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"Where do you find inspiration?" That's a question I always asked artists when I regularly interviewed them for magazine profiles. I asked because I was curious and because readers also seemed to want to know. Marks inspired by shells, created with paint and resist techniques. Art by Helen...
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Every time I walk into a store that sells paper goods like handmade cards and art papers, I long to own a paper store. The idea of being surrounded by the colors, patterns, and textures of printed and handmade paper all day simply moves me. Paint picks up the natural texture of handmade papers, like...
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I know, I know: we're outside the lines artists, and proud of it. But in some instances, like art journaling , writing between the lines can help you move outside your comfort zone. Art journal lettering between the lines by Joanne Sharpe. Take lettering, for example. A lot of people (me included...
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The Cloth Paper Scissors team (Jenn Mason, Tina Hussey, and me), along with designer Larissa Davis, decended on photographer Sharon White's photography studio last Thursday. Armed with bins and bins of art, crates and boxes full of props, flowers, and lots of creative ideas, we set to work on the...
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My younger daughter recently switched her riding lessons to a new barn out even farther into the country than the one before. I don't mind, because it's a nice, easy drive and there's a coffee shop nearby. Rubbing made with encaustic wax onto paper by Isobel Hall. From Cloth Paper Scissors...
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My husband and younger daughter, who both draw beautifully, always look at me like I have three heads when I ask them if they are taking their sketchbook with them on an outing or someplace where they'll be sitting and waiting a while. That's because they are very purposeful artists in that they...
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Do your letters tend to have swirls and tails and flourish? Is the dot on the letter i ever replaced with a heart or flower? Do you like to play around with the height or width of your letters? Are you anxious to give your letters personality? Do your traditional-looking letters cry out to be bolder...
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What's a quick and easy way to add texture and interest to your art journals, collages, paintings, and mixed-media art? Try mark making in gesso. Artist Leighanna Light made these patterns using texture and mark-making techniques and gesso or plaster. Gesso is a relatively inexpensive chalky primer...
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Making Time for Art Journaling in 2013 A recording of this webinar is now available Listen in as our talented art journal panel, Jacqueline Newbold, Dawn Sokol, and Pam Carriker, discuss their favorite ways to work art journaling into their everyday lives. These creative and prolific artists have written...
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If you lack an art studio and consequently play with wet media in the kitchen or dining room, you are in luck. You have easy access to culinary you can use in your artwork. Here are three mark-making ideas that will spice up your watercolor painting. All use supplies from the kitchen. Jacqueline Newbold...
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How do you sign your art? With a Sharpie® and your signature? With a little cartouche-like monogram? Maybe you have a stylized signature you use just for artwork (as opposed to writing checks.) There are many ways to sign your artwork creatively, from printmaking techniques to lettering to stamping...
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Cate Prato
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31 Oct 2012
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Filed under: collage, mixed media, Cloth Paper Scissors, printmaking techniques, lettering, art journaling, paper art, Mixed Media Art Techniques, Stamping Techniques, Mark Making, Mixed Media Supplies
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Roann Mathias is a mixed-media artist who takes paper art to a whole new level. A designer, she specializes in calligraphy which she uses to adorn handmade cards and books, and stationery. To create her handmade paper crafts and card making embellishments, Roann employs acrylics, watercolors, and paper...
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Whether you use a brush, a pencil, a stamp, or a needle and thread--any way you make a line, dot or pattern on paper is mark making. Form those marks into recognizable letters, and you have a creative and artful form of communication. In our new free eBook, Lettering and Mark Making in Art: 4 Free Hand...
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We have a running joke around here. Assistant Editor Barbara Delaney, a former early education teacher, often looks at a process used by a contributing artist (like marble painting with shaving cream or weaving with torn papers) and says, "We did that in preschool!" Some of Barb's experiments...
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Cate Prato
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12 Sep 2012
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Filed under: mixed media, assemblage, Cloth Paper Scissors, lettering, Handmade Books, art journaling, paper art, Mixed Media Art Techniques, Stamping Techniques, Mark Making, Embossing, Mixed Media Materials
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Can I let you in on a not-so-secret secret? Art journaling does not come naturally to me. I grew up writing in journals and, truth be told, I have only recently acquiesced to using the word "journal" as a verb. Creating a one-page art journal in Joanne Sharp's CREATE class. But, I love...