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Altered Book: Glaringly Evident
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." ~ Ayn Rand Going through an older altered book project, I found a few unfinished pages... OK, a lot of unfinished pages. Pages with great backgrounds that I will never change, and pages ...12 hours ago -
Tell Me A Story, or Alice of the Flying Birds
Warrior Girl, You're a Warrior Mama, Now —
Authority: 123
Tell Me A Story, or Alice of the Flying Birds Golden Fluid Acrylic and Prismacolor Watercolor Pencil on vintage Alice in Wonderland Page 11/27/09 Ive been busy. Finishing my nanowrimo word count... woohoo! We have achieved 50k! But we are not done with the story, so I will try to continue my writing routines. For ...1 day ago -
Altered Book: orange.peach rev 2.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"No place is boring, if youve had a good nights sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film." ~ Robert Adams I started with the backgrounds created in Altered Book: orange.peach , and on the right page, I drew a mandala and doodled in neocolors. Thats my creativity for DAY 22 of Art Every Day Month . ...5 days ago -
Altered Book: magenta.red rev 2.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
20x12" art journal spread from altered book project "tekenfilm" plus detail of pink-orange background. Hard to believe that its DAY 23 of the first annual NaNoJouMo (National NonStop Journaling Month). These pages spanned DAYS 21 + 22 of the challenge. This is actually the back inside cover of the book, youll find ...5 days ago -
Flying Girl Sings a Song, or Beautiful Beautiful
Warrior Girl, You're a Warrior Mama, Now —
Authority: 123
Flying Girl Sings a Song, or Beautiful Beautiful Golden Fluid Acrylic and Pitt Artist Pen on vintage Alice in Wonderland book page 11/23/09 I have no answers right now. I guess thats good enough. We dont need answers all the time. Sometimes all we need is to pay attention to whats around us. We can get the ...5 days ago -
New workshop information for Massachusetts!
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor —
Authority: 129
December 27th through the 30th, I will be in Massachusetts teaching eight workshops in four days. A Studio in Whitman, MA -December 27th and 28th-four workshops 10 to 2 followed by 2:30 to 6:30 Ink About It Westford MA December 29th and 30th- Registration opens Tuesday, November 3rd. Samples are in ...6 days ago -
Steps to Sweet Dreams
Simple Journeys —
Authority: 110
Backgrounds are some of my favorite things to make. I have several quite a few backgrounds prepared in books and ATC blanks waiting for the rest to come along. Here is a story of how one of those background came to be and what happened to it. After the pages were gessoed and dry, I added ...1 week ago -
neon.black rev 2.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Ive ...1 week ago -
Yes, Chocolate helps.
Lynn Fisher - Write Where I Am —
Authority: 104
Im trying to keep the sugary writing fuel to the weekends , but when that time comes...out of my way! Im at 8000 words in the NaNoWriMo challenge, that for week three is really nothing to write home about, however,...1 week ago -
Altered Book: The Butterfly Effect
Canvas to the Imagination —
Authority: 118
This is my seventh altered book , which kind of amazes me because I only started making these in mid-September. I’ve been wanting to make more before deciding what to do next in regards to showing and selling them. I want to have a group of them all together and get an overview of where I’m going with this before ...1 week ago -
Art Journaling Kids: Acrylic Backgrounds
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully." ~ Louise Boyd Cadwell 20x12" art ...1 week ago -
Art, Text, and Teens
The Crafty Princess Diaries —
Authority: 123
The college I work for has a sort of open house for local high school students once a year. The idea is to show them what is available as far as possible programs and future careers. This year there was a theme too, recycling and going green. This made me think of book art, especially altered books and artist Tom ...1 week ago -
Altered Book: black.magenta
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright NaNoJouMo found me ...1 week ago -
Altered Book: black.periwinkle
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. ~ Lin Yutang 20x12" art journal spread from altered book project "tekenfilm" plus detail Starting with a base of black ...2 weeks ago -
page from nature AB
creative lenna —
Authority: 117
page4 , originally uploaded by creativelenna . When writing here last week about an upcoming AB exchange with Sharon Borsavage , I only showed the cover of my own book and directed you to flickr to see more. In looking over the photos again tonight, i wanted to show at least one of the pages in my book here too. ...2 weeks ago -
Altered Book: Let the World Speak for Itself
Canvas to the Imagination —
Authority: 118
I experimented with a new technique with this book. Folding the pages is yet another way to manipulate an old book, and there are so many different ways to fold the paper too. I loved how it looked when it was done because the folded pages create a beautiful pattern within the book. I decided to divide the pages into ...2 weeks ago -
Altered Book: green.pink rev 2.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will." ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel These pages begain with the background at green.pink rev 1.1 . Had so much fun adding images, neocolors, ephemera, doodling. quotes, typed journaling ...2 weeks ago -
Dressed up
Simple Journeys —
Authority: 110
One of the last things my altered books get is the cover art. I have another book almost finished, so it is time to start thinking about the cover. Only I really didnt have an altered book cover in mind when I did this little piece. And I really didnt have a cover in mind when I ran across this little piece the ...2 weeks ago -
Altered Book: indigo.rainbow rev 1.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind, born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality, in our mind." ~ Magdalena Abakanowicz Its DAY TEN of Art Every Day Month and instead of another mandala, I did an art journal page! Ive been doing massive art ...2 weeks ago -
Altered Book: red.orange rev 1.1
daisy yellow —
Authority: 136
"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." ~ Frida Kahlo 20x12" art journal details and pages from "tekenfilm" altered book project My younger daughter and I played with acrylics and a brayer for ...2 weeks ago
