April 2011

Digi: It Ain’t Just For Scrapbookers Anymore

April 23, 2011

  Above:  The cover to one of the Artist’s varied and sundry Art Journals, snapped with the iPhone camera.  (And unedited — normally she’d make it more user-friendly, but she has INSPIRATION to impart, people!  INSPIRATION!) This totally looks like just another piece of beat-up mixed media, doesn’t it?  There’s something in there, though, that’s [...]

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Quickie: Another Kind of Art Today

April 12, 2011

It’s just a quickie today, folks.  The Artist is off doing battle with the Dread Beast, Meeting, again this afternoon.  But we found this bit of awesome put out by Lion Brand yarns and just had to share.  Crocheted monsters! (Clyde won’t admit it, but that second one kind of looks like they modelled it [...]

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Pretty Sticky: Washi Tape (yum!)

April 11, 2011

(image recklessly stolen from happytape.com to show off the company’s amazing wares and the possibilities thereof.) By now, you’ve probably figured out that the Artist goes through certain obsessions at times.  Maybe not OBSESSIONS, per se, but definitely trends, where everything is made with some kind of supply — watercolor pencils or water-soluble oil pastels [...]

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Put a Bird on It! All About the Brave Girls Club

April 10, 2011

We have some actual art to show you today, but in order to introduce it properly, we needed to first tell you just a little bit of background.  (Not that art has to make sense, but this story’s a little bit, well…awesome, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t share how it came to be.) [...]

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The Daily Doodle: art and charity

April 8, 2011

Here at the Collective, we’re very fond of monters.  (Of course.)  We also have a soft spot for robots, being as how they can straddle the line between mechanical friends and cybernetic monsters so easily. At the Daily Doodle, both robots and monsters are born…well….daily.  And for a reallly good cause. Stina Jones, an artist [...]

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Are You A PLANNER? We Are, Too.

April 6, 2011

As much as she’d like to deny it, claiming to be some kind of spontaneous free spirit who lives by the seat of her pants and a little bit of duct tape, the fact is… …the Artist is a total planner.  Or, to be more specific, a GIANT PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM GEEK. No kidding.  We’re talking [...]

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Ginger or Mary Ann? Your “Deserted Island” Art Supplies

April 3, 2011

The monsters have been scurrying around the cabin for the past two days, collecting together all of the varied nd collected art supplies that have been stashed in every available nook and cranny.  And for a small cabin, there seem to be a LOT of nooks and crannies around here. So it occurred to us, [...]

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