title: Art Journal Prompts & Points to Ponder: A Workbook for Beginners Exploring Book Arts
author:  Jennifer Greenleaf 
description: Jenn Greenleaf is a freelance writer and author hailing from the great state of Maine. Shes been active in the writing and publishing industry since 1999, which happened to be the same year she became a first-time mother. Shes now raising three children with her wonderful husband, Chris. She is also author of the While We're Apart Series (fill in the blank books for children and teens who are separated from a loved one for a long period of time), Maine Living: One Writer's Perspective, and 101 Mixed-Media Art Projects, How-To's &amp; Ideas: A Beginner's Guide to Messy Art With No Rules! Jenn has also been a commissioned artist since 1993. She began her career as a landscape and still-life artist, and later moved on to mixed-media art in 2003. Her interest in mixed-media began when she started actively participating in mail-art projects through various websites. These efforts, of course, lead to writing various how-to and other mixed-media related articles and books. You can learn more about Jenn and her career efforts by visiting her blog: http://www.jenngreenleaf.blogspot.com.
zlib_text: Table	of	Contents
  Welcome
  Growing	Up
  Leaving	The	Nest
  Gainful	Employment
  Independence
  Risky	Business
  DDC	Merch
  Field	Notes
  Rock-n-Roll	Efforts
  Logos,	Logos,	Logos
  The	Open	Road
  Rescue	Efforts
  Multiple	Impressions
  Sharing	The	Mess
  Thick	Lines
  DDC	Factory	Floor
  Tall	Tales	World	Tour
  Dad
  Mom
  
  Appreciation
  
  Didn’t	Think	It	Would	Come	to	This
  I	didn’t	get	into	this	stuff	with	the	goal	of	making	a	book.	I	just	wanted	to	make
  a	life	in	art.	And	typing	this,	it	hits	me—I	did	it.
  Early	Influences
  My	cousin	Tom	Draplin	is	the	first	person	I	looked	up	to	in	the	art	world.	He
  had	the	cool	sketchbooks	and	colored	pencils	and	was	a	natural	artist.	I
  remember	seeing	bits	of	drawings	and	illustration	from	his	time	at	Parsons	in
  New	York	City.	Tom	was	also	the	first	person	who	inspired	me	to	hit	the	road.
  Tom	made	it	out	of	Detroit	to	the	big	leagues	of	art	school,	and	that	was	always
  something	I’d	think	about	when	weighing	my	options	as	graduation	from	high
  school	neared.
  I	first	learned	about	Charles