tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204437002011-04-21T16:02:26.785-04:00A place for sharing my 2006 art journals and related creative explorations.Paperpourrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18256589165909391647noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20443700.post-1137727206808723522006-01-19T22:07:00.000-05:002006-01-19T22:20:06.830-05:00

I adore hand carved stamps. Been wanting to get more focused (buahahaha, as if that was even possible!) and make a bunch to use in one of my zine tutorials, so I joined this Yahoo group called Artists of the Round Table. A group of us are going to be working in a structured way (with lesson plans and everything!) through Gloria Page's EXCELLENT book Art Stamping Workshop to develop our stamp

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For the last couple of days, I've been working out the details and creating samples for a new technique which I'll share in the "What If?" section of upcoming Issue 4 of my zine Paperpourri...I call this technique Fusion Stenciling. It involves inkjet photo paper, water media, hand-cut stencils, and fast fingers. Results are trippy, slightly out of control, and always visually interesting. Does

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Marketing for my zine and classes is much on my mind. When I came across Jeffrey Yamaguchi's delightful, smart, and funny Get the Word Out suggestions, I somehow got the idea to use them as the basis of a "Business Development Journal" type thing which I could use for inspiration and to store ideas, progress, etc...I had in mind a folio type thing that looked well used, messy, and overstuffed. I

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A local (60 miles from my house, but around here that IS not out of the realm of being "local") stamping store (Cami's Paperpie in Purcellville VA, probably one of the most beautiful stores I've ever seen) hosts an Artists' Circle on the second Friday of each month. A small group of us...usually no more than 10...get together to swap ATCs, share art we have created since our last meeting, and

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Whoever thought up that slogan is speaking my language. Funny, though, that I can't mentally connect the slogan with its product at the moment. Heck--for that matter, maybe I'm not even remembering the slogan correctly. But the sentiment is near and dear to my heart. I was reminded of that by a gal who emailed to thank me for posting explanations about how I was texturing ATCs with gel medium and

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Today, I re-shot the video for the doll tutorial in Paperpourri #4. This was AFTER I noticed that my tripod (which I had hanging from the ceiling to get the right angle) was about to fall apart and drop my expensive video camera crashing to the floor. Yikes. For once, I was able to avert disaster, this time with contact cement. Anyway, I'm glad I did the video over because a) it looks way better

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Posting every day is probably not realistic if I want to get anything else done, so I'm aiming to do an update every few days but no less than weekly. The focus on art that my Daily Devotions commitment encourages is SO good! Plus, in some weird way, it's setting up a good vibe for also staying on task with my diet. At the end of this year, I can only hope not only that I've been more productive

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There wasn't supposed to be much time for "me" art today, because two friends were going to come over...one to do some target shooting with her new rifle and another who wanted to learn a couple of techniques from me that she'd seen in my art. So it was going to be a fun day but not necessarily a "me" day, ya know? But as it turned out, both gals rescheduled their visits and suddenly I had an

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I've been thinking about fossils lately (probably cuz I am beginning to resemble one). So the spackling paste that has been beckoning me to come hither for months was finally recruited for today's project. I used a fat popsicle stick to scoop a couple of blobs of the chalky stuff into a half cup plastic container, then thoroughly mixed in some matte gel medium. When that was blended, I poured in

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That's my foot up there. That spot on the heel is the persistent and occasionally gasp-inducing pain that has been plaguing both my heels for a month or so now. Having a high threshold to pain, my first strategy was to ignore it, hoping it would heal itself or get bored with my inattention and go away. No such luck. I was bitching about it to a friend of mine who announced she'd had the same

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Horses are my comfort zone, my fallback when it comes to sketching in watercolor. Having drawn them obsessively since I was a small child, having endlessly practiced drawing nostrils, hooves, ears and other parts parts, having observed them close up and personal for 37 years, they come out of my pencil, pen, or brush with little effort. So when I sat down this morning to do my Daily Art Devotion,

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I love chunky books--the 4x4 size is about as addictive as ATCs. But of the four chunky book swaps I entered in 2005, two books and the hostess have disappeared into the ether, one book is finally on its way a half a year late, and another is 3 months overdue. Sigh. I won't get on my soapbox about people who sign up for swaps and then don't send their stuff in on time or hostesses who politely

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It does seem like my days are wall-to-wall busy, so I've been thinking about ways to fit a little personal art into each day. Here's one crazy idea I thought of: I could keep my journal and a nice selection of markers in the bathroom...is anyone really going to notice if I excuse myself to use the restroom a couple of extra times a day?Hmmm...all good ideas need to be tried: here's my "bathroom"

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I was getting a little stuck mentally thinking about whether or not working in the same journal every day would be limiting. I mean, what if I wanted to work on ATCs one day instead of journalling? But DOH! It finally occurred to my peabrain that I can always incorporate "external" art into my journal--either directly or as a printed scan. Geeze, now isn't THAT freeing. DOH!

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This year, 2006, I'm comitting to spilling out my creative guts in an art journal every single day...whether that means something as minimal as laying down a base color on a page or as much as actually completing several pages. I don't do much art for me, I've realized. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I create a LOT of art--content for my zine Paperpourri, samples for classes I teach, publication submissions,

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