Zoiy's blog is brimming with art pieces as a result of various challenges. I think I'll look up some of these challenges and start to join in. Looks like fun. This one is from http://zoiy.blogspot.com/... she also joins http://thankgoditsfriday.wordpress.com/ and http://makeamooortwo.wordpress.com/ and http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com/(Zoiy has a long list of challenges listed in her sidebar)Friday, April 17, 2009
Zoiy and challenges
Zoiy's blog is brimming with art pieces as a result of various challenges. I think I'll look up some of these challenges and start to join in. Looks like fun. This one is from http://zoiy.blogspot.com/... she also joins http://thankgoditsfriday.wordpress.com/ and http://makeamooortwo.wordpress.com/ and http://wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com/(Zoiy has a long list of challenges listed in her sidebar)
Heather's collage
"1 1/2 inch squaresPermalinkA sampling of the squares created for the March swap" (I love the dictionary fragments!)
6th photo
This photo is from France ... in response to a challenge in an art group to open your 6th folder of photos and pick the 6th photo... here it is, a lady in a tiny village in Provence looking out her balcony. (taken 1998)
from Kelly Watts at blissfully art journal group... her blog ... about the above entry she writes: I used a blank white sheet of drawing paper. Spritzed it with different colors of glitter mist by Adirondak. Used my new brayer to roll out some of the spray in different directions. Dropped drops of alcohol ink (Tim Holtz) and brayed again though it didn't spread but more soaked into the paper. I layered three different colored sheets of scrap paper. Then I cut out a flower from another sheet of paper and used mounting squares to raise the surfaces. I then used my new Chalk writer to outline the drops of alcohol ink in white. I used self leveling gel to create a glossy texture over top of the flowers at the bottom. The button on the lower right corner of the page I found on the road the other day. I have discovered that I am a 'packrat' like my Dad and tend to pick up things off the ground that I can use in my journals. This button worked perfectly as I colored it with my copic marker to the same color I used to journal with. Even though this page is actually a "venting" page ~ it doesn't feel like one because I have 'prettied' it up a bit with all the creative tid bits! ... and the journal page below, Kelly writes: "My girlfriend showed me the idea of drawing an outline of your hand and then filling it in with all sorts of things about yourself.here
Kelly talks of her early journal pages, and how they were so full of negativitiy, she decided to get rid of them. From that moment on she chose to only do "healing" journal's that showed her journey to healing. She says "My art journaling has been a HUGE journey to healing for me."
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Vintage Images
boreas 1903
Ophelia 1910
undine 1872... A small sampling of the amazing artistry of John Williams Waterhouse (English painter, 1849-1917)! Have I been under a rock?? Although I've seen (and adored) the painting, "Boreas" I never knew who painted this masterpiece, until tonight. Which brings me to admit.... not only do I enjoying researching images, I seem to suck up the accompanying details LIKE A SPONGE! LOL! (You can view hundreds of his paintings in the online gallery here.
Book Spine
by Lauren Ferguson (who is in my handmade books group ... Beautiful...see the details here
Library Book Sale Tonight
I debate going tonight at 6pm and paying for a friends card, and getting a good try at books or waiting til tomorrow and saving the money, but having the choices picked over??? Hmmmmm. I have books to pick up at both the main library and friends branch.
You Can Write a Song by Amy Applebee
Due back at the library. Very neat book with lots of exercises giving you different chord progessions, different styles, and your assignment is to write a song. Worth checking out again next year so I can get better at songs with/for hospice patients.
Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts
Stretch Your Wings • Learn to Soar • Take Flight" I have to return this book to the library. Lots of neat techniques for mixed media. The techniques are interesting, but the subject matter is so stylized ... always the waif-like girls with tilted heads. I'd have liked to see some varied subjects.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Bird Line Art
Illustrations from the book Birds Distribution in Slovakia, text and line-drawings by Martin Rinik, The 688 page book published in 2002 is the result of the researchand mapping activities of 271 contributors presenting actual knowledge of birds in the country known as Heart of Europe. Along with maps of distribution some 340 bird species are featured in the book. It is written in both Slovak and English. And the one below is the flicker from this site.
and some more here.
