Good idea for plein air painters or those who want to start

This blog has a great idea on how to make a watercolor or gouache pallet out of an altoids tin and old milk caps. It's seriously very cool. I was thinking and I think I've seen out there a blog with instructions on how to dome something similar with sculpy or fimo clay. The milk caps are the fastest I've seen thus far though. How easy is it to simply hot glue those in? I've also seen one where the guy used tin snips and created dividers with sheets of metal.

Hump Day Journal Prompt: What Would You DO?

HDprompt

Imagine that you are browsing eBay and you find art that looks very similar to yours that you did when younger. You click on it and when the screen finished loading you recognize it as definitely yours. You read the listing and realize that a former room mate is selling off your art. The art isn't finished, not all of it.

You recognize that the art is from a journal that you couldn't find when you moved out. You realize that the room mate took your journal.

Think about it and write about what you would do, how would you approach it? What steps would you take to fix the issue? How would you feel- betrayed, mad, sad?

Admin Note: Trying to call me?

Quick administrative note: M<y cell died a few weeks ago and I lost all my numbers!!! I also didn't have a cell for close to 2 weeks. For a cell phone hating person, who got one only to throw in the car, it's been a bit hobbling. I don't wear a watch now- I check my cell for the time. I use it as a phone book, all my important numbers were in there, and everyone texts me. I may not talk on the phone but I get text messages.

Shortly before it died a friend was telling em she was getting a dog. Yay! Then my phone died.

Argh. So if you've been trying to call me, and haven't been able to leave me a message or been trying to send me a text and you got a message say something about the phone being unavailable- well it was.

Now it's  back and I can complain about it again.

I'm going to write numbers down in a book though. I'm missing everything.

Capricorn Artist Collage making techniques

I’m a big fan of Gary Reef’s work even if I question it’s archival stability. Painting acrylic over oils will lead to issues in the future, the acrylic will eventually peal off the top of it, but damn it’s so purty I can’t still looking. I love how he wantonly mixes his materials and makes beautiful techniques that would have given my art profs in college heart attacks. (Oils and acrylic arggghhh…..) That being said I wonder how onde could create some of these techniques without the mad mixing?

Book Review Monday: The Century of Artist’s Books: Johanna Drucker

I've written about this book before it's a gem of a book about Artist's Books. It's one of my all time favorite books on artist's books and art books in general. On my copy the cover is a nondescript green with red lettering. Nothing about it's outside seems particularly interesting but it's what inside that counts. It is an art history book. I make no attempt to hide that. Some of the text is dry but it's a very detailed and informative account of artist's books.
The pages are filled with loads of images, sadly all are black and white, but that doesn't detract from the ideas that the books possess.

AS this was one of the first books I read on artist's books I was amazed and drawn into the concept that one could go about creating a book that was their own art, not just a book that contained their art. The concept floored me. It was one of those moments in an artist's life that is a defining moment, something critical to move them from their artistic rut.

This isn't a book that is going to TELL you how to make something or give you a diagram nor a description of precisely how the artist created their book but it will give you a description of the book and an idea of how it was made.

I give this book 5/5 binder needles and 2 paint covered thumbs up.

This is a book for inspiration in addition be being another great reference on artist's book.
See more of it here.