well i start with ovely lovely tape. then move on to pointy pointy staples....then comes the arc-welding. then i go and buy a gift bag instead...its a process :)
what other art forms to you participate in besdies drawing (drawing well even :) )
i paint in acrylic and sometimes oil, but i cant draw . *laugh* makes it difficult cause i can paint things, but i cant lay them out in pencil first to make t easrier. thus one painting on a small canvas can take months. i also write prose and poetry, which i would call my primary art forms. i play music, and make a good amount of money (and ale!) at it, but i am looking to get into a band that does more. right now i'm in a duet, and perform solo shows.
Hm. It's a novel approach. Still, how can the art of gift-wrapping advance if no one tries completely insane new techniques?
Gosh, other artin' junk? *head explodes* I'll sweep that up later. I used to play piano, but many years of sustained mediocrity led me to abandon the poor thing. I work in watercolor, acrylic, stamp carving, various weenie paper arts, custom toys, and the odd bit of bookbinding. I can do needlework if I must. You can see some stuff at my website at http://www.geocities.com/lensbeetle/ and newer stuff if you flip back in my LJ. I write a bit - lately I've developed a taste for bad poetry ("Sing along you fuckers/Sing or I'll kill you all").
i would love to ba able to play piano! i only took guitar up in any serious way a year and a half or so ago, and was on stage playing live shorly there after...been picking it up quickly...but still consider myself to be mediocre, so i havent struck out for piano lesson . its too bad we end up abandoning such things. ah, the terrible clutter of life! alas, we cant all spend all our time pursuing perfection at everything lol.
stamp carving...is that like those rubber stamps the sell to make greeting cards and other paper art projects? that would be neat to make your own. i think i could dig that. or carve it ;)
thats alot or art/craft pursuits :) its always good to make thing. create! yes. "eru said "yea! let it be!" create is good! *tries to avoid becoming melkor*
bad poetry is the road to good poetry. i write alot. some end up songs. some stay poems. an aweful lot stay bad. once in a while a rose grows outta the dung :) thats the process (kinda like the tpae/staple/arc welder thing )
wow! i really like the stuff on your web page! great work in mixed media. the covers are excellent. i wish the journal/diary book available to buy were more like that and less like what they are like . (i write alot, and usually prefer paper for inspiration and caryying. the journals to buy often have hoakey saying on them lol) nice work, tho i am not familiar with all the subject matter, like the two sailor girls.
sadly, the stamp images on your journal page refuse to load, but making them is something i have considered doing. stamping seems to be becoming quite popular. i would rather make the stamps then buy the ones already made at the "stamp shack". making cards looks like fun tho.
Ooooooooo, I feel your pain - I hate doofy journals, and it seems like the ones with the paper you like best are always the ones that urge you to Dare to Dream. (Apparently they desperately want you to Dare to Dream of monarch butterflies.) But re-covering commercial journals is very, very easy! You only need paper (magazine pictures work fine, or comic-book covers), scissors, a glue stick, and a small bottle of acrylic varnish. Or you can make your own for less than the bookstore kind. Gather together the paper you want, cut it all to size, take it in to Kinko's, and ask them to bind it. You can get wire, spiral, or comb binding done for about $2.00, and be out in about 10 minutes.
There's a very good book called Making Journals by Hand that has cool elementary to intermediate instructions, and cool page techniques to try. (see it at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564966763/qid=1025905091/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-7894136-7851909 ) I just made a new Sockpuppet book, from a LOTR student planner, a paper company sampler book from 1989, and a length of leftover binding coil I found in my desk.
I think AOL is having one of its periodic spaz attacks - try again later if you're in the mood. For general stamp carving information, feed "carving consortium" or "stamp carving" into google.com, and you should get some interesting and useful links.
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Er...maybe you might want to try using adhesive tape with your wrapping paper instead of staples. Just a thought.
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what other art forms to you participate in besdies drawing (drawing well even :) )
i paint in acrylic and sometimes oil, but i cant draw . *laugh* makes it difficult cause i can paint things, but i cant lay them out in pencil first to make t easrier. thus one painting on a small canvas can take months. i also write prose and poetry, which i would call my primary art forms. i play music, and make a good amount of money (and ale!) at it, but i am looking to get into a band that does more. right now i'm in a duet, and perform solo shows.
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completely insanenew techniques?Gosh, other artin' junk? *head explodes* I'll sweep that up later. I used to play piano, but many years of sustained mediocrity led me to abandon the poor thing. I work in watercolor, acrylic, stamp carving, various weenie paper arts, custom toys, and the odd bit of bookbinding. I can do needlework if I must. You can see some stuff at my website at http://www.geocities.com/lensbeetle/ and newer stuff if you flip back in my LJ. I write a bit - lately I've developed a taste for bad poetry ("Sing along you fuckers/Sing or I'll kill you all").
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stamp carving...is that like those rubber stamps the sell to make greeting cards and other paper art projects? that would be neat to make your own. i think i could dig that. or carve it ;)
thats alot or art/craft pursuits :) its always good to make thing. create! yes. "eru said "yea! let it be!" create is good! *tries to avoid becoming melkor*
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Here are some recent stamps:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/annlarimer/day/2002/06/03
If you can manage not to slice open a vein, it's a despicably easy form.
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no, i guess it doesnt :)
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sadly, the stamp images on your journal page refuse to load, but making them is something i have considered doing. stamping seems to be becoming quite popular. i would rather make the stamps then buy the ones already made at the "stamp shack". making cards looks like fun tho.
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There's a very good book called Making Journals by Hand that has cool elementary to intermediate instructions, and cool page techniques to try. (see it at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564966763/qid=1025905091/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-7894136-7851909 ) I just made a new Sockpuppet book, from a LOTR student planner, a paper company sampler book from 1989, and a length of leftover binding coil I found in my desk.
I think AOL is having one of its periodic spaz attacks - try again later if you're in the mood. For general stamp carving information, feed "carving consortium" or "stamp carving" into google.com, and you should get some interesting and useful links.
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thanks for all the info. still no loading on the journal page :( i hope it works at some point. :)
anyway, i'm hitting the town like a poet on payday
thanks very much :)