Years ago, I put together a single-sheet zine as a sample for my students in my Artfest ‘Make the World Your Art Gallery’ workshop. Mostly, I was demonstrating different techniques for zines, especially using torn-paper elements in them. It’s not an absolutely fabulous zine, and it’s not even much about art. I simply used topics […]
Here’s what you need to know about zine layouts… Zine sizes From what I’ve seen, the majority of people who create homegrown zines use letter-sized printed pages (8 1/2″ x 11″) and fold them in half. Each sheet of paper is four pages of the zine. An “average” zine is five to 15 sheets of
For years, I was the list moderator for the botmzines group/list at Yahoo!Groups, I decided to throw together some pages about zines. For starters, the “botmzines” name came from the group that inspired it, the Book Of The Month list… BOTM. So, although botmzines swaps aren’t on any specific calendar, the group started with that
Continued from ATC Tutorial 3 – Memories – Giving it meaning The card was very nearly finished. I liked the colors and the general design of the image, but it needed just a little… something else. I didn’t know what, yet. This is the part of the process that can take forever, since it’s trial
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Continued from ATC Tutorial 2 – Memories – Adding More Layers At this point, the card was pretty… but it had no real theme or meaning to it. And, while “pretty” art can stand on its own merits, I rarely choose to make art without another layer of meaning. So, I started examining the card
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This card was designed to document the creative process when I’m working on digital ATCs. I’ve written four pages–with thumbnail images of each step–to explain how I work on these cards. It shows you how to go from initial idea to finished card. This card, with documentation and HTML work, took about three and a
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After a wonderful weekend in New Orleans, I was in the mood for a slightly eerie, somewhat nostalgic ATC. NOTE: ATCs are related to ACEOs. ATCs are Artist Trading Cards, and ACEOs are Art Cards – Editions and Originals. Artists like me have been creating them since the early 2000s. You can learn more about
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Art can be very revealing, whether that’s our intention or not. These are two ATCs that I created, and what I wrote about them in 2000: Dream Card/Nightmare Card, 5 Sept 2000 These are two cards from an ATC exchange, with a theme of “Dreams and Nightmares.” The originals are 3″ x 5″. My dream
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