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Materials | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. I use card stock often to test colors or stroke effects. A sheet of card stock is taped beside my art work; I change it out for every new piece of art work. Do that every time. Most felt tip work is letter size paper and card stock beneath my paper protects my drawing table from felt tip bleed, also pencil-heavy hand scarring, and scratches from my x-acto knife because I’m too lazy to get up and go fetch my self-heali...
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Posts | StoryDoors | Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Capture Time in a Bottle. Can you fry an egg on a rock in Arizona? Well, you can melt a glass bottle, so! Once contents are gone, the glass bottle has no value – toss the bottle. That is what people do! That is why we find em’ out there. This bottle was discarded, but not tossed, it was set down. How do I know this? Because of how I found it. It slowly collapsed of its own weight as it softened under the Arizona sun.
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Pen and Ink | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Category Archives: Pen and Ink. Renderings, drawings and sketches done in freehand ink with pen. Some with technical pen some with crowquill and some with speedball fine points. Sailing point to point 8″x10″. Technical pen and ink on Bristol one ply paper. I have found doing small ink pictures of sail boats is really fun but time consuming. Doing them in pointillism. Here are some great examples of pointillism. April ...
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Route 66, Beale Street, and Wagon Road West | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Route 66, Beale Street, and Wagon Road West. When you look back, (memory) events are called History; when you reminisce they are called adventures. —JMC I like adventures, especially when they are about art. The Beale Wagon Road and Camel Corps. Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale. A Naval officer in the service of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. This would run along the 35th Parallel, from Fort Defiance.
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Duluth Mn. | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Category Archives: Duluth Mn. Art work and stories in and about Duluth Minnesota. Seagulls of Canal Park, or 5 things you might not know about seagulls! This slideshow requires JavaScript. These silly sea gulls provide both charm and agitation to the life of a plein air painter. After many days (years) of painting in the presence of Gulls, I learned at least 5 interesting things about them. 5 Seagulls can be found ver...
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Studio | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Work Stations – Studio Smart. Don’t be an aspiring painter, be a painter. Be an artist, not becoming an artist, not learning how to be an artist. Claim it! You are all in, and then we artists must all produce art work. Here is a really important tip:. Here is what a work station. It is not size, but the assembly of right tools and materials for one specific task or skill. Simple enough, right? Even when you write or s...
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Doodles | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Dip Pen and India Ink on 8″x10″ bristol 2 ply. Illustration a couple months ago. So, I doodle. I don’t know about other artists, but I seem to be in a state of always being ready, but not often enough acting on that! I’m not ashamed of my own of work over the years; I just could have done better, so now I will. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). June 23, 2013.
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Dollar Art Show | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Dollar Art, Lake Havasu Az. 1971 Art Show. Some Years You Just Can’t Get It Right (or, Don’t Try This at Home). Recently I read an article written by Cory Huff; he and his partners have a blog/web site that deals with helping artists prosper on the internet. It is called The Abundant Artist http:/ theabundantartist.com/. Here is my story:. Did it pay off? Let me share with you how quickly one can get puffed up and the...
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Paintings | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Watercolor-felt tip marker-dip pen and India Ink-gouache-Process black on Canson illustration board 15″x20″. Mixed media, mixed metaphors, mixed emotions, mixed vegetables, neopolitan ice cream, all are great, but vanilla is a favorite. Many times the question comes up, “Why not exotic flavors? 8221; There is a difference between mixed flavors and exotic flavors. Most of us love exotic art work, abstractions and exper...
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Tools | StoryDoors
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Images and words are portals, they are doors into our dreams. BLOG–One Page True Tales. Work Stations – Studio Smart. Don’t be an aspiring painter, be a painter. Be an artist, not becoming an artist, not learning how to be an artist. Claim it! You are all in, and then we artists must all produce art work. Here is a really important tip:. Here is what a work station. It is not size, but the assembly of right tools and materials for one specific task or skill. Simple enough, right? Even when you write or s...