fragments and intuition
Your Color Story – Letting color speak for mood, memory, and emotion
Layers & Textures – Using depth to hold past, present, and becoming
Storytelling & Composition – Letting layout and symbol guide the eye
Marks & Meaning – Discovering your personal visual language
Perfectly Imperfect – Wabi-sabi as a soulful creative practice
A full page of stand-alone creative prompt cards
A tender closing reflection on becoming & return
A bonus printable first page for a brand-new journal
Perfect For You If You:
Already love vintage art journaling and want to deepen your practice
Crave a more reflective, intuitive, soulful creative process
Are drawn to memory, texture, symbolism, and visual storytelling
Want prompts that feel like invitations, not assignments
Are walking a season of inner listening or quiet becoming
Format Details:
Digital PDF download
12 richly designed pages
For home printing or digital use
Includes printable prompt cards and bonus journal page
From the Studio:
What you create here is more than art.
It is a record of becoming—a visual whisper of your presence in the world.
There is always more waiting beneath the surface.
There is always another story only you can tell.
Every purchase plants a seed. Learn more.
