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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[ 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 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 When I journal, I have about a dozen pages going at the same time. This is the first in the Poet’s Series to come to completion, based on Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West.” I’ve posted the poem at the end, so you can see if my image matches up in your [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling – Wallace Steven’s “The Idea of Order at Key West” [ January 15, 2011; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] In this class we’ll use gesso (black, white & clear) and metallic underpainting to prepare page surfaces and backs for painting, stamping, and drawing. Learn to prevent pages from curling, create a ground for dry and wet pigments, and prepare your journal for working. Preparation: Please bring your journal or journal pages [...] . . . → Read More: Art Journaling Workshop – Acrylic Primers |
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