Disneyland is celebrating its 55th anniversary. I’m commemorating it with an artistamp design featuring art by my mother, Muriel Joan Bernier (1919 – 2010). The artwork at left, which was also on the Fantasyland board game, was based on my mother’s art. She freelanced for Disney in the 1950s. I remember her drawing lots & […]
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There are as many ways to create, modify & embellish a single-sheet zine as there are artists. How to Create a Single-Sheet Zine Here’s a very simple way to create one: 1. Take any white sheet of paper. Pull one out of your desktop printer, or rip one out of a notebook. (Think of the
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Single-sheet zines can be easy or complex. In my earlier article, Single-sheet Zine Design – Basics, I showed one of the simpler ways to create a zine. What most people do… From what I’ve seen, the majority of people who swap or sell zines take a bunch of letter-sized printed pages (8 1/2″ x 11″)
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A sketchcrawl is a full-day of sketching or drawing in a journal, or on some other art materials such as paper, canvas, etc. It’s usually part of a stroll, alone or with a group, looking at scenery at or near a specific destination. Sketchcrawl Supplies It’s best to use whatever sketching supplies you’re most comfortable with. They
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[This was for a March 2010 artzine. Obviously, submissions are no longer accepted.] After considering various topics for my first/continuing zine issue, I’ve decided to make it about sketchcrawls. (If you’re not sure what a “sketchcrawl” is, visit Sketchcrawl.com or see my examples at this website.) So, I’m looking for articles and sketch samples —
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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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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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