Open the door to inner self | Written & Illustrated: Art Journaling | Online course

Slow down for a minute. For two, for three, for ten minutes. Maybe even half an hour. Experience that I am a human with five senses and hundreds of emotions. I am living in this amazingly beautiful world that is sometimes cruel and hard to understand. Yet, I am alive. And I want to notice being alive not just rushing through daily schedules and checklists. 

That is why people have been writing and drawing everyday notes, journals, and diaries for centuries. To document your small and big adventures and emotions, in longer and shorter sentences. Sometimes poetry. Sometimes only one word – it can be stronger than four pages. Diaries, journals, and notes where words are supported by the visual language of sketches, colors, lines, and cutouts.

We have discovered the magic of everyday watercolor notes and want to share it with you. It is daring to talk to yourself not only in sketches but also in words. And this is what has made our connection to the notes so special. They are ours. The deepest conversation with yourself, which turns into a special relationship. This process is a deep confession and careful approach to yourself through the world around you and the creative process.

This course aims to turn art journaling into everyday practice, to test different ways and approaches to understand what fits you and what does not.

Making your soul visible on paper and showing your inner world is both threatening and very rewarding. We will show you different techniques how to find your perfect way to keep an art journal. We will embrace the white page, find a way to actually begin, remove barriers, and create a playground full of possibilities.

Throughout our 8 weeks together, we will focus on the following themes:

Week 1- Why We Journal: Unveiling the Stories Within

Week 2 – Sketching Life: The Art of Visual Storytelling

Week 3 – Written Reflections: Turning Thoughts in Words

Week 4 – Embracing the White Page: How to Begin and Keep Journaling

Week 5 – Finding Balance: How Journaling Can Help You?

Week 6 – Zooming Out, Looking In: Express Yourself through Journaling

Week 7 – Creativity in Everyday Life

Week 8 – Bringing It All Together: Q&A and Next Steps

The idea behind STUDIO by deepdeeplight is to create a happy place to discover creativity as a lifestyle and a space of interplay and sharing. You are welcome to join and enjoy together by embracing your existing skills and learning something new. Two souls behind this course are artists Agnese Aljena and Masha Zurikova.  The course will be interesting for both beginners and those who already have prior knowledge and skills, together we will look for tasks and complexity corresponding to the sketching and writing experience. The course will be in English, but you can write in any language you like. 

Zoom calls will be organized every Monday or Tuesday (the first will be held on January 20th, 2025) at 20.00 Riga time (19.00 in Brussels/Copenhagen, 18.00 in London, 14.00 in New York, 11.00 in Los Angeles). All Zoom calls will be recorded. The course includes several assignments. Everyone enrolled in the course will have to post their assignment into the closed community group (link will be provided via e-mail – it is our own community platform, not any of social networks). The group will be used to create the space for questions and support from fellow learners.

The 8-week  course will begin on Januray 20th. Next meeting dates:

1. 20.01.
2. 28.01.(Tuesday!)
3. 03.02.
4. 10.02.
5. 17.02.
6. 24.02.
7. 03.03.
8. 10.03.

The price for the whole 8-week course is 360 EUR, which can be divided into three payments of 120 EUR.