Welcome to April!

This week starts another exciting month in the Art Journal Emporium.  We have a new book club selection starting this week, a new Daily Art Dose, a new Tangerine Telescope, an ATC swap, and lots of extra goodies to look forward to for the rest of the month. Not to mention, Tangie’s new “A Walk in the Park” workshop.

The Daily Art Dose

The new list of inspiration prompts is out! It’s so exciting to have a reason to take a few minutes each day just to do art. Using these little one-word prompts also stretches your creative muscles. Win-win!

Liz is flexing her lettering finesse with this ATC inspired by ‘wander.’

Becky did this mini work of art as a take on the ‘tomorrow’ prompt.

Artist Trading Card Swap

The deadline for the next Artist Trading Card Swap is coming up! April’s theme is maps. I *love* maps. The aged parchment, the compass rose, the ‘here there be dragons.’ Modern maps are great too. And star charts.

Need some inspiration or art kits to help make your ATCs? A bunch of cartography sets are included with the Art Journal Caravan in 2012. There’s also a huge bundle of all the weekly parcels for the 2012 caravan which should have other helpful goodies.

We’re still early in the month, but I can see great things coming. Don’t forget to look for our art (and tag your own!) on social media using the tags: @artjournalemporium and #thedailyartdose.

Posted by: Becky Sasala