This is one of a series of pin dolls that I made by hand. First, I create my doll collages digitally, using antique photos and illustrations. When I’m pleased with the design and colors, I print each doll onto iron-on transfer paper. Next, I apply each doll design to cotton, usually unbleached muslin, raw silk, […]
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This is from my archives, when I sent “creative somethings” (including zines) to my subscribers. Recently, I’ve been thinking of restarting this project, perhaps through Patreon. If that sounds interesting to you, let me know. The zines are returning in 2010. They’ll be in three versions: 1. Paper copies (“old school” b&w) for previous subscribers.
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I’ve been completely redesigning my office/studio this week. The room is a normal bedroom size, about 12′ x 12′, and it serves two important purposes: I write in this room, and I create art here. Writing The writing requires lots & lots of reference books within easy reach. I write on a variety of topics
This morning, I read an interesting quote from David Brooks, “While our scholastic education is formal and supervised, our emotional education, the one we glean on our own from artists and musicians, is more important to our long-term happiness.” I had never thought about art (and music, which I include in “the arts”) as emotional
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Breakthrough art – as a process – is sometimes defined as art that challenges the artist. It’s when an artist takes their work in a dramatically different direction, just to see what happens. Maybe they like it. Maybe they hate it. Either way, they learn something about themselves, their art, and their unique creative process.
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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
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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
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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
