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 [...]
Baby Blue Balls as a Punching Bag at the VAG
Patrick Traer’s Baby Blue Balls, (2002 plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting, vinyl, zippers, covered buttons, stainless steel buckle and chain)
These are some kind of soft product- it seems that a structure was made (the plywood, cotton, cardboard, polyurethane foam batting), and then covered with baby blue vinyl, and covered buttons sewn [...]
Interview with Beth Morrell
So what is the main focus of your practice?
Right now I’m working on themes of memory and change in a person. In a way, every moment the self we are dies and a new one is born. We see this most in large changes in our life – graduations, milestones, traumatic events – but every [...]
The Drawing Tool You Don't Know You're Missing
If you’ve ever used a Conté crayon, a graphite stick, or a pencil, you know the trade-off:
It’s a choice between the slow-going gradient of drawing pencils, or the dusty black handprints of those black stick implements.
But what if you could get the subtleties of pencils H to B, the speed of working with a graphite [...]
Sketchbook Gestures
Today in drawing class we did some gesture drawings. I was rather pleased with this extended gesture drawing (9 minutes).
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Gradients and Spectrums
What if you got art supplies delivered to you each month? Would you be very excited? Would you tear open the package and open a fresh page? Would you mount them on a wall organized by gradient down to the 500th pencil?
YES YOU CAN!!
Would you eat lettuce and mild curry, dressed in a mermaid’s gown, [...]
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 [...]
The Reason You are On The Net, Not Making Art
I just read Craig Thompson’s book, Blanket. I want to use all kinds of literary words, like beautiful and honest coming-of-age love story, but basically it’s a great book I fell in love with and now I wish my name was Raina. Cute.
And the after effects of that is that I want to draw. I [...]
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 [...]
2 Drawings You haven’t Seen Before
These two drawings are ones i did today, and added a watercolour wash over them. I’m going to play with them in Photoshop a little more, so they’re not finished.
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