Love this guys stuff, He does his work on stickers or junk and glues it into his moleskine. Great stuff.
This is an interesting tutorial on grungy text based background. Pretty cool.
For this page I wrote out an intensely personal entry in a thick ball point pen, pressing hard into the thick soft stonehenge 140lb paper. After I had done that I use a credit card to scrape a REALLY thin layer of red paint over teh top of the writing.
I then doodled a face in sumi ink on the right page which was painted a pale blue color. I used a waterbrush to blend that into the blue background. I wanted to have an area to write on the right side so I used some white acrylic paint to cover up some of the blue. I sealed the sumi ink with some gloss gel medium. After that had dried I went back into the eye area and added the white of the eye.
I watered down some blue acrylic paint and dripped it from the top of the page. After it had dried I used a white watercolor crayon to outline the drips and pop them out a bit.
After the whole thing dried I wrote on top of it with a gel pen, it didn't write so well so I went over it with an elmer's paint pen. On the right side the gel pen wrote well enough so I sealed it with gloss gel medium and after it had dried added some highlights with watercolor crayon.
I discovered, by accident, on this page, that if you brush gel medium over gel pen it lifts and blends it quite well, it continues to lift the ink as it dries. Which could be a very cool technique to try out.
Love these little ACEO's (ATC?) Done in watercolor, all of farm scenes. I'm a sucker for farm scenes.
Love these ink imakes of the wood ibis. Great stuff.
Holy shit. damn. I love this guy's work. Everytime I look at his flickr stream I'm blown away. His work is slightly creepy, ever so weird and yet it draws me into look more closely.
I've been wanting to get a pochade box, also known as a thumb box for awhile now but they are … well beyond my price range. We have a variety of great thrift stores in the area and I needed a couple of new shirts for work. I stopped by found a couple of shirts, decided to wander the book aisle to look for art books.
They had no good art books so I wandered the housewares aisle just looking, and in the decorating section, which is generally a pile of useless shit I found a wooden mini wine bottle box with nice hinges and clasps. I also found a medium sized cigar box. I grabbed both. I spent $8 total. Both are made of wood, but I may collage over the top of the cigar box, though a cigar box pochade is a classic.
I've looked at a variety of videos and plans for making my own and I have a rough plan for what I'd like to do with my 2 little boxes.
I watched this video about the pochade box:
I also looked at a bunch of blogs but this one stood out as the best.
I love the idea of making a list of what you need for the day in your journal. Great idea.
Where last weekend and last week were completely artistic weeks this week has not been. My mind is set on the idea that when people visit it's SUPPOSED to be on the weekend not Monday nights! So when my grandmother and father came back through to crash on my couch my mind thought "weekend!" Then I had to slog through a whole week at the DayJob. Every Spring we schedule our days off at the DayJob. Instead of a single full week I had scheduled several random long weekends, and thankfully for me, this Friday is one of the days I'd scheduled off. My DayJob schedule is weird this week too, but thankfully today marks the start of my long weekend. Boy am I thankful!
This weekend is full of good art stuff too which makes it even better. First off, I'm being interviewed on Artistic Biker's UStream tonight, I go on air around 9PM Eastern Time. If you HAVEN'T tuned into the broadcast before you are missing out, Jonathan puts on an art show. It's not about technique as it is a 2 hour romp through his art journaling journey. He talks, his daughter makes art with him ( I love this, she's cute as a button and she's making art.) and people are chatting about art. He'll tell you the type of technique he's working int, where he got the idea and then as he works talks about the art. It is a great UStream and it happens EVERY Thursday night (you know unless kids are being born.) and it worth every minute you spend watching it.
Saturday the 3rd Connie of DirtyFootPrints-studio.com is posting an interview on DirtyFootprints-Studio.com it's about art journaling and how I got into it and all that fun stuff. Check it out on the 3rd.
I got one of the best compliments I've ever gotten from friend and fellow artist Jane McDonald, who compared my recent portrait work to that of Alice Neel. If you have known me for any period of time you will know that Alice Neel is a huge influence, inspiration and hero of mine. So the compliment is very meaningful to me and made my day.
What I love about all these artists is that our art is so diverse and so different from one another and all great in their very own way. (Jane should post more of her art) I love browsing through all of the flickr streams, twitters and blogs of these people. I get the most inspiration from these artistic people far and wide who spend so much of their own time trying to inspire and motivate people to create more art.
Another great journaler on flickr. Mrtyhrrst combined screen printing, brushing ink over the top and painting with work done in illustrator. Great stuff, very inventive and definitely something you should go look at.