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Are you participating in The Sketchbook Project?

May 172012
 

The Sketchbook Project

This is a great project you can be part of!

The Sketchbook Project is a traveling exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks (which also gets permanently housed at the Brooklyn Art Library, and will be digitally archived. You can participate and share your work with the world! They even send e-mails and texts about your book’s journey. You sign up, pay the small fee, get a sketchbook, fill it up, send it back, watch it travel the country! This little video infomercial about it explains everything in 96 seconds and is fun to watch.

How do you get through a creative block?

May 152012
 

This little video is like a motivational poster on steroids, but it gives some good tried and true reminders on how to work through a creative block. Enjoy!

Chapbooks for Poetry and Self-Publishing: Learn how this Saturday

May 142012
 

 

Poetry Chapbooks

Chapbooks are a form of self-publishing popular amongst writers, poets, and ‘zine makers. They’re typically small and have few pages, but they’re a great form for getting the work of the creative arts into a living form and out into the world. Self-publishing in this day and age is gaining momentum as people take charge of content that would otherwise have been filtered out by very large publishing houses.

This Saturday from noon-3:30, Kassie Arcate of Mother Hen Press will teach you how to make this book form at her Introduction to Bookmaking and Non-Adhesive Binding Techniques Workshop. $45 includes all materials. You can sign up here.

Image from blythewoolston.blogspot.com.

Nice article about Portrait Drawing

May 122012
 

I was thinking about Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th century portrait drawings just now and ran across this article while Googling his work. I like how it illustrates some different choices one can make while drawing portraits, and how the language of drawing has changed over time. I especially like  the author’s emphasis on craft, with the caveat that technique alone won’t make a ‘successful’ work of art. Check it out HERE.

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