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From I’m Painting As Fast as I Can Chris Beck tests what tape is awesome when used to mask a painting and then reviews five flavours of Daniel Smith watercolors.
Sandy Maudlin’s Art Journey takes on the challenge of a twenty minute painting, [...]
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How to Surf the Web vr. 2: Techniques & Critiques
How to Make Paper: Deckle it Like the Halls
One of the things I would like to do over Christmas is make paper. At home we have two boxes of computer cartridge paper, printed mostly on both sides, of information that we don’t need. The Upstairs Family is undergoing a major revamp, and the newly organized and tidied place is looking swell. I want [...]
How to Surf the Net 01: Hamsas to River Balcony
One of the joys of the internet, for voracious bookworms short on pennies, is finding a gold mine of knowledge! The latest vein I’ve tapped is here- I basically find a small thing I don’t know about and then google about it until I do know something about it.
Start: jezebel’s coverage of Detail’s problematic “Hot [...]
How to Make a Sales Page V.2
This is a super handy tutorial about how to sell things very simply through paypal. I haven’t tried it, but I also am contemplating adding a selling page onto Katanaville.com so that one may purchase Katana-style Christmas cards, and postcards, and other assorted Katana-produced items. My abstract-canvas belt that I wear has been remarked on [...]
Illustrations that Draw You In (& how to do it)
Get it? Draw you in? Oh I am hilarious.
The process of sketchbook to Bristol board to finished work in Skyler Luke Punnett’s work is awesome. He’s in my narrative drawing class and did a presentation of his work today. He showed us finished works, some sketches he’s working on, and explained the process. His style [...]
How to Make a Sales Page!
Remember the Underwater Photography Classes I’m marketing with the fantastic Josan Pinon as teacher? Registration is NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! I’m going to show you how to make an online sales page yourself!
You need three basic things:
a Product. (In this case, Underwater Photography Classes) It could be anything from Kazoos to Party Tickets.
a PayPal account. (which [...]
How to Realize What You Want, which is an Art Show
I had just moved in, meeting my neighbour (@garfieldherriot)- and I am explaining what it is that I do.
“I’m an art student at Emily Carr University.” Quite the elevator pitch, no?
This is usually enough- “Oh cool! You do art!” or “I hear that’s a really hard school to get into.” Of the latter, I have [...]
How to Write A Press Release
So I made my press release a few days ago and now it’s time to show it to you!
First I made a list of words relating to the subject, keywords, if you want to get all technical. “Underwater, photography, lessons, techniques, photos, photographer…” etc.
Next comes the title: a little catchy, a little cheesy, but most [...]
Argentina Road Trips, and other Goals
Some logical logic:
Artists are creative.
Impossible things need creative solutions.
I want to go snowboarding in Argentina this summer.
How can I make this happen? Going to need some creativity!
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Item #2
Watchmen Revealed- I had some notes but I can’t find them. Also, they are in doodle-format. And then they only make sense to me. For example, here is [...]
How to Install Wordpress at Your Domain Name
I spent two days on the phone with Godaddy, trying to figure out how to what to do with this stuff Wordpress said I needed for this so-called “easy install”:
An access to your web server (via shell or FTP), A text editor, an FTP Client (if you need to install WordPress on a remote server), Your web browser of choice
This didn’t make [...]