My Artfest 2004 workshop, Breakthrough Shrines, was very controversial. In fact, I’d say it was an absolute disaster for many of my students. (The troll sitting in the back of the room, contributing snarky comments as we worked… that didn’t help.) This workshop showed me that the audience at Artfest had changed, abruptly and radically. …
Month: April 2009
Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 2
This is the second set of scanned pages from the Artfest 2004 collaborative journal. The pages go from left to right in the table below. Thumbnails: Return to the previous page: Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 1
Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 1
These are scanned pages of a round-robin style art journal created for Artfest 2004. It is one of two similar (but unique) journals. Participants included: Lisa Guerin, DaNelle Haynes, Tammie Moore, Rhonda Scott, Sabrina Molinar, Shannon Breen, Rose Bedrosian, Jill Haddaway, and me, Aisling D’Art. After I scanned the art in this journal, it was…
Free Zine #1
A few years ago, I put together a single-sheet zine as a sample for my students in my ‘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 grabbed…
Zine Layouts
I published my first zine in 1977. It was one piece of paper, printed on one or two sides, folded, stamped, and sent out with someone’s name & address written on the outside. In time, I graduated to two or three sheets of paper, and I started rubber stamping & glittering my zines. Yes, each…
Zine Basics
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…
ATC Tutorial 4 – Memories – Finishing the ATC
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…
ATC Tutorial 3 – Memories – Giving it meaning
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…
ATC Tutorial 2 – Memories – Adding more layers
To reflect the sky colors in the water, I made a duplicate layer of the sky, flipped it vertically in Edit–>Transform. I reduced its transparency to 36%, and slightly adjusted the color to make it greener (for the influence of the green of the water) and darker. I remembered my painting lessons which taught me…
ATC Tutorial 1 – Memories – Digital ATC
This is page one of a free tutorial showing you how to make a digital ATC similar to “Memories,” the artist trading card shown below. How the card started: I wanted to make a different card… something not quite so “ghost-y” as some of my other ATCs from mid-2005. I was also thinking about some…