This wonderful book is an easy to follow guide on how to make art journals. Every novice art student should own this. I love the quote, "go and make interesting mistakes, making amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Bad. Art." That is so true. Too often artists are perfectionists and cannot move forward. This book gives 24 examples that are easy to follow, come with examples and illustrations, and generally look appealing. A nice variety of mediums to work with will encourage artists to venture out of their boxes. The author is encouraging to the artist reading this book with helpful hints and guidelines. Even if the reader were not an artist, anyone reading this book would want to create his or her own art journal.