The mission at Green Pepper Press Street Team this month is to 'cut it out' click on the pic above to check it out. Making your own images to use in your art work can be scary, but so exhilarating, so world-widening. I cut my first rubber stamps last year before Artfest. I'll add images of those later. I cut some more last term in my artist book class. I like using erasers, stamp material or lino. I started just with a v-tool and added a wider v and two u-tools when I got a good price for them. For the crusade, I offer you a pair of lino-cuts, portraits of Z and I.
New Etsy Items
I finally packaged up my OWOH winners felt bowls today. I don't know why I have been so flakey lately, but I guess we all have weeks like that. Another place I've been flaking out is my Etsy shop. I have an uneasy relationship with selling, you know, the little voice that asks why anyone would even want to buy my stuff, who do I think I am, etc. I am getting more comfortable with it, the more work I get published. I've added a photo album of published layouts in the side bar, and I plan to add some notes and supply lists, etc. soon. So today I bit the bullet and started adding to my Etsy shop again. The thing is, it was a really big deal a few months ago for me even to open a shop, and I think I opened it and ran off and hid! So today I added this vessel and limited edition archival prints of this mixed media collage:
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You can take a look here:
Travelling Journal Kit: GPP Crusade No.17
Michelle at Green Pepper Press set the challenge this month to get a journalling kit together. I've definitely lost journal pages to being on the road without the supplies I wanted. Or had a stash of papers for collage in one room, my pens in another and the journal somewhere else and that has been enough to stop the creative process. But I know I've also been in a situation where I've been inspired by the limitations imposed in a situation. I loved the travel journal I made in Seattle last year. The journal was made and painted at home and I carried a growing stash of supplies during my stay so that I could glue in ephemera from our trip, doodle and make notes everywhere we went. It got me over my shyness about journalling in public too!
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Contents:
- stamping: letter stamps, I have three boxes that are the same size, so I can take the current faves; ink - I like to have black and brown around all the time, and sometimes a blue or green; signature stamp (not shown) - handcarved rubber stamp with my initials and the year
- writing: sharpies double-tipped, watercolour pencils, uniball signo black and white gel pens, water brush, rubber and sharpener
- sticking: magic tape - I'm addicted since I read Susan Wooldridge's books and tried it; a glue stick - there's also enough height for a little pot of gel medium if I feel the need; mini-stapler
- collage (not shown): I have a film canister for little bits and pieces to stick on and a plastic pocket for clipped words and pictures, and ephemera that I want to keep and use.
- cutting: scissors (fiskar's kiddie ones with metal blades and a cover) and a ruler for tearing when I want to, or when working on planes.
I used an old computer game box, and glued the lid on and cut it so that it would open to one side instead of lifting right off. I covered it in fab tissue from Paperchase with pictures of art supplies on, turned round to describe the store name. I added bits of a dictionary page with words like 'journal', 'journal box', 'joyful' and 'James Joyce'. Then it's brushed over with Golden fluid acrylics in titan buff, quinacridone nickel azo gold and quinacridone burnt orange for the lettering (making memories letter stamps). It doesn't feel quite finished yet, so I'll show you how it develops. I'm excited because it is only the size of a large book, so I can see it coming all over with me.