This is perhaps my favorite of all the NotaMax videos, all you can hear in it is the crisp sound of pages turning.
Inspiration Saturday, NotaMax part 3
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Excellant Blog for Looking At
This little blog has some excellent doodle and images to look at. Check it out.
Hump Day Prompt #4 Toned Pages
The prompt is open ended and deals only with the
material, subject and content are up to you, but the
material is dictated.
White pages can be intimidating and boring. I like to randomly turn through my journal and "tone" a page with either watercolor or gouache. I try to stick with a nice even layer of color that doesn’t quite come to all the edges and is a little imperfect. If you like working in colored pencils this adds a fantastic layer of tooth to the page, allowing it to hold a lot of color. It’s also fantastic for pastels.
Prompt #4- Go through your journal with some
basic colors of gouache or watercolors, tone pages. Lay down a thin even coat of one color to
a page. Try yellow ochre (or yellow), red, blue and green. Let the pages dry over
night and then draw on them with a thin sharpie. Nice isn’t it. Gouache has
great tooth for drawing. Try drawing on it with pencil, colored pencil, and
pen. Now go back and add more colors. Mhhh nice isn’t it? You like that don’t
you?
Leave a comment with a link to your blog with pictures of what you’ve done!
(Note: this can also be done with acrylic but that limits what you can put on the page afterward to more acrylic, which is why my suggestion is to stick to watercolor or gouache for this- they way you can add to it with just about anything and even layer on acrylic later if you want.)
Inspiration Saturdays: Art Journal Travel Agency
This is one of the funniest and coolest art video videos I’ve seen I had to share it it made me laugh, out loud.
Thrifty Collage Artist
You need to check out this blog…. It’s awesome. There are a few entries about the process of how she sets up a page and it’s pretty neat to see the steps she takes to make a page. Very nice.
All images are property of the artist.
Hump Day Prompt #3- Reversable Water Based Media
The prompt is open ended and deals only with the
material, subject and content are up to you, but the
material is dictated.
The next item to add color is watercolor or gouache. Both
are a type of water based paint. I love both for different reasons. Watercolor
allows you to create beautiful rich layers of color that are vibrant and pop of
the page. It’s hard to use and difficult to master. But they can be found cheap
and allow you to add color over inky lines. Gouache on the other hand is
thicker opaque and works more like a water based oil color than watercolor,
though it can be thinned to use like watercolors. It’s great for putting in
thick layers of color, toning pages and creating flat designs. It can also be
used to beautifully render subjects.
Prompt #3 Use a water based reversible media, pick one
watercolor or gouache. Subject is up to you.
Leave a comment with a link to your blog with pictures of what you’ve done!
dedicated to randomness
dedicated to randomness
Originally uploaded by hej frollein
I wanted to post this picture from Flickr to provide an excellent example of what you can do with just a pen or pencil. This is a fine example of what you can do with just one tool. It’s evocative and just a really great journal page, made with one tool, and in black and white. A piece like this wouldn’t necessarily work with a lot of color. I really like this piece and I think it’s a great example of black and white with one tool.
In a Twist
In a Twist
Originally uploaded by MrtyHrrs1
Another example of black and white done in one maybe 2 media. This person (check out their link to their flickr set) does a lot of work only in black and white. I like it a lot. Black and white is hard to do, but when you do it, it looks so good.
Dirty Baseball a video
I decided to video my process as I made my newest painting Dirty Baseball. I’ve written about his before but I’mr eally few up with the whole Steroids in Baseball issue. I remember watching all these famous players as kid doing their thing and now I’m told they were cheating all them. I guess I wouldn’t have cared so much if tax dollars weren’t being spent on the Mitchell Report and investigating this whole thing.
Also, Clemens? Awwww geeee, Clemens!?! That really bummed me out.
Busy Week
It’s been a busy week for me. I had a lot of work at my
DayJob that involved me driving all over the great state of Massachusetts. In
addition to that we decided to have our house insulated. (Note: as some of you
are probably aware my significant other and I bought a cute little house a
little over a year ago. While installing some new electrical outlets it became
painfully apparent that there was no insulation in the upstairs. Later we
became aware that there was little insulation in the whole house. After one
winter we realized that we had spent about $300 to $400 per month on heat, and
in the summer running an ac unit in only one room increased our monthly
electric bill by $50.)
It’s taken a little over a week to get all the work done by
3 guys wandering about the house, inside and out. We also had a little issue
with the shower and tiles falling off.
Already we’ve noticed a big difference in the temperature of
the house and how often the furnace will come on. On cold nights last year the
furnace would come on and pretty much stay on all night. Now the heat comes on
for a few brief moments each evening. There are also no chilly drafts like
there once were.
So I’ve been pretty much on the run the last few weeks and
weekends. It’s been good though, I’ve met a few good people and my house is
warmer so I can’t complain.
I haven’t made any new books lately but I’ve had enough time
to work in my art journal doing what I’ve taken to calling “life illustrations.”