Art Journaling Workshops in Redondo Beach
Explore writing, painting, collage, and mixed media through guided creative experiences that invite curiosity, reflection, and personal expression.
Join a creative community for monthly mixed media workshops that blend writing, painting, collage, and guided exploration. Each gathering features a unique theme and invites you to experiment, reflect, and discover your own visual language. See below to register and for more information.
Moonstone & Mist Book Shop
1913 S Catalina Ave, Redondo Beach, Ca
All Mixed Media materials provided
Please bring your own journal.
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Step into the mysterious world of spirit houses in this October art journaling gathering. Through guided writing prompts, intuitive image-making, and mixed media exploration, you’ll create a miniature spirit house and incorporate it into your art journal if desired.
Your house can be playful, mysterious, magical, reflective, or inspired by a person, memory, or story. We’ll explore a limited color palette along the way, then spend most of our time creating, adding imagery, symbols, words, and details that make your little house uniquely yours.
No art experience is required. Bring your curiosity and imagination, and let the house take shape as you work.
Join us for our next gathering on Sunday 10/18 at 4:00-6:30 for a monthly art journal gathering where writing, painting, collage, and mixed media come together as a creative practice of exploration and self-discovery. We will gather at Moonstone & Mist Bookshop, 1913 S Catalina Ave, Redondo Beach, Ca.
In our October gathering, House of Spirits, we’ll step into the mysterious world of spirit houses. Through guided writing prompts, intuitive image-making, and mixed media exploration, you’ll create a miniature spirit house and incorporate it into an art journal if desired.
Your house can be playful, mysterious, magical, reflective, or inspired by a person, memory, or story. We’ll explore a limited color palette along the way, then spend most of our time creating, adding imagery, symbols, words, and details that make your little house uniquely yours.
No art experience is required. Bring your curiosity and imagination, and let the house take shape as you work.
Front cover of one of my visual journals
Page from one of my visual journals
What is Mixed Media Art Journaling?
Mixed media art journaling is a creative practice that uses both writing and art-making as a way to explore your inner world. Through paint, collage, words, images, and symbols, the journal becomes a place to follow your curiosity and see what emerges. Each layer adds to the conversation—sometimes revealing connections, ideas, or insights that you may not have discovered through words alone. The process is less about creating a finished artwork and more about allowing the page to become a space for curiosity, expression, and discovery.
What to Bring
BYOJ — Bring Your Own Journal!
I recommend bringing 2 separate journals:
A sketchbook for creating your visual journal pages
An additional journal or notebook for writing and reflection.
Why bring a separate writing journal?
1-We’ll be writing while the first layer of paint in our art journals is drying, so you’ll need either a second journal or additional paper for writing.
2-Your words are an important part of this process. You may want to return to your thoughts, reflections, and discoveries later, and having a separate writing journal allows you to revisit those words anytime. The pages in your visual journal may eventually become layered with paint, collage, and imagery, so keeping your writing separate gives those insights a place to be preserved.
You are also welcome to bring:
Photos or images you don't mind collaging
Favorite pens, markers, or art supplies
Meaningful papers or personal collage materials
I’ll provide the mixed media supplies we’ll be using during the workshop.
Moonstone & Mist Bookshop
1913 S Catalina Ave
Redondo Beach, Ca
Space is limited. Registration is required.
Page from one of Frida Kahlo’s visual journals
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
Step into the mysterious world of spirit houses in this October art journaling gathering. Through guided writing prompts, intuitive image-making, and mixed media exploration, you’ll create a miniature spirit house and incorporate it into your art journal if desired.
Your house can be playful, mysterious, magical, reflective, or inspired by a person, memory, or story. We’ll explore a limited color palette along the way, then spend most of our time creating, adding imagery, symbols, words, and details that make your little house uniquely yours.
No art experience is required. Bring your curiosity and imagination, and let the house take shape as you work.
In our first art journal gathering, Conversations with Future Me, we will explore the relationship between who we are today and the person we are becoming through guided writing prompts, intuitive image-making and mixed media exploration.