I htink in 1980 my mom had some yard saled coffee mugs that looked just like these. Ah memories. Got to love the stove top espresso maker.
it took me a minute to figure out how to read it. Go to the image's page and read the comments
as usual sparkleface on flickr delights me with another great image. love the rays. I need to cut a ray stencil.
Read the subtitles, i Like this a lot.
Eduardo Salavisa talks about sketchbooks from Urban Sketchers on Vimeo.
great book here.
SKETCHBOOK – THIAGO ALVIM from thiagomelek on Vimeo.
warning Adult language ahead.
Earlier this week, or was it last, I've lost track of time, a post was put to the internet entitled "Put Down that Art Journal." It enraged me. I didn't bother to post a comment to the author as I wasn't sure I contain my righteous anger.
You see what she was commenting on was the aesthetic, not the actual act of art journaling. Well maybe the actual act, but you get what I mean. She does not like the how to books that give you instruction on how to use materials or as she puts it "torture a piece of paper." She also made a reference to gluing "shit to a page." I suppose we could all be cookie cutter art journalers and illustrated journalers and only draw in our journals and use watercolor on 140lb fabriano paper with calligraphy nibs dipped in only the finest of India inks.
Too bad for her the world doesn't work that way.
Fortunately for me it does.
You see. I like to glue shit onto my pages. Yeah, the detritus from my life, tickets from the T, bills, health care info, pill labels, bills I can't pay. All that shit goes into my art journal. I then add a healthy dose of gesso, glue, acrylic, and dribble india ink. I torture my page until it gives me what I want- a dirty grungy page that reflect the aesthetic of my life. Sometime my life is pretty watercolors and india ink, but sometimes it's ugly clashing colors peeling paper and wrinkled.
You don't like it? Too bad, it's my art journal. I'll torture the page all I want. The great thing about the internet? Click the red button on the top right of the screen, it'll get you out of here.
Additionally I LIKE all the pages I see out there that have this look. I love the pages of watercolor and ink too. I like the refined and i like the raw, one is not better than the other. Sometimes stuff isn't for me, but it's not my place to judge.
The post was the kind of elitist crap I saw when I visited the art schools before I settled on going to a state university. The snobbery, the high and mightiness that I feel coming off the graduates, the "I'm better than you because I have a degree from fill-in-the-blank-art-school."
Here's the thing, it's the secret of art journaling, it's for everyone; the assholes with the degrees, the former christie's auction house worker, the college drop out, the uneducated, the homeless, and yeah you and me. There's an aesthetic for everyone.
Here's what I have to say to anyone who says differently, "fuck that shit."
like I've written previously I love this guys work, it's sublime. And there is something great about finding just the right color mix…
One of the comments on my last post was "When are we going to see more of YOUR stuff again ?" or something along those lines. Phew, hopefully I can get something shot this weekend and up on youtube in the beginning of the week. I've got 4 more videos to shoot for the course and then 3 more PDF for that as well.
The video editing has been a bumpy road. I switched programs and had to relearn a lot of stuff with the switch and that was hard. Anything done with the Windoze MovieMaker had to be fixed and essentially totally redone. Now the videos are DVD quality and the files are HUGE. They take a great deal of time to load to the internet but it's worth it in the end. I also learned that I need a lot more light in the studio. The videos are slightly darken than I would light. So i'm working on some new lighting.
After I figured out the new program (Corel VideoStudio) I then didn't realize that the files sizes were over a gig, that took me a week to figure out. I'd leave thigns to load over night and I'd wake up to find they hadn't loaded. So I had to trim 30 seconds and compress the videos again. Sometimes I'm dense.
The good thing is everything is going smoothly now. I suspect my next workshop to go much more easily. I'm going to start working on that as soon as I'm done the videos for this one. I"m going to go intermediate on you all and do a long stitch tutorial with my style of false headbanding and no kettle stitch. It's going to be great.
SOOOO> I"m hoping that I'll do a video this weekend, and get it up to youtube. I promised somone a video on creating tabs in your journal, so I'll start with that.
I love how the cats are smooshes of color and simply draw in with a minimum of lines
Don't click the video if you are bothered by the F word, if you can get past the F word then by all mean click the video and check it out. USed on one page are the following techniques: paint dripping, paint rubbing with a rag, image transfer with gel medium, and writing with a oil pastel. It's gritty and raw. and guess what? I like it.