milliande Art Studio Blog Mixed Media Techniques: How to Make a Card Set Art Journal Check out this review and giveaway of Margaret Peot’s Alternative Art Journals by Quinn McDonald, a writer and certified creativity coach. Here’s what she had to say about it: “The variety is big and interesting. Here’s one of the techniques for mixed media journaling that Peot explores in Chapter Three: Card Set Art Journals You want to make art, but the days and weeks slip by, and other, “more important” things always seem to take precedence over your artistic journey. Tie Together in Various Ways Your cards can be unified in any number of ways: by theme, by palette, by repeated imagery. Pick up a copy of Alternative Art Journals for more mixed media techniques, tips and ideas for journaling creatively. You may also like these articles:
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How to create and keep an art journal by aisling d'art ©2006 Artist's journals are illustrated diaries and journals on any theme. An art journal can be a record of your daily thoughts, a travel journal, an exercise or diet diary, a dream journal, a place where you jot down your goals or to-do lists, or... well, almost any record that you'd like to keep in a book or notebook. They become "art journals" when you add any kind of illustration or embellishment to the pages. These pages share ideas and tips for creating and keeping your own illustrated journal. How to create an art journal How I started my art journals - Early notes about how I work, from a 2001 email. Art journaling techniques How to collage in your art journals - A summary of the basics. Color basics for art and travel journals - An overview, preparing for my upcoming workshop and journaling tour. Materials and supplies for art journaling Composition book art journals - Affordable, fun notebooks for all kinds of journals and diaries. Writing tips, prompts, and ideas
The humble cloths that are Japanese 'boro'... Multiple layers of extensively repaired and patched fabrics... hand-sewn for practical purposes, for retaining warmth... utilitarian assemblages such as futon covers or clothing such as a 'yogi' (sleeping garment used as a blanket) ...abundant use of recycled indigo dyed rags and handwoven cotton & hemp scraps, repeatedly mended... some held together by thousands of 'sashiko' stitches transformed into something precious and valuable. "These textiles are generational storybooks, lovingly repaired & patched with what fabric was available. Never intended to be viewed as a thing of beauty, these textiles today take on qualities of collage, objects of history, and objects with life and soul." ~ John Foster, Accidental Mysteries blog ~ tatters, telling complex stories... "although boro has become a bit of a trend these days, the raggedy edges and patching and primitive approach to cloth making...there is a subtle reminder that this was not an intended art form. and the resulting beauty in that."
Thirteen Writing Prompts. [Originally published May 4, 2006.] Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument. Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Throw some birds in there, too. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon. A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Crochet Work - Chapter IX - Encyclopedia of Needlework, Crochet Patterns, Stitches, Crochet Lace Patterns By Thérèse de Dillmont Crochet lace.—Close leaves and bars with picots Crochet Work - IX Crochet work, so called from the hook, French croche orcroc, with which it is done, is not only one of the easiest but in comparison with the cost and labour, one of the most effective kinds of fancy-work. Hooks, or needles, as they are generally called, made of wood, bone or tortoise-shell are used for all the heavier kinds of crochet work in thick wool or cotton, and steel ones for the finer kinds. Fig. 400. Fig. 401. Fig. 402. Table of the approximate relation of the D.M.C threads and cottons to the numbers of the crochet needles. Explanation of the signs *. Crochet stitches. Crochet work may however, be divided into two kinds, German crochet, and Victoria or Tunisian crochet; the latter is known also under the name of tricot-crochet. The rows are worked, according to the kind of stitch, either to and fro, or all from one end. Position of the hands and explanation of (1) chain stitch (fig. 403). Picots.
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