RVJ
Reflective visual journals. Are the library of your thoughts. You experiment in them mess around with different materials and techniques and expand your visual language through them. RVJs are a essential tool for any artist and allow you to put your thoughts on paper. There are some key things to remember when working in them. Your RVJ has to be drawn, stuck, Pasted, coloured and painted in whenever an idea crosses you. From that initial thought on the paper you can then divulge into different branches and more ideas from it. It RVJs allow an artist to solidify there thoughts and ideas and reflect on them to see which ones they wish to take further. The brain is in two diff rent parts the right and the left one is playful and bold whilst the other quantifies things into what is useful and what is not. To create a successful RVJ one needs to harness these two sides. Letting ideas flow in a sporadic way at first but then looking over them to make something more out of the initial concepts on the paper. Experimenting is sometimes helped in RVJs when one looks at an over arching theme. There needs to be some form of direction in the work so your more calculating side can pick up on the idea and take it forward. Its always important to annotate in RVJs as well, just briefly to clarify your idea for other people or even for you, if you storm on in the work and look back at a idea which is vague you may forget the initial intent or purpose. Great ideas sometimes or even often emerge as an accident, a strange use of a material which gives an unpredicted effect for example. These ideas can be found in RVJs and refined through them.
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