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Art Alchemist: Online Classes for Art Journaling - Just Be Careful
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Online Classes for Art Journaling - Just Be Careful. I've noticed lately a rise in the number of people teaching self-exploration art journaling, and it's got me a bit worried. Let me explain why. It's one thing for you. My experience. She told me it was an "old story", and that I needed to move on. However, I was also lucky. I happened to be in real. See, what happens to the women in these classes, who ar...
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Art Alchemist: February 2011
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Thursday, February 17, 2011. A Little Art Journal LOVE. ATTENTION: If you subscribed to this blog because of the experiments I was doing, I just want to warn you, this isn't an experiment post (well, unless you consider art journal pages to be experiments, which, I do). It's an art journal page post. Just didn't want you to get to the end of this post and go "Hey, where's the experiment? Connie over at Dirty Footprints Studio.
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Art Alchemist: Fun with Dick Blick - Experiment Time!
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Monday, August 13, 2012. Fun with Dick Blick - Experiment Time! Julie Prichard of The Land of Lost Luggage. Held a giveaway last month for her newsletter subscribers, and woo-hoo! It was a gift certificate to Dick Blick, and I gleefully spent it last week. If you aren't signed up for Julie's newsletter. To know what she's up to. Anyways, here's what I got from Dick Blick (thank you Julie! Loew-Cornell Fine Painting Pen. She shows...
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Art Alchemist: Art Geeks - My Favorite Background Technique
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Saturday, August 11, 2012. Art Geeks - My Favorite Background Technique. This last week, Gulfsprite (aka, Christy Sobolewski) posted a video on YouTube. For the Art Geeks. Detailing her go-to background technique. It's a question that's come up in the Art Geeks Facebook Group. What are your favorite background techniques? What technique do tend to do the most? I answer a resounding "Yes" to that last question! Now it's time for t...
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Art Alchemist: July 2012
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Sunday, July 22, 2012. JetPens.com Review - Iwako Giraffe Eraser. A few weeks ago, JetPens.com. Whom I adore, as a complete pen junkie), put out a call for reviewers of their products. No one had to ask me twice, I signed up right away. About two weeks ago, I received this:. It's the Iwako Giraffe Eraser. Part of the Iwako Zoo collection. Makes all kinds of novelty erasers - from an American Fast Food lunch collection. Enough....
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Art Alchemist: Cheap Ways to Art Journal Part 2
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Thursday, April 3, 2014. Cheap Ways to Art Journal Part 2. This is Part 2 of my series of blog posts, on how to Art Journal on a budget. Here is Part 1. Let's jump right into glue, pens, stencils and spray inks. I have found the most economical solution for gluing stuff down into your art journal are glue sticks. And glue sticks are very affordable - my favorite is the big Elmer's glue stick. Available at Hobby Lobby). It's p...
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Art Alchemist: April 2014
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Cheap Ways to Art Journal Part 3. Art Journal page from my Kid's Made Modern watercolor paper journal (see Part 1. Craft paints, simple ephemera. And here we go, Part 3, where we're going to get into things like Gesso, Watercolors, and Water-Soluable products (like Portfolio's, Gelato's, etc). Then I found Martha Stewart's Gesso. I will just say this about Liquitex BASICS Gesso. Too - same texture. For ...
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Art Alchemist: JetPens.com Review - Iwako Giraffe Eraser
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Sunday, July 22, 2012. JetPens.com Review - Iwako Giraffe Eraser. A few weeks ago, JetPens.com. Whom I adore, as a complete pen junkie), put out a call for reviewers of their products. No one had to ask me twice, I signed up right away. About two weeks ago, I received this:. It's the Iwako Giraffe Eraser. Part of the Iwako Zoo collection. Makes all kinds of novelty erasers - from an American Fast Food lunch collection. Enough....
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Art Alchemist: I didn't lose anything...
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Saturday, June 30, 2012. I didn't lose anything. To the Waldo Canyon Fire. I am safe, my family is safe, no material possessions or homes have been lost, for me and mine. We are so, so blessed. You may have heard about it on the news. Last Tuesday, June 26, 2012, the wildfire that had been burning outside of Colorado Springs decided to jump right outta Queen's Canyon, and into a neighborhood called Mountain Shadows. My heart join...
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Art Alchemist: Cheap Ways to Art Journal Part 3
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A place for me to share the experiments I do with mixed-media art supplies. Sunday, April 6, 2014. Cheap Ways to Art Journal Part 3. Art Journal page from my Kid's Made Modern watercolor paper journal (see Part 1. Craft paints, simple ephemera. And here we go, Part 3, where we're going to get into things like Gesso, Watercolors, and Water-Soluable products (like Portfolio's, Gelato's, etc). Then I found Martha Stewart's Gesso. I will just say this about Liquitex BASICS Gesso. Too - same texture. For ...