These are the final scans from the American participants in the round robin (RR) journal #1 that began at ArtistsJournals in April 2010. The first are 10 pages by Linda Giese: The next journal pages are by Iris Gonyea: (The text on that collage says, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein.) Now,…
Author: Aisling
RR #1 – Pages 11 through 15
These are more scans from the round robin (RR) journal #1, launched in April 2010 for the ArtistsJournals group at Yahoo Groups. The details in some of these images required very large file sizes. However, the load time delay (if any) is worth the wait. The first group of pages were by Dot McQuade: Page…
Round Robin Journal #1 – ArtistsJournals Group
Last April (2010), I launched two round robin (RR) journals at ArtistsJournals2 (aka AJ2) at Yahoo Groups. (Since then, AJ2 merged with my main ArtistsJournals group at Yahoo Groups.) RR Journal #1 has returned to me. I’m scanning it before sending it to Stephen in England, to begin the international segment of this journal’s adventures….
ATC – Spalding Inn, NH
The subject of this pen & ink ATC is the Spalding Inn. I’m not entirely sure why that hotel fascinates me, but it does. My husband and I have stayed there several times. And it helps that my uncle and his wife used to vacation there. There’s a sense of heritage, I guess. But… I…
ATC – A Simple Rose
For me, this ATC (artist’s trading card) was about design. I wanted to see if I could use a simple subject and create enough visual interest so people don’t simply glance at it and say, “Ho-hum, it’s just a rose.” I’m not 100% certain that I achieved that, but I think the various shading techniques…
ATC – City/Stars in pen & ink
This ATC is typical of the scribbles that decorated my class notes starting around age 12. Bored out of my mind in junior and senior high school, I only half-listened to teachers. (Yes, I regretted that later.) Instead, I drew a variety of designs, usually a series of connected images like the one at left….
ATC – Desk chair
The next ATC (artist’s trading card) in my pen-and-ink art experiments features my husband’s desk chair. I drew it with a Size 0 (zero) point technical drawing pen. I’ve been using this kind of pen for art since I was introduced to them by a college friend, Darcy Grimm. The ink is called Ultradraw, and…
ATC – Pen and ink, fan
My second ATC in this series of six shows our living room fan. It’s one of those huge grey fans that, on the high setting, blasts you like you’re in a wind tunnel. Drawing it was sort of a challenge. I mean, there’s a lot of detail and shading in the actual fan. Deciding what…
ATCs in Pen and Ink
ATCs have always been dear to my heart. From the 1990s when many ATCs were created on 3″ x 5″ cards, to the 2.5″ x 3.5″ size that became more standard, to the smaller variations that have emerged: ATCs are fun, fast art. Recently, I purchased a new rapidograph, also called a “rapido sketch pen.” …
SketchCrawl as a Business?
The good news is, the next announced sketchcrawl is October 16th. (See my notes from my July 2009 sketchcrawl.) Right now, I’m on the fence. The email I rec’d from SketchCrawl.com was very different from the fun, wide-open, no-rules announcements of the past. First, there was this message from that site: – A key thing,…