I made the hard choice and I've decided to move all my items over to artfire. I'll keep the etsy shop open and switch it over to sell art. I don't want to completely shut it down. I'm attached. I'm silly like that. I"m not leaving it like I'm leaving eBay, that was a horrible mess, etsy is more like… The girlfriend you stopped calling becuase you didn't want to listen to the drama and slowly over time you drift apart.
In other news I found a cache of Arches text wove in my studio I"d totally forgotten I had. I bought something like 25 full sheets of it a few years ago for a project that fell through. I'm not even sure where I bought it, how much I paid or exactly when I bought it. Go figure. It's been down there awhile. Also I thought I only had one package of Fabriano artistico but it turns out I had 3 left, and a package of some other paper I can't remember the name of. I know it's 100% cotton, possibly rag, smooth cold pressed (almost a hot press but not quite) I ripped down all the sheets into nice chunky sized pages. I've got those all torn down into nicely sized pages. I'll be stitching them up this week.
I also have a stack of pages from a project that totally fell through. They are my problem pages. they measure 8.5×11 inches, and are already folded. Unfolded they are 11×17 inches. A useless and total pain in the arse size it you ask me (it's my blog so I guess I'm asking me.) I'm not sure what to do with them so I'm thinking of tearing them into landscape sized pages. But the jury is out on what size they end up.
Over hte next week all this paper will get stitched up into cool new journals.
I like the journal page. Love the use of sumi inks, makes me what to get mine out. She seems to have a thing for teal… I like the yellow it’s a great shade and looks good against the teal.
It’s not often You get to see work in progress anywhere. I love this. It’s part of a mural. Very cool. Check out this and the other work on Elevenses flickr stream
the horse is really cool as are the lines in this piece on flickr.
really cool drawing of an owl in a moleskine, looks like silver marker or paint on the extremities of the image, but it could just be the scan. Love the owl!
Another great pierry image. Love it.
those of you who know me know I like Amanda Fucking Palmer. In fact I follow her on twitter, read her blog and yes listen to her music. She is crass, a brilliant musician and a lot of fun. Hence the reason I follow her. Would I attend one of her flash parties? Not likely, you wouldn't catch me dead surrounded by that many hipsters. Would I buy her used glass dildo? (oh great the spam bots will find me) Nah. Do I support her right and insanely brilliant way of marketing and merchandising herself? Do I LOVE the way she leverages social media tools in an effort to make a living as an artist? Abso-fucking-lutely.
Why do I love these things about Amanda Fucking Palmer? Because she put it all out there. She says with confidence what I want to say: I'm an artist and if you like my work you WILL support me. I'll give you some stuff for free but for christ's sake help me out. I enrich your lives, throw me a bone. She puts the tip jar, hat and ukulele case on the curb in your face and is WAITING for you to stuff dollar bills in her panties after a great show. She does a lot without the help of the record labels. I'm willing to bet that the labels would frown upon some of the shit she does, but she's selling her music. (I paid and downloaded it off Amazon, but would download her next CD off her website if offered.)
And for that more than anything else I love her.
Read her blog post here.
Another SparkleFace collage. good stuff here.
LOve this art journal/ sketchbook great stuff.
