Last May I took a driving trip through Andalucia with my husband. I took a lot of photos and when I got home I decided to turn them into an art journal. I’ve posted the results in a new gallery. . . . → Read More: Andalucia art journal
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[ June 4, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Fabrics aren’t just for sewing! You can make journal pages out of them, collage them into your journal pages, decorate them with paints, stamps or beads, and use interesting fabric patterns as a basis for your own designs. Dig through your fabric collection and bring your favorite scraps to class! . . . → Read More: June 4 Workshop — Fabrics in Collage [ March 5, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Create transfers from photocopies, to do direct transfers onto acrylic paint and gesso, and other methods of transferring images. Some of these techniques take multiple days, but most can be completed in just an hour or two. None require any previous experience. Bring black & white photocopies of images that you would like to [...] . . . → Read More: Workshop – Transfer Techniques [ February 19, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Paint isn’t the only way to create a background image for an Art Journal page. In this class we’ll explore the art of collaging to create a surface for paint, ink, and other media. If you already have paper images that you would like to use, please bring them to class. But because [...] . . . → Read More: Workshop – Making Backgrounds with Collage [ February 5, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] In this workshop you’ll gain a familiarity with acrylic foundations that create texture. We’ll experiment with grainy and smooth pastes, and you’ll learn how to impress patterns into them to create wonderfully textured backgrounds for your journal pages. We’ll also work with resists, which are prevent the acrylic from staining certain parts of the paper, [...] . . . → Read More: Preparing Mixed Surfaces with Acrylic & Resists I first read “Burnt Norton” when I was about 15 years old, and it blew me away. My dad had read me the section of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man about 4 or 5 years earlier, and that had become the standard I used to think of infinity and the [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – T.S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” I’ve been working on a series of art journal pages based on my favorite poems. “Tyger Tyger” was one of the first poems that ever captured my imagination, as a small child. My dad read it to me (and defined the word “symmetry” for me), and it was the first time that words ever evoked [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – William Blake’s “Tyger Tyger” Before I moved to Berlin in 2005, I was pretty much a country & suburbs girl. I hadn’t lived in a city since I was a small child, and I thought I could never survive it. Don’t get me wrong — I love cities, when I’m visiting and can immerse myself in the music, sights, [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – City Another journal I keep going is devoted to political doodles and sketches. Here’s an entry responding to the Obama administration’s failure to honor his promises about repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the military. Every time I think about this issue, I get really angry that Republicans can continue to deny American soldiers their basic [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Political Pages – Don’t Ask & Minarets I keep several art journals going at one time. One of them is devoted to recreating the imagery and the words that appear in my dreams. This page, called “Secret Garden Heart Fire,” is the latest in the series, and comes from the repeated image of a woman standing in flames, completely calm, on fire [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Dreams – Secret Garden Heart Fire |
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