6x6 bird collages
More lovely Bird collages by Marian
And more bird quotes: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song ... make a birdhouse in your soul ... hope is the thing with feathers that perches in your soul ... faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark ... early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese ... we think caged birds sing when indeed they cry
And more bird quotes: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song ... make a birdhouse in your soul ... hope is the thing with feathers that perches in your soul ... faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark ... early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese ... we think caged birds sing when indeed they cry
Jonathan Singer Photography
Jonathan Singer came out of nowhere to astound the botanical world with his precise portraits of flowers. Beautifully composed with a painter’s eye, his images are all the more remarkable for the speed with which he works: “I see it, I feel it, I shoot it,” he says. Did we mention that he still has his day job, as a podiatrist? Here’s a selection of photos from Singer’s upcoming Botanica Magnifica, a five-volume folio that will appear at the Smithsonian this spring.View the Sunday Morning Episode featuring Jonathan Singer
Jonathon Singer Photography
Here's an example of Jonathan Singer’s photographs of rare flowers and plants,Botanica Magnifica. Singer’s color photographs are immediate and striking. Through the inventive use of low lighting, flowers and plants are isolated from their setting, captured in both exquisite detail and a rich luminosity. The images are fresh; the flowers become art objects, with their sculptural qualities highlighted. Much of Singer’s work in photography has been at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History. A set of his photographs was published in five lavish hand-bound volumes in the enormous “double-elephant” format. The publication, titled Botanica Magnifica, is modeled on Audubon’s magnum opus, The Birds of America ... done in very low light with a Hazelblad camera with a close-up lens. He footed the bill himself --- he estimates it cost $500-800K
What kind of art journal???
Monthly Discussion Topic: (on Blissfully Art Journals)
What kind of book do you use for your art journals? Do you make your own or use one you've bought? What kind of paper does it have? How about the binding? Or the size, small and manageable or really big so you can spread out? Share your tips and insight about choosing a journal...
Strangely I used to make my own journals as they were too expensive to buy when one was struggling with children.studies and mortage (and as an aside, I cannot describe the looks of horror on my childrens faces when I tell them mortage interest rates reaached 19.5% in Australia during the late 1980's recession). Now I buy my journals as I cannot afford the time to make them. I usually (but not always)use Canson hardcover blank art journals (150gsm paper), I do use other brands, some perfect bound journals that are now especially made for my requirements usually I use these as travel journals and probably about half a dozen more varieties. There are just so many varieties here in Australia and I buy from Eckersleys Art Supplies, Oxford Art Supplies and Dymocks stationary stors. Some I even buy from Ebay. My ultimate journal is one that can take collage, oil crayons, watercolour and acrylics. Most of the types I use do this for me. - Arteefaque (SJ 'Shay' Attenborough)
I have 4 art journals going at once, different sizes all, and I alternate them depending on what I'm doing and what size I need. One is an altered book (mostly poetry or book interpretations) , two are 8x10 sized watercolor paper books (my work horses, I use these most often) and one is 5x7 with handmade paper, mostly for small family portraits, notes and mementos. I usually journal, then scan and do some digital altering,, then print and glue the final printed copy in side-by-side next to the original journal page. Occasionally I print out an iBook at the mac site from the final scans of things I really enjoyed. Curious to see what others do. - xo-teri
www.quinceberry. blogspot. com
www.takingflight. ning.com
I made the journal that I'm using now because I haven't found any that I like yet. It's watercolor paper, I sewed the signatures on my sewing machine and made the covers and spine from a cereal box. I glued it all together so it's bound like a hard-cover book and I love it! :) - Goog
Journaling: I use whatever I find. I love variety, I have "formal" fake leather bound journals, I have altered book giant journal, I have a mini sized spiral sized journal, so many journals, I use them all. Last summer I found two leather covered daily reading journals which I use, I have repurposed ledgers that are nice, some wire bound "found" journals. I am finding I like the wire bound best as they open completely, unlike the traditional bound journals. I want to make a journal out of "junk" stuff and I am saving my cereal boxes for that purpose. I have an old wooden tool box use to hold most of my journals in one place. - Carol@Swallowcliffs
swallowcliffs. blogspot. com/
