September 2011

Idea Safari: Finding Ideas for Art Journal Entries

September 12, 2011

Put on your pith helmets, intrepid arteests!  It’s time for a safari. Don’t worry, though.  We’re not going to be leading you into a world full of lions.  (Unless, of course, you live near a zoo, where the animals who can eat you are safely in their own hermetically-sealed environments.)  What we’re going to do [...]

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Got Theme? A Baker’s Dozen of Themed Art Journals

September 10, 2011

The Artist would like to state for the record that, while she is not a big fan of segmenting out her art journallybits, that at many, many points during her tenure of Making Things, she has been.  At various points in her Life-With-Pens, she’s had as many as six going all at one time, but [...]

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Showing Off: The GOOD mail day…

September 8, 2011

If there is one thing you can know for absolute sure about The Artist, it’s that she loves the mail.  She always knows the mailman’s schedule, even on Saturdays, and has been known to dive onto the mailbox, tossing junk mail and bills in all directions, looking for The Good Mail.  Letters and postcards and [...]

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Get it in Gear: Finding the time to Journal

September 7, 2011

Let’s just face facts, shall we? There are times when things are all kindsa crazy, everyone is demanding a big fat piece of your time, and all you can do is glance lovingly and longingly at the studio door/desk/table and wish that your fingers would stop itching to hold a brush and be covered with [...]

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Keeping an Art Journal Just Got More Fun: The Observation Journalling Workshop

September 6, 2011

  After nearly a DECADE’s worth of updates, the Monsters are thrilled to announce that the OBSERVATION JOURNALLING WORKSHOP is NOW AVAILABLE. Once the Artist threw off her chains and slay the dreaded Meeting once and for all, she found she had two uninterrupted weeks with which to do as she pleased.  (Well, that, and [...]

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A Monsterous Announcement

September 5, 2011

The monsters are pleased to announce that the Artist has thrown off the shackles of the Dreaded Meeting(tm), and is finally free to resume being, well, The Artist. As such, Bob (above) has been sprinking around the fairy dust of Inspiration and something HUGE is happening. Come on back tomorrow when Bob (and the Artist [...]

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