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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Closeups Of Recent Works
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Inspirational Small Art
Looking over some of the goodies I bought on our vacation, I thought I'd share these fun art-related ones I purchased in Portland at Reading Frenzy. Reading Frenzy is an "independent press emporium", selling zines, screenprinted cards, small art, and handmade books like this one. A very cool place that I enjoyed hanging out in. Once I picked this little book up I couldn't put it back down. It is shaped like a matchbook, with rich, intense colors and an intriguing little fable with engaging illustrations.
This is from
Red Star Art, which I was unable to find a link for unfortunately, I'd love to find more of her/his/their work.
And here is the back of book.
I loved the "close cover before striking" nod to the matchbook format.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
River, Lake, Pond
Labels:
journals,
six word memoir
Friday, September 17, 2010
Seeing Many Miles
This time the words say:
"Going To Seattle. Seeing Many Miles."
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Labels:
journals,
six word memoir
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Stuck In The Forest
Labels:
journals,
six word memoir
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Testing My Patience
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I like the contrast of the heated words with the cool colors.
Labels:
journals,
six word memoir
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Ticket To Park Lunch To Eat
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Labels:
journals,
six word memoir
Monday, September 13, 2010
Woven Rainbow
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Wired Birdhouse
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All collaged from scraps and quilted in a mostly grid-like pattern, the edge is a fuzzy, multi-colored yarn.
Labels:
collage,
mixed-media,
Quilt
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Making Mixed-Media With Free Stuff
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Next I glued down some of the mesh-looking fabric, I made sure it was very frayed just because I like how that looks.
I found a sentence I liked out of a book and glued it to one of the journal cover sample shapes. Deciding which end is up was a little hard.
Here's how all three ended up once I was done.
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Labels:
collage,
FabMo,
mixed-media
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Supremely Seattle
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