Assignment: CHANGE

1. What changes occur in your life during the Fall? Or what things have been changing in your life this season, or this month? Illustrate your changes by drawing a tree and writing your changes on the falling leaves—or you could paste colored leaves into your journal and write around them. Do you have other major changes that coincide with seasons? You could do a page depicting each season.
   
   Example: This page (unfinished) has all the fall changes written on the falling and fallen leaves. The leaves are cut out of different colored and pattered paper and pasted over a colored pencil trunk.
   
   
2. What are some things you would like to change in your life right now? Explore some of these feelings and illustrate them in fall colors or images. One example I used is a tree covered in heart-shaped red and orange leaves, with the title, “Time for a Change of Heart.” Journaling filled the empty spaces in yellow, orange, and red. Another way to do this is to draw an outline of a leaf and journal on the inside, changing colors as your thoughts change.
   
   Example: This journal page uses chalk pastels to depict how a fall scene helped this journaler change her mood. The leaves were done using round sponge smudgers. A versamark pen with chalk rubbed over writes, "The wide world comforts her."
   
   
   
   
   
3. 3. What changes are you afraid of? It could be something coming up or something you know you need to change but can’t. Create a page to help you work through these changes. Add a flap to your page, making the outside how things are now, and the inside how you know they should be after the change. You could make several flaps for several changes. You could even make your flaps leaf-shaped.