The following are all of the articles currently at this website. It’s a long list.
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Posts by category
- Category: Aisling's Books
- Category: Art ideas & art journals
- Category: Artists Journals
- Journals as Story Bibles
- Journal Your Way to Happiness
- Art Journals – Beauty is in the eye of…
- Saving Images for Your Collage Art
- Composition Book Artists Journals
- Sewing Onto Your Journal Pages
- SketchCrawl Inc.?
- Sketchcrawl – 15 May 2010
- Torn-Paper Collages – How-to video
- A debt of gratitude, from journalists
- Sketchcrawl notes (1) – 11 July 09
- Sketchcrawl notes (2) – 11 July 09
- Sketchcrawl notes (3) – 11 July 09
- Sketchcrawl Day – 11 July 09
- Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 2
- Artfest 2004 Collaborative Journal – 1
- How to Use Rubbings in Your Art Journals
- How to Collage in Your Art Journals (revised)
- Journaling Your Past – Free eBook
- How to Collage in Your Art Journal
- Artists Journals – My Letter to Erin
- Category: Handmade journals
- Category: Mixed media journaling
- Category: Travel Journals
- Category: Business of Art
- More Copyright -> A Brilliant Resource
- What’s on Your Desk?
- Stage Fright, Perfection, Flow, Teaching, and Art
- Matthew Diffee and Mother Sea Turtles
- Art and the Economics of Giving
- Copyright, Flickr and Google Images
- While I’m Talking About Public Domain…
- Copyright and Free, Royalty-Free Resources… again!
- Art Journals v. Artist’s Journals
- Why Art?
- In Business? Who Are You Reading?
- Swaps and Documentation
- Swaps and Postage
- Doll Swaps – How the Numbers Work
- Magpie logic
- Cheap Art Manifesto
- You’ve never seen art like this
- Planning for your future
- Yahoo Groups – changing moderators
- The importance of leverage
- Beginners, unite! Consign your way to success.
- Recommended: Annual meetings
- Choosing an unjuried show
- Keys to successful art shows: Have fun
- The Quadrants, revisited, by Robin Retallick
- Trademarks, original ideas, and copycats
- Copyright and the ‘three stroke’ rule
- 9 Ways to Communicate a Rock-Solid Identity
- Be friendly at shows
- When a student copies
- Copying and coincidence in art
- Video: 3 step formula for creative success
- Copyright and art
- Be a successful renegade artist/writer
- “Plan B” Teaching
- How to start teaching art
- How much do artists earn?
- How do you face your creative fears?
- Whose fault is it…?
- Ultimate Creative Conspiracy Theory
- Why New Year’s resolutions fail
- How to pace your art classes
- Art, energy and originality
- What art teachers are paid
- When not to teach
- Sell your art locally
- What is ‘true art’?
