That's why I always keep 1📚HOW journals & diaries can SAVE your art practice!

Painting blocks, art journals, artist's dairy, sketching albums, painting pads... I wouldn't be an artist without them! Which ones do you have? Are you using them correctly? Watch this video as I share tips and my story as I leaf through my books. You might also like to keep colour swatches and other things in your diary it can really depend on your practice and media that you focus on.
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[@nataliaataya3055]

Great video Leila, thanks Leila. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@LeilaAtaya]

you are very welcome ❤

[@nataliaataya3055]

Видео интересное и нужное, спасибо Лейла.❤❤❤

[@LeilaAtaya]

Спасибо 😊❤

[@kathleendelrio8088]

Very helpful video🩷🩷🩷🩷

[@LeilaAtaya]

Thank you

[@TrojanLynx]

Hi Leila! Greetings from Canada. Thanks for this video! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. 🙂

[@LeilaAtaya]

Thank you 😊 you too!!

[@javierdiaz9497]

Hi, Leila! You're sill the best!!

[@LeilaAtaya]

Thank you 😊

[@perrystalsis2209]

** 2 Days Late To The Party !! ** : - Definitely Slacking?...... Howdy Flower, and, congratulations on getting a nice "round" 14,000 subscribers. A lot of humans - if you had them all together stood (or sat?) in one space for instance??. An interesting and life-improving/organising tutorial this episode, diaries and journals having a place in life generally? : not just for art purposes..... Not that I've ever been self-disciplined enough to keep one for more than say, a month? (!) = I have over the decades tried to keep a "life" journal a handful of times, after being bought a blank paper book for a present etc. etc. : - It's sadly never lasted long!!. Thom Yorke, the frontman from Radiohead (a fave band of mine) has said he *always* has a notebook/diary/journal with him, as you say = Ready to jot down random/unusual and interesting thoughts and/or experiences whilst out + about...... Perhaps why their music and lyrics are so unique and intellectually "clever"??. Not Just Cheesy Love Songs For Sure.... (some of their music is pretty damn "dark"!!). I like your medical model of a knee joint on your bookcase/cabinet by the way : - Just a shame one of my knees is in really bad shape in comparison (!!). I'm Getting Old I Guess..... Bye Leila, and - good to see and hear you're in good spirits (unless you're a really good actor?!), and - healthy yet again. Cheers, Nick.

[@LeilaAtaya]

Thank you :) I know my channel is slow growing but I really appreciate every single subscriber. I don't make crazy videos where I fill up swimming pools with paint etc so I know every person that does sub is wanting to learn more about painting and drawing the world around them. Fist time I had to use a diary is when a teacher made us all (in the class) do it and made it a part of the end of year marking system. I felt like it was a chore and would always forget keeping up with it but after that year I started to really rely on having one as I could see all the benefits. So now I always keep one going. Sometimes more than one :)

[@rndm2000]

great video:)

[@LeilaAtaya]

Thank you :)

[@FreeThinkAlways]

15:00 Is that a photo of you when you were a student Leila on the bottom left? :)

[@LeilaAtaya]

Yes, It's a black and white photocopy of a photo. :)

[@FreeThinkAlways]

@@LeilaAtaya Aha I thought so, you looked adorable! Still do of course! :) I really wish I had kept more of my books and things from back then, must be great to look back on! When I passed my ART GCSE in year 11 I really wanted to keep my big folder of work but they never mentioned anything about keeping it or what happens to it all so I never saw it again :/

[@LeilaAtaya]

@@FreeThinkAlways how strange I wonder what they did with that. Do you know if other students got theirs back ?

[@FreeThinkAlways]

@@LeilaAtaya I'm not entirely sure, I don't see any of my old Art class group anymore. This was like mid 00s so was a little while back now. My sister though who is 3 years older than me she passed her ART GCSE too but she was too scared to ask for her work back after she left so because I was still at school at the time I went with my friend to the ART block teacher and asked and she gave us a bunch of her drawings that I took back home to her. So I'm guessing it was my own fault for not going back and asking for it :/

[@LeilaAtaya]

@@FreeThinkAlways good on you for helping her. 😊