January 2011

from the Artist’s Journal: The Critics

January 30, 2011

No doubt, some of you already know about the awesome (and FREE) classes going on through Strathmore Artist Papers’ new Visual Journaling Workshop series.  The first one began in early January and was hosted by Pam Carriker, author of the new book, “Art at the Speed of Life”.  Pam’s workshop was about recycling your already-made [...]

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Get Drawing This Weekend!

January 29, 2011

While perusing some forums this weekend, we found a link to this awesome site we hadn’t seen before — Michael Nobbe’s “Sustainably Creative”.  While it’s not geared toward art journalers in specific, there’s this really great ebook that he’s giving away for free (!!!) all about drawing.  It’s a compilation of two of his previous [...]

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Some Artists’ Trading Cards Q&A: Materials and Supplies

January 28, 2011
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Since yesterday, when we talked a little about the upcoming ATC CHALLENGE, there have been a couple questions that we’ve been hearing repeatedly.  So rather than answer them in the comments (or elsewhere), the monsters decided to just lay it all out there here, since you might have the same questions. TRADES? ATCs, for our [...]

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ATC Challenge: 82 Cards, Anything Goes

January 27, 2011
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In a fit of Must Have It-itis once, the Artist picked up several boxes of papers at a local store.  Fabriano papers are pretty exciting, you have to admit, and when the boxes of cold-press watercolor cards went on sale…well, it was like a siren song that nobody could resist. Several years (and several moves) [...]

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Gettin’ Inspired: Journal Prompts for Art and Writing

January 25, 2011

We hear from people all the time that they’d love to keep an art journal, but they’re just not sure what they’d journal ABOUT. There’s only so many times you can draw the trees out your window, they say, before you want to turn them into firewood. Before you get the axe, we here at [...]

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from the art journal: grey

January 16, 2011

And though it may be grey here (that’s the garage, btw.), the monsters are thrilled that we got the housekeys yesterday for our brand new collective, so it’s t-minus 7 days and counting until the horde moves in and posting can commence as scheduled.  (The upload monster is a little tired of the coffee shop, [...]

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be*MUSEd is here!

January 14, 2011

We mentioned on Facebook and Twitter that we were working on something exciting — and it’s here! THE BEMUSED E-PLAYBOOK is an eclectic mix of interactive worksheets, exercises to stretch your imagination muscles, and articles to expand your creative repertoire.  It consists of the collected issues of the newsletter of the same name, which ran [...]

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one word journaling for art journalers

January 12, 2011

There’s a trend that’s been zipping around the electronic frontier lately:  picking a word for your year.  It’s got several variations here and there — Chris Brogan’s three words (overachiever that he is), for instance, or Christine Kane’s one power word, complete with a downloadable discovery tool worksheet and such.  We first heard of the [...]

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supplies for art journaling: let’s talk pens

January 7, 2011

The monsters are still running around here like little scurrying…well…monsters, trying to get everything put into place.  They still haven’t put up the curtains, clearly.  However, since we revamped and re-released _The Mind’s Eye_ (and if you haven’t picked up your free copy, head on over and nab it!), there’s been a whole lot of [...]

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