I went to the food court a week ago and did some sketching with my friend Jane. I decided to shoot some video while I was there. The mall cops didn't know what to do, I was waiting for them to ask me to leave, or not shoot video.
Sometimes as an artist you have to say no. I've been approached to do a couple of murals. I accepted one and declined the other. Why? The pay was good, materials were to be bought from me, the issue was the content. I know my style, methods and my capabilities. Could I have done the mural in question? Yeah. Could I have done it without a ton of headache? No.
At some point there is a point where there is no return on the investment. Sure I could have gotten a bunch of art materials, been paid an hourly wage plus some cash.
But as I researched the content for the mural to create that first sketch I realized I didn't know a lot about the intended subject nor could I get into the subject. The more I reseached the more I realized the less I liked it. So today I declined the offer.
I hate to say no to an offer like that, it's money that comes in from ART and well that feels good, but the road to the goal has to feel good too, otherwise it's just not worth it
ArtisticBiker posted up a fun little Halloween video, have a fun and safe holiday!
Some useful info for those of you interested in converting a cartridge pen into a tank o' ink, aka EyeDropper.
For those of you who prefer written instructions here you go:
Platinum Preppy- discusses where and how to get the grease AND syringes
(If you live in certain states you cannot get true syringes on Amazon. I found one for 20 cents and free shipping. I also ordered my silicone grease on amazon.)
I've been shooting some new videos with my iPod touch. Using eht regualr camera on it led to some really pretty decent videos. I was estatic. It also made uploading a breeze. One of the issues that I've had with my Everio is trying to figure out which video format do I save in? I really don't want to mess around with that, I want to add a few titles, trim the crap off and upload it. Easy.
The iPod with out iMovie won't let me edit or add titles. It's a one shot video and then upload. I could upload to yutube and use their editor. But I don't want to put stuff up love and then worry that I'll have an embarassing moment of picking my nose or swearing visible. iMovie was $4.99 and well worth the $5.
One thing that I noticed is that it takes more than double the amount of time to load to YouTube as the plain uploader. So what I've learned to do is export to the "camera roll" on my iPod and then upload to YouTube. Much faster. The iCamera app will also let you load directly to vimeo as well, which is nice.
Anyway, check out my videos on youtube:
I used this journal for NaNoJouMo 2009. You'll recognize a lot of the images from my other YouTube videos.
I worked on this journal through the winter of 2010. It was where I decided I really needed to record my daily life. The journal itself was a college admissions catalog from years ago that was designed to look like the standard black sketchbook of the time. I glued together pages and slapped in a lot of personal ephemera and layers a great deal of pain over the top of that. It was a lot of fun. I did a lot of Ustream videos featuring this journal.
I took a break from a lot of online stuff ove rhte last 6 months or so. I realized I hadn't done a video in over a year. Holy smokes that's a long time. So I did a quick flip through of ONE of my current art journals and I'm loading a few more now. See it below.
I've gotten a lot of quesions on my new video asking "What is the cult of stuff?" The best explanation is to direct you to the rant here, start on part 1 and work your way through. I'm planning a series of posts about how I've integrated the CoS philosophy into my art journaling habit.
Eveline pointed this little video out to me this AM, and it's a good video showing the WIDE range of techniques one can use to customize cases to make watercolor travel sets. Now… I need to get my hands on some empty pans…