Yes, you’ve heard me talk about it before, IFJM – International Fake Journal Month. And yes, I’m doing it again.
I’ll be posting my pages on my dedicated Fake Journal blog, SkylarkKarma.wordpress.com. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post daily although that’s my preference. Please click on over and join me there, I’d love to have you along on my April adventure into fakery.
I’ll still be posting here too as I have many more sketches and drawings to share.
Promise! ……. Pinky promise!
#IFJM2018
I started blogging here near the end of 2013 and haven’t changed a thing on this site since then.
Well it’s about time!
If you’re a newish reader then you might not know I actually have a second blog where I keep all the “fake” journals I’ve created the last few years… well, they’re real journals, but each one has been kept by a persona I take on for the month of April.
April is International Fake Journal Month… IFJM for short. Roz Stendahl is the brains behind this activity and I wholeheartedly join in by adopting a character and journaling as this person, all the while posting images of this work daily, or nearly so.
I make references to this blog… Skylark Karma… when I lead up to April but ’till now I’ve never had a sidebar widget of my own. When you’re on the home page you can see the image of a crow on the right; it’s done in gouache and marked up with my blog address. Just a simple click of the image and you’ll be whisked off to browse my current and former fake journals.
I had a great time creating this image. First, I drew a rough outline on a prepainted acrylic background in my Pentalic Aqua Journal before going in with gouache. There are passages where the line drawing shows through and others where the gouache is applied thick enough to hide and correct the misdrawn lines.
I love this full spread but a closeup of one of those faces would make a great image link. But which one? If I used the one on the left, he would be looking away from the body of this text.
… and it’s blurry, especially behind the eye.
But the crow on the right… that’s the one!
I love how the blues, greens and purples all combine to say – black.
I ran it through my photo processing software to add the lettering and… Voilà! … I have a permanent link to my Fake Journal blog.
Please visit and see who “I am” and what “I’ll be creating”. The magic starts this Saturday, April 1st. Join the fun!
You’ve heard me talk about International Fake Journal Month before so I won’t bore you again with the details but April’s gone and my project is complete!
If you start here you can forward through the entire month and follow along.
or… you can jump directly to my wrap up.
It’s been a great April… May? Bring it on!
As I have the last 3 years, I will be participating again in IFJM – International Fake Journal Month… Roz Stendhal‘s creation. If you’re new here and haven’t heard about this wonderful April project please follow the links above. Just be prepared to lose yourself in the interwebs as you learn.
Roz has chosen “[considered] TRUTHS” as this year’s… slogan? motto?
How will I handle this? To find out please consider visiting my dedicated IFJM blog: SkylarkKarma.wordpress.com. I hope to post my character’s journal pages daily… come, follow my progress!
And, as if I didn’t have enough to do, I’ve also decided to participate in Blogging A to Z. Oh no… it runs in April too! Basically, on April 1st we’re to blog about something beginning with the letter A, the 2nd is the letter B, etc. Sundays are our day of rest… no posting. That way, on April 30th, we’ll all be posting about zebras… or zithers, or zzzzzs! There’s a big sign-up process but I’m not sure I’ll jump through that hoop but I may reconsider
Now don’t be expecting too much. I figure a photo and a bit of text will be as much as I can manage. This is an opportunity to look back, share a few pages from the archives along with some recent work. I’ll be doing that here on danaburrellart.com so stay tuned.
Lots going on… I hope I didn’t bite off too much. Wish me luck!
I’ve just posted my wrap-up of my 2014 experience with International Fake Journal Month on my other blog… SkylarkKarma.wordpress.com. Real blog… Fake Journal.
In a year of “No Explanations”, explanations are forthcoming.
There’s a lot to celebrate today. The snow is totally gone from my garden, I’ve paid my taxes and I’m halfway into my April project, Roz Stendahl’s creation, International Fake Journal Month.
This year’s motto, No Explanations, means there’ll be no details ’till May but I do have 15 images for you to checkout on my dedicated IFJM blog: skylark karma.wordpress.com. If you’re a stickler for reading consecutive posts feel free to start with the April 1st post and go from there!
Posting daily seems to keep me on my toes so be sure to return as the month progresses and remember…
The last few years I’ve participated in Roz Stendahl’s IFJM… International Fake Journal Month for the uninitiated. It’s a chance for journal keepers to put on a different persona and journal as if you really were this individual. Not forever, just a month… the month of April. Just long enough to get a feel for the difference between this character and yourself. It’s a chance to be the person you always wanted to be or a chance to try out that career path you were fascinated with but never took for one reason or another.
As Roz says… “Life’s so short, why live only one?”
It’s possible for a Fake journal to be totally written but I’ve chosen to create visual journals. In the past I’ve uploaded my pages to a Flickr account but have found that problematic so I’ve created a new blog to hold both my previous years efforts and my fake journals going forward. I’ve already started uploading my 2012 journal and will follow with 2013 before I start in on the planning for this year’s journal. For those of you who have seen this before please bear with me as I go though my retrospective. My intention is to be current by March when I’ll start planning the 2014 experience.
If you’re interested in IFJM as a concept please visit Roz Stendahl’s Official International Fake Journal Blog. If you’re interested in learning more about Roz and her art please check out Roz Wound Up.
If you’re interested in my IFJM blog please go to skylarkkarma.wordpress.com
As if one blog wasn’t enough!
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