Well, I've used both, bought and homemade. I have found that I LOVE these journals made by a company called Kunst. They are not cheap, but are beautifully bound and the paper is SOOOOOO lovely. And, because they are so wonderful to begin with, I WILL NOT tear pages out. I am bad at that and am trying to mend my ways! So I actually have two right now, a watercolor paper journal and then a regular paper journal, both are hardcover bound. I decorate the covers with scrapbooking papers and printouts of my artwork and usually add some beads or ribbon. These are also no smaller than 9x12. I like bigger journals so I have room to draw. I tend to fill the page, so I like to have all the room I can get. And, if anyone watched Sunday Morning this Sunday, and saw the photographer with the HUGE books of his work??? I want to make a journal using FULL SHeets of watercolor paper! How cool would that be!!! HUGE!!! It makes me giddy just thinking about it! - Jenny
www.jennifermaroney .typepad. com
You captured my interest and since I had some time I had to find the segment online. For anyone interested, you can watch it here. Lovely: http://www.cbsnews. com/video/ watch/?id= 4937453n% 3fsource= search_video
I use the Kunst & Papier 6 x 9 watercolor sketchbooks. Not inexpensive, but very nice. Below is a link at Wet Paint - I hope it works. They also make them bigger - 13x9 and 13x12 - but these are pricey, so I ask for them as presents when people don't know what to get me. :-) (If anyone buys them for less, I'd love to know where.) http://www.wetpaint art.com/thumbnai l.asp?cid= 625 - teri
www.quinceberry. blogspot. com
That is so IRONIC Teri!!! Wet Paint is my art supply store that I haunt whenever I have $$$!!! And Exactly the place I bought my Kunst journals! LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM!! They are one of the nicest stores, great selection, great customer service! I have the 13 x 9 watercolor and the regular paper one- the watercolor is definitely heavy duty enough, I use watercolor in it, ink, markers and all sorts of stuff. - Jennyart7
www.jennifermaroney .typepad. com
My journals are the Moleskine Watercolor books - I like the size. I am also using a re-purposed vintage ledger book, which 9 X 12 watercolor paper fits into perfectly. I also found this sweet little square scrapbook album that has nice thick, blank pages. I'll jazz up the cover and use that for a journal. I love to recycle when I can. I'll use just about anything... Kim O Group Moderator
ankiradesign@ yahoo.com http://ankira. blogspot. com
If I used just the book I would LIKE to use it would be one I made myself with watercolor paper. But I know if I made it then I would have severe "fear of the blank page" syndrome, not wanting to ruin it. So I usually use Canson with watercolor paper or the nicely bound Hand.Book Journal Company books which come in interesting shapes and lovely paper, but not that expensive.I like watercolor paper, heavy enough to withstand lots of glue or pastels. And fav size is around 8X6 or 9X 5, somewhere around there. I have several because I have many moods: a small journal mood, a goof off and draw whatever mood, a "try to do a nice page" mood, etc. Gina (who has made several handmade books and has yet to put a mark in them!!) - Gina Lighton http://www.flickr. com/photos/ littlebearblue/ http://www.geocitie s.com/lilbear768 / http://www.bearbluz art.blogspot. com
What kind of book do you use for your art journals? Do you make your own or use one you've bought? What kind of paper does it have? How about the binding? Or the size, small and manageable or really big so you can spread out? Share your tips and insight about choosing a journal...
Strangely I used to make my own journals as they were too expensive to buy when one was struggling with children.studies and mortage (and as an aside, I cannot describe the looks of horror on my childrens faces when I tell them mortage interest rates reaached 19.5% in Australia during the late 1980's recession). Now I buy my journals as I cannot afford the time to make them. I usually (but not always)use Canson hardcover blank art journals (150gsm paper), I do use other brands, some perfect bound journals that are now especially made for my requirements usually I use these as travel journals and probably about half a dozen more varieties. There are just so many varieties here in Australia and I buy from Eckersleys Art Supplies, Oxford Art Supplies and Dymocks stationary stors. Some I even buy from Ebay. My ultimate journal is one that can take collage, oil crayons, watercolour and acrylics. Most of the types I use do this for me. - Arteefaque (SJ 'Shay' Attenborough)
I have 4 art journals going at once, different sizes all, and I alternate them depending on what I'm doing and what size I need. One is an altered book (mostly poetry or book interpretations) , two are 8x10 sized watercolor paper books (my work horses, I use these most often) and one is 5x7 with handmade paper, mostly for small family portraits, notes and mementos. I usually journal, then scan and do some digital altering,, then print and glue the final printed copy in side-by-side next to the original journal page. Occasionally I print out an iBook at the mac site from the final scans of things I really enjoyed. Curious to see what others do. - xo-teri
www.quinceberry. blogspot. com
www.takingflight. ning.com
I made the journal that I'm using now because I haven't found any that I like yet. It's watercolor paper, I sewed the signatures on my sewing machine and made the covers and spine from a cereal box. I glued it all together so it's bound like a hard-cover book and I love it! :) - Goog
