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July 31, 2011

Cool catalogues



At the Art Educators conference in Seattle last spring, I picked up these beautiful catalogs from various art colleges. Full color heavy-stock paper with great images, ready pages for painting, gessoing, pasting, etc. I will use each of them as "pre-sewn" signatures for a journal. My visual journals are all different - I get bored with the same things - and I've done a few of these kind. I love Anthropologie catalogs for the same thing and work around the existing photos when they intrigue me. Anyway, loved these and can't throw them away.
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July 30, 2011

Map Nirvana: They Draw and Travel


oh my gosh - where has this site been? How have I missed it until now? I'm a sucker for maps. I love to draw them, read them, study them, interpret them, teach about them to my classes. And here's a site for artists who feel the same! Thanks to Jill Berry, who mentioned it on her site. (She's got a book coming that feels like it will be Just Right for those of mapaholics called Personal Geographies, on preorder at Amazon if you want to check it out.)
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July 26, 2011

Frustration!





Daily drawing today is page from my journal that expresses how I feel about Congress these days. Drawn from a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoon.


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July 22, 2011

An interview video Carla Sonnheim style



This woman has one great sense of humor.
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July 19, 2011

Mining for gold I find two new artists

Today while "tearing through" more magazines in my downsizing, I discovered two artist/designers whose work I found enchanting, and whose studios are remarkable, even if not my style. One was Shelly Kennedy (blog at droozdoodles.com), a most whimsical artist whose white studio of lovely treasures knocked me out. A very Mary Engelbreit feel but with pastels and white instead of Mary's knockout primaries. ("I think 'simple, simple' but I always end up overdoing it. More is more." A woman after my own heart, me thinks.)


Another was Ashley Carter of Goldbug Studio. Much whimsey, funny but pretty and stylish. If you enjoy a sense of humor in your decor and giftmaking, you will enjoy. The magazine in which I read about both was Mary Engelbreits'Home Companion April May 2006 in case you, like me, couldn't part with them after you read them. I really miss that magazine. In the tearing out of favorite things, I have quite a pile growing.
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