Alright party people, it’s skyline tutorial time.  As I promised in my last post, here are the step-by-step instructions for creating this painting.

Okay first of all, here are the things you will need:
Watercolor paper (or any paper thick enough so it won’t rip when wet), watercolors, paint brush, water container with water, black paint, yellow [...]

Two posts in one day?!  It’s a miracle, I know.  This is a quick painting I did because we are going to be teaching it to our Saturday Art School students this Saturday.  It is REALLY easy to do, so I am going to make a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it for you [...]

Last week I was about to start working on the book covers for the sample visual journal I’m making, when my supervising teacher opened the door to the art supply room and showed me her giant collection off all things art/collage related.  And said that I could use whatever I wanted.
oh.my.
I have never really been [...]

Okay so here’s what’s gonna happen: I am blogging every day in February.  EVERYDAY.  (Yeah yeah, I chose the shortest month, so what?)  So get ready to party.
I’m teaching a visual journaling and bookmaking class for the next several weeks, and the picture above is of the sample book I’m working on and I’m going [...]

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I finally finished my last paper.  In the past 50 hours I have written 30 pages in three different papers, each about different aspects of art education… ummm not exactly thrilling.  But now I am DONE and I can FINALLY get in the Christmas spirit =)  !!  And then I saw this post from Not [...]

-The top left is an image by Holli Conger, who does children’s illustrations and has a bunch of other creative endeavors going on (check out her blog here).  Her stuff is adorable aaand I love it.
-The images in the top right corner and the lower left are by an artist named Stephanie Corfee.  Her work [...]

-Embroidered found photos by Maurizio Anzeri (via Craftzine).  Creepy, right??  They remind me of this book cover for some reason… no idea why.  Maybe because they’re both creepy portraits.
-I was just really drawn to this photograph, found on this post at Yes and Yes about quote tattoos (there are some other good ones too.)
-These styrofoam [...]

I have folders and folders on my computer of random pictures I’ve found online and saved… they’re all really random and I have absolutely no idea where I found any of them (which is why there’s no credit… if you know, let me know!)  They’ve just been sitting in these folders since I found them, [...]