Journaling: I use whatever I find. I love variety, I have "formal" fake leather bound journals, I have altered book giant journal, I have a mini sized spiral sized journal, so many journals, I use them all. Last summer I found two leather covered daily reading journals which I use, I have repurposed ledgers that are nice, some wire bound "found" journals. I am finding I like the wire bound best as they open completely, unlike the traditional bound journals. I want to make a journal out of "junk" stuff and I am saving my cereal boxes for that purpose. I have an old wooden tool box use to hold most of my journals in one place. - Carol@Swallowcliffs
swallowcliffs. blogspot. com/
Well, I've used both, bought and homemade. I have found that I LOVE these journals made by a company called Kunst. They are not cheap, but are beautifully bound and the paper is SOOOOOO lovely. And, because they are so wonderful to begin with, I WILL NOT tear pages out. I am bad at that and am trying to mend my ways! So I actually have two right now, a watercolor paper journal and then a regular paper journal, both are hardcover bound. I decorate the covers with scrapbooking papers and printouts of my artwork and usually add some beads or ribbon. These are also no smaller than 9x12. I like bigger journals so I have room to draw. I tend to fill the page, so I like to have all the room I can get. And, if anyone watched Sunday Morning this Sunday, and saw the photographer with the HUGE books of his work??? I want to make a journal using FULL SHeets of watercolor paper! How cool would that be!!! HUGE!!! It makes me giddy just thinking about it! - Jenny
www.jennifermaroney .typepad. com
You captured my interest and since I had some time I had to find the segment online. For anyone interested, you can watch it here. Lovely: http://www.cbsnews. com/video/ watch/?id= 4937453n% 3fsource= search_video
I use the Kunst & Papier 6 x 9 watercolor sketchbooks. Not inexpensive, but very nice. Below is a link at Wet Paint - I hope it works. They also make them bigger - 13x9 and 13x12 - but these are pricey, so I ask for them as presents when people don't know what to get me. :-) (If anyone buys them for less, I'd love to know where.) http://www.wetpaint art.com/thumbnai l.asp?cid= 625 - teri
www.quinceberry. blogspot. com
That is so IRONIC Teri!!! Wet Paint is my art supply store that I haunt whenever I have $$$!!! And Exactly the place I bought my Kunst journals! LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM!! They are one of the nicest stores, great selection, great customer service! I have the 13 x 9 watercolor and the regular paper one- the watercolor is definitely heavy duty enough, I use watercolor in it, ink, markers and all sorts of stuff. - Jennyart7
www.jennifermaroney .typepad. com
My journals are the Moleskine Watercolor books - I like the size. I am also using a re-purposed vintage ledger book, which 9 X 12 watercolor paper fits into perfectly. I also found this sweet little square scrapbook album that has nice thick, blank pages. I'll jazz up the cover and use that for a journal. I love to recycle when I can. I'll use just about anything... Kim O Group Moderator
ankiradesign@ yahoo.com http://ankira. blogspot. com
If I used just the book I would LIKE to use it would be one I made myself with watercolor paper. But I know if I made it then I would have severe "fear of the blank page" syndrome, not wanting to ruin it. So I usually use Canson with watercolor paper or the nicely bound Hand.Book Journal Company books which come in interesting shapes and lovely paper, but not that expensive.I like watercolor paper, heavy enough to withstand lots of glue or pastels. And fav size is around 8X6 or 9X 5, somewhere around there. I have several because I have many moods: a small journal mood, a goof off and draw whatever mood, a "try to do a nice page" mood, etc. Gina (who has made several handmade books and has yet to put a mark in them!!) - Gina Lighton http://www.flickr. com/photos/ littlebearblue/ http://www.geocitie s.com/lilbear768 / http://www.bearbluz art.blogspot. com
Adding words to journals/collages
...great ideas by Michelle Ward on how to add words to journals here ... and above is a sampler of her journal pages... nice!!
Collage by Marian Bockelman
by Marian Bockelman (Bockel24) from Germany, on collagecats... her blog is here. These are gorgeous. The two above are 6 x 6 pages for Xela´s tip-in book themed "Vintage Nature". "I´m glad that they go to a German destination so that I could use Immanuel Kant´s words in the German original; the English translation of the quote from his "Critique of Judgement" is:"If therefore, the beauty of Nature interests a man immediately, we have reason for attributing to him, at least, a basis for a good moral disposition.""
The collage below she describes as " This tip-in book spread is 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (about 22,2 x 17,1 cm). It´s for Keron´s book themed "Wonders & Beauties of the Year". She´ll add our pages to an existing book published about 1890, so our pages had to be in muted colours. As poetry was among the proposed components and nobody else has used poetry so far, I decided to use these verses by Emily Dickinson."
and lovely ATC's--->
and some collages
This is the header art for her blog
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