An interesting video. Great ideas on things you can use to make different marks in your art journal. Scroll through to about the 4.5 minute mark.
Creative Marks
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2 Videos of a recent painting
2 Videos of a recent painting. I plan on either listing the painting on eBay or Etsy. I haven’t decided yet. The image started out in my journal, a heart with a medical diagram heart inside. Red heart, blue heart, antique so it wasn’t so bright and cheery. I had a lot of fun making the painting as well as making the videos.
Inspiration Saturday
I found this via one of my subscribers (NotaMax) on YouTube. Love it love it love it. Scraps of everyday life gathered together and bound into a sweet little book. SHort but totally sweet.
Filled Hedgehog
I just filled a hedgehog. It feels good to finally snap the elastic shut on it for the last time. No more blank pages no more thoughts to recourd. It took about 6 months to fill from start to finish. It had 140lb Stonehenge pages, quite a few too. It started out about ½ inch thick and now sits at an inch. I’ve abused it to the point of stress on the spine but the Irish linen thread has held up well as has the sewing style (smythe style). It still opens flats and takes abuse. The paper stayed flat too. No cockling or other unpleasantness.
This last week or so I’ve been really focused on making art. Art for me art for the sake of art. The hedgehog is the perfect medium for that expression. Personal, small private (except, well, I plan on putting up a vid and all the pics are up on Flickr…) and portable. Good stuff all around.
Most of the images use watercolor, gouache, or acrylic with some sort of paper bits glued in. The last few pages are all acrylic in heavy impasto. I’m not sure why but the angry dark subject matter needed impasto effects.
Enough chit chat art pR0n:
JOurnal Video-Willowing
YouTube user Willowing posted this video of her journal to YouTube:
“So It Goes”
I’ve been a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut for years, since I first read Breakfast of Champions when I was a freshman. I was very sad when I heard that he had died this past year. I commemorated him with a portrait. I’ve listed it on etsy. Here are a few pictures, but you can see it on etsy here.
Wrap and Roll Pencil or Art Supply Case
My mom kicks butt. She’s who I get a lot of my crafting ability from. Growing up she was always crocheting, knitting, cross stitching, or quilting. When she and my Dad came to visit this past holiday season, I suggested she use her crafting abilities to create a colored pencil wrap with 12 pockets for pencils and a pocket for up to a 5×7 inch notebook. She picked some awesome fabrics and made the pockets extra roomy. Here are some pictures:
Heres a little video of one:
Part 2 Calder Circus
More Calder inspiration:
Ellen Van Engelen
This is the most interesting artist website I’ve looked at. The set up is great, the drawing are fantastic. Excellant all around. Take a look at her sketchbook pages here. She uses ink in a moleskine notebook.
All art is property of the artist.
Maine Vacation Journal August 2001
This video took several takes, until I realized that I had saved the ortiginal raw video on my exteranl harddrive, neverm ind I shot it 3 times. Ah the follies of learning new equipment. I should really read the manual, I did go over it I just didn’t read it indepth, then I did and a lot made more sense. So by take 2 I had a decent video. You’ll notice an increased quality in this video, it’s clear, much more sharp and if you were to view these at about quarter screen you might be able to really read the words. Yay! Original here:
old video here