- Teaching at National Art Events
- Category: Dolls
- Dolls’ Faces – Easy Homemade Molds
- Ambermoggie — doll artist interview — part two
- Ambermoggie – doll artist interview – part one
- Stefania Morgante – doll artist – interview
- JJ Buch – doll artist interview – part two
- JJ Buch – doll artist interview – part one
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part three
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part two
- Alice C. W. Dennis – doll artist interview – part one
- Voodoo Barbie
- Teal Magic Doll
- Category: Altered dolls
- Category: Cloth dolls
- Sock Dolls – Step-by-Step, in Photos
- Sock Doll Swap – Jul 2010
- Choosing Fabric for Your Cloth Doll
- Cloth Dolls – How to Choose Your Doll Stuffing
- Cloth Dolls – Should You Preshrink Fabrics
- Free doll patterns
- Annie Faerie Dolls
- Faerie Grandmother Pindoll
- More Dangerous Women
- Artfest Doll
- Dangerous Women Reaching for the Stars
- Category: Paper Dolls
- Category: Fabric Art and Figures
- Category: Freebies
- Free “All You Need is Love” Posters
- Easter Egg Coloring Pages
- Enthusiasm is Contagious
- Free Writing Paper – Hippie-Style
- Planting a Kitchen Garden from Cuttings – Easy Green Onions & Mint
- Early Selfies 1839 – 1913
- Art and Feeling Good
- New Freebie Adventure
- Evergreen freebies
- Fresh Designs – free design book
- Free Zine #1
- Category: Materials
- Category: Mixed Media Art
- Elegant rubbings with Renaissance Foil
- Category: Art shrines
- Homage to Dr. John – a mixed media collage
- Breakthrough Shrines – Notes
- Altered Books – Examples
- Edgar Allan Poe Shrine
- Tammy Fae Pocket Shrine
- Superman Mini-Shrine
- Prosperity Pocket Shrine
- Art and Alchemy Pendant Shrine
- Otherworld Shrine
- Superman Shrine – Pringles Lid
- Art and Science of Pocket Shrines
- Elvis Matchbook Shrine
- ‘Create’ Pocket Shrine (winged)
- Creativity Pocket Shrine
- Layering Paint and Polyurethane for Rich Depth
- Embellishments for Mystery & Dazzle
- Applying Plaster Gauze to Your Art Shrine
- Shrines – Add Texture with Plaster and Gauze
- Edgar Allan Poe Shrine – Free Print
- Family history shrines
- Category: Assemblages
- Category: ATCs and ACEOs
- ACEOs – Production-line shortcuts
- ATC – Spalding Inn, NH
- ATC – A Simple Rose
- ATC – City/Stars in pen & ink
- ATC – Desk chair
- ATC – Pen and ink, fan
- ATCs in Pen and Ink
- ATC Tutorial 4 – Memories – Finishing the ATC
- ATC Tutorial 3 – Memories – Giving it meaning
- ATC Tutorial 2 – Memories – Adding more layers
- ATC Tutorial 1 – Memories – Digital ATC
- Haunted New Orleans (#1) – ATC
- Nevermore – Gothic ATC – Edgar Allan Poe
- Midnight in New Orleans – ATC
- Memories – A Digital ATC
- Reality/Imagination – A free poster and Artist Trading Card (ATC)
- Face Behind the Words – Free digital ATC
- Gold Leaf – ATC Tutorial
- Gold Leaf – a Free, Printable ATC
- Ghosts of the Old Saloon – a Texas ATC (R-rated)
- Everlasting – free digital ATC
- Dreamcards – from an ATC swap
- Dream – a free digital ATC (artist trading card)
- Choose Your View – printable ATC
- By the Light – printable ATC (artist trading card)
- Free ATCs to Print
- Category: Book Arts
- Category: Collage
- Category: Home Decor
- Category: Letterboxing
- Category: Mailart & Artistamps
- Disneyland Tribute for My Mom (Fantasyland game)
- Artistamps – Digital swaps! (2010)
- Resizing Your Art for Artistamps
- How to make a Sheet of Artistamps with Adobe PhotoShop
- Perforations for Artistamps
- Real, Exotic and Foreign-looking Stamps
- Glues and Adhesives for Artistamps
- Glue Recipes – Artistamps
- Artistamps – Definition
- Aisling’s Artistamps 2000 – 2005
- Art Day 2005 Mail Art Call: Art in the Streets
- Category: Zines
- Category: Site News
- Category: Swaps & RRs
- The Return of the RR – RR #2 images
- Artists’ Journal RR #2b – Debbie O’s pages
- Alley Hauldren’s Journey to Winchester, TN
- Alley Hauldren’s Third Journal Pages
- Alley Hauldren’s Second Pages
- Round Robin Journal #2b – Alley’s Art
- Round Robin #2b – First pages
- RR Journal #1 – Final American Scans
- RR #1 – Pages 11 through 15
- Round Robin Journal #1 – ArtistsJournals Group
- Art Swaps – How the Numbers Work
- Category: Techniques
- Category: Videos